IND vs AUS / Nathan Lyon went past Muttiah Muralitharan 2nd in the list of most wickets

Nathan Lyon Records, IND vs AUS 3rd Test: The Indian cricket team has set a target of 76 runs to win against Australia in the third match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test series. Team India's second innings was reduced to 163 runs in 60.3 overs. His batsmen proved to be a flop in the first innings as well. Meanwhile, Australia's off-spinner took a big record in his name.

Leon took 8 wickets

Off-spinner Nathan Lyon bowled brilliantly and took 8 wickets for 64 runs. Apart from them, Mitchell Starc and Matthew Kuhneman got 1-1 wickets. It was amazing of Leon that the Indian team could score only 163 runs in the second innings. Experienced batsman Cheteshwar Pujara contributed the maximum 59 runs. Pujara played 142 balls and hit 5 fours, 1 six. With this, Leone left behind the great bowler Muttiah Muralitharan in one case.

Second most wickets against India

In this way, Leone came second in the list of bowlers who took the most wickets against India. He left behind Sri Lanka's greatest bowler Muttiah Muralitharan. Leone now has 113 Test wickets against India. At the same time, Muralitharan took a total of 105 wickets in 22 matches against India in his Test career. England legend James Anderson is at the top of this list. Anderson has taken a total of 139 wickets in 35 Test matches against India.

Pujara's dismissal record

Leone made Cheteshwar Pujara a victim in both the innings of the Indore Test. He has so far dismissed Cheteshwar Pujara 13 times in Test format. This is the biggest number of dismissals of an Indian batsman by a bowler in Tests. Apart from this, Lyon also equaled Richie Benaud's record of taking the most 5 wickets (5 times) against India on Indian soil.