Ind vs Aus: I’m more than confident in turning out for the next Test, says Nathan Lyon

New Delhi: After two major injury blows, Aussie fans were almost slipping into trauma when the news of Nathan Lyon's split callus spreadthrough the media. The off-spinner revealed that the injury on his right index finger did indeed affect his bowling in the second innings of the Bengaluru Test, but the eight-wicket claimer said that the injury won't keep him off the Ranchi showdown.

Going by history, offies have always been troubled by the issue of callus injury, but Lyon who scalped a scintillating career-best figure of 8/50 in the first innings on Chinnaswamy track said, "I’ve bowled a lot of balls over the summer and it usually happens once or twice a year. It just split. It was pretty painful there for a bit. And you can’t bowl on (adhesive) tape – there’s rules and laws out there that you can’t bowl on tape so I wasn’t even considering that.”

He also remembered, “The last time I was here (in India, in 2013), the same thing happened in the third Test and I was able to play three days later. So I’m more than confident in turning out for the next Test.”

The injury has however, for the time being ceased his fitness work and batting drills. It is his recovery rate that will be the deciding factor as to how many he can bowl at the nets. "I'm able to bowl cross-seam and stuff, so I can still try to spin it," said the 29-year-old. "But for variations and trying to get drift and drop and stuff - to go at the back of the ball - the way I bowl, it (the finger injury) does impede it a little bit."

Moving away from the injury, Lyon also spoke about Ravichandran Ashwin.“The way he constructs an over is one big thing. I have been studying the way he bowls to left and right handers in these conditions. The way he uses the crease, the different shapes he puts on the ball. We’re different bowlers, you can tell that when he comes out to Australia.”