"To Be Honest": Nathan Lyon Picks 'Massive' Moment For Australia In Indore Test

Australian spinner Nathan Lyon termed India batter Cheteshwar Pujara's dismissal in the second innings a "massive" moment in the game and lauded his stand-in skipper Steve Smith for taking the catch, saying that he "would not trade him for anyone". Nathan Lyon's eight-wicket haul helped Australia skittle out India for 163 runs in the second inning, leaving the visitors just 76 runs away from a win in the third Test here at the Holkar Cricket Stadium on Thursday. There is no one Nathan would rather have stood at slip to him than Steve Smith after he pulled off a brilliant catch to dismiss Pujara and leave the visitors confident of a win at the end of the second day of the match.

While Australia worked their way through Indian batting line-up, Pujara stood tall and threatened to leave a target for Aussies that would give Indian spinners a chance. He defied all tactics thrown at him, including a field setting which was leg-side heavy that choked his run-scoring and appeared to have frustrated skipper Rohit Sharma in the dressing room, he was eventually persuaded into flicking at a ball outside leg stump.

Smith showed amazing reflexes, diving low to his right and plucking one of the most astonishing catches of his career, in a series which saw him dropping some easy ones.

"It was massive," Lyon said as quoted by ESPNCrincinfo.

"To be honest with you, and this is no disrespect to anyone else in the team, but I do not think anyone else is catching it. That's just me bowling from one end and looking up and seeing Steve Smith at slip or leg slip and having that confidence as a bowler."

"Yes, he has dropped a couple here and there, but I would not trade him for anyone. It shows the quality of the cricketer he is that we see at