Darwin, Aug. 11 -- With a single delivery, Nathan Lyon casually pulled off what England would have given anything for last summer.
Travis Head, seeking to recapture his destructive Ashes form during an intra-squad match simulation in Brisbane last week, had battered five boundaries against the new ball.
On to bowl came Lyon, Australia's oldest player fresh off his rehabilitation from a second serious soft-tissue injury in three years. Head advanced down the Allan Border Field pitch to the off-spinner's first offering, swung and missed, and wicketkeeper Alex Carey did the rest.
"I faced one ball," Head said when asked for his view on whether Lyon had the Kookaburra fizzing like he had before he tore his hamstring in December. "It was a pr...