By Richard Edwards
LOOKING up and seeing Nathan Lyon sat there as a careers’ advisor has suddenly become every English cricketer’s worst nightmare – funny then, to think of the role he played in Joe Root’s lightning rise from rookie Grade cricketer to world-beater.
The loudmouth Aussie spinner said that he hoped to end a few careers during the course of this Ashes series.
It was a claim that drew a mixture of incredulity from most and anger from former England wicketkeeper Matt Prior, who reminded Lyon that the sport had a nasty habit of biting players ...