Never thoughts Bazball. Nathan Lyon has needed to admit defeat within the Lord’s nets to the brand new cricketing drive that’s Piastriball.
Oscar Piastri, Australia’s lone Formula One driver, sped into the house of cricket on Monday, invited to have a little bit of enjoyable on the finish of apply by the nationwide staff earlier than Wednesday’s second Ashes Test.
And McLaren’s rookie demonstrated that he packs a punch with the bat as he took on first-Test hero Lyon, having been loaned the spinner’s bat and batting gear, and caught maintain of an actual magnificence aimed over mid-wicket.
“Yeah, he hit it pretty well – I’ll give it to him,” mentioned an impressed Lyon, when one onlooker advised it will have been a six if it hadn’t ballooned into the nets.
“Well played!”
He additionally preferred the look of Piastri’s ahead defensive, laughing: “He’s almost got a better defence than a Pom … am I allowed to say that?”
London-based Piastri, who was having fun with a free day earlier than flying off for the Austrian Grand Prix, additionally confronted just a few – fortunately light – deliveries from Mitchell Starc, and likewise appeared to have some tempo himself as he hurled down an over at Marnus Labuschagne.
He wasn’t the one star customer hanging across the nets, with the staff additionally assembly up with Geelong’s AFL legend Joel Selwood.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
