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\nAustralia\u2019s off-spinner Nathan Lyon has been ruled out of the ongoing Ashes series due to a calf tear.
\nLyon suffered the injury while fielding during the second day of the Ashes Test at Lord\u2019s on Thursday.
\nHe hobbled out to bat at number 11 on Saturday, scoring four runs and sharing a partnership of 15 with Mitchell Starc.
\nAustralia were hampered by his absence as he was unable to bowl but went on to win the Test by 43 runs on Sunday.
\nWith no replacements for Lyon included in the revised 16-player squad, fellow off-spinner Todd Murphy is likely to come into the side following an impressive debut Test series in India earlier this year.
\nAustralia coach Andrew McDonald said it was \u201ctoo early to tell\u201d if Murphy would be an automatic replacement for Lyon but added he would prefer to have a specialist spinner included in the team to balance out the attack.
\n\u201cTodd is very well placed,\u201d McDonald said. \u201cWe like to have a spinner in our attack. It\u2019s a different balance.
\n\u201cAs you saw (on Sunday) at certain times, we had to do it differently without Nathan Lyon down the other end, which we\u2019ve been so used to. At times it looked a bit chaotic.\u201d
\nLyon took eight wickets in Australia\u2019s win at the series opener at Edgbaston and was playing in his 100th consecutive test at Lord\u2019s.
\nThe third Test of the five-match cricket series begins at Headingley on Thursday.
\nAustralia squad
\nPat Cummins (captain), Steven Smith, David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Todd Murphy, Scott Boland, Michael Neser, Marcus Harris, Mitchell Marsh, Jimmy Peirson
\nMen\u2019s Ashes Schedule
\nThird Test (Clean Slate Headingley) – Thursday, July 6 – Monday, July 10
\nFourth Test (Emirates Old Trafford) – Wednesday, July 19 – Sunday, July 23
\nFifth Test (The Kia Oval) – Thursday, July 27 – Monday, July 31<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD Australia\u2019s off-spinner Nathan Lyon has been ruled out of the ongoing Ashes series due to a calf tear. Lyon suffered the injury while fielding during the second day of the Ashes Test at Lord\u2019s on Thursday. He hobbled out to bat at number 11 on Saturday, scoring four runs and sharing a partnership of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n