The veteran Australian spinner, Nathan Lyon reckons that losing the four-match Test series against India at home in 2018-19 still hurts. During a recent conversation with crikcet.co.au., he said one can never like losing series or games of cricket for Australia as he spoke about that series and also India’s upcoming series against Australia later this year.

Referring to the upcoming series, Lyon spoke of the hype around. “It’s getting up there to the pinnacle series alongside the Ashes”. Nathan added that it’s going to be an “amazing challenge” when India tour Australia in December and his team is looking forward to it.

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The coming series is much in attention and, Rohit Sharma and David Warner, during an Instagram live chat, talked about India’s upcoming tour against Australia. During the chat, Rohit said, “I love playing in Australia and am already looking forward to the upcoming series”. He further added, “I hope both boards manage to get the series underway.”

David Warner who was not a part of the 2018-19 series due to the ball-tampering ban, recalled how it was “hard to watch the series” as he couldn’t do anything from the outside.

Australia is currently standing at the no.1 position in the ICC rankings the number one ranked Test team in ICC’s Test rankings with 116 points. India has come down to the third position with 114 points behind New Zealand who has 115 points.

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India won the Test series for the first time in Australia under the captaincy of Virat Kohli back in 2018-19. India will play a four-match Test series against Australia beginning from December 3 in Brisbane. They will also be playing first-ever pink-ball Test down under.