WTC Final 2025 Important Step to Becoming One of the Great Australian Teams: Lyon

Australia's veteran spinner Nathan Lyon believes the ICC World Test Championship Final 2025 represents a significant step in Australia's quest to become one of the all-time great Test teams.

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The 37-year-old off-spinner is part of Andrew McDonald's squad to take on South Africa at Lord's in the finale of the ICC World Test Championship 2023-25 cycle. Australia will be looking to defend the title they won in 2023 after beating India by 209 runs at The Oval, and Lyon, who took the match-winning wicket of Mohammed Siraj in that victory, wants to build on the progress that has been made since then.

"It is important that we look at this week as a celebration piece," he was quoted as saying by ICC.

"We've done incredibly well over the last couple of years, at home and away, and that is something that as a team, we should be really proud of.

"In my eyes, we're on a journey to becoming a great Australian team. We're not there yet, I'm well aware of that, but that's our goal too.

"This game is another step up that ladder."