Australia spinner Nathan Lyon has advocated for a three-match World Test Championship (WTC) final. Lyon admitted that playing a three-match WTC final will be challenging given the time constraints but said it'll be a fair way to get the deserving winner. The Aussie spinner said teams play consistent cricket for two years to reach the summit clash but could lose out on the title after one bad session. He said a three-match affair would allow the teams to bounce back and show their dominance.
Lyon's remarks echo the sentiments of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, who had previously called for a three-match WTC final to give the teams a fair shot at winning the title.
“One thing I would like to see, I'd like to see the World Test Championship Final potentially in a three-match series. That may become a little bit better because you potentially can lose using a Test match in one session where [in a three-match series] it may allow teams to bounce back all your show their dominance and win 3-0. We're pretty time-poor anyway and that's going to be a challenge but that's one thing I would change," Lyon was quoted by ICC.
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“You potentially could go one in England, one in India, one in Australia, so you have all different conditions, but obviously, the timing of that changes everything. I don't think we're going to get on the MCG in the middle of August, just putting it out there,” he added.
Meanwhile, India and Australia could potentially face in the WTC final for the 2023-2025 cycle. The teams occupy the top two spots in the WTC table and have the greatest odds of reaching the summit clash again. Meanwhile, Lyon praised WTC for bringing life to Test cricket, saying it has ensured that no game is a dead rubber. He called WTC the pinnacle of the Test cricket.
“Oh, yeah. I'll just say it's [World Test Championship] the pinnacle for Test cricket. People say it's sometimes a dead rubber when you turn 2-0 up in a three-match series or whatever it may be. But I feel like there's no more dead rubbers. I've never considered them dead rubbers, but there's always points on offer now. You look at us last year losing against West Indies at the Gabba hurt us a fair bit," he said.
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"It's massive, but I feel like the World Test Championship for me is like the World Cup and that's a genuine big World Cup. When you are competing against the best for long periods of time over a two-year period, you have to be good for the whole lot,” Lyon added.