The Australian team made a spectacle by having no Nathan Lyon, the prime spinner of their team, in their playing XI. This happened after 12 years, and quite naturally, this has raised questions. Australia is currently touring the West Indies, a tour that has favored the pacers. Despite that, Lyon maintained a pretty decent average of 18, bagging 9 wickets in the last two games. Well, reasoning Lyon's absence, the Australian selector Tony Dodemaide said that he made the team based on the conditions of Sabina Park. The third Test, which is a day-night Test, has started on Saturday, and on Sunday, as quoted by ESPNCricinfo, Tony said, "He wants to play every game. He’s a great competitor, and he believes he can be effective in any conditions, but he’s a team man as well. Understands the right thing for the team, and he’ll do his best to support the guys. But I said it’s a one-off. It’s no reflection on performance for Nathan; it’s simply the best way we think we can win this game. It’s not something we generally want to do, and, fair to say, certainly wasn’t front of mind when we first got here.” Read also: WATCH: England Players Mock Shubman Gill, Say ‘600 Runs Are Enough This Series’ He added, "(The) limited data that we have on particularly the pink Duke’s ball, we know that from the data that it actually behaves a little differently to the Kookaburra one, it doesn’t go as soft,” Dodemaide continued. “The history tells us that, and that’s been our lived experience when we’ve been here for the past couple of days in terms of the practice sessions that we’ve had. Based on all of that, we thought that spin would not really have a significant part in the game." Notably, the Australian pacers have rattled down the West Indies after the first innings for 143 runs. Scott Boland led the attack with 3 wickets for 34 runs. Josh Hazlewood and captain Pat Cummins took two each. Mitchell Starc took 1, and so did Beau Webster. Earlier, australia scored 224 in the first innings, and in the second, they lost 6 wickets, scoring 99 having a lead of 181 runs by the end of Day 2.