Australia's Nathan Lyon chews gum as he walks to his fielding position during the day one of the second cricket test match between Australia and India at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, Australia. (AP)Former Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has revealed Nathan Lyon was the main reason behind the “Adelaide blackout” on the first day of the second Test in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Haddin says the stadium’s light towers were switched off as the ground officials were trying to turn the net lights on for nightwatchmen Nathan Lyon, who requested to have a few hits.
“I was speaking to the ground staff and it was all about Nathan Lyon,’’ Haddin said on The Willow Talk podcast.
“Nathan Lyon went out the back for a hit and they went to turn the lights on and whatever happened, they turned the wrong set off and the lights went off and Nathan Lyon said, ‘I’ve got to fix this so I can go out and bat in the nets’.
“They politely said to Nathan, the lights are off on the ground, we’re not so worried about your hit at the moment. So that’s come hot off the press from the curators.”
With the floodlights going off twice during the 18th over bowled by Indian pacer Harshit Rana, former Australian cricketer Mark Waugh took a dig at the issue.
“Oh hello. They’ve run out of electricity in Adelaide. Pretty hot today. Plenty of air conditioners on,” Waugh said while commentating on Fox Cricket.
However, South Australian MP Tom Koutsantonis had assured people that it was not a power grid failure.
“I can confirm there was no lack of power supply or availability in South Australia. Whatever caused the light towers at Adelaide Oval to turn off was not related to a lack of power supply from the Grid,” he wrote on X.
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