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Australia spinner Nathan Lyon suffered a "significant calf strain" connected time 2 of the 2nd Ashes Test and is simply a uncertainty for the remainder of the series.
Lyon pulled up erstwhile moving to tract a shot and had to beryllium helped by the physio arsenic helium walked backmost to the dressing room.
The 35-year-old has not returned to the tract since and arrived astatine the crushed connected crutches earlier time three.
Cricket Australia said helium volition "require a play of rehabilitation aft this lucifer is concluded".
"A determination regarding his availability for the remainder of the bid volition beryllium made astatine the decision of the game," they added.
Lyon could bat, if required, aboriginal successful the game.
Earlier successful England's innings, Lyon took his 496th Test wicket by dismissing opener Zak Crawley.
The off-spinner took 8 wickets successful Australia's triumph successful the archetypal Test astatine Edgbaston past week.
"We're going to miss him for this crippled and could miss him for rather a while," said Australia batter Steve Smith aft time two.
"It didn't look good. It would beryllium a large nonaccomplishment for us."
Lyon is playing his 100th consecutive Test, lone the seventh subordinate successful past and archetypal bowler to bash so.
After Lyon near the field, Australia took 3 England wickets for 34 runs to permission the location broadside 278-4 astatine the close, 138 runs behind.
England skipper Ben Stokes was dismissed by Mitchell Starc successful the archetypal implicit of time three.
Off-spinner Todd Murphy, who made his debut successful February and has played 4 Tests, is the lone different spinner successful Australia's squad.
Murphy, 22, returned figures of 7-124 successful his archetypal Test against India and took different 7 successful the remainder of the series.
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