A chat with Ricky Ponting and Mike Hussey on the day of his Test debut has propelled Nathan Lyon to 550 Test wickets at the same ground 14 years later.
Lyon became only the third Australian to reach the milestone when Dinesh Chandimal hit him to a diving Beau Webster on Saturday in the second Test against Sri Lanka.
The veteran off-spinner (3-80) took two more wickets into the sheds on the third day in Galle as Australia (414) closed in on a 2-0 series win over the hosts (257, 8-211).
