Australia selectors ponder Lyon role amid pace push

MELBOURNE, Aug 26 : With Nathan Lyon almost as iconic in Australian cricket as the baggy green cap worn by the nation's test players, selectors face a delicate task in managing a proud spinner whose role may be curtailed amid changing priorities.Australia's second-highest test wicket-taker of all time was an automatic selection for over a decade but his place is under pressure as conditions tempt selectors to go with an all-pace assault in upcoming series against South Africa and New Zealand. Having missed the last two Ashes tests with injury over the home summer, Lyon was recalled for the Bangladesh series, returning as a foil for the vaunted pace unit of Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood in Darwin.But after taking 1-125 in the opening defeat and being out-bowled by spin-bowl