Nathan Lyon’s girlfriend Emma McCarthy teases a wedding dress

Emma McCarthy raised eyebrows on Thursday when she shared a glimpse of a wedding dress on Instagram.

The 29-year-old girlfriend of cricketer Nathan Lyon shared a photo of the train of a white dress, which she captioned: ‘Behind the scenes.’

On Friday, she returned to Instagram to share another photo of herself walking down a spiral staircase, this time dressed in an embellished floral bridal gown.

But Emma, who has sparked engagement rumours in the past, was simply modelling the gown for a couture bridal designer.

‘So nice being surrounded by such a creative group of women styling and shooting the @pallascouture “Ma Belle” 2021 collection,’ she told her followers. 

Emma has been dating the Australian batsman, 32, for three years.

But their relationship began in scandalous circumstances, as they had been caught kissing in Perth in late 2017 while Nathan was still with his ex-partner, Mel Waring.

The former couple share two daughters together, and Mel detailed their heartbreaking split in a post on her blog, Life of Lyons, in March 2018.

The 32-year-old single mother said her pain was ‘real and deep’ and recounted nights when she would lie in bed with her children and cry.  

‘I didn’t ask for this, this wasn’t the way my life was supposed to be. He was my forever, he was my whole world,’ she wrote. 

‘Until the very end I was 100 per cent devoted to our life and I loved every part of him and our world. This was like a bomb, it went off from behind. 

‘I had to deal with [it] in a very public, humiliating and confronting way. A part of me died.’