Brett Lee
Brett Lee
Brett Leeis a former Australian international cricketer and a Channel Nine cricket commentator. During his international career, Lee was recognised as one of the two fastest bowlers in the world of cricket along with Shoaib Akhtar. He is known for his consistency of pace, going over 155 km/ph throughout his career. His quickest delivery was 161.8 kilometres per hourin a test match against the West Indies in 2002, but because they were playing in a charity match, it was not...
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth8 November 1976
CityWollongong, Australia
I bowl my best when I am fittest and the best way to get fit is to bowl. That's how you get your rhythm. You cannot really find a rhythm by bowling in the nets.
We've seen in the papers that we've been smashed by England. All credit to them: they played fantastically well. But if we actually dissect exactly what happened, it came down to a couple of edgy draws and a game where we were beaten by two runs. It was a lot closer than everyone made out.
Whatever be the complex situations, the Indian team under Ganguly has moved to great heights. The fact of the matter is that Ganguly is determined to stay focused.
No matter how good or experienced, he [Sehwag] can kill your attitude.
Since the start of the Ashes I have had a hectic workload. I've played almost every game, but I'm thinking that after South Africa and the Bangladesh series I can clock off for two or three months. It's like Friday afternoon for a guy who goes to work all week.
Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.
You might pitch a ball on the off stump and think you have bowled a good ball and he walks across and hits it for two behind midwicket. His bat looks so heavy but he just waves it around like it's a toothpick.
If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life
It's very challenging. The most important thing you need as a sportsman is to be clear on what you're actually doing.
I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss.
I think going to that next step of having a specialist batting coach and a specialist bowling coach would definitely be a benefit to us.
Jacques Kallis is brilliant - he's also very patient, and has the ability to turn a match around. When Stuart Clark got his wicket, it set the whole snowball effect going. We were really lifted again - we'd been a bit down for a while because we weren't really playing to our normal standard. But as soon as we got that wicket, we picked up a cog, and that was great.
I felt like the rhythm hasn't quite been there the last couple of games. I worked pretty hard in the nets working off my long run.
I loved it. You couldn't get the smile off my face.