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
Brett Lee quotes about
Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.
If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life
But I'm training hard and I've put myself in a position where I hope I can sustain that.
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.
It will go down as one of the great moments in sportsmanship. He could have hugged his mates and celebrated, but he chose to put his arm around me.
If you're a fast bowler, you are there to bowl fast and knock the stumps over and hit the batsmen,
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.
But once I was out there I felt in control of the situation, adrenalin kicks in and you know what your job is, although when Warne is bowling like that it's tricky.
No matter how good or experienced, he [Sehwag] can kill your attitude.
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.
It's always a fine line. If you overdo (aggression) it's 'ugly Australians', but if you have a smile on your face it's Australia being too nice.
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.