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
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.
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.
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.
After that Bangladesh series I can clock off, it's like Friday afternoon for a guy who goes to work all week.
I loved it. You couldn't get the smile off my face.
It was an interesting experience because we got to share and spend time with other people who have cancer stories. It was definitely somewhat of an emotional experience.
We tried to work on being ruthless, just hitting the top of off-stump consistently.
As I have told earlier, if you compare the body with a petrol pump, I've run out of petrol and running on fumes. I can say I'm pretty empty.
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.
When you are bowling at such a high velocity and trying to get momentum through the crease and try to bowl a yorker you only look at a slight variation in your trajectory to the wicket.
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.
We spoke about a number of things from conventional swing to reverse swing and different lines and lengths.
I reckon he's fantastic. The only thing he needs to do is learn to bowl good length. He's not bowling his yorker enough. The way I understand is that they're being coached to concentrate on the top of the off stump.
But I'm training hard and I've put myself in a position where I hope I can sustain that.