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"Brett Lee quits international cricket"
[ TIME WAS RIGHT TO RETIRE_Brett Lee ]
Brett Lee was
sent home from the ODI series in England with a calf injury.
Yes, he is battling an injury, the
calf muscle strain that forced him home from the one-day tour of UK that ended
in a disastrous 4-0 series loss to England. And yet Lee has had many injuries,
far more than his fair share if truth be known, over the course of an
international career that stretches back to the last century, to the Boxing Day
Test of 1999 against India.
He has been through the
rehabilitation process more times than he can count but on awakening in Sydney
today, it dawned on him that he no longer was capable of making the total
commitment required of an international cricketer.
More than likely he could have
made his way back in time to play for Australia one last time at the World
Twenty20 tournament in Sri Lanka in September-October, the event he had long
been targeting as his international swansong, but his mind and body were
telling him they already had clocked off.
“I woke up this morning and just felt like I
was ready,” Lee told a press conference at his beloved SCG early this
afternoon. “I think personally in a team environment you have to have 100 per
cent commitment, mentally and physically. And I guess looking at the next few
months I just didn’t have that desire any more.
“It wouldn’t be fair on me or my
team if I went in with that attitude. You get to the point in life where you
say enough is enough.”
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| Brett Lee During World Cup_2011 |
Yet before Lee reached that point
as a 35-year-old, he had taken 310 Test wickets in 76 Tests at 30.82 - backed
up by 1451 runs at the nearly-an-allrounder average of 20.15 – to be fourth on
the all-time Australian bowling list behind Shane Warne (708), Glenn McGrath
(563) and Dennis Lillee (355).
And in terms of one-day cricket,
only McGrath with 381 wickets ranks ahead of him – and that by a solitary
wicket. Lest that statistic somehow be downplayed, here is another that puts
Lee’s performance into perspective. McGrath took his tall in 251 ODI’s. Lee
compiled his in just 221.
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| Brett Lee Wickets |
The writing was on the wall that
Lee was seriously considering his future when he decided not to take up a deal
with NSW for next season, this after he was not offered a national contract by
Cricket Australia in the latest round of agreements.
It may be that only when Lee’s
achievements go into history that his contribution to Australian cricket is
fully appreciated. Somehow, even on the recent tour of England, he still looked
like that young blond tearaway who terrorised India in his Test debut so long
ago.
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| Brett lee Averages |
As he put it on Twitter this
morning, “It’s been an amazing 13 years!”
Brett
Lee excelled as an exponent of extreme speed over a decade without achieving
the all-conquering success required to earn the tag of a true Test great. Fast
and with a flashy smile that added to his star quality, he finished as
Australia's fourth-most successful bowler with 310 wickets in 76 matches. A
refusal to bow to severe injuries increases his rating, but for most of his
career he operated as brutal support for Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie. In
his final two years he was a highly dependable attack leader until his body
limited his ability to back up in five-day contests.
At
his best he gained outswing with the new ball and reverse with the older one,
making him even more difficult for batsmen trying to steady themselves while
knowing he could reach 160kph. The charging run-up and leaping celebrations
added to the theatre for a bowler who made an instant impact when taking five
wickets on debut at the MCG. Forty-two victims came in his opening seven Tests
to gain him an A-list reputation, but he was soon in rehabilitation after an
elbow operation. His ankles were a popular site for surgery and there were also
side strains and stress fractures in a familiar cycle of breath-taking pace,
painful injury and long-term layoff.
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| Brett Lee in Early days as a Child |
After
starting by shaking up batsmen with short balls and yorkers, Lee became a
smarter operator under Ricky Ponting's captaincy and knew when to deliver a
burst of speed or a containing spell. In nine Tests following McGrath's
departure, Lee stood up with 58 victims at 21.55 and also won the Allan Border
Medal in 2008. During that period he helped keep the rebuilding side on top of
the world.
Life
soon became harder again and after returning from more ankle surgery - his last
act in a Test was limping off the MCG with a broken foot - he missed the 2009
Ashes with a side strain. England wasn't a kind host for Lee, who was consoled
by Andrew Flintoff during his absorbing yet heart-breaking batting near-miss in
Edgbaston in 2005. He was a courageous run-maker who would deflect or absorb
the efforts of opposing fast men as they searched for payback.
A
gentleman off the field, he was aggressive on it and rarely went over the top
in comparison to his team-mates, although his bouncers at the tail-enders were
uncomfortable viewing. Mostly he was a shining example to young players in all
forms of the game. When retiring from Tests at the beginning of 2010 he hoped
to prolong his career in the shorter forms. In those affairs he could stay true
to himself by attempting to operate at optimum speed while reducing the load on
his aching body.
Maintained a Great & Friendly with Sachin Tendulkar:-
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| Brett Lee With Sachin Tendulkar |
Brett Lee with Sachin Tendulkar.
"He is a legend. It is a pleasure
to bowl him," says the Aussie.
Not only ago, it was reported that
former Australian cricketers and commentators expressed reservation about Brett
Lee’s recuperation post surgery and also, if he was in mental shape to lead
Australia in the Ashes against England.
Now there is more by way of concern as Lee struggles to find a
place behind Mitchell Johnson, Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus and is looked in
the battle for a fourth fast bowler in the team with Stuart Clark.
While Jason Gillespie, who himself was dropped after the Ashes
2005, believes that Lee will continue to struggle until he learns to master the
English conditions. One of the contentions against Lee is that he is unwilling
to give up the aspect of speed in his bowling. Even as age thirty-two, Lee
believes he can run in and bowl faster than he has simply because he has missed
a lot of cricket through injuries and therefore, fresher for the challenge.
However, former fast bowlers feel unless Lee learns to add more to
his game than pure pace, he is likely to lose out to younger, more energetic
Australian bowlers who are willing to experiment.
Brett Lee says....
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| Brett Lee says 'He quits International Cricket' |
Brett Lee has confirmed his retirement from
international cricket, but he has declared his intention to play on in the Big
Bash League and the IPL. Lee, 35, had originally planned to retire after the
ICC World Twenty20 in September, but after flying home early from the ODI
series in England due to a calf injury, he decided the time was right to make
way for Australia's young fast bowlers.
He will depart the game as the equal leading wicket taker for
Australia in one-day internationals, having moved level with Glenn McGrath on
380 victims, although McGrath also took one wicket for the ICC World XI, taking
his career tally to 381. Lee retired from Test cricket in February 2010, but
remained a valuable player in the shorter formats, for his country and his
various domestic teams around the world.
Lee's final appearance for Australia came in Durham last week,
when he hurt his calf while bowling the third over of his 221st one-day
international. Lee said he wondered as he was clapped off whether it would be
the end of his international career, and he made his decision on Friday morning
before making the retirement official with an announcement at the SCG.
"I guess you ask yourself a lot of questions when you've been
injured or been through a tough time," Lee said. "It's been the last
two or three nights I have thought about it a lot. I woke up this morning and I
knew this was the right day to do it.
"In a team environment you have to be committed 100%, both
mentally and physically. Looking at the next two months I just didn't have that
desire any more. It wouldn't be fair on me or the rest of the team if I was to
go over there with that attitude - not lack of commitment, but you just get to
a point in your life when you decide enough is enough.
"The great run must end. It was going to be post-World Cup
[Twenty20]. We had spoken about that with the selectors and that was the time I
was going to walk away from the game. But I woke up this morning and just felt
like I was ready. It was time to go."
Lee made his debut for Australia in the 1999 Boxing Day Test
against India and he will retire as international cricket's tenth leading wicket taker of all time, with 718 victims
across all three formats. He has been involved in a World Cup triumph in 2003
and three successful Ashes campaigns, and although he will leave on the low of
a 4-0 one-day loss to England, Lee said he was confident Australia were heading
in the right direction.
"What I can say about the Australian cricket team right now
is that we are guided by a terrific guy in Michael Clarke," Lee said.
"I think he's been a terrific captain. He's got a great cricket brain.
We've just got to back the guys we've got around us and realise that we don't
make superstars overnight.
"We can't expect guys to go out there and get five-for in
their first match, or a hundred. The guys need to take time to get used to
their spot. There's a lot of unfair pressure coming from all angles on the
players these days. Pick a group and try to stick with them I reckon is the
best advice."
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One of those young men who will play a key role in Australia's
fortunes over the next decade is Pat Cummins, the 19-year-old fast bowler.
Cummins has already been struck down by a number of injuries and has taken
advice from Lee, who said he was excited to see what Cummins could deliver over
the next few years.
"He's got so much talent. If I had half his talent that he's
got at 19, you'd take a million Test wickets," Lee said. "He's a
wonderful guy, he's a guy that listens, he's got a great body to bowl fast. The
thing I told him the other day is that you are going to get injured,
unfortunately. If you put yourself and your body on the line every single time
you bowl a ball, the chances are you will get injured.
"You've got to learn how to deal with that, learn how to deal
with the media saying you're injury prone, how to deal with people saying
you've got to bowl 150ks every single ball. It's tough, it's challenging. I
know that he can do it."
Lee was in and out of Australia's side so often due to injury in
his career that he said he'd had "more sequels or comebacks than
Rambo". He missed the 2007 World Cup due to a serious ankle injury and
also suffered back, abdomen, side, elbow and foot problems throughout his
13-year international career, but he said he had no regrets about the toll his
style had taken on his body.
"It may be a little bit crazy to be a fast bowler, to put
your body on the line every single time," Lee said. "I've always said
that if you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space. That's
the way I've always played my cricket. If I've done something I've done it
pretty well [injuries]. This calf tear is the first proper torn muscle I've had
in 20 years of cricket, so I can't really ask my body for much more than that.
"There's still the Big Bash, there's the IPL. I'm not totally
losing my cricket thrill or the chance to play cricket. Hopefully I will get
the opportunity to play here [the SCG] again. Obviously it won't be for the
Australian cricket team, which will be sad. But I know I've made that right
call."
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