Brett Lee

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Brett Lee (born November 8, 1976) is a former Australian international cricketer, who plays all three game formats. During his international career, Lee was recognized as one of the fastest fastest players in the cricket world with Shoaib Akhtar.

He is known for his consistency of speed, and has played over 150 kilometers per hour (93 mph) throughout his career. One of the shipments was recorded at 161.8 km/h (100.5 mph) in a Test match against the West Indies in 2002, but this later proved to be the wrong measurement of a 142 km/hour shipment. Lee's fastest delivery in ODI was 161.1 km/h (100.1 mph) playing against New Zealand in 2005, just slower than the world record for the fastest shipment ever held by Shoaib Akhtar at 161.4 km/h (100 , 3 mph).

In the first two years, Lee averaged less than 20 with the ball, but since then most have reached the numbers in the early 30s. He is an useful athletic and under-use batsman, with a batting of over 20 in the Test cricket. Lee completed his Test with 310 wickets, and his One Day International career with 380 wickets.

Lee played for the World Cup winning team in 2003. He announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket on July 12, 2012, after playing his first Test in 1999. He later refused to renew his contract with his home state of New South Wales but continued playing twenty games for the next few seasons, especially in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and Big Bash League.

In January 2015, Lee announced his retirement from all forms of play, effective at the end of the 2014 Big Bash League season. He is currently a film actor and former Nine Channel commentator.

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Lee started playing in the junior team from his local team, Oak Flats Rats, and gradually worked on his ranks. At 16 he started playing first-class cricket for Campbelltown, where he managed to claim the wicket of several New South Wales cricketers, and Mosman, where at one point he shared a new ball with Shoaib Akhtar and briefly played alongside British batsman Andrew Strauss.

Lee was summoned to Australia Under 17 & amp; 19 teams. In March 1994, he was forced out of the Australian Under-19 team for an Indian tour due to a stress fracture in his lower back and it forced him to overhaul his bowling action to minimize the impact on his back. He was awarded a scholarship to attend the AIS Australian Cricket Academy in the 1995-96 season. His contemporaries include international colleagues Jason Gillespie and Mike Hussey.

Before making his first class debut, Lee played for Mosman in the 1996-1997 final of the Sydney Grade Cricket final.

Lee was first mentioned in the New South Wales Blues squad as the twelfth man for the November 14-16 game against Queensland in Sheffield Shield 1997-98. The following week, he made his first class debut for the Blues against Western Australia and picked up 3 wickets in 114, including captain Tom Moody. It will be his only performance in Sheffield Shield for the rest of the season. He ended an impressive month by taking 5 wickets in the final of the Sydney Limited-Overs Cup class against Bankstown on 30 November.

During the 1998-99 season, Lee was more often present at the last stage of the Sheffield Shield. He took 14 wickets, including a 5 wicket goal against Tasmania in the second round. He started the 1999-2000 season by claiming 8 wickets in his first two games. The show impressed his New South Wales team-mate Steve Waugh, then captain of Australia, and culminated in his test in December 1999. He finished the season as the second highest winner of the Blues at the Pura Cup with 24 wickets in 5 matches.

After a successful series of Tests against India, Lee returned to domestic cricket and was named in the 2008 Pura Cup finals. He struck the best batting score of his career, 97 against Victoria in the second half of the Blues and set a record of a 176-run partnership with Beau Casson. In the second half of Victoria, he took 4-72, sacked the last four defenders, as the Blues won the final.

In 2009 he fought back from injury and became a key player in the success of New South Wales during the Twenty20 Champions League. During the finals he played an important part with both bats and balls and was named Man of the Match. He also won the Man of the Series award.

After retiring from cricket tests, Lee stopped playing first class cricket to concentrate on the limited format. He is the winner of the Blues wins in the 2010-11 One-Day Ryobi Cup with 15 wickets and has the second best economic level of five wicket-takers despite missing the last stage of the campaign due to international duty.

In June 2012 he refused to renew his contract with The Blues, ending his 15-year relationship with his domestic team.

He retired from the Big Bash League after playing the final game for the Sydney Sixers on January 28, 2015. At the end of his life, he picked up two wickets of consecutive deliveries; however, his hat hat-trick did not result in what was the last ball in the game, which the Sydney Sixers lost by a match.

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International career

Day debut

One month after making his first class debut, Lee was chosen to represent the Australian A team on a tour of South Africa. He claimed two wickets but in the game it cracked a fracture on his back from a previous injury reopened and Lee was behind the brace for over three months.

Test career

In the late 1990s there was a call for Lee to be included in the national squad. Captain Steve Waugh, who also played with him for New South Wales, was impressed by Lee's debut and encouraged him to be included in the national team. He was finally selected in the 14th final for the Test series against Pakistan in 1999 but failed to make the 11th. At the time the Tes series against India came, he was the twelfth man. However, he made his Test debut for Australia in December 1999 against the Indian tour, becoming Australia's 383th Cricket test.

Bowling's first change, Lee took the wicket in the first half at Test cricket when he bowed Sadagoppan Ramesh with a fourth delivery. He also captured Rahul Dravid in his first spell before returning to take three wickets in six balls to finish the round with a 5/47 figure of 17 overs, becoming Australia's first fast fastler since Dennis Lillee picked up 5 wickets on debut. Lee took 13 wickets in two of his opening tests with an average of 14.15 lows.

Lee won Donald Cowman's first Young Player of the Year Award at the Allan Border Medal award ceremony in 2000 shortly after his debut.

Lee took 42 wickets in his opening three series, most by Australian bowling players in seven games he played. He was selected for the Test series against the West Indies in late 2000. During the first Test he scored the first half century in cricket tests and in the next Test, picked up seven wickets including five wickets drawn in the second half. However, he suffered a stress fracture in his lower back which made him absent from the next three tests. He returned against Zimbabwe but soon suffered another setback a month later when he broke off his right elbow and was sidelined until May 2001.

Returning from injury

Lee returned to the international team for the 2001 Ashes series after recovering from an elbow injury. His return saw less success than his debut, managing just nine wickets in five Tests at 55.11. However, Lee returned as Australia's leading player in the first and third Tests against New Zealand later that year, in a series that he took 5 wickets in the second half and contributed 61 with a bat in the first Test match. The series ended with a 0-0 draw. He finished the series with 14 wickets at 25.14. Two series of hosts and away against South Africa were unproductive, yielding 19 wickets in six Tests at 38.42.

Lee only took five wickets in the match on three occasions between the New Zealand series and the Cricket World Cup in 2003. Lee was under pressure for his position after just taking five wickets at 46.50 in three Test series against Pakistan in 2002. Andy Bichel, for injured Jason Gillespie, picking up eight wickets at 13.25. With other frontline bowlers all taking less than 13 wickets, Lee was dropped when Gillespie returned for the first two Tests during the 2002-03 Ashes series. He returned for the Perth Exams, having claimed five wicket matches in the Pura Cup game against Queensland for New South Wales. He took thirteen wickets in 41.23 in three games, compared with ten Bichel at 35.1. After the 2003 Cricket World Cup, Lee took 17 wickets at 28.88 in four Tests against the West Indies. It was the first series in two years where he averaged below 30, and only the second in that period where the average was below 40.

After a mid-year break, he participated in the Two Tests series against Bangladesh in northern Australia. He took six wickets at 31.66, and was the most expensive bowler in Australia, with other specialist bowlers averaging 15.55 against the lowest ranked team in Test cricket. He followed this with six wickets in 37 in the comfortable Test 2-0 series against Zimbabwe, where other specialist bowlers averaged 23.15.

Against the Indian batting in the 2003-04 series, which ended with a 1-1 draw for Australia, Lee got out of the first two Tests recovering from his torn abdominal muscles, injuries he suffered during the Zimbabwean series.

Loss of Test position

Lee took eight wickets in 100 overs in his last two Tests against India, averaging 59.50. This test included a double century for Sachin Tendulkar in the first half of India 7/705 where Sachin and V.V.S. Laxman freely attacked Lee and the other bowlers in the final Test in Sydney. He ended the series with the average and the worst economic levels of the front-line players Australia.

He was subsequently replaced by his quick counterpart Michael Kasprowicz in 2004 during a Sri Lankan tour when Lee's ankle injury worsened, forcing him to return home for surgery. This injury will force Lee out of the game for 4½ months to ensure full recovery. Lee's form in the Test arena was ineffective, and from July 2001 to January 2004, he had an average bowling test of 38.42, compared with an average of 16.07 in his previous career.

Lee could not retake his position for eighteen months, when Kasprowicz took 47 wickets at 23.74 in thirteen Tests, taking his goal at a much lower cost than Lee had done in the previous three years. It includes 17 wickets at 26.82 on an Indian subcontinent spin throw, helping Australia to its first temple in Sri Lanka, and its first series victory in India for 35 years.

Re-test

After 18 months on the sidelines, Lee returned to the Test team in the 2005 Ashes series. With Kasprowicz and Jason Gillespie struggling to get form, Lee returned to pick up a new ball with Glenn McGrath. He averages 40 with the ball for the series, which some commentators have put for a bowl of spells longer than he was accustomed to at the time, but retained, partly because of the challenging batting that resulted in an average run of 26.33. During Abu, he claimed his 150th goal test from Andrew Strauss in straight yorker on Day 1 of the third test.

Part of Lee's difficulty at the Test level is that his high speed benefits, which give fewer reaction times to the batsmen, also result in more erratic bowling. Lately he has tried to concentrate only on accuracy by reducing speed. During his first Test against the West Indies in late 2005 at Gabba, after declaring that he would sacrifice speed and focus on the 'line and length', Lee returned to bowling early style, based on the advice of his captain Ricky Ponting after his new bowling method failed in the first half. It saw him take 5/30 five-goal wickets in his Test, the first in four years.

In Australia's 2005-06 cricket season, Lee's Test numbers increased from 2001-04 difficulties, with an average bowling season of 25.74.

During the 2005-06 tour in South Africa Australia, Lee's form saw a steady improvement, with the 5/93 number in the first Test in Perth. He completed three Test series with 13 wickets and Australian bowlers, second only to 14 wickets of Shane Warne in the series. Three Australian players including Lee, who was reprimanded at the Third Test in Sydney for showing disagreement with referee Aleem Dar.

With the unavailability of Glenn McGrath for South Africa's tour in March-April 2006, Lee spearheaded the arrangement of Australian bowling players. In the second Test of the series, in Durban, Lee grabbed the 200th Test winner in the 51st game and also caught the number 5 for 69, behind the 49 Test wicket in 2005. He was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the year. He was unable to sustain his performance when Australia visited Bangladesh for two Test series, picking up two wickets in 93, the bottom of the Australian bowling average.

In the first three tests of the 2006-07 Ashes series, he only took eight wickets and was fined for overuse in the Third Test in Adelaide when LBW's decision did not benefit him. However, over a period of weeks between the Adelaide and Melbourne tests, he worked with Troy Cooley, the Australian bowling coach, to adjust his run and return in the fourth and final test with more wicket. He completed the 20-wicket series, with his best bowling number being 4 for 47 at an average of 33.20, including 6 on the final test. His calculations were only corrected by Stuart Clark's teammates Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath as the quartet claimed more wickets than the whole combination of British bowling attacks.

Post era McGrath-Warne

Following retirement from Warne and McGrath, Lee rose to the challenge and was awarded the Man of the Series at the inaugural Warne-Muralidaran Celebration, two Test series against Sri Lanka at the end of 2007. In his first series as a bowling spearhead bowling 16 wickets with an average of 17 , 5. This is accomplished with a 5km/h (3.1 mph) slower bowling slower to improve accuracy. In the following series Lee took 24 wickets at 22.58 in four Tests against India. In this series he defeated Jason Gillespie to become the fifth highest goal taker in Australia. His consistent effort sees him rewarded with the Man of the Series Award for Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2007-08. He ended the season by winning Allan's Border Medal, an award given to players who were on trial by Australia's best international cricketer last year.

Lee looked less than capable on an Australian tour of the West Indies in 2008, taking only 5 wickets in the first Test match, where he looked exhausted. He returned to productivity, taking eight wickets on the Second test, including 5 wickets, and 6 in the Third Test.

During the Indian tour, Lee picked up a stomach virus and could not find his best form throughout the series. Lee showed a glimpse of his best form when the team returned to Australia for two series of trials with New Zealand, but generally looked downhill. However, he fought in two tests he played from the series with South Africa, which Australia lost 2-1, possibly due to a disturbing ankle injury and then the stress fracture he developed during the series (both on his left foot). The fracture was completely broken during the second half of the Day Boxing Test Match and he was forced to go home for surgery.

By the time he returned to the Australian team for Ashes in 2009, his position as the spearhead had been usurped by left-hander Mitchell Johnson. In addition, the arrival of bowlers like Peter Siddle, Ben Hilfenhaus and Doug Bollinger ensured that Lee had to fight for a position on the team. However, he took six wickets in the first round against the English Lions team in a training match that led to the Ashes. Lee is the only bowler to get a swing back in this match and seems in line for selection for the First Test in Cardiff. However, he took a left side strain and a sore rib in this match and he was ruled out of the first three Tests. He was later ignored for a recall and never played a cricket test again, announcing his retirement from a cricket test in early 2010.

Retirement

Lee has been considering retiring from Test cricket for some time since 2008 due to his physical stress. In February 2010, he announced his retirement from the Test cricket after consulting his friend and British rival Andrew Flintoff, stating that bowling "at 150 km/h for five days is very hard for the body". He has come out with a series of injuries and has not played the Test since December 2008. He ended his Test career with 310 wickets in 76 tests, Australia's fourth highest total behind Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Dennis Lillee.

International career one day

Lee made his One Day International debut for Australia against Pakistan on January 9, 2000 during the Carlton and United Breweries Series in Gabba, Brisbane. He became the 140th ODI cricketer to represent Australia. In February 2002 against South Africa, he scored his first half-century ODI, 51 * not out.

In the One-day International Match, he was rated by the ICC as an ODI bowler. 1 in January 2006 and has been ranked among the top ten Bowler ODI since early 2003. The strike rate of about 30 puts him among the sharpest in the form of this game. He also has a One-day International hat-trick to his name, which was achieved at the 2003 World Cup against Kenya. Lee is the first Australian bowling player and the fourth ever to achieve this achievement in World Cup history.

In an Australian match playing in the 2005-06 triangle one-day series, Lee gave the appearance of a useful batting ability by making 57 in the second game in a 100 running partnership with Michael Hussey to pull Australia out of the collapse of the middle frame. Lee finished the series with 15 wickets, the third highest tally behind Nathan Bracken and Muttiah Muralitharan.

His bowler-fielder partnership with international teammates and goalkeeper Adam Gilchrist produced 58 wickets in 151 matches, the fourth highest in ODI history.

World Cup 2003

With the main bowler Shane Warne banned from the 2003 World Cup a day before the opening game, Lee moved into power and, along with Andy Bichel and Glenn McGrath, formed one of the deadliest tournament tournaments, claiming 59 wickets between them. Lee ended the tournament with 22 wicket off 83.1 overs at an average of 17.90, the wicket behind Sri Lanka's left fastler Chaminda Vaas. Lee also has the third highest strike-rate 22.68 behind West India's fast rider Vasbert Drakes and Australian counterpart Andrew Bichel who topped the strike-rates with 19.43 and 21.37 respectively. It also reaches 160 km/h (99 mph) three times; His shipments to Marvan Atapattu in the semi-finals reached 160.1 km/h (99.5 mph) and reached 160.7 km/h (99.9 mph) 160.6 km/h (99.8 mph) at both top against England in the group stage.

Lee got six of his 22 wickets during the group stage, 11 wickets during the Super-six stage, 3 from the semi final and 2 wickets from the final which was won by Australia. He took a five-wicket distance, 5 to 42, against New Zealand's Trans-Tasman rivals during their super-six encounter in Port Elizabeth to put Australia ahead after a grim inning. He also grabbed his first international hattrick with a 3 for 14 against Kenya during the last game of the super-six stage.

Comeback

After having returned home due to injury during the 2007 World Cup, Lee traveled with the team to England for the 2009 "summer" UK tour. He was left out of the test side during the Ashes but was on the one-day side for the NatWest Series in September. He is the highest goal taker for Australia by 12 and also takes the ninth-wickest five-goal at ODI as Australia makes a clean sweep winning all but one game in the series. With a five-wicket distance, he became the first person to take two five-wicket on ODI at Lord's; the ball used now is on display at Lord's MCC Museum. Later that month he was part of the successful 2009 ICC Champions Trophy squad and had a 6 wicket level with teammates Peter Siddle and Shane Watson, the highest total for the Australian team. The injury suffered in the test match forced him out until 2011, having not played for Australia for nearly two years. In the next ODI series, the return is more successful. He finished as a leading goal for the series with 11 scalps at 24.00, his best 3/27 series came in the third game at SCG. His speed is consistently around mid 140 km/h and sometimes he once again managed to break the number 150 km/h (93 mph)..

Despite competition from younger bowlers and other injury setbacks, Lee managed to set up a squad for the 2011 Cricket World Cup. He finished the tournament with 13 wickets, the highest of all the bowlers on the team. Of the 13 wickets, 4 came in a game against Pakistan but that was not enough as Australia lost the match and eventually knocked out in the quarter-finals to rival India.

Against West Indies in March 2012, he reached the highest score, 59 before being caught by Kemar Roach. His last ODIs were during a 2012 tour in the UK and Ireland. During the game against Ireland, he opened the bowling of William Porterfield and Ed Joyce in just his first three deliveries.

Retirement

After retiring from international cricket, Lee has played in 76 Tests, 221 ODI and 25 T20Is, and has equaled Glenn McGrath with 380 wickets in the ODI match - the highest for Australia.

In July 2014, he played for the MCC side in a Bicentenary Celebration game at Lord's. In 2018, during his comments for BT Sport in the 2017-18 Ashes series at Sydney's Cricket Field, Lee revealed that he is an honorary member at Lord's, but not a lifelong member of his home in SCG.

Twenty20

Lee made his Twenty20 and T20 International debut on February 15, 2005 against New Zealand in the first T20 international game. He was called into the squad for the 2007 ICC World Twenty20. During the tournament, he made history by claiming the first hattrick in the T20 international match in the Group F match against Bangladesh and also winning the Man of the Match award.

Bowling Style

Lee is known for his speed and regularly clocks 90 mph (140 km/h) and above. He was ranked only behind Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar bowler (161.3 km/h, 100.2 mph) as the fastest bowler in contemporary cricket during most of the 2000s. The consistent bowling strain of 150 km/h (93 mph) causes a series of stress fractures and repetitive injuries and forces him to change his strategy, which he has done effectively. Instead of relying on speed alone, he uses a variety of deliveries aimed at dropping the batsman, although he has been known to bowl the entire overs over a 150 km/h (93 mph) mark. The fastest ball was recorded at 161.1 km/h (100.1 mph) against New Zealand in 2005. In a match against the West Indies in 2000/01 he was bowling shipments that clocked at 161.8 km/h (100.5 mph), but this then proved to be the wrong measurement of 142 km/hour shipment.

Early in his career, Lee was reportedly suspected of carrying out illegal bowling action, but was dealt with, and also heavily criticized after bowling a series of beamers in batsmen during a number of ODIs in 2005. Captain Ricky Ponting defended Lee saying that was unintentional. The slower bolt also has a dramatic speed with varying lengths, often from a cutter handle, where it can walk as high as 100 km/h (62 mph), but it hovers on average around 115-130 km/h (71 - 81 mph) range. He is also known for celebrating many wickled bowleds with a chainsaw celebration.

Batting

Lee is a competent low-level batsman. Together with Mike Hussey, he has held the record for the 7th highest goalage for Australia in ODI since 2005-06 with 123.

During the 2005 Ashes series, Lee has many challenging innings, including a 43 position that did not come out in the Second Test at Edgbaston, the highest individual score in Australia in that round. This round almost won the game for Australia but another batsman Michael Kasprowicz was captured by Geraint Jones and England won just twice on the road. After an unforgettable match, British Bowlers Steve Harmison and Andrew Flintoff went to entertain Lee. Flintoff's image entertaining Lee is the moment that comes to symbolize the contested series.

On April 2, 2006, Lee reached the highest Exam score of 64 in 68 balls against South Africa in Johannesburg. The previous highest score in the Test was 62 not out which he made against the West Indies in 2000 at Gabba. Lee almost surpassed this score on January 3, 2008 against India when he made 59 of 121 balls. Lee also once again almost surpassed the highest test score when he had made 63 not out, but unfortunately Ricky Ponting had announced the second round in the 2nd test against the West Indies. As a result, he fell one time faster than his highest test score.

Lee's highest score in the ODI match is 59 against West Indies in the West Indies in March 2012.

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Train a career

On February 5, Ireland appointed Lee as a bowling coach during the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

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Awards

• 2000 Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year
• 1999-2000 Wisden Young Cricketer of the Year
• 2002-03 Series VB Player Series
• 2004-05 Series VB Player Series
• 2005 ICC Awards - ODI Team of the Year
• 2006 Wisden Cricketer of the Year
• DLF Cup Players 2006-07 from Tournament
• 2006 ICC Awards - ODI Team of the Year
• ODI XI Australia Largest
• 2007 European Cup Trophy Players from Warne-Muralitharan
• Border-Gavaskar Player 2007-08 from Series
• McGilvray 2008's Medal
• Australian Player of the Year 2008 for the Year
• Allan Border Medal 2008
• ICC Awards 2008 - ODI Team of the Year
• ICC Awards 2008 - Test Team of the Year
• Champions League Twenty20 Player of the Series

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Career highlights

Testing

• Lee's best bowling test from number five for 30 came against the West Indies at The Gabba, Brisbane in 2005
• 100 Lee's goal is Marcus Trescothick in his 27th test against England in Sydney in 2003
• Lee took his 200th shot, Mark Boucher, in the 51st Test against South Africa in Durban in 2006
• His best batting score of 64 was made against South Africa, Johannesburg, 2006
• He performed his 1000th Test in his 53rd test against Bangladesh in Fatullah in 2006
• Goal 250 Lee is Anil Kumble in the 62nd Test against India in Melbourne in 2007
• 300 Lee's goalkeeper is Jamie How in the 73rd Test against New Zealand in Brisbane on November 22, 2008
One day International

ODI Debut: vs Pakistan, Gabba, Brisbane, 1999-2000

• His best ODI bowling character from five to 22 came against South Africa, Melbourne
• His best ODI score of 59 was made against the West Indies in 2012.
• His 100th ODI goal is Andrew Caddick, against England in M.C.G. in 2003
• His 200th goal was Marcus Trescothick, against England at Lord's in 2005
• The 300th goal was Darren Sammy, against the West Indies at St George in 2008
• His 350th goal was Nuwan Kulasekara, against Sri Lanka in Kandy in 2011, becoming the second bowler in Australian history to get 350 wickets.
• Lee is the first (and currently only) bowler to take 5 wickets twice in One Day Internationals played at Lord's



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Recordings

• Lee was the first player in Twenty20 International cricket to take a hat-trick.
• Lee is Australia's second fastest ODI player to take 100 wickets (after Mitchell Starc). He reached the milestone in the 55th game. He was fifth in the world list behind Mitchell Starc (52 matches) Saqlain Mushtaq (53 matches) and Shane Bond (54 games)
• Lee is the fastest bowler to take 300 ODI wicket. He achieved this in 171 ODI matches.
• Lee is Australia's second highest goal taker in ODI, with 380 wickets.
• Lee and Bob Willis are the only cricket players to take over 300 wickets in a Test career without having ten wickets drawn.
• In June 2013, he and Zaheer Khan were the only Test cricketers with 300 or more wickets, but only 10 (the fewest among the 300 goal clubs) 5-wicket drawn in the test round.
• the second fastest bowler in the world. Bends the ball speed of 161.1 km/h (100.1 mph) against New Zealand
• Beginning in October 2016, Brett Lee holds the record for most Weet-Bix consumed during a tea break at Lords, with 8



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Best career appearance




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International awards

ODI award

Man of the Match Award




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Media jobs

After announcing his retirement from international cricket, Lee joined the Channel Nine cricket commentary team, reunited with former Australian and New South Wales teammate Michael Slater. He also provided support for Slater on The Cricket Show.
Brett Lee helped writer Michael Panckridge in Toby Jones (series novel) relating to cricket.



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Personal life

Lee was the second of three sons born to Bob, a metallurgist, and Helen (nÃÆ' Â © e Buxton), a piano teacher, and grew up on the outskirts of Wollongong from Oak Flats and Mount Warrigal. Her older brother, Shane, is a retired all former and former international brother and Grant's sister previously played cricket for New South Wales U-19, and is now an accountant. Lee attended Balarang Public School and Oak Flats High School, later named cricket ground in his honor. The first brothers played cricket together in front of their house using tennis balls and garage doors as "goalkeepers". As a child he idolized Allan Donald and Dennis Lillee, the last of whom would be a mentor to him as a teenager. Lee has been known by his nickname 'Binga', after the chain of Bing Lee's electronics stores, since his high school days. He was briefly dubbed "Oswald" by former Australian captain and New South Wales team mate Steve Waugh during his first international career. During ODI around 2000, he was in the batting sequence behind his brother Shane and Ian Harvey. When Waugh read out the batting sequence, instead of reading "Lee, Harvey, Lee", he read "Lee, Harvey, Oswald" (Lee Harvey Oswald).

Lee married Elizabeth Kemp in June 2006. They had a son named Preston Charles, born November 16, 2006. However, after two years of marriage, on August 21, 2008, Lee confirmed his separation with Kemp. They divorced in 2009. At the time of the split, media speculation mentioned Kemp having an affair with a rugby player in Brisbane; However, this was later disputed, with a long period of loneliness due to Lee's off-season commitment to keep him away from Kemp and his young son Preston given as an excuse for marital disorder. He married Lana Anderson in 2014 after one year of dating, they had a daughter named Helena together who was born in December 2015,

Lee is part of the rock group Six & amp; Outside. The band consists of his brother Shane and former New South Wales cricketer Brad McNamara, Gavin Robertson and Richard Chee Quee. Lee plays bass guitar or acoustic guitar for the band.

During the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy in India, Lee wrote the lyrics to You're the One For Me and recorded it with Indian singer Asha Bhosle. The song reached number two on the charts of India and South Africa. In 2008, he filmed scenes for his first Bollywood movie Victory .

In November 2011, Lee launched his autobiography, which he wrote with the help of author James Knight.

Politically, Lee is right-wing. In September 2013, he tweeted his support for Tony Abbott, leader of the Australian Liberal Party in Australia's 2013 federal election. He was approached by the Liberal Party to run for candidate in the 2019 election. In 2014, Lee was criticized after he signed the bat for Indian politician Rajnath Singh, and Sushma Swaraj. Bats were presented by immigration minister Scott Morrison as part of a deal that India will agree to accept Indian asylum-seekers who were rejected from Australia. But Lee stated that he is a strong supporter of human rights, and that signing this bat does not mean he is not their supporters.

Support

Lee's sponsorship deal included Weet-Bix breakfast cereals (which at one time were marketed as "Brett-Bix"), Gatorade and Volkswagen, with Lee having two vehicles.

On field sponsors include uvex Safety Eyewear. He is currently not sponsored by cricket equipment manufacturers. Travelex also developed the Brett Lee's Backyard Cricket game in which caricature Lee is featured.

Due to Lee's popularity in India, he has a number of great sponsorship deals there, including for Timex watches, New Balance shoes, energy drinks, and TVS Motor Company.

In 2001 Lee launched his own fashion label 'BL'.

Lee was appointed Global Ambassador Hearing for the Australian medical device company, Cochlear. Cochlear specializes in Cochlear Implants.



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Charity work

Lee supports a number of charities including the Salvation Army, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) and the Make a Wish Foundation, where Lee is named 'Official Friends' to honor his long-term relationship with the foundation. He started supporting ADRA with his brother Shane when a close friend committed suicide.

Mewsic Foundation

In 2007, Lee started Mewsic, a charity in India. Mewsic aims to facilitate the involvement of disadvantaged young people in music. Mewsic aims to ensure that music is widely recognized as a powerful tool for healing, empowering, educating, and advocating marginalized children in India. Mewsic has set up six music centers throughout India.




Movies acting

Brett Lee plays a role in the Indo-Australian film UnIndian across from Tannishtha Chatterjee. The film is taken in Sydney. This was announced by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott during his visit to Mumbai on September 4, 2014. The film was released in India on August 19, 2016 and has good results at the box office.




References






External links

• Official website
• Brett LeeÃ, at ESPNcricinfo
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• Brett Lee on IMDb

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