Brett Lee Announce Retirement

Brett Lee Announce Retirement 

Brett Lee Announce Retirement from International Cricket

 Brett Lee Take Off His Shoes 

Brett Lee after announce his retirement 

Brett Lee this Australian cricketer born 8 November 1976, Australia. After breaking into the Australia Test team, Brett Lee was recognised as one of the fastest bowlers in world cricket. In each of his first two years, Brett Lee averaged less than 20 with the ball, but since then has mostly achieved figures in the early 30s.
Brett Lee is an athletic fielder and useful lower-order batsman, with a batting average exceeding 20 in Test cricket. Together with Mike Hussey, he has held the record for highest 7th wicket partnership for Australia in ODIs since 2005–06 with 123. Brett Lee is known by his nickname 'Binga', which refers to 'Bing Lee', a chain of electronics stores in New South Wales.
Brett Lee also plays for Kolkata Knight Riders, who won the IPL season five against Chennai Super Kings.
 Australia's paceman Brett Lee has retired from international cricket, saying a loss of desire to compete at the highest level was behind his decision. Lee, 35, was forced to return home early from Australia's horrific one-day tour of England this month with a calf injury. And his appearance in the fourth match of the series in Durham - where he took 0-12 off 2.2 overs in an eight-wicket defeat - will be his last for his country.
Brett Lee confirmed the news on Twitter, saying: "It's official, I have retired from international cricket! Thanks for all your love and support. It's been an amazing 13 years."
Later Brett Lee told Australia's Channel 9: "The last two or three nights I thought about it a lot. I woke up this morning and just felt like I was ready. I think personally in a team environment you have to have 100% commitment - mentally and physically."
Brett Lee also said  "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 with that attitude. You get to the point in life where you say enough is enough."
Brett Lee is known for his pace and regularly clocks 150 km/h and above. He ranks behind only Pakistani bowler Shoaib Akhtar (161.3 km/h, 100.2 mph) as the fastest bowler in contemporary cricket during most of the 2000s. The strain of consistently bowling at 150 km/h caused a string of stress fractures and recurring injury and forced him to alter his strategy, which he has done effectively. Rather than relying on pace alone, he uses a wide array of deliveries aimed at wearing down the batsman.

Brett Lee

Early in Brett Lee's career, he was reported for a suspected illegal bowling action, but was cleared,and was also heavily criticised after bowling a series of beamers at batsmen during a number of ODIs in 2005. Captain Ricky Ponting defended Lee saying that it was not intentional. 
The 35-year-old Australian paceman Brett Lee, who retired from Test cricket in February 2010 after taking 310 wickets in 76 matches, continued playing for NSW and Australia in ODI and in the T20 arena.
Brett Lee will keep playing in the Big Bash and Indian Premier leagues.
Brett Lee has had several major injury in recent years and was forced home early last week from the one-day series in England after suffering a calf injury. Along with Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar, Brett Lee was rated the fastest bowler in the world throughout his career. Brett  Lee took 380 wickets in 221 ODI as well as 28 wickets from 25 T20 appearances for Australia.

Retiring fast bowler Brett Lee has appointed 19-year-old Patrick Cummins as Australia's next speed demon.

Brett Lee began his a Test career in the MCG Boxing Day Test of 1999 and played his final Test at the same venue in 2008. His journey started in the under-10s for the Oak Flats Rats on the south coast of New South Wales and, after overcoming serious back injury, was fast-tracked into the Australia A side before making his Test debut against India in the Boxing Day Test of 1999-2000.He took a wicket in his first over when he bowled Indian opener Sadagoppan Ramesh and took 5-47 from 18 overs.
Brett Lee quickly established himself as a Test match regular and became a popular member of the Australian team, attracting massive endorsement deals due to his clean-cut image. He was a member of the 2003 World Cup-winning team in South Africa but was forced out of the 2007 tournament in the West Indies due to an ankle injury.
Brett Lee continued representing Australia in the shorter formats after retiring from the Test arena two years ago. "I look back to when I was 19, and while I hope my injury never happen to anyone else, it's a fact that when you bowl fast injury happens''
Brett Lee also said this week. ''You have to deal with it and you have to learn from what's happened because it makes you a stronger person. I have a saying 'if you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space' - it means have a crack."
 The Australia national selector John Inverarity said: "Today one of Australia's most outstanding fast bowlers announced his retirement." He added: "The statistics only tell part of the story. Brett Lee has been an absolute ornament to the game; a fine player, a fierce and brave competitor, a generous opponent and one who always upheld the highest standards of sportsmanship. He has been a cricketer in every sense of the word." 
 Cricket Australia's chief executive, James Sutherland, said: "Brett Lee's record as a wicket-taker and leader of the attack is fantastic and speaks for itself but his resilience and ability to bounce back after numerous injury has also been impressive.On top of this, and this is a significant part of his legacy, Brett Lee inspired young Australians to play cricket and bowl fast." 
Brett Lee announce his retirement with one wicket shy of Glenn McGrath's Australian record of 381 ODI scalps.

Australia's Brett Lee celebrates after taking a wicket

Personal Information :


Born                     8 November 1976 (age 35) 
                             Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Nickname             Bing, Binga, the Speedster 
Height                  1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) 
Batting style         Right-handed 
Bowling style       Right-arm fast 
Role                     Bowler 
Relations              S Lee (brother) 






International Information : 


National side                          Australia 
Test debut(cap 383)               26 December 1999 v India 
Last Test                                26 December 2008 v South Africa 
ODI debut(cap 140)               09 January 2000 v Pakistan 
Last ODI                                19 February 2012 v India 
ODI shirt no.                           58 




Domestic Team Information : 


             Years                                Team 
                 1995 –                      New South Wales 
                 2011 -                     Kolkata knight riders 

Australia's Brett Lee in action

                 2011                              Wellington 
                 2011–                          Sydney Sixers 




Career Statistics : 


Competition                Test                ODI               FC               LA 
 Matches                        76                   216               116              256 
 Runs scored                1,451              1,088            2,120           1,263 
 Batting average           20.15              17.00            18.59           16.40 
 100s/50s                       0/5                  0/3                0/8               0/3 
 Top score                      64                   59                 97                 59 
 Balls bowled             16,531             10,979           24,193         13,229 
 Wickets                         310                374               487               431 
 Bowling average         30.81               23.25            28.22            23.98 
 5 wickets in innings        10                     9                  20                 10 
 10 wickets in match         0                    n/a                 2                  n/a 
 Best bowling                 5/30                 5/22            7/114              5/22 
 Catches/stumpings         23/–                 53/–             35/–               61/–


                                                                                        Source: Cricinfo, 23 March 2012






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