Brett Lee to retire from cricket

[robelinda]

Best of Brett Lee retires from international cricket - A TRIBUTE - YouTube

 

[Redbacks]

Best of Brett Lee retires from international cricket - A TRIBUTE - YouTube

I hope this includes the six hit hit into the Gabba practice nets.


My favourite B Lee ODI spell: 2003 WC SF v Sri Lanka:
Marvan Atapattu is cleaned up by a 100 mph yorker from Brett Lee

 

[fredfertang]

Just Punter to go now and the last link to the 9 Ashes series from Hell will be gone

Lee was a strange case - the natural order of things is that you detest the tormentor's strike bowler - never quite worked like that with him

 

[robelinda]

I hope this includes the six hit hit into the Gabba practice nets.


My favourite B Lee ODI spell: 2003 WC SF v Sri Lanka:
Marvan Atapattu is cleaned up by a 100 mph yorker from Brett Lee

yes the six is in there!

the atapattu dismissal is uploading now......

 

[robelinda]

here tis

Brett Lee 160.1 YORKER best ball ever to Marvin Atapattu - YouTube

 

[pup11]

With him gone it truly feels like the end of an era, he was the last member left in the team from the golden era of Australian cricket, kind of feeling sad as this realisation seeps in.

 

[Bahnz]

With him gone it truly feels like the end of an era, he was the last member left in the team from the golden era of Australian cricket, kind of feeling sad as this realisation seeps in.

Ummm, Ponting? Or where you just referring to ODI's?

Anyway, really sad to hear this. In his youth, I reckon Lee was the most exciting fast bowler in the world to watch, and some of his spells in 2005 ashes (despite getting belted a lot of the time) were simply staggering. Will miss him, even if he did ruin a few kiwi run chases over the years.

 

[Jono]

With him gone it truly feels like the end of an era, he was the last member left in the team from the golden era of Australian cricket, kind of feeling sad as this realisation seeps in.

Unless you just meant ODIs of course. If so, still a great pic of Ricky.

 

[uvelocity]

nah, Clarke was part of the more recent 16 wins too

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Enjoyed watching Lee play

 

[Spark]

Clarke, Hussey, Ponting defs count as part of the "golden era"

 

[BoyBrumby]

Always think he's slightly underrated as a bowler, mainly by those who favour statsguru over actually watching cricket. He formed a valuable quarter of (arguably) the most complete bowling attack I've seen (Dizzy McWarne and him, obvz) and, because the others exerted such control, one suspects he was often given a bit of a licence to run in hard and bowl flat out, which meant he was more expensive in terms of runs. It's a well kept secret but, heck, I'll cough: cricket is a team game. Shocking, I know, but there it is.

His adaptability was shown when the holy trinity finally departed & he really stepped up to the plate and, for about 15-18 months, he was arguably the world's best seamer until his body betrayed him.

I think it's a testament to his likeability that he's still well thought of despite sending down more beamers than any other bowler I've seen in my nigh on three decades of watching.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Clarke, Hussey, Ponting defs count as part of the "golden era"

Hussey?

Didn't debut til after the 2005 loss, did he?

 

[Spikey]

Always think he's slightly underrated as a bowler, mainly by those who favour statsguru over actually watching cricket.

pffft any statsguru nerd is smart enough to divide brett lee's test career into about 3 sections.

 

[fredfertang]

Clarke, Hussey, Ponting defs count as part of the "golden era"

You're buying in to that ridiculous rumour that there was an Ashes series in 2006/07 - it never happened - GIMH to confirm

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Good luck to him, never that great against us overall but he was a great bowler to watch.

 

[Spikey]

you could divide into 4 if you want, the start (1999 to around the time he killed Tudor), the middle (that point til either before the 05 ashes or after, i go after), the prime (That point til around 2008) and the end (When the divorce happened). He kicks arse in section a and c, sucks arse in b and the end is like 4 tests so w/ever. does push his career average above 30 tho

 

[Spikey]

i do sometimes wonder how he would have gone in the 09 ashes if fit tho.

 

[Spark]

Hussey?

Didn't debut til after the 2005 loss, did he?

2005-2008 in Tests is the overlap, definitely counts. Heavy contributor to the last period of the golden era.

 

[Mike5181]

Clarke, Hussey, Ponting defs count as part of the "golden era"

Ponting is the only Australian left that was around when I started watching cricket. It's pretty crazy when you look at when Michael Clarke made his debut for Australia in ODIs though. He's nearly been around for a decade.