Brett Lee rates Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar as the toughest batsmen to bowl to - Cricket News Update
Brett Lee, the ace Australian pace bowler, has said that Brian Lara of West Indies and India’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Tendulkar-c2556 are the two batsmen in contemporary cricket whom he found toughest to bowl to during his 12-year-long cricketing career.
During an interview with a TV channel, the Australia speedster said that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinnadupargea-Sachin-c50607 and Lara were the most difficult batsmen to bowl to. Replying to a query regarding his favourite and memorable bowling spell, Lee said that bowling spell against Caribbean veteran
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Brian-Charles-Lara-c48471 at Port of Spain during Australia’s tour of West Indies in 2003 was one of his favourites.
"The spell I bowled to Brain Lara (Port of Spain, 2003), was one of my favourites. Even though I couldn't get him out, I kept him on strike and the (ball) Kookaburra was going past his nose, his feet completely off the ground above the stumps and all the
crowd in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-South-Wales-c823 pacer reminisced.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 pacer Dennis Lillee.
"I would have loved to bowl in tandem with the great http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dennis-Keith-Lillee-c53639,” said Lee when asked about his all time favourite fast bowler. “He had great action, great aggression, had every single ball and is a top fellow," he added further.
Brett Lee debuted for Australia in December 1999 with a Test match against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 at Melbourne and went on to play 76 Tests before bidding adieu to the longest format of the game in 2010 due to a recurring knee injury. He has 310 Test wickets in his name
at an average of 30.81 and an impressive economy rate of 3.46 an over.
When asked about his favourite bouncer, the Aussie speedster said that he always enjoys a bouncer which gets the batsmen caught in the slips.
Since retiring from the longest format of the game, Lee is focusing on one day and T20 cricket only. Till date he has played 205 One Day Internationals and 21 T20 Internationals and has 357 ODI and 22 T20 wickets in his name.
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