After breaking into the Australian Test team, Lee was recognised as one of the fastest bowlers in world cricket. In each of his first two years, he averaged less than 20 with the ball, but since then has mostly achieved figures in the early 30s.
He 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 (123).
Contents
* 1 Style
* 2 Early career
* 3 Test career
o 3.1 Early Test career
o 3.2 Return from injury
o 3.3 Loss of Test position
o 3.4 Test return
o 3.5 Post McGrath-Warne era
* 4 One-day International career
* 5 Batting
* 6 Cricket World Cup 2003
* 7 Retirement from Tests
* 8 One Day International Comeback
* 9 Awards
* 10 Personal life
o 10.1 Endorsements
o 10.2 Charity work
* 11 Career highlights
o 11.1 Tests
o 11.2 One-day Internationals
o 11.3 Other
* 12 References
* 13 External links
Style
Lee is a fast bowler, one of the fastest the game has known. Lee's fastest recorded delivery to date is 160.8 km/h (99.9 mph) which he bowled in his first over on March 5, 2005 at Napier, New Zealand against Craig Cumming.
Lee ranked with Pakistani bowler Shoaib Akhtar as the fastest bowler in contemporary cricket during most of this decade. Akhtar's delivery at 161.3km/h (100.23mph) stands as the fastest recorded to date.
Early in his career, Lee was reported for a suspected illegal bowling action, but was cleared.He was also criticised in early 2005 for bowling a series of beamers at batsmen during ODIs, at a rate which lead some to claim he was deliberately bowling illegal head high full tosses at batsmen.
Early career
Lee also played for the Australian Under 17 & 19 teams and was awarded a scholarship to attend the Australian Cricket Academy.[citation needed]
In March 1994, Lee was forced out of the Australian under-19 team to tour India due to stress fractures in his lower back. He recovered and made his first-class debut for New South Wales against Western Australia in a Sheffield Shield match as a 20-year old in the 1997–98 season, playing one match and taking 3/114.
One month later, Lee was chosen to represent the Australian A team on a tour to South Africa. He claimed two wickets but in that very match, stress fractures in his back from the previous injury had re-opened and Lee was in a back brace for over three months.
During the 1997-98 season, he played in five of the ten Sheffield Shield games, taking fourteen wickets at 30. He finished outside the top 20 in both the wicket taking list and the bowling averages
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