It is not about bowling nasty bouncers. It is about the approach of a bowler and a team once the batsman is hit on helmet or any of his body part. The aussies usually did not show any concern after the batsaman was hit. That is not the spirit of the game. Having an ability to bowl quick and fearsome is onr thing and showing no remorse or even a concerm after the ball hitting batsman is altogather a different thing.
when I played cricket in my youth my idol was Brett lee. I was a fast left hander and I was like him. I never wanted to see a batsman get hurt but the goal was always to intimidate and take wickets. at the end of the day its up to the batsman to keep their eye on the ball and see what it does. but ill never forget bowling out an opening captain with a reverse swinger and took out his middle stump first ball of the match. fair dinkum
This might be daft and proper cod psychology, but I've always seen Clarke's holding of his stance as his way of acknowledging the brilliance of the ball
I think lee is lucky not facing Kohli ,,, but the most dangerous are the likes of Dale Steyn ,Jimmy Anderson , Glenn McGrath, Wasim Akram , courtney walsh this are the bowlers who will trouble the most
If Simon Jones had kept fit, a bowling attack of Jones, Hoggard, Harmison, Flintoff and Anderson would have been as formidable as the West Indies teams of the 80's.
@@scsutton1 Nah, it was 2006..he had a great ashes in 05 and if i remember correctly he did his ankle near the boundary cushions trying to save a four. And all went downhill from there.
What an absolute tragedy that injury robbed him of an amazing test career...a masterful reverse swing bowler... I've never seen anyone bowl reverse swing on a length like that... usually the great reverse swing bowlers bowl it very full and fast.... but Jones was doing it on a length and outside off....him and flintoff had the top five Australian batsman in knots with that kind of bowling
Unfortunately Shoaib lost Control of his bowling after 2003-04 but Brett Lee had been lethal and consistent through out his career ,only after 2010 his form started to go downwards .
Perhaps the finest British bowler of his generation, vastly underated, terribly unlucky with injury, almost unplayable on numerous occasions even to some of the very best Australian batsmen of all time.
Bouncers get bowled all the time. The difference is that Lee's pace shaved off a fraction of the time batsmen had to react and duck, so more of them got hit.
