Quick Quotes On Brett Lee
The Age
Saturday March 22, 2003
QUICK QUOTES ON BRETT LEE
I didn't seem to pick it up and I played the wrong line altogether, but looking at the replay I was beaten for pace. He is most successful when he's pitching the ball up, and he's done extremely well in the past few weeks. When he's so confident like that, there is no stopping him. MARVAN ATAPATTU, Sri Lankan opener who lost his off stump to a 160.1 kmh delivery in Tuesday's semi-final I think you have to be a bit courageous and have a bit of guts, then you get through the worst of it. You have to be prepared to take a few blows. He is a bowler with a lot of potential, and that ball that got Marvan was a great ball. He will be a more complete bowler when he works on his length - at the moment he has only two lengths - and he doesn't have to go far because he has Glenn McGrath right there.ARAVINDA DE SILVA, Sri Lankan batsman who made 92 against Australia in their super-six game and played Lee superbly.
I don't think it was really a good delivery; it just got some extra bounce and that was it. I can't really say that it was really something major because I've faced all the quickies. There's got to be some pain, especially when he's bowling at 140, 150. I didn't really get to hear what he said afterwards because at one point I thought I'd broken the hand, but we do appreciate them, when somebody's knocked down and they all come and check you out. Why should he apologise? I'm on duty, he's on duty. You just treat it as a bad day and thank God there's no fracture, no nothing.KENNEDY OBUYA, Kenyan opener felled by a Lee delivery that reared up, hit him on the elbow and deflected on to his stumps.
He was pretty fast. That one ball, I just knew it was going to be a yorker and I was prepared for the yorker. It wasn't quicker than I expected because I had faced him first in Nairobi, but I didn't have time to get my eye in. He is the fastest, and we don't play the big boys very often. We don't feel fear, you can't. Brett Lee is not there to injure anyone, but to play cricket and to challenge you and try and get you out. There are no bad feelings.DAVID OBUYA, Kenyan bowled first ball to give Lee a hat-trick.
The way he got Marvan Atapattu out like that, he's not just bowling him but knocking his stumps out of the ground. That edge from (Hashan) Tillekeratne to me was absolutely flying. That sends a message to the blokes coming in next there's good heat out there.ADAM GILCHRIST, Australian wicketkeeper
He's lethal at the moment. He's quick, and I think it's a very, very good player who's going to get on the front foot to him. He's one person that certainly no other side has got. The whole Indian team's going to get short bowling.JOHN BUCHANAN, Australian coach
Lee came in and bowled it short and quick and he hit me right in the side. I didn't have a chest pad or anything because they didn't give me one. Lee followed up, came down to me and said, `Just like a big needle, mate.' I didn't think they were going to be at full pace. It was a nasty ball; it was quicker, it was short and I reckon he knew what he was doing.THRASY PETROPOLOUS, BBC journalist, one of several English press men bruised by Lee, Glenn McGrath and Andy Bichel during a media net session in Port Elizabeth. -- Interviews by Chloe Saltau and Alex Brown
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