Australia’s veteran fast bowler Brett Lee is poised to quit Test cricket.
The injury-hit Lee, 33, would make an announcement this week, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The Herald, without citing sources, said Lee had been mulling retirement for some time but made his final decision after talking to Flintoff, who quit Tests last year to prolong his playing career. Lee, whose 310 Test scalps place him behind only Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Dennis Lillee on Australia’s all-time list, has not played a five-day match since December 2008 after suffering foot and elbow problems. The tall, blond-haired right-armer was named Wisden magazine’s Cricketer of the Year in 2006 and bowled a ball at 99.9 miles (160.8 kilometres) per hour in 2003, the second fastest recorded delivery behind Pakistan’s Shoaib Akhtar.
Lee has played 76 Tests since making his debut in 1999. He is hoping to play in India’s lucrative IPL Twenty20 league this season, the Herald said.
Australia’s veteran fast bowler Brett Lee is poised to quit Test cricket.
The injury-hit Lee, 33, would make an announcement this week, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The Herald, without citing sources, said Lee had been mulling retirement for some time but made his final decision after talking to Flintoff, who quit Tests last year to prolong his playing career. Lee, whose 310 Test scalps place him behind only Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Dennis Lillee on Australia’s all-time list, has not played a five-day match since December 2008 after suffering foot and elbow problems. The tall, blond-haired right-armer was named Wisden magazine’s Cricketer of the Year in 2006 and bowled a ball at 99.9 miles (160.8 kilometres) per hour in 2003, the second fastest recorded delivery behind Pakistan’s Shoaib Akhtar.
Lee has played 76 Tests since making his debut in 1999. He is hoping to play in India’s lucrative IPL Twenty20 league this season, the Herald said.
Reliable middle order batsman Misbah-ul-Haq has arrived in New Zealand today to join the Pakistan team ahead of the second Test at Wellington on the 3rd of December.
Misbah-ul-Haq is the replacement of Skipper Younis Khan who had opted out of the NZ tour following a disastrous Cool and Cool Cup Series in Abu Dhabi. Pakistan now has as many as 18 players in its Test Squad.
The 35-year-old Misbah-ul-Haq will most probably get into the playing XI straightaway and making way for him could be either Khurram Manzoor or Imran Farhat. There is a lot of pressure on Pakistan to win the second Test at Basin Reserve after losing the first Test at Dunedin by 32 runs.
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Mary Travers, a member of the hugely popular 1960s US folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died in the US. She was 72.
Heather Lylis, the band’’s publicist, said Travers passed away yesterday at the Danbury Hospital in Connecticut. She had battled leukemia for several
years, reports The Times.
Travers joined forces with Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey in the early 1960s. The trio formed the folk band Peter, Paul and Mary, mingling their music with liberal politics, both onstage and off.
Peter, Paul and Mary had hits including If I Had a Hammer, Lemon Tree and Puff, The Magic Dragon.
Australia’s veteran fast bowler Brett Lee is poised to quit Test cricket.
Australia’s veteran fast bowler Brett Lee is poised to quit Test cricket.
Reliable middle order batsman Misbah-ul-Haq has arrived in New Zealand today to join the Pakistan team ahead of the second Test at Wellington on the 3rd of December.
Mary Travers, a member of the hugely popular 1960s US folk group Peter, Paul and Mary, has died in the US. She was 72.
