Brett Lee Height, Age, Wife, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Brett Lee

• Brett Lee is regarded as one of the best pace bowlers ever to have played the sport.

• He is known worldwide for his consistency of pace (over 155 km/hr) throughout his career.

• While growing up in Mount Warrigal next to Oak Flats, Brett Lee played for the Oak Flats Rats local cricket team along with his brothers Shane and Grant. He later played first-grade cricket for Campbelltown.
  

  Brett Lee’s childhood photo

• According to Brett Lee, his younger brother Grant was better than him and Shane; however, when Grant turned 18, he started losing interest in cricket following which his older brother Shane advised him he should quit the game, and Grant quit the game.
  

  Brett Lee, Shane, and Grant Lee

• Brett Lee played his first official game of cricket at the age of nine.

• He began playing first-grade cricket at the age of 16.

• After he was included in the state U17s cricket team, he was interviewed by a reporter for the first time.

• According to Brett Lee, by the age of 16, he had realized he wanted to become a fast bowler.

• In an interview, he talked about his bowling action and said that in his 16 and 17, he used to bowl away, and it was Dennis Lillee who helped him change his bowling action that made him one of the legendary fast bowlers in modern cricket.
  

  Brett Lee with Dennis Lillee

• During the India tour of the Australian under-19 team in March 1994, he was forced out of the team due to stress fractures in his lower back and to minimize the impact on his back, he had to remodel his bowling action.

• After impressive performances for the U-17 and U-19 Australian teams, he was included in the NSW squad for Sheffield Shield.

• In his debut match against Western Australia, Brett Lee picked 3 wickets for 114.

• At the age of 21, he was inducted into his state team, and at the age of 24, he was inducted into the Australian national team.

• In his debut Test against India, Brett Lee took 7 wickets, including a 5-wicket haul in the first innings, making him the first Australian bowler since Dennis Lillee to pick up a five-wicket haul on debut.
  

  Brett Lee with his baggy green cap before the Test match between Australia and India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 26 December 1999

• For his outstanding performances in the 1999-2000 season, Brett Lee won the first Don Bradman Young Player of the Year award; he took 42 wickets in 7 matches.

• Brett Lee was ruled out of action for almost a year after he suffered a stress fracture, followed by a broken elbow.

• He made an outstanding performance in the 2003 World Cup in which he took 22 wickets, including a hat-trick against Kenya in a Super Six match.

• After he suffered an ankle injury, he was not included in the Test squad in 2004 and remained on the sidelines for more than a year.

• Although his quickest delivery was 161.8 km/hr in a charity match against West Indies, he became the second-fastest bowler in the world with his delivery of 161.1 km/hr against New Zealand in an ODI in 2005.
  

• He was a member of the Australian Team that won the 2003 and 2007 World Cups.

• In 2008, Brett Lee suffered a career-threatening back injury, and after consulting with Andrew Flintoff, he retired from Test Cricket in 2010.

• In 2010, it was reported that Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson were approached by the same Indian gangster who had approached Brad Haddin and Shane Watson during Australia’s tour to England in 2009.

• He took 13 wickets in the 2011 World Cup, making him Australia’s highest wicket-taker in the tournament.

• In January 2015, Lee announced his retirement from all forms of the game.

• Brett Lee is co-owner of Sydney Beer Co. in Australia, a maker of premium lagers under the same brand name. They launched the beer brand in Australia in 2016.
  

  Brett Lee is the co-owner of Sydney Beer

• In 2016, Cochlear’s Global Hearing Ambassador Brett Lee launched the awareness campaign Sounds of Cricket in Australia, a global campaign to raise awareness of hearing loss and treatments for hearing loss, such as cochlear implants.
  

  Brett Lee during an awareness drive for hearing loss

• Brett Lee’s five-year-old son suffered hearing loss in one ear after he fell and fractured a small part of his skull.

• With Luke Harriss, he is the co-owner of a café called ‘Fusions Coffee Shop/Bookshop.’

• He has a fear of heights.

• He loves music, and he is a vocalist and guitarist with the rock band Six & Out. His brother Shane Lee is also a member of the band.
  

  An Instagram post shared by Brett Lee about the music band Six and Out

• Brett Lee is an active philanthropist, and his foundation “Mewsic” provides music therapy to children suffering from cancer.

• He starred in a short film titled ‘Dream Date,’ directed by Adam Rainford.

• He featured in a duet song, ‘You’re the one for me,’ with legendary Indian singer Asha Bhosle.

• In 2016, he was featured in the Bollywood film unIndian directed by Anupam Sharma.
  

  A poster of UnIndian starring Brett Lee

• He always puts his left shoe first.

• His bowling run-up was exactly 30 meters long.

• He is known for his iconic ‘chainsaw’ celebration. While sharing a video on Instagram, he revealed that he learned the chainsaw celebration from his father. In the video, his father could be seen pulling the cord to kickstart the chainsaw while Brett Lee gestured the same action excitedly.
  

• After he retired from cricket, he became a cricket commentator for Channel Nine and started providing support for Slater on The Cricket Show.

• He loves running and has done a couple of semi-marathons in Australia.

• He loves to visit India and considers Mumbai his second hometown.

• He often shares photos of enjoying a beer with his father on social media.
  

  Brett Lee enjoying a beer with his father

• His nickname “Binga” is after a chain of electrical stores called Binglee in Australia, particularly in Sydney. According to Brett Lee, he was earlier nicknamed Binglee and then Binga.