Brett Lee's Early life and Career

Brett Lee, more commonly known as Lee is the second of the total of three brothers he has. He was born to Bob his father who is a metallurgist and his mother Helen, a piano teacher. The elder brother of Brett Lee is Shane Lee and the younger one is Grant. Shane Lee has been a former Australian all-rounder and also the captain of the New South Wales Blues. His younger brother Grant has also played cricket for New South Wales in the under-19 level, and now is an accountant and also a concert pianist.

Brett Lee in his childhood studied in the Balarang Public school and also the Oak Flats High school and completed his education. The Oak Flats High School was very proud of Brett Lee's achievements and dedicated one of their cricket grounds in his honor.

Brett Lee has been called with the nick name of Bing, and thus people have more formerly also called him Bing Lee, this established after the series of electronic stores in the New South Wales.

Brett Lee childhood was very enjoyable with his two brothers. They were all into sports and grew up playing soccer, basketball, cricket and skiing. They were all also interested in playing the piano with their mother. Brett Lee first played cricket due to the influence of his elder brother Shane Lee at the age of eight years. His first cricket game was played at his school Oak Flats Rats where he showed his innate cricket skills by making a score of 6/0 or taking six wickets for zero runs. Amazingly, all the wickets he took were bowled out.

It was at the age of sixteen when Brett Lee played his first grade cricket for the Campbell town in which he was highly successful, winning the wickets of some of the New South Wales cricketers. He then joined the Mosnan where he was also given the opportunity of sharing the new ball with the world's fastest bowler then from Pakistan, Shoaib Akhtar. Brett Lee then went on achieving even higher standards in cricket, and also played for the Australian teams of the under 17 and 19 levels. He excelled in all the matches and was immediately noticed for the special spark in him. He was then awarded a scholarship to play and take part in the Cricket Academy of Australia.

He had a major setback in the early times of his life when he had just initiated his cricket career. In the month of March of the year 1994 he had a few stress fractures on his lower back, because of which he was forced out of the Australian under 19 level cricket team, touring India for the match. He then quickly recovered and made his debut for the New South Wales in opposition with the Western Australian team in Sheffield shield match when was only 20 years old in the year 1997-98. He played a single mach and made a score of 3/114.

He was then successful in being selected for the A team of Australia when he was touring South Africa. He won two wickets in the match and was fairly successful until the stress factures on his lower back were re-aggravated and he had to take rest for over three months. He then moved to Sydney and carried on with his career after he has turned twenty one.

In the year 1999 in the Sheffield Shield match at Perth, Brett Lee showed he was back with a bang and bowled against the Western Australian team's batsmen, which was taken to be the fastest bowling in Australian cricket after Jeff Thomson in the year 1970s. It was since then that Brett Lee's chances of inclusion in the international cricket team were in the peak because of the persuasion of the leading cricketers Shane Warne and Steve Waugh.