Recent career of Brett Lee

Brett Lee was then out of the test cricket for eighteen months and could not get his position back, because his replacement Michael had taken 47 wickets with an average of 23.74 in a total of thirteen test matches. This was thought to be an advantage for the Australian cricket team because he had taken the wickets with a very low economy rate as compared to the previous years. This also included the 17 wickets with an average of 26.82 on a filed which supported the spinners, in the Indian sub-continent, where Australia won the first series in India for 35 years.

After being sidelined for about eighteen months from the test cricket matches, and also various pleas to the selectors and media he returned to the test team in the year 2005 Ashes series.

During this time both of Micahel, and Gillespie were struggling for form and it was the right time for Brett Lee to take the ball with the evergreen front line bowler of the Australian Cricket team, Glenn McGrath. He made an average in 40s however

scored well in the batting also yielding the runs averaging at 26.33.

Brett Lee's extremely fast bowling speed has always kept him at an advantage in the cricket team selection, being the only fastest bowler who could compete with the top fast bowlers internationally. However the pace has sometimes also proved to be expensive for the Australian team, in terms of the runs the opposition team has scored while batting for on his deliveries. Therefore Brett Lee was then more concerned on reducing his speed and taking care of the accuracy more and more.

This was a major breakthrough and Brett Lee emerged out the same as his initial spark he had, in the bowling sector. It was in the Test against the West Indies in the year 2005 at Gabba when Brett Lee had promised to focus more on the line and length going with the advice of his captain Ricky Ponting. The statistics reveal that Brett lee was able to gain 5 wickets for 30 runs in the test match.

In the years 2005 and 2006, during the cricket season of Australia Brett Lee's test statistics improved drastically as compared to his problems he had been facing in the years 2001 and 2004, he was able to revert back to an average of 25.74.

Brett Lee then went on improving in his test career in also the South Africa's 2005-2006 tour to the Australian homeland. He captured a total of five wickets with 93 runs in the first test match at Perth. He then concluded the three test matches with thirteen wickets and was ranked second amongst the best Australian bowlers, first being Shane Warne with 14 wickets.

Brett Lee got his 200 th test cricket wicket in the year 2006, in March and April, during the South African tour, it was his 51 st match and he earned in all 5 wickets with 69 runs.

Brett Lee was given the name of one the Wisden cricketers of the year 2006. However he could not maintain his stability in the test match with Bangladesh, taking two wickets and giving 93 runs. This ranked him in the lowest of all the bowlers' averages in the Australian team.

In the Ashes series of 2006/07 he was again not as remarkable as he was initially, and was also fined for excessive appeal when a LBW decision was made against his favor by the umpire.