Quick Facts on Brett Lee

• Brett Lee enjoys the position of being the first Australian cricketer to have taken a hat-trick in the year 2003 World Cup tournament in South Africa.

• Brett Lee has given secret trials as a pitcher in the American baseball team in the Arizona Diamondbacks.

• Brett Lee has been associated with India for quite a long time now, and his favorite Indian actress in Priety Zinta. He has also several times revealed that if given a chance he would love to work in the Indian film industry.

• Brett Lee was only nine years old when he played his first match and he bowled 6 batsmen out one after the other in one over.

• Brett Lee shares his world's fastest bowling records with Shoaib Akhtar and that is why he is known to dread facing him and also Chris Cairns.

• He had a greyhound dog, which was named after him because it was very fast paced.

• Brett Lee has also been a host of a short TV program called the Personal Best, for a very short time period.

• There is a cricket ground at Brett Lee's former school the Oaks Flats High which has been named after him.

• There has been a special book released about Brett Lee and his brother Shane Lee called the Lee2- Lee to the power two, this book also consists of some really adorable family and childhood pictures.

• The Weet-bix commercial says that he eats seven Weet-bix for breakfast, which is in fact true.

• Brett Lee's favorite ground to bat is the SVG, however he says that most of the batsmen do not like it here, but he is inspired by the tradition of the ground.

• The most memorable match according to Brett Lee has been his debut test match against India in the Boxing Day test at Melbourne city in the year 1999. He managed to take five wickets and gave 47 runs.

• According to Brett Lee, his most prized possession is his Baggy Green.

• Brett Lee attended two schools in his early childhood which were the Balarang Public School and the Oak Flats High School.

• Brett Lee has two nicknames, which are bing and binga.

• Brett Lee is most famously known as the world's fastest bowler and his fastest delivery has been of 161.0 km/h.

• Brett Lee's interests apart from cricket include fashion, music, playing the guitar and fishing.

• Brett Lee has also starred in a short film called the Dream Date which was written by a journalist Shane Cubis.

• Brett Lee is the co-owner of a café with Luke Harriss, called the Fusions Coffee Shop.

• Brett Lee loves the hotel Quay West in the city of Melbourne.

• Brett Lee also holds the record of being the twelfth man most number of times in the international cricket game.

• Brett Lee is also interested in pets and is the owner of two pet fish that are called the Finding and Nemo.

• Brett Lee loves his 17 th birthday gift by his parents the gold necklace and bracelet, and is always seen wearing them.

• Brett Lee has had a very embarrassing moment during his cricket career, when he was walking on the field to bat with two left-handed gloves on.

• Brett Lee once also wanted to be a rugby player for Australia when he was only eight years old.