New Delhi: There were many fast bowlers in the cricket world. But, when it comes to speed, the name of Australia's prolific bowler Brett Lee definitely comes. Brett Lee was the bowler who gave a new identity to stormy bowling. His speed is discussed even today because bowlers who consistently throw the ball at this speed are very few after him. Today i.e. on November 8, Brett Lee is celebrating his 46th birthday.

This bowler set many records with his fiery balls. In front of his speed, the batsmen used to leave the crease. Brett Lee's name is on the third position in the list of bowling the fastest ball in cricket history. He bowled the ball at a speed of 160.8 kilometers per hour in the ODI match played against New Zealand in 2005. Brett Lee is also the bowler to take the first hat-trick in the T20 World Cup, a feat he did in 2007, the first season of the T20 World Cup. With this, Brett Lee also became the bowler to take the first hat-trick in T20 International cricket. Brett Lee did this feat in front of Bangladesh in Cape Town, South Africa. He sent Shakib Al Hasan, Mashrafe Mortaza and Alok Kapali to the pavilion.   

Brett Lee had told early in his career that he had the ability to go a long way and because of his talent, when Glenn McGrath retired from cricket, Ricky Ponting handed over the reins of the bowling attack to Brett and Lee also never let down his captain. Brett Lee was one of the few bowlers who troubled Sachin Tendulkar, who is called the God of Cricket. Brett Lee dismissed master blaster Sachin Tendulkar a total of 14 times in international cricket. 

However, Brett Lee himself has admitted many times that bowling to Sachin Tendulkar was never easy for him and it used to be a headache for Brett Lee. Let us tell you that Brett Lee played a total of 76 Test matches for Australia and took 310 wickets. With this, he completed 380 wickets in 221 ODI matches for Australia. In T20, he has 28 wickets in 25 matches.

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