If you Google the words "Brett Lee beamer" you find that they are mentioned on 10,300 different web-pages (make that 10,301). Brett Lee says he would never deliver one deliberately, but I recall he did to a tail-ender in a domestic match on his first tour of New Zealand and was sent off the park and almost sent home. Anyway, let's think in the past year or so I can recall Brett Lee beamers to Brendon McCullum (twice), Abdul Razzaq, Chris Harris, Paul Wiseman and Sachin Tendulkar.
As John Bracewell has pointed out, if the laws of the game are not going to stop Lee - then perhaps the laws of Australia might.
Monday, 28 February 2005
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Mike, you're implying Brett Pee has the talent or ability to bowl a beamer. i.e. decide, before/during his run-up, that he'll plant the ball at the batsman's head (or at least aim to land the ball flush in the keeper's gloves). I fear it's just him trying to bowl a decent line and length :)
Mike it is obvious that all the talk about sending Lee home other than Roebuck's article is a NZ media ploy to try and stop the bowler who so far has rattled every Kiwi batsmen who has faced him. Other than McGrath he has been the most effective bowler on tour for Australia so far and any attempt to take that away is only going to aggravate him to bowl faster. Nobody in the Australian cricket team would ever attempt to deliberately bowl a beamer and if you read Ponting's explanations you will see the validity of his argument. John Bracewell is shooting himself in the foot by continually embracing these conspiracy theories as he probably feels his position is under threat. Let the captains do the talking and both Ponting and Fleming know that Lee would not bowl beamers deliberately. Perhaps Bracewell needs to step away from the role and give someone like Wright a chance in top job. Cheers
Whether he does them deliberately or not, Lee bowls too many beamers. And that's just not on.
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