Australian fast bowler Brett Lee retired from international cricket on Friday, just days after he was forced to return home from England after sustaining another injury and a few months before he had pencilled in a possiThe 35-year-old, who first announced his decision on his Twitter page, sustained a right calf strain in the fourth one-day match of Australia’s limited overs tour of England and was forced to return home for further examination and treatment. ble exit from the game.
Brett Lee took 310 Test wickets at 30.81 and 380 one-day international wickets at 23.36, one short of Glenn McGrath’s Australian
Australian fast bowler Brett Lee
record. Lee had been expected to be available for the World Twenty20 tournament in Sri Lanka later this year, and he said he had held discussions with the selectors about retiring from after that, but the most recent injury had changed those plans. Lee last played a Test match in 2008, but continued to play international limited-overs matches for Australia and in India’s lucrative Twenty20 competition. He retired from Tests in 2010.
