Heights frighten me the most: Brett Lee

Brett Lee is a man possessing various talents. Lee offers so many reasons for his fans to live him more and more every day. His cricket prowess needs no explanation while his love for music is very well-known.

Everyone has seen him with guitars but very few know that he is also adept in playing the piano and the mouth organ Also, he proved his acting abilities in the recently released movie ‘unIndian.’

However, Lee, who created a phobia of his name in the minds of many batsmen, also has fears that lurk in his mind all the time. In a recent interview with Deccan Chronicle, Lee reveals many interesting facts about him including his fear of heights.

“Heights. I have been trying hard to overcome that fear, but I don’t know why I am not able to.”

Apart from revealing this unknown fact about him, he also spoke on a various range of topics.

Lee began with recalling the earliest memory of him playing cricket. Lee, just like most of the Australia, began his cricketing journey playing the game with his elder brother Shane Lee in the backward.

“Playing backyard cricket with my elder brother Shane Lee. It was Shane who always set the rules and my mom had to intervene time and again to settle issues”

Lee also says that walking out to bat with his elder brother Shan was his ;most memorable’ whereas walking off the field after injuring his foot in at Melbourne 2008 was his worst sporting moment of his career.

“My elder brother, Shane, and I walking out to play our first international match together at the MCG. It was against India in 2000 and was only my second ODI.”

“Walking off the field owing to a foot injury in my last Test match, against South Africa at Melbourne in 2008. (Lee didn’t take a wicket in both the innings and Australia for the first time in 16 seasons suffered a series defeat at home).”

Everyone knows about Lee’s craze for speed but who was his inspiration who motivated him to make the batsmen dance to his tunes. Lee says, “Allan Donald. The South African inspired me to run in and bowl as fast as I could.”