May 04, 2010 INJURED LEE DESERVED NATIONAL CONTRACT: HILDITCH
Australia's chief selector Andrew Hilditch has said that he does not regret handing a national contract to pacer Brett Lee, who has been out of the ODI side and on Wednesday was forced to fly home from the World Twenty20 after straining a muscle near his right elbow.

There was much speculation as to whether Lee would make the top 25 list after his retirement from Test cricket, but was retained to play Twenty20s and one-dayers.
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May 01, 2010 SHATTERED LEE VOWS TO COME BACK AGAINST PAKISTAN
Australian speedster Brett Lee is down but not out. The fast bowler's World Twenty20 ended before it could start with an arm injury, but Lee is determined to make a comeback in the one-day side for the July tour against Pakistan in England.

A shattered Lee departed St. Lucia Wednesday but wants to force his way back into the Australian one-day side.

Lee's manager, Neil Maxwell, said the 33-year-old paceman was not considering international retirement following the latest setback - his fifth notable injury in the past 16 months.
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Apr 29, 2010 LEE COULD RETURN IN JUNE: PHYSIO
Brett Lee is "shattered" by his latest injury setback but the veteran quick could be back in the Australian side in June, team physio Alex Kountouris says.

The 33-year-old paceman broke down with a strain of the pronator teres muscle in his right forearm during Tuesday's World Twenty20 warm-up game against Zimbabwe in St Lucia.

"He was very disappointed, gutted," Kountouris said on Wednesday, as Lee's replacement Ryan Harris prepared to board a flight from Brisbane to the Caribbean.
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Apr 29, 2010 LEE 'GUTTED' BY INJURY BLOW: OZ TEAM PHYSIO
Australian team physiotherapist Alex Kountouris has said that fast bowler Brett Lee is "gutted" by his latest injury, which has ruled him out of the Twenty20 World Cup and also raises doubts over his international career.

Lee sustained a muscle strain in his right forearm during the warm up game against Zimbabwe.

"He was very disappointed - gutted. It would be very, very hard I would imagine. In the last 12 months he has hardly played and he has had four different injuries," The Herald Sun quoted Kountouris, as saying.
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Apr 28, 2010 AUSTRALIA'S INJURED BRETT LEE WILL MISS WORLD TWENTY20
Brett Lee will miss the World Twenty20 competition in the West Indies after being injured in Australia's shock one-run warm-up defeat by Zimbabwe.

The fast bowler, who retired from Test cricket in February, picked up a muscle strain in his right forearm.

The 33-year-old has not played any form of international cricket since October.

Australia, who begin their World Twenty campaign against Pakistan on Sunday, have asked the ICC for permission to call a replacement into their squad.
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Apr 28, 2010 BRETT LEE INJURED AGAIN IN AUSTRALIAN LOSS
Australia's Twenty20 World Cup title hopes went from bad to worse yesterday when it suffered a one-run loss to Zimbabwe in a warm-up game and then lost Brett Lee to injury.

Lee's injury may have ended his international career, with the team requesting a replacement for the paceman, who has been diagnosed with a strained forearm muscle.
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Apr 27, 2010 LEE TARGETS FEARSOME FOURSOME
Brett Lee believes he can form part of a fearsome four-man pace attack similar to the great West Indian sides of the 1980s, but he is at long odds to get a start on the turning St Lucian pitch for the first game against defending World Twenty20 champions Pakistan on Sunday.

Lee is eager to reclaim his place in the national side following well publicised injury battles but must compete with a broken thumb against Mitchell Johnson, Dirk Nannes and Shaun Tait.

"I'm not here to carry the drinks, I'm here to play cricket," Lee said. "We've got four guys who can bowl over 150 clicks which is a bit like the 1980s West Indies set-up.
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Apr 25, 2010 LEE ANXIOUS TO PROVE HIMSELF IN WARM-UP MATCHES
Pacer Brett Lee arrived with the Australian squad arrived in St Lucia for the T20 World Cup anxious to prove himself in the warm-up matches.

Lee has been handed a lifeline by coach Tim Nielsen, who said Australia will consider playing a four-man pace attack against Bangladesh on the bouncy Barbados pitch.
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