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I am going to kill you: Brett Lee reveals fearsome encounter with Shoaib Akhtar


image-l81jywoeShoaib Akhtar and Brett Lee (PC: Twitter)

Former Australian tearaway pacer Brett Lee recalled his encounters with fellow superstar pacer, Shoaib Akhtar, on his YouTube channel. 

The champion Aussie pacer first revealed that he first saw Akhtar bowling in a match while he was in a pub.

The 2003 World Cup winner disclosed that he was taken aback at what he saw; a guy with long hair steaming in from the boundary rope, with his big chest and legs pumping as he fired thunderbolts at the batters.

Lee made his international debut during the summer of 1999/00 at the Boxing Day Test against India, and went on to become an instant sensation.

Lee and Akhtar played against each other in the tri-series that followed but it was his encounter as a batter against the Pakistani spearhead that still remains fresh in his mind.

Here's what Brett Lee revealed:

It was during the 2002 ODI series between Australia and Pakistan, where Akhtar was at his fearsome best, and Lee remembered being told by the former that he's gonna kill the Aussie bowler.

"Shoaib Akhtar had been bowling lightening. I have gone out there to face and I am absolutely petrified. I am thinking, we are mates, I am hoping he will look after me,"

"I am trying to look around to see how am I going to score runs when I hear, 'Binga! Binga!' I am looking around thinking who is calling my nickname and I see Shoaib, about 45m away going, 'I am going to kill you!"

Shoaib Akhtar was at his fearsome best during the 2002 series against Australia. The Rawalpindi express scalped seven wickets at an insane average of 7.86 and an unbelievable strike rate of 13.71. 


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