Asutralian pace bowler Breet Lee says that India has always been a special place for him and he just feel a bond and connect to this place. According to an interview in The Times Of India, Lee says that India has become a second home to him.
“Having travelled here many times over the past 13-plus years, it's become a second home. It's hard to describe it, but I just feel a bond and connect with this place. I love the colour, the culture, the chaos and most of all, the people. The hospitality and warmth I receive from Indian people every time I come here is very moving. The most fascinating thing about India is the people, they are warm and generous and they have taken me under their wing and looked after me like a son. I wanted to do something to give back to the country that has given me so much,” says Lee in the interview.
“Yes, life can be pretty busy - especially when I come to India - but when it's your passion, you can always find the time! I am pretty involved in the Foundation at a strategic level, helping to guide the focus of our work, build networks and connections and generate support. And then, I love getting hands on when I am in India - visiting our kids, launching new programmes and advocating what we are doing to heal, educate and empower disadvantaged kids through the power of music,” adds Lee, stating that he is quite passionate about music.
Helpless isn't the word you normally associate with a sultan of swing or the 'white lightning'. Certainly not in the days when you watched them steaming into cagey batsmen from the safety of your clubhouse seat, says a report in the Hindustan Times, adding that and yet, more than ten years after international retirement, Waqar Younis and Allan Donald are being forced to sit in their dugouts and watch their boys being flayed by marauding batsmen.
“While Pune Warriors have never really matched up to the standards set by their South African coach, Sunrisers Hyderabad's bowling unit had looked compact until inside a week they crumbled against Chennai Super Kings at home and on Monday at Wankhede, where they conceded 50 runs in two overs,” says the report, adding for Younis, bowling straight is the key in Twenty20.
And though Dale Steyn has lived up to that expectation over and over again, Amit Mishra, who Younis thought is a match-winner, was slaughtered by Kieron Pollard. It isn't the best feeling. In fact, Younis says it's the worst part of coaching.
"You can't do anything about it. You have to sit out and wait till the end of the game so that you can talk to them. Because T20 is so fast, it doesn't give you the opportunity to send the message. I mean it's just four overs," said Younis after their defeat to CSK last week.
