He may have got a wicket but Lee was clearly the worst of the bowlers today. The remarkable fact was that the Bangladeshi batsmen went after him and attacked him, as if he were the weak link in the attack.
Sanwar Hossain absoultely destroyed him in the middle session. At a time when Bangladesh had suffered a middle order collapse and looked like folding, Lee came on to supposedly blast the lower order out and was spanked by Hossain for 7 boundaries in a short space of time. It helps when all you seem to be able to bowl are half-volleys and short balls down the leg-side.
We've been told quite often that Lee has matured as a bowler and doesn't just try to blast batsmen out like he used to; well the "old" Lee was on full display today, tried to get the batsmen out with yorkers or short deliveries and was incapable or unwilling to bowl the good length balls that would've had the Bangladeshi batsmen in trouble.
Number 3 Bashar was clearly intimidated by Lee's pace when he first came in and wasn't getting fully behind the ball - yet Lee wasn't good enough to finish him off.
Lee keeps getting presented by the media as if he's a top-class fast bowler (one of the Ch. 9 commentators said today he was one of 'the world's premier bowlers') when the facts just simply don't back that up.
Sure he can have the odd good Test match but he has a lot of ordinary ones inbetween - which is backed up by his bowling average being over 35 since the start of the 2001 Ashes tour.
For the umpteenth time today, Lee showed why he is an overhyped, overrated bowler.
Sanwar Hossain absoultely destroyed him in the middle session. At a time when Bangladesh had suffered a middle order collapse and looked like folding, Lee came on to supposedly blast the lower order out and was spanked by Hossain for 7 boundaries in a short space of time. It helps when all you seem to be able to bowl are half-volleys and short balls down the leg-side.
We've been told quite often that Lee has matured as a bowler and doesn't just try to blast batsmen out like he used to; well the "old" Lee was on full display today, tried to get the batsmen out with yorkers or short deliveries and was incapable or unwilling to bowl the good length balls that would've had the Bangladeshi batsmen in trouble.
Number 3 Bashar was clearly intimidated by Lee's pace when he first came in and wasn't getting fully behind the ball - yet Lee wasn't good enough to finish him off.
Lee keeps getting presented by the media as if he's a top-class fast bowler (one of the Ch. 9 commentators said today he was one of 'the world's premier bowlers') when the facts just simply don't back that up.
Sure he can have the odd good Test match but he has a lot of ordinary ones inbetween - which is backed up by his bowling average being over 35 since the start of the 2001 Ashes tour.
For the umpteenth time today, Lee showed why he is an overhyped, overrated bowler.
