End of Two Legendary careers

This week we saw two legends retiring from the
beautiful game of Cricket. First it was the South African Mark Boucher
and today Brett Lee of Australia also announced his retirement.

Here are the list of achievements of these two great players :

Mark Boucher :
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South Africa Player of the Year 1998
South Africa Player of the Year 2000
South Africa Player of the Year 2006
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2009


Interesting Fact : Even though he is a wicket-keeper, he has got a test
match wicket to his name.

Brett Lee :
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Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year - 2000
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2006
Test Player of the Year - 2008
Allan Border Medal - 2008



Tue, 28 Dec,1999
The day when Brett Lee
bowled his first ball in Test Match Cricket and it was against India and
guess what he picked up a wicket in his first over itself.

His first victim was : S Ramesh who was bowled out.

He ended the first innings with figures of : 5/47
In Second Innings, his figures were : 2/31

Australia went on to win the match by 180 runs.

Player of the match SR Tendulkar (India) for 116 in the first innings and 52 in the second innings.

Australia led the 3-match series 2-0.
That marked the beginning of the Lee-thal Australian Pacer !

Tue, 28 Dec,1999
The day when Brett Lee
bowled his first ball in Test Match Cricket and it was against India and
guess what he picked up a wicket in his first over itself.

His first victim was : S Ramesh who was bowled out.

He ended the first innings with figures of : 5/47
In Second Innings, his figures were : 2/31

Australia went on to win the match by 180 runs.

Player of the match SR Tendulkar (India) for 116 in the first innings and 52 in the second innings.

Australia led the 3-match series 2-0.
That marked the beginning of the Lee-thal Australian Pacer !

This
was not the first, and certainly not the last, time that Lee struck a
batsman on the helmet. But it was arguably the most memorable. Alex
Tudor, the England fast bowler, was a more than capable batsman whose
best Test score was an unbeaten 99. He wasn't capable, though, of
handling a Lee bouncer at the WACA. Tudor misjudged the length of the
ball and ducked into it, copping such a blow to the
head that he was stretchered from the ground. Plenty of better batsmen
also struggled against Lee's short ball. Shivnarine Chanderpaul was
knocked out by a Lee bouncer during a 2008 Test and lay flat on the
pitch for a period, before he staggered to his feet and went on to score
a century. Jacques Kallis was done by the old one-two during the 2005
Boxing Day Test, when he was hit on the helmet trying to hook Lee and
was bowled next delivery by an inswinging yorker. And Adam Parore
suffered the indignity of being out hit wicket during an ODI in Dunedin
in 2000 when a Lee bouncer hit his helmet, which fell off his head and
hit the stumps.