Shane Lee

Shane Lee was born August 8, 1973 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia and was an Australian cricketer.

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Shane, an all-rounder, was an hard hitting batsman and fast-medium bowler. He was a promising junior representing the Australia U-19 team. He first played for New South Wales in 1993 and was called up for the Australian one day team in 1995. He had a good debut scoring a quickfire 39 v West Indies.

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Shane was in the 1996 and 1999 World Cup squads but only really established himself in the team in the 1999-2000 VB Series along with the emergence of his brother fast bowler Brett.

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Shane also had a successful season with Somerset, scoring over 1,000 runs in 1996 and Worcestershire in the English County Championship.

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Shane retired from cricket aged 29 due to knee injuries. Between 1995 and 2001 he played 45 one day internationals scoring 477 runs and taking 48 wickets.

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August 8: August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining....

1973: 1973 was a common year starting on Monday....

Wollongong: redirect Wollongong, New South Wales...

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