Time for new quicks to step up
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
The baton has passed from Brett Lee to the next generation, writes Peter Roebuck in the Sydney Morning Herald.
It does not seem long ago that Brett Lee was a teenager playing for Campbelltown in the under-21 comp, and scaring the wits out of batsmen. Now his four- and five-day career seems to be over. Plain and simple, he can no longer last the pace. Cricket is not a sentimental game. Choosing him is too risky.
In the same paper Jamie Pandaram speaks to Josh Hazlewood, an 18-year-old fast bowler with a big future. In Queensland Robert Craddock looks at Alister McDermott, another teenager on debut, in the Courier-Mail.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo