The Surfer

Too many what-ifs

George Binoy
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
Andrew Flintoff immediately consoles Brett Lee, as England took the final wicket to win, on a nail-biting fourth day at Edgbaston, England v Australia, August 7, 2005

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Brett Lee has never watched the replay. Too painful. Too many what-ifs, writes Alex Brown in The Sydney Morning Herald. What if, for example, the third-last ball of the Edgbaston Test last year had breached the boundary rope and not been cut off by the off-side sweeper?
"It's too painful," Lee said. "You want to take yourself back in time and think the one that I hit to cover point, if I had hit it a metre to his left or right it could have been a different story. So I have never sat down and watched it."

George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo