What really happened with Lee and Ponting
In the Australian , Ricky Ponting explains just what happened between him and Brett Lee in Mohali.
Brydon Coverdale
25-Feb-2013
In the Australian, Ricky Ponting explains just what happened between him and Brett Lee in Mohali.
What Brett couldn't understand is that Mitchell Johnson and Peter Siddle had the chance to bowl before him. But by the time I wanted to bowl Brett, we were five overs behind on our over rate. If he were to come on and we went six or seven overs down then I could be suspended under the ICC playing conditions for slow over rates.
Once we had a chance to talk it through he was fine with it. He said to me at the lunch break, "I'm a bowler, I want to bowl, and you're a batsman, you want to bat". But there are other things I have to think about on the field as well. We talk about over rates at every team meeting. We get behind and I'm forced to bowl guys I sometimes don't want to bowl in the circumstances.
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