What do young Indian speedster Umran Malik and retired Australia fast bowler Brett Lee have in common?
They both created a buzz with their pace even before being selected to represent their country.
Lee, who is now a television pundit and a brand ambassador for sportsbet.io, provided more than just a good glimpse of his dangerous speed in a one-day competition involving A players of India and Australia at the 1999 America Challenge in Los Angeles, where the Australians won 4-1.
Umran impressed everyone with his pace while bowling for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the recently-concluded Indian Premier League.
&ldquo;I think he&rsquo;s [Umran] a great find firstly for the IPL and secondly, for Indian cricket. He&rsquo;s a guy who bowls extremely fast&mdash;over 150kmph&mdash;and I believe he can go past that 155kmph mark consistently,&rdquo; Lee told mid-day. Lee felt talk about&nbsp;
Umran being expensive while he goes all out for pace will not help the 22-year-old tearaway. &ldquo;A lot of people say he bowls 150kmph [but] he might be too expensive and that can happen when you bowl fast. But I do believe that he&rsquo;s also a good candidate to bowl in the longer format, whether it is Test or one-day cricket for India,&rdquo; said Lee. &nbsp; The blond New South Welshman made his Test debut against India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1999 and he made it memorable by claiming a fifer in his very first innings, coming on as first change after Glenn McGrath and Damien Fleming. India went on to lose the Test by 180 runs despite a man of the match award-winning century from skipper Sachin Tendulkar.
And what advice does Lee have for Umran? &ldquo;My advice to Umran would be to keep having fun. Don&rsquo;t try to overcomplicate things. Enjoy what you&rsquo;re doing, enjoy the ride. It&rsquo;s going to be a bumpy ride because there will be injuries. That&rsquo;s all part of being a fast bowler no matter how hard you prepare your body, how hard you train, the rehab, the warm-downs, you can do whatever you want.&nbsp;But unfortunately, with bowling fast, injuries &nbsp;happen.
You have to deal with that and don&rsquo;t let it affect you.&rdquo;

Ex-Australia pace hero reckons young Malik, who bowled impressively for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL-15, can be a candidate for the longer version

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