Brett Lee has lifted the lid on a secret post-game ritual utilized by the Australian cricket staff to have fun victories on the Sydney Cricket Floor.
The SCG is commonly talked about by gamers as one of the iconic grounds to play at, with the picket changerooms and staff balconies nestled within the previous members’ stand.
Taking place the steps of the members to exit to bat is without doubt one of the extra well-known paths to the wicket in world cricket, together with the journey by the lengthy room at Lord’s.
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However Lee has revealed one other particular a part of the SCG the Aussie gamers get to get pleasure from after an enormous win.
Talking on the Hey Sport podcast, the previous Australian quick bowler mentioned the staff would faucet a bat on the bottom thrice earlier than becoming a member of the bottom employees for a drink in a cellar tucked behind a storage door.
Lee defined: “On the Sydney Cricket Floor, lots of people don’t know — (I’m) freely giving a bit of little bit of inside information right here. That internal sanctum the place we really feel snug, the place there’s no press, the place we will calm down and simply converse actually and overtly.
“After the Take a look at win on the SCG, the custom is you’ll get a cricket bat and go thump thump thump on the ground, three faucets. Then a couple of minutes later you’ll hear thump thump thump, somebody from downstairs within the cellar, which suggests come downstairs to the cellar.
“So that you stroll down beneath the change rooms of the Australian gamers, reverse close to the place the race is and there’s a bit of storage door.
“You stroll inside and it’s (tiny) so we reckon it’s Justin Langer’s home as a result of he suits in superbly. And there’s a door that’s been signed by each Take a look at cricketer I feel for the reason that Nineteen Fifties that’s in there.
“And it’s a cellar. So beers and wine, you get down there and have a chat with among the floor employees and have a chilly beer with them.
“I believed, ‘How good’s this Take a look at cricket stuff’ and custom figuring out that the likes of Bradman have carried out it, the Allan Borders, the Merv Hughes, legends of the sport.”
Lee added he “most likely shouldn’t be saying an excessive amount of about this”, joking the three bat faucets would sign: “We’re thirsty!”
“That was a pinch myself second,” mentioned Lee, who took 310 wickets throughout 76 Take a look at matches.
“I’m wanting round and I’ve obtained Steve and Mark Waugh, Ricky Ponting, Damien Martyn, Justin Langer, Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and right here I’m within the secret cellar with my heroes I watched rising up and at the moment are teammates.”
Lee can be a part of Fox Cricket’s commentary staff for the upcoming summer season, with Australia taking up Pakistan and the West Indies.
The primary Take a look at between Australia and Pakistan begins on Thursday 14 December in Perth.
