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Shane Lee was born August 8, 1973 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia and was an Australian cricketer.
Shane, an all-rounder,
was a hard hitting batsman and fast-medium bowler. He was a promising
junior representing the Australia U-19 team. He first played for New South Wales in 1993 and was called up for the Australian one day team in 1995. He had a good debut scoring a quickfire 39 v West Indies.
Shane was in the 1996 and 1999 World Cup squads but only really established himself in the team in the 1999-2000 VB Series along with the emergence of his brother fast bowler Brett Lee.
Shane also had a successful season with Somerset, scoring over 1, 000 runs in 1996 and Worcestershire in the English County Championship.
Shane retired from cricket aged 29 due to knee injuries. Between 1995 and 2001 he played 45 one day internationals scoring 477 runs and taking 48 wickets.
