Cardiff, July 06: Brett Lee will miss the first two Ashes Tests owing to a rib injury, media reports said here today.
Battling a lower side strain, Lee missed today’s training session and had to be rushed to a hospital here for scans, according to a ‘Cricinfo’ report.
Apparently, Lee stretched himself in the warm-up match against England Lions in Worcester, taking six for 76 in that game.
“He has a sore left rib, but we won’t know the extent of it until the scans are back,” an Australian team spokesman was quoted as saying.
“We’re in a holding pattern until then,” he added.
The news has reached the rival camp and former England captain Kevin Pietersen said Australia would not be the same force without Lee.
“He is a huge, huge, huge player for Australia,” said Pietersen.
–PTI