Melbourne, June 30: Brett Lee does not merit a place in Australia’s main Ashes squad and his role should be confined to mentoring the bowlers, said former Aussie pacer Alan Davidson.
Ashes specialist Davidson, who tormented England in the 1953 and 1961 Ashes tours, said Australia should stick to the successful pace battery that delivered the goods in South Africa this year.
“I think Brett Lee should just do an educational thing for the other bowlers and make that his responsibility,” Davidson told ‘The Australian’.
“I think the bowling attack they used in South Africa was tremendous really and the young blokes (Peter) Siddle and (Ben) Hilfenhaus really proved themselves,” said the former left-arm pacer.
Apart from Siddle and Hilfenhaus, Mitchell Johnson was the other key Australian bowler in South Africa.
–PTI