Express bowler Brett Lee has plans to welcome India's batsmen in the Melbourne cricket Test with a pace assault similar to the one that fetched him good results in the World Cup.
"I have got my plans for how to bowl to India. I will try to use the same approach I used in the World Cup," Lee said.
"There are a couple of different tactics and strategies I use against their [Indian] batsmen, which I am not going to give away, and ways to take wickets against them. It worked at the World Cup and I will not be bowling too dissimilar to that," Lee was quoted as saying in the Sun Herald.
"It would be fair to say that I am bowling back at top pace, like I was before I got injured. Obviously the body has been the key issue for me and it has come up trumps. As each game has gone on it has just got better and better."
Lee, who missed the first two Tests due to injury, said his "pace is certainly back" and he is ready to take on the resurgent India now.
"I know I am ready to play, I hope I have proved that in the last couple of games. What has been asked of me I hope I have achieved," said the bowler.
Looking forward to the Melbourne Test beginning on December 26, Lee said, "It is the greatest Test to play in, the Boxing Day Test, and, hopefully, the wicket will be fast. It will be good for my first game back to have a nice hard, fast wicket to bowl on."
Lee also wants to reduce his bowling average from its current 29.9 to 25.
"That is something I want to achieve. But I am a different type of bowler. If you are bowling at express pace, sometimes you are going to go for a few more runs. But you are there to take wickets. There are times when I go for a few. But it is my job to counter it by taking wickets."
