Agarkar has a lot to offer to India
Brett Lee walks in and asks in a very matter of fact manner: Are you expecting someone? It helps break the ice immediately.
He carries no fast-bowler snarl with him. Rather its that smiling face you see, back home in India on advertisement hoardings of a watch company he endorses, which greets the media gathering.
With Australia coming into the tri-series with an 18-member squad and a pre-planned rotation policy, Brett Lee has played in only one of the three games.
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