"I am just over-sized"

The job of every security personnel demands them to be tough looking arrogant and ruthless. But it is all part of their profession and Zane Wilmans, Director of Protexx, who has been the security guard of Brett Lee while here in India for the Cochlear campaign, was perceived as no way different.

As I have been associated with Cochlear team for its media engagement programme for the past three years, I have been with the whole Cochlear team and also along with Zane. During the first campaign in 2017, i hardly spoke to Zane, being literally scared of the hefty man. During the second campaign in Trivandrum in 2018, i developed a greeting-each-other kind of relationship with him.

In the current 2019 campaign covering Kochi, Alappuzha, Thrissur and Irinjalakuda, in fact we became good friends. While being with a small group of Cochlear team he had fun and I had a few photo sessions while both of us were on a house boat on Vembanadu Lake.

The Fame being converted for a noble social cause

Each activity and media engagement organized for the cause - universal newborn hearing screening - is so thrilling like a T20 game with lots of energy and excitement. Former cricketer Brett Lee, the fastest bowler in the Australian cricket history and the 2nd fastest pacer of all time in the history of cricket, currently the Global Hearing Ambassador for Cochlear, is so passionate about the cause for which he has been there for quite sometime. Currently he has been travelling to Kochi, Alappuzha, Thrissur and Irinjalakuda from August 31 to September 03, 2019 spreading the awareness.

According to Brett Lee, "Cricket is over for me, now I want to dedicate my life for universal newborn hearing screening with the same dedication and zeal that I had for cricket in my life. If a cricket bat is given to every child in its childhood in India, why not newborn hearing screening is done for every child."