Richard Hadlee blames one-day cricket for rise in injuries to fast bowlers – Cricket News Update
The legendary http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 pacer, Richard Hadlee, feels the One Day cricket has made fast bowlers more prone to injuries.
The 60-year-old former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Canterbury-c775 fast bowler said that the bowling style of the current crop of pacers, bowling wide from the crease, makes them more vulnerable to injuries.
The New Zealander advised the contemporary fast bowlers to ball wicket to wicket, if they want to preserve their body and stay efficient.
"If you are what I call a classical out-swing or leg-cutter bowler, getting in close to the stumps - which you do more in the longer version of the game bowling wicket to wicket - well, biomechanically, you are going to be more efficient," the pace bowling
veteran was quoted as saying by a leading Australian daily on Wednesday.
"But once you get into one-day cricket, particularly when you are bowling in the death overs, you are bowling wide of the crease. You tend to open up a little bit and force the ball in to middle and middle and leg. You are putting a different stress on the
body and that may take its toll and cause a reaction," he added further.
The ongoing 2011 season has seen several international pacers facing injuries. India’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 this summer and was ruled out of the itinerary. Zaheer’s
injury left the Men in Blue handicapped as the tourists returned home winless in all the three formats of the game. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319 has not made an International squad since then.
Last week, he was picked in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746’s preliminary squad for next month’s tour down under, but whether the ace pacer takes the field in the crucial series depends upon his fitness.
Likewise, Australia has recently returned home from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MG-Johnson-c1945, teenage sensation Patrick Cummins,
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Watson-c2558.
Hadlee, who claimed 431 Test wickets from 86 appearances, said that preserving their unbeaten streak against New Zealand at home without four key bowlers would be a real Test for Australia.
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