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Message: [QUOTE="Bull Shark, post: 2458458, member: 7690"] Just amazing how cricket has changed over the last decade or so … and mostly not for the better imo … This surge in popularity of 20/20 has given rise to a new sub-species of rubbish mickey mouse cricketers who specialise with neither bat or ball, provide a bit of everything but not much of anything .. and yet who aspire to be nothing more than what I've described above because they can make more $$$ in a couple of seasons of some hit and giggle gang-bang in the sub continent than most of our test legends of yesteryear made in their entire careers ... Alot of our shield sides nowadays resemble the old school english county teams - with 'dibbla-dobbla' bowlers who max out at 130kph and "batters" (as opposed to batsmen) with attention spans of ADD children. Then there's this nanny-state policy of 'resting', 'rotating', 'managing', 'nurturing', 'mollycoddling', 'tummy-tickling' any young bowler who gets the speed gun in excess of 140k's an hour .. CA's formula for staying fit as a fast bowler in 2012 ? Don't bowl !! And yet they wonder why these kids fracture something whenever the words 'back to back spells' are even whispered ! Who among us doesn't remember the days of not so long ago where as a fast bowler you'd turn up to club training twice or three times per week (and more in your own private sessions) and just bowl bowl bowl in the nets from 4pm until it got too dark !? It defies the logic that our fast bowlers should be given LESS bowling as advances in strength and conditioning for athletes right across all sports becomes MORE effective and advanced ! It's totally out of whack ! The supposed fitness gurus who're driving this protocol should, imo, look up some of the 'high frequency' training methods used by Bulgarian athletes and trainers over the decades.. Anyway, end of rant … for now ! [/QUOTE]

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