One of the best things Troy C has done during his tenure is to set up the research centre in Loughborough at the England Cricket academy which specifically looks into how fast bowlers get injured. In recent years England have had to field poor bowling attacks due to the loss of our first choces through injury. He thinks it will take at least ten years for the research to be completed.
It is because of potential injury caused by his action that Jimmy Anderson (coupled with the fact that he looks at the gruond about a yard in front of his left foot when releasing the ball) has had work done on his action. True, that he has not had enough bowling to test the changes but when he was given the chance in threee ODIs in Zimbabwe he returned figures of 27 overs 2 wicket for 113 at more than 4.5 an over.
As to you advancing Lillee as a supporter of not having bowling coaches . . . . well you'll not be surprised to know that the E(&W)CB announced
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Originally Posted by E(&W)CB In the New Year, it is our intention to send two fast bowlers, with Troy Cooley, to the MRF Pace Academy in Chennai to work with Dennis Lillee. |
One of the two is your own Sajid Mahmood (Lancashire)!
And you could do worse than take this information on board as well:
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When Lillee first arrived in India 17 years ago, the MRF ground was nothing to write home about. But as a favour to his friend, Ravi Mammen, the boss of MRF who died shortly after he was appointed director, Lillee set about developing it from an unused field in the Madras Christian College grounds into a fast bowling school of international repute.
Since then, some of the most outstanding bowlers in the world have passed through, including Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee, Zaheer Khan and most recently Indian youngster Irfan Pathan.
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