Former Australia fast bowler Shaun Tait has shared the reason behind modern-day pacers’ inability to bowl over 150 kmph consistently. Tait said that today’s fast bowlers don’t have their inputs in ‘robot-like’ training programs. He reckoned that current bowlers are ‘spoon-fed’ concerning the ‘Dos and Donts’ by their team physios.
Tait, who played 59 international games for Australia, used to bowl over 150 kmph on a constant basis. He even clicked the 160 kmph mark in his career. The 38-year-old mentioned that speedsters like him, Shoaib Akhtar and Brett Lee, could cross the 150kmph barrier because they had the𒁏ir say in their training schedul♕e.
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“I can talk about this for an hour… I think anywhere you go right now; bowling programs are very similar, workload, programs, you have to do this, you have to do that. Whereas when I played, before that Shoaib and Brett Lee, our programs were there, but we had a big input into them. We were not faced with almost like a robot-type thing. You are not doing the same thing, day in, day out. You are not being told by people what to do all the time. You are taking a bit of onus on your career and doing what feels good for your body,” Tait told Sportskeeda.
The South Australian enlightened that a lot of professionalism is hurting bowl🌊ers in current times. Tait expressed t♏hat bowlers should be allowed to make at least some decisions regarding their workload on their own.
“Nowadays they are told ‘Now, have a rest day’, ‘Bowl a certain amount of balls this day. Obviously, the professionalism of cricket has come into it; a lot of guys have got jobs to look after programs for fast bowlers. I think it’s hurting express bowling a little bit. Sometimes I think we should let cricketers make their decisions themselves rather than telling them what to do and spoon-feeding them,” added Tait.
