Young pacers should be developed through longer-version cricket- Wasim
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram believes that playing more two-day and three-day matches Bangladesh can produce potential fast bowlers who can be world best.
During a Facebook live session with Bangladesh ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal where along with them there was former skippers of Bangladesh team Minhajul Abedin, Akram Khan and Khaled Masud, Wasim came up with this suggestion.
The legendary fast bowler of Pakistan stated that a young fast bowler who has a bright future ahead should be nurtured psychologically at first and should not be demoralized and has to be given a proper direction of how to swing the bowl, how to provide fuller deliveries on slow wickets.
"I think to start off with any youngsters you see who's fast, who got the bright future, stop putting into his mind there slow wickets he's not gonna get wickets. So what happened as a young guy if you listen all around you that I'm not gonna get any wickets so psychologically he'll be negative on those wickets. He has to learn how to swing the ball, how to bowl fuller on slow wickets," Wasim Akram
"I enjoyed bowling on slow wickets, especially on Test cricket, because you can swing the bowl, you can contain them, if you bowl within the stumps in Bangladesh pitches it's difficult to hit, especially in a four day game in a Test match. So, it's more psychological than anything else in my opinion," he added.
Wasim also believes that the young players need to be monitored constantly so that he don't fall on injuries and for him the key to getting better from the young age a young pacer has to play more two days or three days of cricket rather than just play T20s cricket.
"At the age of 16, you have to monitor him quite a bit. Because of the scare of injuries, because of his growing up, the muscles are growing up and obviously he has to bowl and he has to train a bit. But I think the sooner he gets to two-day cricket, the three-day cricket, the better he will become," he added.
"I mean T20 I'm all for it, it's good entertainment, it's good fun, it's a money earner for the boards for the young kids to get involved in cricket, but for me, if any young bowler wants to improve he has to play two-day cricket and at least three-day cricket early on from 16-17 years of age. But nowadays everybody wants to play T20s and T20 is a very easy format," Wasim Akram concluded.
