Bangladeshi pace bowlers need to bowl long spells to gain fitness and pace- Mohammad Amir
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Pakistani pace bowler Mohammad Amir believes that Bangladesh struggles to produce genuine pace bowlers due to the prevailing system of the domestic structure as the slow and low wicket certainly doesn’t encourage the fast bowlers of the country.
While Pakistan is known for producing world-class fast bowlers it was not the case with other Asian countries until India began to come up with some genuine quick bowlers in the recent past.
The rise of Indian fast bowlers is largely due to the changed mindset of the administrators as they are now not interested to produce low and slow wickets despite it remained their major strength against international opponents back home from their early days as they possessed different varieties of spinners.
I was discussing this with someone while ago and I was told that ball doesn’t go above your knee from the first day of four-day cricket in Bangladesh. That means the fast bowler is not bowling that much. Unless the fast bowler is not used to bowling for long in a game he will not get the fitness, he will not develop pace,’’ Amir was quoted in different local English dailies on Friday.
‘’The wicket needs to be supporting to the pacers and also ensure that the batsmen enjoy playing. In Pakistan, the domestic wickets (had) changes recently. Before it used to be either batting or a bowling wicket but now they are keeping it mix. They have made the wickets a bit batting-friendly and have given kookaburra ball to the bowlers. That way the bowlers need to give effort. The wickets do not start breaking from day one. The matches have more than 500 runs being scored, the bowlers have to bowl long spells.
‘’Unless the bowlers are bowling long spells their nature will not develop. The wickets should be that a pacer can bowl 12 to 14 overs a day. Here I am told spinners come into attack from the fifth over, now if you are not making your pacers bowl, then how are you going to develop them,’’ he said.
Amir added that pace bowlers need to follow a strict routine in order to achieve success and added unless that is in place and monitored chances are slim to shine for the pace bowlers as their workload is certainly higher than their teammates.
‘’Their routine is very important. As an athlete, they need to look into their training system, their food system, their workload. The player, first of all, needs to take care of himself because no one else knows of his body (better) than him. The player should understand the workload,’’ said Amir.
‘’If the load is low then he should work on taking it high, and if he is facing injuries then he should work on that. In an international team, you have people to guide you but when you are on your own, you need to maintain the routine. You do not stay with the international team the whole time so it becomes your responsibility to ensure a proper routine to prolong the career,’’ he said.
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