'Zaheer's bold and significant statement'
Zaheer Khan said in an interview recently that Indian bodies are not designed for fast bowling
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Zaheer Khan said in an interview recently that Indian bodies are not designed for fast bowling. Makarand Waingankar, in the Hindu, writes of what he thinks of the statement and its possible implications for fast bowling.
Now that injury management in Indian cricket has gone completely pear shaped, Zaheer Khan's statement should make the decision makers work on a solution. When Frank Tyson saw all under-19 fast bowlers of Mumbai for the first time at the outset of his coaching in a bowling scheme in 1990, he ended up commenting, “tiny shoulders and thin legs don't make fast bowlers”.
Nonetheless he coached them for the next three years and most of them went on to play either for India or for Mumbai. In fact bowlers of that scheme — fast and spin combined — captured more than 5000 first class wickets.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo