Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
It is annoying. I have a no ball problem myself, but when it is your job, you should not step over the line, ever!
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**Official** Sri Lanka in England / Scotland - 2011
- Thread starter Migara
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TT Boy
Hall of Fame Member
He isn’t that quick and everytime he has played internationally he has been murdered bowling 85mph gun barrel crap. Thilan Thushara was another Sri Lanka seamer who was billed mostly on here as seriously quick but was anything but quick when he played.
Probably no need for this guy to play anyhow. Malinga and Nuwan Kulasekara to take the new ball.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Recalled him playing against India in a Test and definitely hitting 90mph a fair few times. I do recall the hype around Thushara, who turned out to be medium pace, most of the time - hope Prasad doesn't go that way because enjoyed watching him bowl in his Test against India.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Yeah, couldn't agree more. He's quicker than the other options, but he's far from being an express bowler, has sent down absolute rubbish every time he's played international cricket and has a poor domestic record considering the competition he plays in.
I've often seen fans (and indeed selectors, most of the times he's played) advocate him to play Tests over Nuwan on flatter decks because Nuwan is apparently too slow to get anything out of such wickets. These are the same people who defend Prasad's record by saying he plays only on flat wickets though - well he's obviously not as suited to getting something out of dead tracks as you think, is he?
Anyway, as you said, he shouldn't need to play.
Migara
International Coach
Prasad is not very quick. He can get few at 90+mph (He did get Indians hopping in 2008 series with some chin music), these days. He has been gun barrel straight when ever he played eyes, and so were Zaheer Khan and Vaas during those matches. No one knows how he'll fare on seaming tracks TBH. But his inclusion is not a good one, as he's not an ODI bowler. His bastard attitude is best suited for test matches.
Thilan Thushara was up at 90mph about a season and half back. When ever he got going, managed to injure him self. In his early 20s he was seriously quick. Now he has got a filthy stress fracture, so he might never top 140k again.
Himannv
Hall of Fame Member
Yeah he was always a good bowler in limited overs anyway.
Lostman
State Captain
Anyone is better than Fernando, I would rather have mohd.Sami in my team over Fernando.
Himannv
Hall of Fame Member
Geek!!
Bun
Banned
with death eater malfoy watching!
Wingardium Leviosa!
Jacknife
International Captain
The idea of using sledgehammers is to build up useable muscles and to train muscular and aerobic endurance and strength at the same time. They enhance your grip strength, instead of normal free weights, that just tend to exercise the bigger muscles.They work the hands, wrists and forearms in a unique strength building way.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Sami was a solid ODI bowler, tbf.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
All about functional strength. I'd imagine England would have some top sports scientists working with them. You cannot underestimate the role of sports scientists/support staff in their success. Broad is the example, he was a 80-85mph bowler when he debuted and now he gets as high as 93mph. He is simply a stronger man to the one who started international cricket and therefore he is quicker. Just a shame that he cannot convert this into success, hence making my point almost null and void. Perhaps Bresnan is a better example, could he bowl 90mph when he first came into the side. I don't think so (this isn't for effect, I genuinely cannot fully remember).
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Himannv
Hall of Fame Member
I'm a bit of a Sami fan so I'm not the best person to talk about this.
MW1304
Cricketer Of The Year
Haha I'll trust you guys as I know nothing about fitness or strength training. Its just that, to someone who knows nothing about fitness or strength training, it looks a bit weird.
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
I think another thing is that these sort of trainings are used to change things up a bit, it's not "just another gym session". Need to keep things new and entertaining for the team.
wellAlbidarned
International Coach
The theory (DISCLAIMER: I don't know ****) of excercise using non-standardised purpose built weights is that using something like a sledgehammer requires many muscle groups to work together, thus building up strength proportionally throughout the body, while building on co-ordination at the same time. In cricket, raw, unco-ordinated strength doesn't help much at all. It's all about having the right strength in the right places. Kinda the opposite to bodybuilding, where the idea is to isolate muscle groups as much as possible in workouts. (again, DON'T TRUST ME ON THIS)