Blueprint to rebuild Brett Lee & Watto's training regime

[manee]

"We're trying to promote speed."

That includes quick, light upper-body weights and heavier lower-body weights. During special bowling sessions there will be extended recovery between balls so Lee can focus on fast, high-quality deliveries.

More: http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,24543785-23212,00.html?from=public_rss

Interesting stuff definately. Certainly, Australia are pouring a lot of energy as they feel that two poor matches points to something far more serious for Brett Lee, such as the beginning of the end of his career. It is fascinating the sort of methods which are used and I cannot see such complex but so theoretically sound methods being used outside Australia. This sort of stuff the Australians do best but this will certainly be a test even for them.

Perhaps could be in the tour thread, but I think Brett Lee deserves his own thread.

 

[angryangy]

Yeah, he looks underprepped and it's often obvious when a bowler is underdone. Even for someone like McGrath, there were big questions raised when he bowled in India for the Champions Trophy, but by the time he got to the Caribbean, it was like the renaissance.

Did you see the article on Shane Watson? Also fascinating what he's changed in his training; it also explains the impressive stretches he performs in his warm-ups. This sort of highly thought out training balance has prevailed in the various football codes for quite a while, now it seems it is cricket's turn for fine tuning.
http://content-www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/375175.html

 

[manee]

Fascinating, he looks pretty hammered here but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. It is an interesting plan to concentrate on becoming supple and flexible, but Watson's pace has looked down throughout the India series and it could be due to his change in regime, then again, it could be due to the stiffness which has plagued him throughout his career combined with slowly warming up to spells in Test cricket. In theory, it does sound good as all the flexibility work should help with injury prevention and may help him with a more dynamic bowling action in the long term. Australia seem to be leaping forward with physical conditioning while England are stuck in the gym and the rest of the world are stuck in the nets [/hyperbole].

 

[angryangy]

Yeah I wondered about that clip...

At least it was early in the IPL if dated correct, maybe they had a couple of days break.

With Watson, I think part of what made him successful in the IPL was that he was actually a new ball bowler. That's really never been anything in his scope until this year, so I think whatever he's done, it's been good. The ability to bowl 140 kph is nice, but we know it's not a perquisite and it was really only considered one for Watson because his deliveries were so straight. In the IPL he was able to bend the ball a bit and it seems he's got a bit of reverse in him when the SG wears down (is that a future development in IPL, teams brutalising the ball so it reverses early?). Overall, his seam positions have been high quality. He's stuck to a dry line n length in the Test series, which probably helps because it means he's patient, but I do think he's improved himself as a proper bowler.

Although you might mean hyperbole in jest, it does fit the South Africans. The quote was that Watson was "training like a rugby player" and that is exactly the impression you get from Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis. South African Rugby Union players are even bigger, but it's clear that muscle is a big emphasis for South Africa's main batsmen.

It's not a baseless or terrible idea though, obviously, because those guys have done some impressive stuff. Indeed, I welcome a clash of methodologies come December with the Tests.

 

[Inbox24]

Maybe Brett Lee needs a marriage counselor more than needs a new training regime at the moment.

 

[MUFC1987]

Lee just isn't as good as he's been made out to be. Because he's 90+ mph, he's a decent bowler, once that dips he'll go back to just average.

 

[manee]

Lee just isn't as good as he's been made out to be. Because he's 90+ mph, he's a decent bowler, once that dips he'll go back to just average.

Indeed, but this regime seems to be trying to prevent the speed from dropping from Brett Lee. This being said, you can only fight off the ageing process for so long.