Lillee blames training methods for bowlers' injuries

Lillee believes today's bowlers do not gain the core body strength required to cope with the increased demands of the modern game.

Fast bowlers Stuart Clark, Brett Lee, Ben Hilfenhaus and Peter Siddle are all currently injured with West Indies touring Australia.

New ICC Hall of Famer Lillee said the training programme Australia's national set-up had in place was inadequate, while noting international fixture pile-ups were also to blame.
“I'm not sure that fast bowlers in particular do enough distance running and heavy sprinting work,” Lillee was quoted as saying by AAP.

“My gut feel is that a lot of the training is more about looking good rather than looking after the core, which is more essential than having a nice beach look.  “I think there's more soft tissue injuries now,” added Australia's once-fearsome pace bowler.

“We are not getting the same back problems we had an epidemic of for years and years,” he said.