<p>Lillee believes today's bowlers do not gain the core body strength required to cope with the increased demands of the modern game. <br /><br />Fast bowlers Stuart Clark, Brett Lee, Ben Hilfenhaus and Peter Siddle are all currently injured with West Indies touring Australia. <br /><br />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. <br />“I'm not sure that fast bowlers in particular do enough distance running and heavy sprinting work,” Lillee was quoted as saying by AAP. <br /><br />“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. <br /><br />“We are not getting the same back problems we had an epidemic of for years and years,” he said.</p>
<p>Lillee believes today's bowlers do not gain the core body strength required to cope with the increased demands of the modern game. <br /><br />Fast bowlers Stuart Clark, Brett Lee, Ben Hilfenhaus and Peter Siddle are all currently injured with West Indies touring Australia. <br /><br />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. <br />“I'm not sure that fast bowlers in particular do enough distance running and heavy sprinting work,” Lillee was quoted as saying by AAP. <br /><br />“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. <br /><br />“We are not getting the same back problems we had an epidemic of for years and years,” he said.</p>
