Experienced Indian pacer Ishant Sharma feels that workload management is an unnecessary concept used in Cricket nowadays. He said that there was no such concept when he made his debut.
Ishant Sharma made his debut against Bangladesh in 2007 at the age of 18 said that the more the fast bowlers keep bowling, the less the chances for them to get injured. The emergence of pacers like Mohammad Siraj and Shardul Thakur has meant that Ishant has been dropped from the Indian squad since the past year.
Ishant speaks about workload management
“The only thing I would say right now is: ‘Do not think too much about the workload’. That’s a new term that’s come up in recent times, especially for fast bowlers. I never saw something like that during my international stint. When I started playing, my coach was an old-fashioned coach who would give me a ball in hand at 1 o’clock in the afternoon and we would go on till sunset.”
“That’s how I could bowl long spells when I made my debut in Ranji Trophy and later on for India. If you want to improve, the only thing you can do is to keep bowling,”
Ishant told Sportstar.
“I think if you have made your name through domestic cricket, you should not be selective about playing games thereafter. If you want to play domestic cricket, nobody can stop you. Only when you have played a sizable amount of cricket for the country can you be given a break at times. Most pacers break down during Ranji Trophy games because they don’t go through the ideal preparation,”
the Delhi pacer added.
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