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Dilhara afflicted with same faulty action as Gillespie - Lillee by SRIAN OBEYESEKERE Dennis Lillee, the legendary former Australian fast bowler has advised that Sri Lankan pacie, Dilhara Fernando would need upto about 3 months to sort out a defective bowling action. Lillee, who heads the India based MRF Pace Bowlers Coaching Clinic, is of the opinion that Fernando is suffering from a similar delivery related problem as Australia's Jason Gillespie, according to Sri Lankan pace bowling coach Champaka Ramanayake. "Lillee, who had a good look at Fernando who flew to India last June 24, said that it took Gillespie as long as six months to sort out his bowling action", Ramanayake told the `Sunday Observer'. He said that Dilhara and Sri Lanka also had the good fortune of obtaining the opinion of former Australian captain, Greg Chappell on Dilhara's action. Chappell, who is the coach of South Australia which state Gillspie represents in domestic Sheffield Shield cricket, had also held with Lillee that Dilhara and Gillespie had almost similar faulty actions and would be okay with time. "Dilhara is now getting better and better. When we left he wasn't that happy. But now he is bowling to a shorter run up. He is being nursed to a remedial technique to get over the flaw of what was a counter rotation", explained Ramnayake who described it as a `mix'. "A mix occours when your hip and shoulder rotations differ, one from the other. He has to be fully front on till he delivers the ball", stressed Ramanayake who went on to elaborate that in Dilhara's case his right shoulder had been going side on. The time consuming therapy also relates to getting the wrongly honed muscles from the resultant defective action in Dilhara's body to respond to his new action which Lillee had advised the Lankan bowler should continue for sometime. To Ramanayake's credit is that Lillee had diagnosed Dilhara's faulty action on the same lines as the Lankan coach. He had similarly been in agreement with the rehabilitation undertaken by Ramanayake. Also to have benefitted from the MRF was young Tamil Union allrounder, Ranga Dias who went as a nominated recipient for training. Every year two fast bowlers are sent from Sri Lanka to the MRF. |
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