Fast bowling
Return to bowling
Getting from cleared to bowling a full spell in a match is where rehabilitation succeeds or quietly fails. The principle is simple and the discipline is hard: build one variable at a time.
- Loading and strength before any bowling, to the point where the tissue tolerates what is coming.
- Running, built to the run-up demand and beyond it.
- Run-throughs without a ball, full run-up, no delivery.
- Bowling off a short run, low intensity, low volume. Boring on purpose.
- Build volume at that intensity, across weeks not days.
- Build intensity while holding volume steady. Never both at once.
- Full run-up, match intensity, in training, in spells that look like match spells.
- Match spells, with a plan for the week after, because the response matters more than the day itself.
Two rules make the difference. Add one variable at a time. And judge each step by how the body responds over the following 24 to 48 hours, not by how it felt during.
A bowler returning from lumbar bone stress needs the slow version of this. More on fast bowling back pain.
When a return to bowling stalls: symptoms, gaps and pressure to speed up.
Return to bowling going sideways?
Bring the log to a review, in person in Richmond or by video, and we set the next few weeks around your fixtures.