There are more similarities between bowling( cricket) and pitching ( baseball) than previously imagined. This could throw new insight into giving fast bowlers a recovery time.
Shoaib Akhtar of Pakistan (180cm, FAT now) and Filipino-American Pitcher for the SF Giants Tim Lincecum (179cm, 77kgs). Cricket has traditionally ignored the mechanics whereas in Baseball it is heavily scrutinized.This is changing slowly though….
Shane Bond in an interview with CricInfo:
“Bowlers are almost going to be like pitchers, where you play a game and sit out the next, because of the amount of cricket played these days.”