In 2022, when the former head coach of India Rahul Dravid told Ishant Sharm that the team was looking at him in the test format, it was difficult to see the light at the end of the Pacer Beanpole tunnel.
Ishant was almost 33, lost a little pace and zipper from the surface in the red ball cricket, and that year he even missed the iPL.
He knew the return of India was a distant dream, limited the cricket with a red ball, but worked on the shortest format, and I kept in mind the IPL. And in the English, Steffan Jones found a capable ally.
Jones Veteran Speedster helped to get his mojo back with a completely modern acceptance of fast bowling biomechanics.
His numbers for Gujarat Titans This season IPL – 3 goals in 5 games – may not be flattering, but what amazed one and everything is its consistent ability to hit 140 clicks and missat all supplies with the same intensity.
“So I was contacted by Ishant Sharma around 2017-18. I believe it was when he was on an England for India. He just asked questions. He liked how I trained,” said Jones, now running “Pace Lab”, PTI said during interaction.
“He liked the way I looked at the finer detail of everything, very sports science controlled, a lot of knowledge about the technical and physical aspects of the game. At first I started training, obviously remotely.”
Over time, however, his laboratory took place and Ishant took place during extra -season trains in Gurgaon under one of Jones Ayush assistants.
“I asked Ishant if he was willing to supervise him Ayushem. I do the program planning and Ayush on board trains him in Gurgaon.
Isohant’s Pace Spike: Due load management, pocket radar
Talk about Ishant further and joked: “Now bowling is faster. It looks more explosive. It looks lighter on your feet. It is through a workload management because what is happening, especially in India, is looking for volume.”
He then explained how Ishhant’s work was purely on the basis of science.
“He (Ishant) will have the speed of the ball. He will have a pocket radar that measures every van he mixes.
“Therefore, it probably carries a pocket radar, so it is able to monitor its workload and monitor intensity. Problems are happening in the cricket, so there are so many fractures in the world,” Jones said.
Jones, who has a title from Cambridge and Loughborough University, has played 20 years of professional district cricket for Northamptonshire, Derbyshire, Kent and Somerset, but when he became teaching, not only became “level 3” but also won the title in sports science and Bowling ”.
As someone who runs Pace-Bowling via centers and also trains around 50 coaches, talks about the basic difference between how he and Indian coaches look at fast pitchers.
“They (Indian coaches) believe that more is better. They believe repetitions will help you improve. Unfortunately, it can work for small motor skills such as playing piano or reading or writing.
“…… but when it comes to gross motor skills and skills such as fast bowling, which has so many moving parts and every van differs for various reasons, such as stress, dough you play, fatigue. Each ball is different.
Why is the bowling volume of Passe?
When you hear the Pakistani legend Wasim Akram on various performances, he often talked about his game days, the more he bowed, the better he felt better in terms of speed and rhythm. But Akram played in the era when the cricket was not held all year round and had no three formats.
Jones, a modern day, a data coach, explained why Volume is now not sacred.
“Between the training volume, which I call the second facility and the volume of the match, the fifth gear, is a mismatch,” said Jones, who also worked with the IPL Rajasthan Royals.
Bridging gaps between the best Indian and gen-next
The Indian cricket system has always emphasized who (as far as the character is concerned), rather than what they say, and the common belief is that the former stars would share the experience of their game days younger crops.
Jones, however, begged to be different.
“Coaching does not give playing experience. Coaching is about creating changes. It’s about support. It’s about communication and basically it is knowledge of human movement, knowledge of motor learning, knowledge of play awareness and indeed understanding how everything is connected together.”
With the talent of the talent in India, the bay between the Elite Earth Supporters and those at first -class level can be bridged.
“There is a Persian Gulf among your best fast pitchers in India and the younger generation.
“So my goal is to close the gap and make sure that for India, the transport belt of fast pitchers, which not only bowling 150, but bowling 150 exactly AS aware of games,” he concluded.
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Published:
Sabyasachi Chowdhury
Published on:
April 25, 2025
