Workload not responsible for injury: Siddle

By Rahul Bajaj
for Cricketain.com

Published: February 9, 2010

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Melbourne: Australian speedster Peter Siddle has been sidelined from competitive cricket for five months with a back injury but the Aussie paceman insists that the injury has nothing to do with excessive workload.

Siddle has been asked to undergo a three month rehabilitation before considering a return. The Victorian fast bowler hoped of coming back stronger and fitter.

“I had stress fractures when I was about 18 or 19 and at the time, obviously, it was difficult… but recovery went well and in the end I was back and playing that following year. It didn’t hold me back at all and in the end it got a lot stronger, a lot fitter and worked out the best for me,” Siddle said.

He also dismissed claims that the excessive workload these days in international cricket had caused this injury. Rather, he described it as gradually worsening problem.

“Every time you go out on the field there’s a chance you can get injured, whether you’re a batter or a bowler. I don’t think it’s just me, it could happen to anyone in any game. But it’s definitely not the workload. Personally, I hadn’t played much cricket coming into the last two years… so, for me, it was more cricket than I’d ever played before. But the schedule was no different from what it had been over the past five or six years so that’s definitely not a part of it,” he was quoted as saying by Sydney Morning Herald.

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