The stresses and strains of a fast bowler take their toll

By Richard Edwards

Sidelined: Injury forced Olly Stone to come home early from the West Indies tour

BOWLING is a stressful business – something that England’s newest crop of quicks need no reminding of.
One of the first decisions of consequence on the tour to the West Indies – and there have been plenty since – was to send Olly Stone home as a result of a stress fracture to the lower back.
Now back on these shores, Stone finds himself in good company, with the likes of Mason Crane, Jamie Porter and Jamie Overton, all having suffered a similar dia...

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