If Bermuda are to have any chance of regaining their World Cricket League Division Two status then the likes of Malachi Jones, Damali Bell and Stefan Kelly are going to have to stay injury free and be at the top of their games.The cutting-edge to the team’s attacking threat, Jones and Kelly’s impact has been blunted in the past by niggling injuries which have occured at inopportune times. Most recently Jones missed all but three overs of the ill-fated Division Two tournament in Dubai in April when Bermuda were relegated to Division Three.In an effort to prevent that happening again, and in the hope of teaching a new generation of fast bowlers how to do it better and faster in the future, Lorenzo Tucker has been made the team’s fast bowling coach.Bermuda Cricket Board dispatched Tucker, Bermuda’s match analyst for the past six years and a Level II coach, to a specialist workshop in Barbados in September where he worked with some of the game’s top exponents of the skill, such as Fidel Edwards and Otis Gibson, and learned how to analyse the biomechanics of the fast bowler’s action.“There are so many moving parts, it is very, very technical action,” said Tucker. “The seminar was two-fold, one was to promote less injuries and then when you start to bowl with less injuries you will get better performance, become faster and more accurate.“I’m trying to get my coaching experience up, I help coach the under-15 national team, and the coach (David Moore) and I were talking about bowling, he really wanted somebody to take on the bowling coach job.“He had asked a few guys who had turned it down because it is such a technical action. Being that I have been the team analyst for the last six years, have a technical knowledge and a passion for technology and how things work together, he thought I would be perfect for it.”Predicatably there has been some backlash within Bermuda cricket circles against Tucker’s appointment from old players and certain club officials who don’t believe someone who has never been a fast bowler can teach the skill.However, Tucker, who has also worked with Australia great Dennis Lillee, has shrugged off those concerns and said his understanding of the art of fast bowling was ideally suited to his role as a teacher and a coach, whose main task was to make the Island’s bowlers better.“A couple of guys have asked ‘how can you teach fast bowling, you never were a fast bowler?’,” said Tucker. “It’s this age-old bias that you have to have played it to teach it, but more and more these days we are seeing students of the game and teachers of the game get key coaching roles because they (administrators) are starting to realise that not all great cricketers make good coaches.“I understand every aspect of bowling, I can break it down, I can tell you what you’re doing wrong. I might not be able to come up and bowl 100 miles-per-hour but I can understand what it takes to do that, and show someone how to do that, which is what a coach and a teacher is supposed to do.”Ultimately Tucker will spend more time working with the Island’s academy players as the Board try and prevent the bowling flaws that have crept into players’ games in the past. First though he needs to work with the senior players who have the World Twenty20 Global qualifiers coming up in March.“We’re going to try and get these guys at a young age,” he said. “So that if you teach them correctly at 13, by the time they get to the national team all you are teaching them is strategy, they already know how to bowl with the proper technique.“My main focus is going to be the academy squads, but right now we’re trying to prepare for Dubai, so the coach has got me to do some work with the senior guys. I’ll analyse their actions, try to fix them over the winter, and once you correct them biomechanically they should be better performers, more accurate and faster.”