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Te Ahu Davis | New Zealand Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | ESPN Cricinfo
Part of the "lost generation" thanks to Dayle Hadlee and the New Zealand Academy. Dubbed the quickest bowler produced in this country in the last 20 years when he emerged as a schoolboy, Davis is unfortunately the perfect example of how the academy ruined many fast bowling prospects during it's run. Told as a teenager to remodel his action or face an injury plagued career he did as he was told which resulted in countless lower back injuries as his action was rebuilt many times over by Hadlee and co. Davis called it quits at 21 to pursue a rugby career before a couple of severe knee injuries put paid to that idea, he returned to cricket at 23 but was never the same bowler he was when he first burst onto the scene i;e his pace was gone.
Part of the "lost generation" thanks to Dayle Hadlee and the New Zealand Academy. Dubbed the quickest bowler produced in this country in the last 20 years when he emerged as a schoolboy, Davis is unfortunately the perfect example of how the academy ruined many fast bowling prospects during it's run. Told as a teenager to remodel his action or face an injury plagued career he did as he was told which resulted in countless lower back injuries as his action was rebuilt many times over by Hadlee and co. Davis called it quits at 21 to pursue a rugby career before a couple of severe knee injuries put paid to that idea, he returned to cricket at 23 but was never the same bowler he was when he first burst onto the scene i;e his pace was gone.
