More work for NZ bowlers

New Zealand's frontline bowlers can't expect any let-up in their training workloads, especially, as coaches look to strengthen players and minimise the bowling injuries that have proven so frustrating in recent weeks, if not years.

Coach Mark Greatbatch said in Wellington on Friday that coaches were trying to train bowlers harder to be able to withstand the sort of intensity that has occurred this week in the Chappell-Hadlee series where games have been played on a Saturday-Tuesday-Thursday-Saturday regime.

Central to doing that was reducing the gap between the 18-20km bowlers were running in the course of a one-day game, whether bowling or fielding, and the nine kilometres they were doing in training.

"That's half of what we need to be doing.

"We have got a plan post Twenty20 World Cup, with the World Cup in mind February-March [next year], on our winter tours of getting schedules and actually working guys harder to try and get their conditioning even better – and it has definitely improved," he said.

By getting it better, and the players stronger, they would be able to withstand the sort of schedule that has occurred during the Chappell-Hadlee series.

"It's not an easy balance but there is a plan going at the moment," he said.