🏏England tour of India 2024: 2nd Test: 02 - 06 Feb 2024 - Day 4🏏 - Page 50

Originally posted by: Viswasruti

Yoghurt. Fruit fresh or tinned fruit in natural juice. Sandwiches with lean meat or spread. Fruit muffins or crumpets with jam/honey.

A Test match lasts for 5 days, and for a team to win, it is imperative that all the members give it their best. And it’s not easy. For a body to keep performing all 5 days, utmost care must be taken. And thankfully for the players, regular breaks are scheduled during the game, so they can relax and recover from the grueling battle on the ground.

Before taking the field in the morning, what players have for breakfast, their most important meal of the day, is crucial. Breakfast usually is a bowl of cereal, pasta, fruit or a sandwich stuffed with cold meat, salads, jam or peanut butter. The idea is to stay energised without getting too full. They then go out for the morning session of the play.

After about 2 hours or 30 overs, the players return for their lunch break. Lunch is a really nice spread. It generally has 3 to 5 dishes, from vegetables, potato wedges, and pulses for people who are vegetarian to chicken, lamb and fish for those who like to eat meat, apart from various forms of breads. There is also ice cream and one thing, we hear, cricketers cherish a lot.

Players get a variety of options of what to eat when they return to the dressing room for lunch. What a player eats, depends on his personal preference, and also whether or not he has to take the field in the next session. The batsmen who are going out to bat would generally just have a protein bar or a banana or some other fruit because a stomach filled with food won’t help them on the field. Everything they eat is low on fat and high on carbohydrates.

The food served to the players is of course, very high on nutritional value and is prepared by the best chefs from around the globe.

And because a Test match lasts five days, it’s important to replenish the nutrients in the body after the close of a day’s play. To replace the fluids and carbohydrates lost, they usually have a sandwich or a yogurt or some other carbohydrate-heavy meal within one hour of the play’s end.

Thanks Matlab bharpet khaana hai to lunch se pehle out hona hoga

Update from the England camp: "Joe Root sustained an external blow to his right little finger, attempting a slip catch in the first session of D3. The England medical team will keep him off the field for the time being to treat and ice. At this stage, there is no indication of when he will return to the field."

Gill 6,4,4

END OF OVER 41

14 runs

IND: 165/4

CRR: 4.02

Shubman Gill

82 (97)

AR Patel

14 (30)

Rehan Ahmed

11-2-49-1

JM Anderson

10-1-28-2

Originally posted by: SlatePencil

Ab Bumrah batting bhi kare

Cheers..

Good, they started scoring singles to move the score board.

43

Runs Scored: 6

1 1 1 1 1 1

Score after 43 overs

IND 172-4

Shubman Gill

86(102)

Axar Patel

18(37)

Rehan Ahmed

12-2-55-1

END OF OVER 51

6 runs

IND: 198/4

CRR: 3.88

Axar Patel

33 (59b 4x4)

Shubman Gill

97 (128b 11x4 2x6)

Tom Hartley

16-0-64-1

Shoaib Bashir

11-0-49-0

Drinks on the field.

Congratulations to Shubhman Gill for his much needed and long awaited century.

Finally Shubhman scores.

END OF OVER 53

2 runs

IND: 203/4

CRR: 3.83

Axar Patel

33 (64b 4x4)

Shubman Gill

101 (136b 11x4 2x6)

Tom Hartley

17-0-66-1

Shoaib Bashir

12-0-52-0