{"id":5323,"date":"2025-07-19T07:50:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/5323\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T07:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T07:50:20","slug":"chicken-or-fish-tea-or-coffee-what-do-cricketers-eat-and-drink-during-breaks-in-test-cricket-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/5323\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken or fish? Tea or coffee? What do cricketers eat and drink during breaks in Test cricket | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/122778837.jpg\" alt=\"Chicken or fish? Tea or coffee? What do cricketers eat and drink during breaks in Test cricket\" title=\"Ollie Pope and Lord's menu\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Ollie Pope and Lord&#8217;s menu England\u2019s top-order batter <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ollie-pope\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ollie Pope<\/a> has offered fans a rare peek into what players consume during the much-discussed lunch and tea breaks in Test cricket. Speaking to Sky Sports, Pope revealed that players&#8217; eating habits vary significantly depending on whether they\u2019re out in the middle or not.<\/p>\n<p>After Lord\u2019s heartbreak, Team India start training for Manchester, in London!<\/p>\n<p>Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@toisports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" target=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">SUBSCRIBE NOW!<\/a>&#8220;Generally like chicken, fish, maybe some steak with pasta, trying to fuel up as much as you can,&#8221; Pope said, describing a typical lunch spread. &#8220;For me, if I am batting though, I don\u2019t actually eat a lot at all, just because of some reason your body just doesn\u2019t want to get too much in.&#8221;Instead of a heavy lunch, Pope prefers to keep it simple when batting through the day. &#8220;So I have a protein shake and a banana. If I am batting all day, then I will get to the end of the day barely having eaten a thing, just because it\u2019s quite hard to get it in, so you fuel up at the end of the day,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>What do you think is the most important meal for cricketers during a Test match?<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the traditional \u2018Tea break\u2019 &#8211; a uniquely British part of Test cricket &#8211; Pope admitted that it\u2019s not always about sipping tea.&#8221;Some do [prefer taking tea],&#8221; he said. &#8220;I normally have coffee. Sometimes, a cup of tea when it\u2019s a rain delay or something.&#8221;Pope&#8217;s 106 at Headingley helped the hosts draw first blood against India, but he has since struggled to convert starts, with a composed 44 in the first innings at Lord\u2019s being his next best.England currently lead the five-match series 2-1 after a thrilling 22-run victory at Lord\u2019s, with the action set to resume at Old Trafford for the fourth Test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ollie Pope and Lord&#8217;s menu England\u2019s top-order batter Ollie Pope has offered fans a rare peek into what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,7193,7190,7191,7196,7192,85,7195,7194],"class_list":["post-5323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-series-india-vs-england","tag-cricketers-diet-during-test-cricket","tag-england-cricket-team","tag-ollie-pope","tag-ollie-pope-lunch-and-tea-breaks","tag-sports","tag-test-cricket-tea-break","tag-what-do-cricketers-eat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}