What are England’s players eating during their Ashes tour down under? Their chef during the time they play warm-ups against England Lions is dishing out some pretty delicious meals, it looks like, starting with some sandwiches for afternoon tea.<\/p>\n
“Today we had gnocchi, potatoes, pumpkin, says chef Rob, who is a club cricketer himself. “We do a chicken dish, which today was a Portuguese chicken. And we always do a fish dish – I’ve got a guy who delivers fish to me. He heads to the market in the morning. He delivers my fish to me around about nine o’clock, so generally I don’t know what I’m getting until he arrives.”<\/p>\n
It’s been long days on his feet for Rob, who has to feed up to 80 people a day, including England and Lions players, umpires, scorers and other staff. “Bought 1200 plates when I first arrived. I’ve got 125 left.”<\/p>\n
All this is making us hungry!<\/p>\n
“Banana bread, I’m going through four banana bread a day. Fruit, bananas I probably go through 60 or 70 a day.<\/p>\n
“Seeing someone like Joe Root. These guys are just, they’re the rock stars of cricket. So you’ve got to be in order of them.<\/p>\n
“I’m out of the house by six. And then I’m usually here before seven. Twelve hours is a normal day. Don’t get a lot of time unfortunately to watch cricket. Don’t get a lot of time to sit down.”<\/p>\n
On their 2022-23 tour of Pakistan, England travelled with a chef<\/a> after getting feedback from players that the catering at some of the match venues was not up to scratch. And during their 2013-2014 tour of Australia, England published a cookbook<\/a> detailing the dietary requirements of their players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What are England’s players eating during their Ashes tour down under? Their chef during the time they play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-271431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}