What do cricketers eat during a lunch break?

 Breakfast: Cereals, muesli, fruits, juices, milk, eggs (scrambled, omelette), bread, idli, pasta, sprouts.

Lunch: Usually lunch consists of roasted chicken, lamb, paneer etc. with lots of soups, butter, cheese, fruits and boiled vegetables.

Tea: During tea breaks, players can have tea / coffee. But, if a team is playing in Indian subcontinent during summers, players take energy or sports drinks to keep themselves hydrated. These drinks contain potassium, sodium, fat etc.

Dinner: After match, players take some recovery drinks. Dinner consists of protein rich food like chicken, fish barbecue with salads and soups.

Indian cricketer Nayan Mongia was asked the same about it, he said “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.”

What are some lesser known facts about Indian cricketers?

 Virender Sehwag is generally never afraid to face a bowler but once the man did not want to take first strike due to superstition

This happened long back around 2004, test series between India and Pakistan.

The series was drawn 1-1 and the decider was in Rawalpindi. Pakistan were bowled out for 224 and Parthiv was told he would open with Sehwag.

The teenager was barely a couple of years old on the international scene and certainly did not want to do so, but the captain Sourav Ganguly had said so and Dada's word was law.

Now Sehwag was in great form with scores of 309 and 90 in the first two Tests. Parthiv begged him to take first strike but Sehwag felt he would get out first ball if he did so was not willing.

After a lot of begging, Parthiv convinced the dashing opener to face the first ball. Wonder of wonders!

Now imagine what happened? Yes, you are right, ace seamer Shoaib Akhtar came steaming in and sent his man to the pavilion!

Patel said he could not believe his eyes and realised he was in great trouble. He even thought that this would end his cricketing career.

Luckily Parthiv battled his demons to make 69 and India piled up 600. They won by an innings and 131 runs inside 4 days to clinch the series 2-1

The victory gave India its first Test series win on Pakistani soil. However, even today, when Patel recalls the moment, he wonders that how a batsman of such stature could buckle under the pressure of something called superstition

What are the secrets that cricketers shared?

 Umesh Yadav:

Born, October 25, 1987, Umesh Kumar Tilak Yadav is an Indian cricketer, who represents Vidarbha in domestic cricket. Yadav got the ticket to the Indian team quite early as he had only two years’ experience in First-Class cricket, when he was selected for the team and made his debut in 2009.

1. His father, was a worker in a coalmine .Umesh has two elder brothers and his father never wanted any of his sons to work in coalmine.

2. Umesh is one of those Indian cricketers, who never took studies seriously. After completing his HSC, he gave up studies but not for cricket. He quit studies simply because he had no interest in studying further.

3. After quitting studies, Yadav’s first aim was to get selected in Indian Army and serve the nation. But he was rejected, as he was destined for something else.

4. After getting rejected from Army, he tried his hands at becoming a police constable but narrowly missed out on that too. In the physical examination, he scored above 90 out of 100 and in the personal exam; he was not selected because of two points. Like other teenage boys, he too had no clue as to what to do further in his life.

5. He also used to play tennis ball cricket. He was a good fast bowler with tennis balls and once he even got a Man of the Series award; a cash prize of somewhere around Rs 10,000. He also tried to get into a college team on the basis of his performance in local tournaments, but didn’t get any chance as he never represented any club.

6. After getting rejected from college, Army and Police, He signed up for Vidarbha Gymkhana. As he did not have spikes, he was forced to play with a pair of shoes that had studs on their soles. He took three wickets for 37 runs in his 10-over spell. Soon his name became quite famous in Vidarbha region and as the word travelled fast, an official was sent from Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) to watch him bowl in a Twenty20 game. Yadav bowled a lot of yorkers in the death and got two-three batsmen bowled.

7. Soon Yadav was picked by VCA and tested in the semi-finals of inter-district three-day tournament in Amravati. The then Vidarbha captain Pritam Gandhe helped him play for Air India in a T20 tournament in Mumbai. Amidst all this, his father wanted him to get a degree in commerce but he couldn’t as he was busy playing.

After returning from Mumbai, Yadav was among the 30 probables for the Vidarbha Ranji squad. It was Gandhe who wanted Yadav in his team at any cost and got him selected him in his final 15.

8. There is an interesting story behind his Ranji Debut. Even after getting selected in the final 15, it was quite difficult for Gandhe to play Umesh as the pitch for the opening match of the 2008-09 season against Madhya Pradesh at Indore was perceived to be slow and only two fast bowlers were supposed to play and of course, Yadav was not one of them as he had no experience of playing in the domestic circuit.

But then Gandhe decided to play him at the expense of a batsman. Yadav repaid his captain’s faith and took four wickets for 72 runs in the first innings of the match. Though Vidarbha lost the match but they had found a new gem in Yadav, who became a First-Class cricketer barely a month after he started playing with the leather balls.

9.Yadav got married in 2013 to a girl named Tanya after a courtship of three years. Tanya is a fashion designer by profession. Both met during an IPL match and she is fond of cricket.

source:http://www.criclife.com/lists/chronicles/umesh-yadav-15-interesting-things-to-know-about-one-of-indias-fastest-bowlers-54868

What makes Virender Sehwag different from other cricketers of the world?

• Scoring 100 before team score reaches 150
• Only man to start innings with boundary for 28 times
• 25 times this Delhi nawab reached 100/200/300 by six or four
• No one dares to hit six on 295 but viru does it
• Need guts to deny single on 199 when you are playing with last batsmen
• Century in maiden first class match batting at no. 7 and also maiden test century at no. 6
• After cricket,hitting sixes and fours on Twitter

What are some lesser known facts about Indian cricketers?

 KL RAHUL

1. He became the first Indian to score a century on one day international debut.
2. He is also the second fastest batsman to score century in T20.
3. Rahul is the only batsman to reach the score of 100 with a boundary on his maiden centuries in all the three formats of International cricket.

GAMBHIR

1. Gambhir is the only Indian and one of four international cricketers to have scored hundreds in five consecutive Test matches.
2. He is the only Indian batsman to have scored more than 300 runs in four consecutive Test series.
3. He captained Indian team in six odi’s and won all matches.
4. He holds the record of most number of ducks in IPL along with harbhajan singh.

PUJARA

1. Most balls faced by an Indian in a test innings-525.
2. Pujara passed 2,000 runs in a year. He has scored 2,043 runs at 102.15 in first class matches in 2013. Only Chris Rogers with 2,391 runs at 48.79 from 28 matches has made more in 2013.

SEHWAG

1.Fastest Test triple century

2.Only cricketer in the Test history to score two triple centuries & to take five wickets in an innings

3.Sehwag & Graham Gooch are the only batsmen to make more than 60% of the team's runs while carrying bat through a completed Test innings

4.Highest score by a Captain in the ODI innings (219)

IRFAN PATHAN

• Irfan Pathan holds the World record for the double – 1000 runs and 100 wickets in the quickest time in an ODI career. It took him 1059 days.
• He is the fastest Indian ODI player to reach the 100 wicket milestone (in 59 matches)
• He also took a hattrick in the very first over of a test match.

RAVI SHASTRI and VINOO MANKAD have batted in every position

Vinoo mankad is best known for his world record setting opening partnership of 413 runs, with Pankaj, in 1956, a record that stood for 52 years.

SACHIN TENDULKAR

1. Sachin has never touched a century mark in Tests or ODIs at Lord’s, England.(LORD ‘S LOSS)
2. Sachin is the only Indian cricketer to have a waxwork at Madame Tussaud’s wax museum.
3. Sourav Ganguly won four consecutive man of the match awards in odi's
4. Yuvraj holds the record for a fifty and a fifer in the same match in WC
5. Rahul dravid played only one twenty20 international in which he hit three consecutive sixes which happens to be his last game too
6. Virender sehwag is the first twenty20 captain of India. This happens to be Sachin only T20 match in which he scored 10 runs.
7. Sachin once fielded for Pakistan.there was a match between India and Pakistan which got washed out due to rain .so they held a exhibition match to satisfy the crowd.
8. Virat Kohli is the first Indian player to hit a century against pakistan in world cups.
9. Chahal is the only Indian bowler to have taken a fifer in T20 internationals.
10. Rohit Sharma holds the record for most number of runs in a single innings.he scored 264 against srilanka ( I have described abt it in one of my answers)
11. Bhubaneswar kumar is the only Indian to have taken a wicket in his very first over in his debut in odi and t20 . No wonder he got Master blaster out for duck in Ranji trophy
12. Kapil dev once bowled 30 overs spell without a break picking up nine wickets in that innings

Will add more if anybody asks .Thank u for upvotes frds

1.Sourav Ganguly have won four consecutive man of the match awards

2. Ms Dhoni don't have a century outside Asia

3. In IPL,amit Mishra has three hattricks to his name while yuvraj has two.

3. Jaydev unadkat and James Faulkner are the only bowlers in IPL to have taken two five wicket hauls.

4. Shikhar dhawan holds the record for fastest century in debut test.he did it in 87 balls and scored 187 runs .

5. Sehwag is a fearless cricketer.everyone knows it. He hit boundaries in the very first ball for five matches in 2011 WC.

6. Stuart binny holds the best figures for an Indian bowler in one day internationals.he picked up six wickets for four runs against Bangladesh.

Which cricketers never got the credit they deserved?

 Who is best Captain you know ?

Pointing? Fleming ? Dhoni ? Ganguly ?

You may say either of these mostly (Maybe Clive Lyod, Mark Taylor or Martin crowe if you are old generation cricket fan)

But most of them forget that there was another guy who deserved to be in Elite Category of Captains

The guy is none other than ,

Graeme Smith!

(He is guy who is never is credited as much as he should be getting for both Batting and Captaincy)

He was handed the Captaincy at 22 - which made him his country's youngest captain and he was tasked with restoring the faith of his countrymen by becoming The successor of Hansie Cronje in Leading the Team . He , took over the reigns from Shaun Pollock after the 2003 World Cup and immediately set about rebuilding the side

He debuted Vs the best team of that time - Australia,

The bowlers were Mcgrath , Gillespie , Lee and Warne!

He played two gritty knocks in his 1st 2 matches

Scored a 60 and a 40 vs Aussies !

Then What he did was something unimaginable,

Smashed 2 consecutive double tons on English soil in tests !

His Dedication can be seen by the fact when he came out to bat,even with a broken hand against Australia to save a test match

His Captaincy record was great too , he build a great team which went onto become of the best Teams in world

Stats :

(In tests )

Has an win percentage of over 50 even after Captaining for over 110 matches!

In batting he was too good as well , He had 9,200 runs at 48 avg

Infact Only Gavaskar (among opening batsmen ) has scored more runs and has better average than Smith

( In ODI )

Captained for 150 Matches and has win percentage of over 65 !

His batting Average too was over 40 which is great for a opener. Also he was quite versatile his 90 runs of 55 balls in the Famous Chase vs Aus is proof of that

( In T20i )

In T20i too he was good and had an batting average of 31 and SR of over 130

He also has win percentage of 67 in T20i !

Facts :

• During his career (almost entirely as captain) Smith has led South Africa to 21 run-chases. He has scored 1,114 runs in these fourth innings (nobody else has scored over a thousand) at an average of 85.69. But that is not all , he also has a strike rate of 69.02 in these innings (his career strike-rate is 59.62).
• He has most Test wins as captain
• He has also scored most runs as Captain in Tests !

What are some epic lines said for cricketers?

“When Sir Vivian Richards retired I thought it was an end of the entertainment, but then he came, The King of the entertainment.”-Rameez Raja

Yes you guessed it right he is none other than VIRENDER SEHWAG.

“I would always have Sehwag in my team because I want to watch him bat ,not bowl to him”- Shane Warne

“player like sehwag bring crowd back to test cricket”- Kapil Dev

“He destroys even the most experienced bowler if he stays more than 10 overs”-Srikanth

here comes God’s wish

“I have learnt from Sehwag how to play in nervous 90”-Sachin

last but not least-

“He is ghajni of cricket, he forgets about the format he is playing”-Vikram Sathaye

Source: Google 

Which cricketers never got the credit they deserved?

 Who is best Captain you know ?

Pointing? Fleming ? Dhoni ? Ganguly ?

You may say either of these mostly (Maybe Clive Lyod, Mark Taylor or Martin crowe if you are old generation cricket fan)

But most of them forget that there was another guy who deserved to be in Elite Category of Captains

The guy is none other than ,

Graeme Smith!

(He is guy who is never is credited as much as he should be getting for both Batting and Captaincy)

He was handed the Captaincy at 22 - which made him his country's youngest captain and he was tasked with restoring the faith of his countrymen by becoming The successor of Hansie Cronje in Leading the Team . He , took over the reigns from Shaun Pollock after the 2003 World Cup and immediately set about rebuilding the side

He debuted Vs the best team of that time - Australia,

The bowlers were Mcgrath , Gillespie , Lee and Warne!

He played two gritty knocks in his 1st 2 matches

Scored a 60 and a 40 vs Aussies !

Then What he did was something unimaginable,

Smashed 2 consecutive double tons on English soil in tests !

His Dedication can be seen by the fact when he came out to bat,even with a broken hand against Australia to save a test match

His Captaincy record was great too , he build a great team which went onto become of the best Teams in world

Stats :

(In tests )

Has an win percentage of over 50 even after Captaining for over 110 matches!

In batting he was too good as well , He had 9,200 runs at 48 avg

Infact Only Gavaskar (among opening batsmen ) has scored more runs and has better average than Smith

( In ODI )

Captained for 150 Matches and has win percentage of over 65 !

His batting Average too was over 40 which is great for a opener. Also he was quite versatile his 90 runs of 55 balls in the Famous Chase vs Aus is proof of that

( In T20i )

In T20i too he was good and had an batting average of 31 and SR of over 130

He also has win percentage of 67 in T20i !

Facts :

• During his career (almost entirely as captain) Smith has led South Africa to 21 run-chases. He has scored 1,114 runs in these fourth innings (nobody else has scored over a thousand) at an average of 85.69. But that is not all , he also has a strike rate of 69.02 in these innings (his career strike-rate is 59.62).
• He has most Test wins as captain
• He has also scored most runs as Captain in Tests !