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General Cricket => Your Cricket => Topic started by: kenbriooo on May 23, 2013, 02:27:09 PM
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So I was wondering what everybody has as part of their pre match food routine. Is it as simple as anything left in the fridge including last nights left over kebab (I know for some this may seem odd for differing reasons!), or have you planned your food to give you the best nutritional boost you can.
Hopefully we can share some tips with each other to help, I know I'd certainly like some as I tend to be traveling over that lunch period and I know I should be eating something better before playing.
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So I was wondering what everybody has as part of their pre match food routine. Is it as simple as anything left in the fridge including last nights left over kebab (I know for some this may seem odd for differing reasons!), or have you planned your food to give you the best nutritional boost you can.
Hopefully we can share some tips with each other to help, I know I'd certainly like some as I tend to be traveling over that lunch period and I know I should be eating something better before playing.
I always used to travel, so I got into the habit of making a packed lunch and eating it in the car on the way ( I was travelling for ~1 hr to play). That way I got what I wanted and it all worked out nicely.
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Usually get a sandwich and a banana from sainsbury's or co op on the way to the club. Have the sandwich when I get there and the banana just before the game starts
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usually nothing untill we get to cricket field.
then are opening bowler goes to the local chippy and gets the chip buttys in!
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usually nothing untill we get to cricket field.
then are opening bowler goes to the local chippy and gets the chip buttys in!
'Oh Lordy' sounds like something out of the Beano/Dandy/Viz.....
Bananas pre-match - Haribo mid-way through....
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Porridge for breakfast and Pasta for lunch.
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Porridge for breakfast and Pasta for lunch.
So you carb load as if you were running a marathon, then sit around waiting to bat and hang around in the slips for 30 overs?
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Weetabix...
If call at the bank to collect my match fees, then its next to a greggs. Sandwich and Vanilla slice!
Steady 50 and 5 for then liquid tea!
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So you carb load as if you were running a marathon, then sit around waiting to bat and hang around in the slips for 30 overs?
Haha nobody trusts Nick in the slips!
Averaging over 50 this season so my KFC pre match meals must be working!
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Pre match food seems to be a possible McDonalds breakfast when travelling to away games if people fancy it!
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At home Penut butter on toast, bread so thick it has to go under the grill.
Maybe take a banana or 2 to the game to eat before
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So you carb load as if you were running a marathon, then sit around waiting to bat and hang around in the slips for 30 overs?
I was thinking that, odd choice!
Omlette with spinach and peppers for breakfast, covered with half a bottle of tobasco :)
Then banana and a swift half on the way to the ground #athlete
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Omlette with spinach and peppers for breakfast, covered with half a bottle of tobasco :)
Then banana and a swift half on the way to the ground #athlete
Farting to put off the keeper/batsman then?
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My stomach is used to the spice these days mate and eggs never been a problem ;)
I tried to play after a maccies one day, every time I crouched whilst keeping, felt like I was still chewing it. Horrible
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Whatever's in the fridge from the night/week before with the chance of a bought sandwich and bag of crisps from the shop on the way to the ground if I don't find anything I like the look of :D
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Before my best ever score I had an omelette, nothing special I hear you say but one egg was a double yoker and the other which I've never seen was a triple yoker! The odds on a double yoker are 1-1000 the odds of a tripple yoker are 1-1billion. Those odds were only bettered by my odds on a ton!
Shoulda bought a lottery ticket that night!
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So you carb load as if you were running a marathon, then sit around waiting to bat and hang around in the slips for 30 overs?
Hardly carb loading as I'm not consuming more than a small bowl of each several hours apart. Seem to be getting plenty of batting and bowling at the moment, so burning it off isn't a problem. Found in the past that not eating and drinking enough before a game is more of a problem.
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I was thinking that, odd choice!
Omlette with spinach and peppers for breakfast, covered with half a bottle of tobasco :)
Then banana and a swift half on the way to the ground #athlete
haha no wonder you are so fit :)
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I try my best with what I've got pal haha :) Still makes me an average cricketer....
All about the protein fella ;)
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For morning 25-overs game, I usually eat a bagel before I head to ground and that is sufficient.
However, last week due to me waking up late I was in rush so I had two slices of Pizza which was left over from night.
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Banana at the most and one bottle of some energy drink like Gatorade etc - the low sugar version though
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Bacon Sarnie every gameday morning.
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Bacon Sarnie every gameday morning.
Can't beat a bacon buttie as pre game fuel
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Banana smoothie pre match. Half before I bat and half before I bowl. If its a noon game I'll have an omlette and sweet potatoes for breakfast.
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salmon on a saturday morning ( nice one grandma ) ... if not then tends to be something horrific from the co op . nobody likes egg and tuna !
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Think I'm gonna go for cornflakes tomorrow morning followed by an omelette for lunch with a banana before I leave. I'm looking forward to tomorrow's game as its only 5 minutes from my house compared to my home games that are 45 minutes away!
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brown rice, mince meat mixed in with some green beans and grilled chicken!!
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We meet at around 8am for every away game in Wetherspoons and have a large breakfast!
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Our team have arranged a pre match pub lunch tomorrow...I shall report back on how this affects team performance!
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Our team have arranged a pre match pub lunch tomorrow...I shall report back on how this affects team performance!
And....
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Our games start at 11, so we get to the ground for around 9-9.30 or so. A while back we used to just go for a Full English breakfast at the local Toby Carvery. All you can eat, and doing your warm up at 9.30 don't go well together that's for sure!
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Always head for the local cafe and have a full english. Sorts you out until tea for sure!
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doner kebab the flintoff way