Cricket is a long game with various requirements: explosive power, speed, agility, strength and recovery speed. All of these factors are heavily influenced by what you eat.

Food is fuel and if you fuel your body right it will keep you at the optimum level for playing cricket.

While you don't need special supplements or diets to maintain good cricket nutrition, you do need to know what works best. Here I have collected together all my tips on what to eat to make you a better player.

Nutrition Basics

• What do cricket players eat and drink?
• Why you need to drink more than squash.
• Why is food important for cricket?
• What should you have for tea?
• What to eat on match days.
• How to balance your diet for cricket.
• Can vegetarians play cricket?
• How nutrition can stop fatigue on the cricket pitch.
• Timing your cricket nutrition
• How your teatime cuppa can improve your cricket.
• Is there a magic bullet to fast cricket nutrition?
• 7 Essential cricket foods.
• Should cricketers load up on carbs for extra energy?
• Good Carb, Bad Carb: A cricketers guide to carbohydrates.
• How a low fat diet means lower cricket performance.
• What cricket can learn from Dr Atkins and his diet.

Weight Control

• Why it's not OK to be a fat cricketer.
• 8 Days to better nutrition.
• 5 ways to lose weight in time for the cricket season.
• Fool your metabolism for better cricket.
• 5 Weight loss tips for chunky cricketers
• 10 Keys to fast fitness for cricket (including weight loss tips).

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