WATCH: KL Rahul shares Team India’s training routine before match day during Cricket World Cup 2019

Gurpreet Singh | 05/07/2019
WATCH: KL Rahul shares Team India's training routine before match day during Cricket World Cup 2019

KL Rahul shares Team India’s training routine before match day during the World Cup; also gives a sneak-peak into the team’s dressing room

Team India have comfortably booked their place in the semi-finals of the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 after they defeated Bangladesh by 28 runs at Edgbaston. They will either face England or New Zealand in the semis, which will be disclosed after both India and Australia play their final league matches against Sri Lanka and South Africa respectively.

ALSO READ: MS Dhoni thumb injury update

However, before India play its match versus Sri Lanka on Saturday, Team India’s opening batsman KL Rahul has come up with a video wherein he is seen sharing the training routine of the team, on the day before a match in the ongoing World Cup.

KL Rahul takes fans through to India’s dressing room

On behalf of the BCCI, Rahul turned into a host and provided the fans with all the training intricacies while finally wrapping it up by providing a sneak-peak into the Indian Team dressing room.

In the video produced by Rajal Arora (BCCI’s senior producer), KL first-up talked through the preparations undertaken by the players before a match day- which vary from individual to individual.

Players decide as to how they would warm-up initially and then based on their skills (batting or bowling) the batting coach (Sanjay Bangar) decides as to who would bat at which order, and the bowling coach (Bharat Arun) works on the skill sets they (players) decide to work on that day.

After the net sessions are over, the team switches over to the fielding prospect of the game. Fielding coach (R.Sridhar) organizes some fielding drills on the very ground the match would take place the next day, as conditions are different for different grounds.

“Guys like to take it easy”-Rahul

He further added that after the practice session is over, the fitness coach (Shankar Basu) and the masseur takes care of the fitness prospects along with providing massages on the problematic areas.

All in all, the players like to take it easy, as they wish to start their day afresh both physically and (more) mentally. Before signing-off, he provided a sneak-peak into the dressing room- which clearly looked messy although he assured that it remains clean on the day of the match.

WATCH: KL Rahul shares Team India’s training routine before match day

Post Edited By: Gurpreet Singh
icc cricket world cup 2019 India dressing room KL Rahul Team India

About the author

Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.

Don’t miss these