The players took an ice bath to fight off the fatigue post their winning performance against the West Indies.
India cricket team (Photo: Twitter/@sachin_rt)
After an extremely tiring day on the field on Sunday at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, the members of the winning Indian cricket team took the act of ‘Cooling off’ in an actual way.
The players took an ice bath to fight off the fatigue post their winning performance against the West Indies.
Indian trainer Shanker Basu, in a video posted by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on their official Twitter page, took the fans through the process. Basu also explained in the video that this schedule has been followed by the players for quite some time now.
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“Behind the scenes: Recovery, the ice bath way. After a long, hot day on the field, how do some players recover and cool off? ” BCCI captioned the video on the micro-blogging site.
Behind the scenes: Recovery, the ice bath way
After a long, hot day on the field, how do some players recover and cool off? 🛁🛁
Find out here – https://t.co/wzOIDO5Acz – by @28anand pic.twitter.com/vjhXuYAOv2
— BCCI (@BCCI) October 14, 2018
Explaining the motive behind ice bath, Basu said, “The importance of ice bath, there have been many papers written on it and there are many modes of recovery. We have over a period of time fine-tuned a few things for our team. There are certain guys who never go for the ice bath while certain guys love it. It all depends on results. In the sub-continent, the ice bath does work.”
When the video showed vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane, who is fondly called Jinx, taking the ice bath, Basu said, “Jinx is an unbelievably hardworking freak. He is after us (trainers). At times I have to stop him from working hard.”
Speaking about why he likes taking ice bath after the match, Rahane said, “When you come back after fielding for 90 overs, the ice bath helps in recovery. Basically, it helps maintain your body temperature and the stiffness goes. It helps in quick recovery and that is why I prefer the ice bath.”
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