Should there be toasted sandwich breaks in cricket matches?
The world of cricket is changing and not just because of COVID.
A report in the Sydney Morning Herald about the Australian cricket coach Justin Langer noted Langer as saying that in the recent Australia v India Test in Brisbane (which Australia lost) he had to have a discussion with a player about taking a toasted sandwich onto the field of play in his pocket.
‘During the Brisbane Test Langer ordered a player not to persist with a habit of jamming a toasted sandwich in his pocket to eat on the field’. Sydney Morning Herald
A wider discussion on social media included Test Match Special commentator (and beard wearer) Daniel Norcross
The whole shape of the cricketing day might be about to change. Not just lunch and tea breaks. We could have scheduled toastie breaks, and maybe pause for macarons after 67 overs have been bowled. @danielnorcross
His point was that cricket is a social and collective activity as eating should be, and more short breaks in the game might not be such a bad thing given the often elongated playing times (due to slow over rates) that now feature regularly.
It might of course be not that healthy but then traditionally cricket was a game that often featured the portly…
Gentlemen’s Relish sandwiches, or (if you are Shula Archer-Hebden Llloyd) spam sarnies?