CRICKET
Method
Ingredients
2. Top with lemonade, Sprite or 7 Up (or you can go the other way by topping up the juice of one lime with Fanta or Mirinda orange)
Orange squash – ¼ of a glass Lemonade, Sprite or 7 Up Lime slices and sprigs of mint
1. Pour the orange squash into a tall glass
3. Garnish with lime slices and a sprig of mint 4. Serve chilled
Quick Bytes ▪ At the Madras Gymkhana Club, the drink ‘Cricket’ is also known as ‘Ghost’.
Photo Courtesy india immersion centre
▪ Like most things in India, food plays a major role in cricket, in the form of brand endorsements! A majority of Indian cricketers endorse food products like energy drink, Boost, Pepsi, Sunfeast, Britannia, 7 Up, and Kissan Jam.
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▪ Other food connects are the hotels and restaurants several Indian cricketers successfully run in the country. Some of the most popular are Sachin Tendulkar’s ‘Sachin’s’ and ‘Tendulkar’s’ in Mumbai, Saurav Ganguly’s ‘Saurav’s Food Pavillion’ in Kolkata, Zaheer Khan’s ‘ZK’s’ in Pune, Kapil Dev’s boutique hotel in Chandigarh, ‘Kaptain’s Retreat’, and Sreeshanth’s and Robin Uttappa’s home stay hotel in Bengaluru, ‘Bat and Ball Inn’.