Tammy Beaumont says pickle juice is the key to her success towards Australia
England batter Tammy Beaumont has revealed the key behind her exceptional longevity throughout her record-breaking innings towards Australia final week – pickle juice.
Beaumont, 32, drank the juice to beat cramp in her hand throughout a mammoth innings which lasted greater than eight hours.
She was finally out for 208, the very best rating for England by a lady.
“It was disgusting,” she instructed the Tailenders podcast.
Beaumont’s mammoth innings lasted 331 balls, that includes 27 fours, as she turn out to be simply the eighth participant to attain a double hundred in girls’s cricket.
However her efforts had been very almost derailed by the cramp in her hand.
“If I’ve batted for a very long time it goes like an precise claw,” mentioned Beaumont.
“I’ve to actually straighten out my fingers, drink some disgusting pickle juice and attempt to go once more. As a result of as soon as it begins it occurs each couple of overs for the remainder of the day.”
Nevertheless, Beaumont has endured an excellent worse expertise with pickle juice after consuming the “flawed” kind in a match final yr.
“There’s two differing types. One you swallow, the opposite is swill round and spit out,” she added.
“It began at a match final yr so Katherine Sciver-Brunt brings it out to the center, I did not comprehend it was the one you are supposed to spit out.
“So I’ve swilled it round and swallowed it and she or he was like ‘what are you doing?’
“It tasted like acid. It was horrible.”
It tastes unhealthy… however does it truly work?
Pickle juice is commonly utilized by athletes to cope with cramp, together with in Australian guidelines soccer
In a phrase: Sure.
Dr Mayur Ranchordas – a senior lecturer in sport diet and train metabolism at Sheffield Hallam College – has used the drink with skilled cyclists and Premier League footballers.
And whereas, he says, the outcomes are compelling, it’s not essentially for the explanations you would possibly initially anticipate.
“Pickle juice comprises sodium, potassium and vinegar and the apparent…
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