In some of the recent reports of Sports Tak, Team India has witnessed some restrictions in their dietary plans as pork and beef will not be allowed in any form and includes only halal-certified meat will be allowed. The new diet plan was drawn up after the humiliating performance of the Indian cricket team in the recently concluded T-20 International World Cup, where India could not qualify for the semis for the first time since its inception in 2007.
Following their embarrassing exit from the T20 World Cup and after Rahul Dravid became the head coach, with Rohit Sharma leading the team, the Indian players have been asked to follow a strict diet plan, which entails the exclusion of pork and beef in any form, which will aim to keep the team fit and healthy. They have been reportedly instructed that those who wished to have meat, can consume only halal-certified meat, with a complete ban on consuming any form of meat.
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The main aim of dietary restrictions will be to keep the players healthy for important series and upcoming International Cricket Council (ICC) tournaments. The management wants to ensure that the cricketer doesn’t put on unnecessary pounds or develop a healthy waistline before any important series or event, which will have inevitable effects on the field.
The report said some players are finding it difficult to maintain the intensity as they are playing non-stop cricket across the formats and are living in unyielding bio-bubble protocols. With other mandates, the players now need to be extra cautious with their eating habits as well, especially, those players who like consuming meat products on a daily basis, as the new dietary plan would impose many restrictions on what they consume.
The new dietary plan followed by the Indian team is profoundly disturbing, given that it lays emphasis on consuming only halal-certified meat products. Halal can only be consumed by Muslim people and hence, it implies that non-Muslims can’t consume meat from Halal firms.
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The Department of Halal Certification of the European Union makes it even more clear that employment opportunities at a Halal firm will be exclusively available to Muslims. It states, “Slaughtering must be done by a sane adult Muslim. Animals slaughtered by a Non-Muslim will not be Halal. The name of Allah must be invoked (mentioned) at the time of slaughtering by saying: Bismillah Allahu Akbar. (In the Name of Allah; Allah is the Greatest.) If at the time of slaughtering the name of anyone else other than Allah is invoked (i.e. animal sacrificed for him/her), then the meat becomes Haram “unlawful.””
