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Virat Kohli said once that he felt like eating bedsheets. "I was craving taste." Such was the strictiness of his dietary regimen when he was transforming into the fitness freak he is now.

It can't be easy being a cricketer today - travelling non-stop, living out of suitcases and in innumerable hotel rooms, and having to stay in peak physical shape in all that time. For overseas players in the IPL, it's even tougher - months of foreign food, foreign conditions, and being besieged as a celebrity. Your hotel room becomes your home away from home.