The good side of staying in bio-bubbles as far as cricket is concerned is that when the players have nowhere to go or no one to meet outside, the team becomes all the more important and the players get the time to know each other well, especially in the Indian Premier League (IPL) where the players belong to different countries, different backgrounds and cultures.

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There are several team bonding sessions, birthdays are celebrated together, recreational activities are done together. One such instance took place in the Rajasthan Royals camp on April 20 on their opening batsman Jos Buttler's daughter Georgia's birthday as she turned two.

During the celebrations, the whole team sat at a round table playing the very popular passing the parcels game where the members will pass an object to their adjacent person and the one which has the object when the music stops has to perform an activity written in the chits.

Thus at one point in the game, the music stopped and the all-rounder Rahul Tewatia had the parcel. The chit which he picked said he had to propose a water bottle. At first hesitant, Tewatia went on to perform the task and left everyone in splits. 

First, he said looking at the small bottle, "You are so beautiful." After which, the bottle ended up getting kissed by Tewatia and everyone was in splits again.

The activity included a few tasks from David Miller, team manager Romi Bhinder and a couple of more players.