The cricket world has been graced by many impressive jerseys, from Sri Lanka’s recycled jerseys made from plastic waste to an Indo-Pak couple wearing half-and-half jerseys while watching a match. But with the unveiling of Team India’s new jersey, fans are left quite upset.
The Indian-Australian ODI series has started today in Sydney. In it, the Indian players would be donning a new jersey based on a ‘retro’ theme. Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan took to Twitter to give a new glimpse of it. Check it out:
New jersey, renewed motivation. Ready to go. 🇮🇳 pic.twitter.com/gKG9gS78th
— Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25) November 24, 2020
However, what has irked many cricket fans is the presence of too many sponsored logos on the new jersey. The massive ad placements are making people compare the team jersey to a brand-centric billboard or an advertisement banner.
Annoyed tweeple slammed BCCI when they asked followers to retweet the post if they liked the new look of the jersey:
How many retweets for #TeamIndia's retro kit?#AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/R4E7063bQn
— BCCI (@BCCI) November 27, 2020
@BCCI @BYJUS I beg you to change the Team India jersey so that the name INDIA is bigger than any other sponsor. Thank you pic.twitter.com/LNInjyBmnX
— Harsha Vardhan (@Iam_HarshuV) November 26, 2020
The Jersey we want. The Jersey we got. pic.twitter.com/HeBUfUQlW9
— Not Baba Does Isolation (@BabaLoveCricket) November 26, 2020
These new jerseys are amazing! But glad they're only for this one game coming up. #BleedFuel #INDvENG #CWC19 pic.twitter.com/xHIRTU9gSX
— Siddharth (@Actor_Siddharth) June 29, 2019
Was that India's jersey or Byju's jersey ??
Difference is Nike and Mpl . Mpl logo size is bigger as it is different from nike's "tick" pic.twitter.com/rb859wDa7s— Pratimaan Priyam (@PratimaanPriyam) November 27, 2020
Is it just me or you also feel that this new jersey sucks. It looks more like an advertisement billboard of @BCCI. https://t.co/neuzhbxOFf
— Yashwant Deshmukh 🇮🇳 (@YRDeshmukh) November 26, 2020
When there is some space left in the jersey of India cricket team
BCCI* pic.twitter.com/aJoNFOTGQA
— 𝐤𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐦✨ (@_Bihari_babuaa) November 26, 2020
Pic 1 : "INDIA" on team India's Jersey
Pic 2: BYJU's on team India's Jersey pic.twitter.com/W4OPMzPbYb— Ankit 🇮🇳 (@King_IndNORTH) November 26, 2020
🤣😂😂 pic.twitter.com/8wW9QJ9cJH
— Pranjal (@Pranjal_one8) November 25, 2020
*New Jersey Launched*
Meanwhile
INDIA(written on jersey) after seeing
Byju's Logo pic.twitter.com/cUfOFiaR9c— Param_Anand07 (@the_aryans119) November 25, 2020
The Indian Express reports that this new dark navy blue jersey was meant to pay homage to the ones worn by Sachin Tendulkar and the team during their World Cup campaign over 28 years ago in the year 1992.
Former Indian wicketkeeper Kiran More, who was also a member of the ’92 World Cup team, shared images from his preserved jersey.
Look what I found myself! The original jersey of the 1992 @ICC @cricketworldcup, still fits me very well. It brought back all the fond memories, what a tournament it was, as the great Richie Benaud would say on air: simply superb! #cricket pic.twitter.com/puqpXauUk5
— Kiran More (@JockMore) November 25, 2020
But as fans pointed out, the jersey has a clean look owing to the absence of multiple sponsored logos and ‘India’ written in a bold, bright yellow font highlighted in the center.
This is just insults to India in international forum that BCCI promoting brands and companies over india. below picture of sir @kiranmore is our jersey. pic.twitter.com/wZdGGZyjBY
— Bomri (@Bomri6) November 26, 2020
“INDIA” hamesha upar, sabse bold aur prominent font me likha jana chahiye…brands ki jagah kona khopcha hai…Ye National team ki jersey ko corporate billboard ki tarah treat kiya gya hai
— ANIMESH (@aniran009) November 25, 2020
The Indian Team will wear the retro kit for the 3 One-DayInternationals and 3 T20 Internationals only. They will switch to whites again for the Test series.
What do you think of the new ‘retro’ kit? Tell us!
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