The Indian team is currently playing in Australia after being away from the international circuit for a long time. The Indian team which is playing its first international cricket tour after being away due to the Coronavirus pandemic which has wrecked the world is on a tour of Australia. The team lost the 3 match ODI series 2-1 to Australia before storming back to take the T-20 by taking a 2-0 lead in the 3 match series with a game to go.
The nostalgic white ball jersey
The Indian team surprised one and all by going for the jersey which was inspired by the 1992 cricket world cup themed shirt. The cricketers have looked amazingly pleasant in the Jersey during the course of the white ball games. Seen as a one of the experiment just for the white-ball leg of the Australian tour, the kit though has brought back nostalgia for many fans who remember the likes of Tendulkar, Kapil Dev, Azharuddin, and Srikkanth were the jersey during the 1992 world cup which was played in Australia.
Test Jersey to see a change as well
Since the inception of the world test championships, all the test playing nations have resorted to having their names and numbers printed at the back of their white kit in a cultural shift from the old ways of test cricket. The Indian team too have accepted and assimilated to this change since opening the World Test Championships in a series against West Indies last year.
What Changes are being brought about in the test jersey?
The ICC has given its approval to sport the name of the sponsors on a bigger font to all the test playing nations in a bid to help them recoup money after losing out a chunk of the revenue stream during the time away from the game due to the global outbreak of the Coronavirus Pandemic.
First time for Team India
The Indian team was seen with the new and improved jersey in the first warm up game against Australia A. This branding exercise is seen by the ICC and the cricket boards to re start the cash flow after cricket too suffered the loss of playing action when the world was seeing strict lockdown measures put it place. This is the first ever occasion that the Indian team would be sporting the big logo of its sponsors, while most of the other teams have already done so.