Team India may wear a retro kit against Australia in T20s and ODIs

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Bengaluru, November 12: With the Australian men's cricket team announcing its decision to wear specially-designed indigenous shirts in the upcoming Twenty20 series against India, there are rumours that Team India may also return the favour by donning a 'retro' kit for both the T20 series as well as the One-day Internationals.

India are set to play three T20s as many ODIs and four Test matches in the tour Down Under which begins from November 27.

Most of the players who were were in the UAE for the Indian Premier League 2020 along with Test specialists and coach Ravi Shastri have already left for Australia.

To encourage the Indigenous Australians' role in the sport, Cricket Australia (CA) on Wednesday (November 11), unveiled the design, a collaboration between manufacturer ASICS and two Indigenous women, Aunty Fiona Clarke and Courtney Hagen.

The design is an ode to the ancestors and past, present and future aboriginal cricketers.

The rumour mill is strong that taking a cue from CA, Team India will also follow the suit and that they are likely to wear a retro kit which will look similar to the 1992 World Cup jersey worn by the Men in Blue under Mohammed Azharuddin's captaincy.

The images of the jersey are already doing rounds in social media and according to a report in Outlook website, Team India will wear the retro blue kit for both the T20s and ODIs.

Traditionally, Virat Kohli and his team have worn the sky-blue kits. The only time they tried out a different outfit was during the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup match against England when they were spotted wearing an orange-and-blue kit.

That was necessitated by a new ICC rule which stated "For televised ICC events all participtaing teams will be required to provide for two different coloured kits, except for the host country who has perference in the choice of colour and may, if it chooses to do so, provide only one coloured kit to be worn in all matches throughout the event."

The ICC rule implied that other teams who sport blue jerseys will have to change their colours, especially during matches involving England as they were also wearing blue uniforms forcing India to switch to orange.