INDIA Cricket Jersey Progressed over the years
cricket was introduced to India by European merchant sailors in the 18th century, and the first cricket club was established in Calcutta [currently known as Kolkata] in 1792, India's national cricket team did not play its first Test match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's, becoming the sixth team to be granted Test cricket status. In its first fifty years of international cricket, India was one of the weaker teams, winning only 35 of the first 196 Test matches it played. From 1932 India had to wait until 1952, almost 20 years for its first Test victory
1992 INDIA Jersey
There’s blues and then there are blues so it’s worth debating if India’s 1992 jersey Down Under was Navy, Midnight or the staid Oxford blue. But when colour came to World Cup clothing, it brought with it the stripes on the shoulders (white, red, green, blue) like the test pattern of colour bars in TV with India in san serif yellow.
1996 INDIA Jersey
India had lightened its blue 4 years later in a duller shade. It was something between Baby Blue and Clearday Blue. despite its muted blueness, it would be pepped up by the sunny yellow collars and names inscribed likewise. A band of video arrows ran across the chest, and there were also the vertical stripes perfect for the jailbreak vs Pakistan in the quarters
1999 INDIA Jersey
1999 The blue Sky, had glossed out as Indians trotted across overcast England. Yellow was perkier as one of India’s most loved batting line-ups Tendulkar, Ganguly, Dravid, Azhar, Jadeja, Robin Singh piled on the runs till they jammed up against Australia in the Super Six. An amateur motif, our guess is those were sharks training for a synchronised swim.
2003 INDIA Jersey
- 2003 The blue had deepened an unambiguous cornflower blue. The tricolour made its first appearance at the Cup like an arty splash slashed across with three fingertips. There was also a tiny tricolour on the collar, not the droopy ones from the past decade. The shoulder line still sagged and India was still etched in a happy yellow.
2007 INDIA Jersey (the world Cup Jersey)
- 2007 World T20- It was a younger team with a new captain, and while the dominant shade remained ‘non-photo blue’ (yes that’s what it’s called) like it was in the Caribbean, the colour of ‘INDIA’ at the centre had gone from a tangerine to yellow. And the sun did shine on Dhoni & Co as they lifted the maiden World T20, setting the tone for the most successful era in Indian cricket.
2009 INDIA Jersey
- 2009 and 2010- After nearly a decade of sticking to a lighter shade of blue, India now the powerhouse of T20 cricket, thanks to the IPL, went bolder, quite literally, at the start of 2009, by shifting to a royal blue. The Indian tri-colour still cut along one side of the torso. Down the back, it looked like they had an orange cape tucked under the shirt, covering the collar.
2011 INDIA Jersey
2011- India were bleeding blue in the campaign and as MS Dhoni smashed Nuwan Kulasekara over wide long-on on that famous night at the Wankhede, the whole country was doused in it. The tri-colour made an appearance on either side of the torso this time, two diagonal lines almost like two hands lifting the cup, which is what Dhoni and India did eventually.
2015 INDIA Jersey
2015- At first sight, it looked like the jersey was made of thermal wear, with sequential lines running from top to bottom along the front of the shirt. The sponsor’s name was as big in font size as the ‘India’ in the middle. A simple Nike tick mark rested on the right breast as India enjoyed a few starry nights Down Under before bowing out in the semis.
2016 INDIA Jersey
2016 World T20- The first thing that strikes you is the Chinese collar on the shirts, while a striped orange motif cuts right across under the neck and covers the chest and the ‘I’ in India with a Nike tick-mark stuck in the middle.
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