Less than a month before the 2024 T20 World Cup, sponsors Adidas unveiled India’s new orange-sleeved T20I jersey.

The ninth edition of the T20 World Cup is set to go underway in North America from June 1. Today (May 6), India unveiled their new T20I shirt that they will don during the tournament.

India’s new T20I kit

The shirt bears a distinctive look. Across all sports, India have traditionally donned shirts where the dominant colour has been a shades of blue, which they adopted when they started to play cricket in coloured clothing.

Their shirts varied from a very dark blue for the 1992 World Cup to very lighter shades in multiple tournaments. Barring the odd instance (they wore yellow shirts for unknown reasons in the ODIs in New Zealand in 1994), blue has always remained a constant.

T20 World Cup 2024: Find updated lists of all squads announced here.

This time, too, the dominant colour continues to remain blue – an azure shade – but the sleeves are completely orange, reminiscent of the “away” shirt that they used for the match against England at the 2019 World Cup, though on that occasion even the back of the shirt was orange.

There were reports of India taking field in orange shirts against arch rivals Pakistan at Ahmedabad during the 2023 World Cup, but the BCCI denied these. However, their practice kit shirts were entirely orange.

Watch Adidas launch India’s new T20I jersey for the T20 World Cup squad:

One jersey. One Nation.
Presenting the new Team India T20 jersey.

Available in stores and online from 7th may, at 10:00 AM. pic.twitter.com/PkQKweEv95

— adidas (@adidas) May 6, 2024

India are pitted in Group A in the first round of the World Cup. They play Ireland on June 5, Pakistan on June 9, and the USA on June 12, all at New York; and Canada on June 15 at Lauderhill.

India squad for T20 World Cup 2024: Rohit Sharma (c), Hardik Pandya (vc), Sanju Samson (wk), Rishabh Pant (wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Arshdeep Singh.

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