BCB decided to change World Cup jersey
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CF Correspondent
Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hasan said on Tuesday that they decided to change the design of the national team's World Cup jersey after it received widespread criticism since being unveiled recently.
The design of the two jerseys that was unveiled on Monday was squarely criticized by fans and media as none of the jersey had the mixture of red and green in it.
The design for the away jersey is completely red, with a bit of green on the arms and in front.
However, the home jersey is completely green, with red nowhere to be seen.
This home jersey was the one which the players wore during the official photo session of the team on Monday.
You have seen the first jersey that we have sent.There was red in it instead of white that sense now. The name Bangladesh and the number at the back was written in red at that point they asked us to provide another set of jersey to them. In any ICC tournament you have to give a substitute jersey,’’ said BCB president on Monday.
‘’These are not made in a day. Then we sent these two jerseys ICC immediately approved it but asked us that we should remove the red colour in white in the green jersey. These three things will be in whites for every nation but the final copy did not arrive on our working committee,’’ he said.
‘’To remove the red from the green jersey it was approved but there was some things going on in my mind and when I saw there was some red element in the green jersey we asked ICC whether we can change it or not and they said we can change. We are not going back to the old jersey rather we have asked them to design a new set of jersey for us because we don’t want to get into any other complication,’’ he added.
The all-green jersey created a lot of resentment among the fans on social media, with some likening it to Pakistan jerseys but BCB president took a swipe at them. There is no chance you can compare it with Pakistan because Bangladesh is written there in the jersey how can they think of it as Pakistan jersey,’’ said BCB boss.
‘’There is BCB logo and photo of Tiger in the jersey and even after that if still someone think that it is similar to Pakistan then they should stay in Pakistan,’’ he said.
This is surprising because if we don’t use green and go for yellow will that imply we have become Australian of using blue will indicate we have become Indian. There is no logic behind it,’’ he added.
