Why Team India worn Orange Jersey in match against England?

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The question - Why India worn orange Jersey in match against England?  is a trending topic now, very few of you may know the exact reason, but many don't. Read this article to know exactly why.

Almost all the Indian fans wanted India to win the match against England yesterday, but unfortunately we lost the match. Hope you all watched the match, and if yes let me know your opinion and suggestions on what mistakes team India made yesterday and what they could have done better to remain undefeated?

Some Rules and Regulations by ICC

The ICC stated in a press release: “For televised ICC events, all participating teams will be required to provide two different coloured kits, except for the host country i.e England, which will be granted the right to stick to only one coloured kit in all matches throughout the CWC 19 event. The teams will be notified which colour kit they will have to wear for each World Cup Match in Advance.”

So only England team has the rights to wear it's traditional blue kit throughout the tournament, all other teams must have their "Home" and "Away" Kit. Expect India all teams had unveiled their jerseys. India unveiled it's orange jersey before the match against England.

Also The ICC suggested that for World Cup matches, if there happens to be a clash in the colour of the jerseys, the designated away team will wear alternate colours. Just like India, England, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka wear blue coloured jerseys and hence there was a need to mark a distinction. Even in the Afghanistan vs India clash, the Afghans had worn their away kit (red and blue), as per the ICC verdict.

As for the colour of India's jersey, an ICC source had confirmed while speaking to some news agency that multiple colour options were given to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to choose from. It is believed that keeping the fan connection in mind, the BCCI went with orange themed jersey as an existing T20 kit already had this orange colour.

"Also the design (orange) is taken from India's Old T20 Jersey which had orange colour in it. The designers who are sitting in the USA designed this jersey from something that already existed and not something completely new that fans don't identify with," the source added.

The alternate jersey has been witnessed throughout the World Cup. South Africa, who usually are seen donning(wearing) the green jerseys with a bit of yellow shade, wore yellow dominated kit in the match against Bangladesh.

So that's all from the ICC and me.I hope you all understood the reason.


Summary : 

• As per ICC rules other than host team all participating teams teams must have their two kits - "Home" & "Away"
• BCCI Selected Orange colour for India's away jersey as India's T20 jersey has the same colour and they didn't wanted to do something new that fans don't identify.