Test cricket jerseys to have name and number

The Indian group has already unofficially late jersey no 10, that Tendulkar wore. In all probability, same will occur with Dhoni’s jersey also

Test cricket jerseys to have name and number

Virat Kohli will shortly be seen wearing No 18 on his white flannels as a ICC has authorised Test-playing nations to have a players competition their names and numbers on their jerseys. This pierce is directed during popularising a longest format of a game.

The English county sides as good as a Australian state sides personification a Sheffield Shield are used to wearing whites with names and numbers on a behind though this will be an altogether new knowledge for a Indian team, who will play a second Test of a World Championship opposite West Indies wearing numbered white shirts.

“Yes, it starts from Aug 1 for a World Test Championship. It is a partial of a wider devise to foster Test cricket,” Claire Furlong, ICC’s GM Manager (Strategic Communications) told PTI on Friday.

It is widely approaching that a Indian group in all odds will not use dual specific jersey numbers in Test cricket — no 10 that was used by Sachin Tendulkar in singular overs and presumably No 7 used by Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

The Indian group has already unofficially late jersey no 10, that Tendulkar wore. In all probability, same will occur with Dhoni’s jersey also. The preference seemed to have been taken final week as a twitter from former England captain Michael Vaughan on Mar 19 indicated.

“Delighted to hear Names Numbers will potentially be on Test personification shirts .. About time .. Add a bit of colour as good .. make a Shirts some-more mouth-watering for Kids to wish to wear .. Test cricket has to turn some-more blurb .. CUE .. A lot of abuse !!!,” Vaughan had tweeted.

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