Cricket World Cup: India decide orange color for coaching equipment

Ahead of their opening World Cup fixture towards Australia in Chennai, Team India have gotten a brand new coaching equipment that resembles the well-known Dutch Orange that’s sported by The Netherlands soccer group.

For a group that’s fondly known as Men in Blue, their coaching kits have had totally different colors previously with pink and gray used previously. But over the previous decade, they’ve largely worn solely blue color, a barely darker shade than their match color.

However, that is the primary time India have sported an orange color coaching gear. During the 2019 World Cup in England with the ICC making it necessary to have house and away kits, India took the sector towards the hosts sporting a saffron shade t shirt and navy-blue pants.

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Since the brand new equipment associate Adidas got here on board in June, India have been sporting a black coaching equipment. The German producer has additionally launched new equipment for the World Cup within the customary blue shade.

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This orange equipment is probably going for use in the course of the World Cup because the black color is understood to soak up extra warmth than the sunshine colors, which may probably be a purpose for the change of color.

India, who arrived in Chennai on Wednesday, had their first full-fledged coaching session on Thursday afternoon. Virat Kohli began with a throwdown session with head coach Rahul Dravid earlier than going through a testing spell from Mohammed Shami.

R Ashwin too had an prolonged batting session within the nets as Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav rolled their arms on the different web to Shreyas Iyer.