AUS V IND 2020-21: Australia team to don Indigenous design jerseys in T20Is against India

Australia women's cricket team have already wore the specially designed jersey earlier this year.

Mitchell Starc | Cricket Australia/Twitter

Cricket Australia unveiled their jersey for the upcoming T20 series against India; starting from November 27. India will tour Australia for 3 T20Is and ODIs each before the four-match Test series.

The new specially-designed Indigenous shirts are dedicated to aboriginal peoples and their ancestors. The jersey in manufactured in a collaboration between manufacturer ASICS and two Indigenous women, Aunty Fiona Clarke and Courtney Hagen.

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“Clarke is a direct descendent of late cricketer ‘Mosquito’ Couzens (known as Grongarrong), one of the Aboriginal players who toured England in 1868 as part of the first sporting team from Australia to play abroad,” cricket.co.au reported.

Earlier this year, Australia women's cricket team wore an Indigenous shirt against England.

The Aussie pacer, Mitchell Starc posed for a picture with the new jersey.  ”...it’s really exciting to have the chance as a men’s team to wear our first Indigenous jersey,” Starc was quoted as saying by the website.

Cricket Australia's official Twitter account explained the designs on the jersey through a post. "Designed by Kirrae Whurrong woman Aunty Fiona Clarke & Butchulla and Gubbi Gubbi woman Courtney Hagen, the shirt continues the storytelling of the 1868 cricket team! #NAIDOC2020," they wrote.

 

 
 

By - 11 Nov, 2020

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