T20 World Cup 2024: ICC asks Uganda cricket team to change their jersey; here’s why – CNBC TV18

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has asked the Uganda Cricket association to change their team’s jersey ahead of the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, scheduled to be held in the West Indies and US from Sunday (June 2). The new jersey unveiled by the Uganda Cricket Association is yellow and incorporated feathers of the country’s national bird.

The ICC, however, asked the team to alter the design by removing the feathered pattern to better highlight the sponsor’s logos. In the altered design, the wings can be seen faintly and a similar alteration was made on the team’s trousers.

The tournament debutants, who begin their T20 World Cup campaign on June 3 against Afghanistan in Guyana, unveiled their new jersey just before the team left for the West Indies.

“The ICC asked for a change in the design but we didn’t have enough time to make the required changes and had to compromise on the winning design. We lost just about 20 percent of the original design, but the rest of the design is the same,” Musali Denis, the Uganda Cricket Association’s public relations officer was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.

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The T20 showpiece is seen as a stepping stone for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, where cricket will make a comeback after 128 years when the event kicks off.

A total of 16 games will be played during the month-long tournament across three venues in the US — New York, Dallas and Lauderhill — with a majority of 55 matches scheduled in the Caribbean including the knock-outs. Day three of the competition will have South Africa and Sri Lanka battling it out in New York, where the first ever international cricket game was held between USA and Canada back in 1844.

It was a phase when the sport was played widely across the US before a much faster alternative in Baseball gained prominence during the Civil War in the 1860s.

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A couple of weeks of international cricket in an alien land will not be enough to evoke long-lasting interest from the local audience and to ensure the game grows beyond the South Asian and Caribbean expat community, the stakeholders will need more time.

(With PTI inputs)