The 2019 ICC World Cup is around the corner which is scheduled to start from May 30 in England and Wales. Meanwhile, all the teams nearly decided their squads for the tournament. To keep the mega event in mind, some of the teams have launched their new jerseys and Afghanistan also have unveiled their new jerseys. However, they have kept the blue colour in the jersey and launched two designs, one for the matching kit and the other one for training. Moreover, their main kit is nearly similar to their ODI kit; which they used to wear so far.
Their training kit has the colour of black and white with the pattern on the shoulder. The colours represent the colours of their national flag. With this, they have black coloured trouser pants. Along with this, their alternate jersey has a lot of red colour on the sides, while blue presents in the centre. On the other hand, Amul, the Indian Dairy giants has been announced as the Afghanistan team’s sponsors for the upcoming mega event. The logo of brand Amul will be there in their jersey.
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Team Afghanistan's playing kits for the @ICC @cricketworldcup 2019. #AfghanAtalan #CWC2019 pic.twitter.com/XtmmOg19wF
— Afghanistan Cricket Board (@ACBofficials) May 8, 2019
“We are excited about being associated with Afghanistan Cricket for the first time and Amul is hopeful that this team, rated as the fastest growing team in international cricket, will deliver outstanding performance in the World Cup,” RS Sodhi, the Managing Director of GCMMF said according to Khaleej Times.
Afghanistan announced Gulbadin Naib as the ODI captain, who will lead in the World Cup as well. Rahmat Shah was named the Test captain while Rashid Khan named the T20I captain of the team. Afghanistan will play two warm-up matches against Pakistan and England on May 24 and 27 respectively before starting their campaign in the World Cup against Australia on June 1 at County Ground, Bristol.