The Indian men’s cricket team will not be wearing a different kit for their highly-anticipated ICC ODI World Cup 2023 clash with Pakistan. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has denied reports claiming the Rohit Sharma-led side could be donning an alternative kit for this particular clash scheduled to be played on October 14 in Ahmedabad.
“We categorically dismiss the media reports that Team India will be donning an alternative match kit against Pakistan. These reports are absolutely baseless and a work of someone’s imagination. The Men in Blue will sport India colours – Blue at ICC Cricket World Cup 2023,” Ashish Shelar, the honorary treasurer of the BCCI was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
During the 2019 ODI World Cup, the Indian team did wear a different kit against England – a darker shade of blue with orange sleeves. However, there are no plans as such to do something of that order this time around.
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India began their ODI World Cup campaign against Australia in Chennai with an impressive six-wicket win on Sunday. Chasing 200, India were 2/3 after 2 overs before KL Rahul (97*) and Virat Kohli (85) helped them recover from the early jolts.
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Kohli was dismissed when India needed just 23 runs more to win but an attempt at a pull shot off Josh Hazlewood (3/38) resulted in him losing his wicket in the 38th over. Rahul, in the company of Hardik Pandya (11*), took the team over the line sealing the win with a six.
India will now fly to Delhi where they face Afghanistan on Wednesday. The world cup got underway last week with England taking on New Zealand in the tournament opener. All 10 teams have now played one game each with New Zealand, Pakistan, Bangladesh, South Africa and India recording victories in their respective first games.
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Meanwhile, there was an intruder during the India-Australia contest in Chennai. The notorious pitch invader Daniel Jarvis also known as Jarvo managed to breach through the security at Chepauk and tried getting close to the players on the field. The security team quickly intervened to take him off the field and later, ICC released a statement that Jarvo has been banned from attending any further matches at the tournament.
