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Reason Behind Team India’s Jersey For T20 World Cup Having One Star
By CricShots - Oct 24, 2021 2:00 pm
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Most of the players in the dressing room of Team India seem to be in high spirits as the team won the two warm-up games against England and Australia. From what we have seen so far, Team India has been playing positive cricket which will help them to achieve their goals this time around. Recently, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCCI) launched a new jersey for Team India ahead of the T20 World Cup 2021.

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R Ashwin donning India jersey for the T20 World Cup 2021

Team India lifted the trophy in the inaugural edition of the T20 World Cup back in 2007. They defeated Pakistan in the final where Sreesanth took the infamous catch of Misbah-ul-Haq. Since then, India managed to reach the final only once i.e. in ICC T20 World Cup 2014. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as per their suffered a dominating loss against Sri Lanka in the finals.

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Team India last won a major ICC trophy back in 2013. Since then, it’s been a string of failures for the Indians when it comes to the ICC events. The men in blue will be locking horns with Pakistan in the Super 12 of the T20 World Cup game on October 24.

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Meanwhile, netizens started talking about the Indian team’s jersey containing a single star on it. Usually, India’s jersey will have three stars right above the BCCI logo. But when the Indian cricketer played the warm-up games we saw only one star above the BCCI logo. This kept the fans talking about why there is only one star on the jersey.

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The solitary star on our T20 World Cup jersey relates to the win they had in 2007. The achievement came when the MS Dhoni-led team lifted the trophy in 2007. On the other hand, the 2019 World Cup jersey consisted of two stars. This two-star means that the men in blue won the ODI WOrld twice first time in 1983 under Kapil Dev’s captaincy and in 2011 under MS Dhoni’s captaincy.