Soon after unveiling its ICC World Cricket Cup 2019 jersey in a group photograph, the Bangladesh cricket has garnered controversy with jersey resembling Pakistan Cricket team jersey.
As the controversy was not letting down, Bangladesh Cricket Board has come out with solution as thye have altered Jersey.
Bangladesh have altered its World Cup jersey adding a touch of red. The national flag of Bangladesh is red and green, but the jersey unveiled on Monday was predominantly green with a touch of white.
“ICC, cricket’s world governing body, had originally asked us to drop the red colour due to “commercial complications”, but relented following a subsequent request from the BCB,” said Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) spokesman Jalal Yunus.
“It made the jersey green and white. But people wanted a touch of red in the jersey. So we requested the ICC again and they accepted our request,” he was quoted by AFP.
The original design had featured the names of players and the word Bangladesh in red, Yunus noted.
Social media was awash with complaints after the strip was unveiled, with former BCB president Saber Hossain Chowdhury among those to criticise the original design.
Many cricket fans saw a similarity with the jersey of Pakistan, from which Bangladesh became independent after a bloody war in 1971.
But BCB president Nazmul Hassan, also known as Papon, blasted the suggestion that the resemblance of Pakistan jersey prompted the swift change in design.
“Bangladesh is written on the jersey, how can you confuse it with Pakistan?” Nazmul asked reporters in a press conference on Tuesday.