![]() Tournaments such as the Asia Cup, the Austral-Asian Cup and the (original) Champions Trophy that were often staged in cricket's new hot spot of Sharjah throughout the 1980s at least retained an outward veneer of respectability by insisting players were clad in Test match whites. Not even India's 1983 World Cup triumph – the event, more than any other, that triggered the one-day game's untrammelled growth across the globe – brought a similarly seismic shift in on-field apparel. Australian teams were the pioneers of coloured clothing in the 1980s and 1990s // GettyĪpart from the annual tri-series that stood as the most conspicuous legacy of the two-year WSC schism, coloured clobber was rarely seen beyond its native habitat in Australia and some memorably flamboyant knock-offs for late-summer tournaments in New Zealand. While glaring floodlights and garish flannels were introduced under Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket revolution in Australia almost 15 years prior, the one-day game had hitherto clung tightly to its first-class progenitor and remained largely clad in traditional whites. In addition to being the first World Cup to be staged in the southern hemisphere, it was also the first to feature day-night matches, white cricket balls (a new one from each end to counteract their dubious durability) and – by dint of those other innovations – coloured uniforms. The fifth iteration of cricket's showpiece one-day tournament was unprecedented on several fronts. Kit Week: The top 25 Australian kits of all time ![]()
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