"And I said 'yeah, but you know what you don't see. "I was sitting in a sponsor's box at a game with my business partner and asked him 'what do you see?' and he looked for a while and said 'a whole lot of people and lots of colour'," Cooper told. Kit Week: Thirty years of Australian domestic kits
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It was during the 1990-91 Australian summer as Australia, England and New Zealand slogged their way through the annual World Series Cup tri-series (that required 12 preliminary matches to whittle down a three-team competition to the final two) that Cooper saw a glaring commercial opportunity. John Cooper, whose Sydney-based company Illustrated Sport Clothing (ISC) won the ACB contract to design and produce all playing uniforms for the 1992 World Cup, vividly remembers the moment the future of cricket clobber crystallised in his mind.
The number of ODIs exploded after the 1983 World Cup, but games in Asia were still played in whites // Gettyīut it was the then Australian Cricket Board's successful pitch to introduce day-night fixtures in the 1992 World Cup schedule that made multi-coloured clothing a staple of the 50-over format. 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. Bangladesh are assured of a place in the Super-12 phase of the next T20 World Cup in Australia in 2022.Kit Week: The top 25 Australian kits of all time "Please correct the process without damaging the players," he wrote on Facebook.
But former Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza urged authorities not to scapegoat players for the failures of the Bangladesh set-up. "It's always someone else's fault (that) he has run our cricket to the ground." Local media said the team could see sweeping changes in the upcoming series against Pakistan, who will arrive in Bangladesh next week to play three Twenty 20 internationals and two Tests. "Bangladesh has now played four World Cups under Mr Papon, things have gone from bad to worse," Chowdhury tweeted. "It's supposed to be the T20 World Cup and you wouldn't find that in third grade in the park." Former BCB chief Saber Hossain Chowdhury attacked his successor Nazmul Hassan "Papon", after the poor showing. That is an embarrassing display," the Australian said on Fox Television. "Bangladesh offered nothing with the bat.
Commentator and retired Australian batting great Mark Waugh called Bangladesh "embarrassing" after they were bowled out for 73 against Australia in their final match, who raced to their target in just 38 balls. A committee will gauge "relevant stakeholders to assess why the team could not deliver the expected performance in the event," the Bangladesh Cricket Board said Monday. They then came under scathing criticism after finishing bottom of their group, skittled out twice for less than 100 in their last two matches. Eighth-ranked Bangladesh trudged through to Super 12s only courtesy of wins against minnows Oman and Papua New Guinea. DHAKA: Cricket authorities in Bangladesh are to investigate their team's underwhelming performances in the T20 World Cup which saw them open with a defeat to Scotland and lose all five Super 12 stage matches.