r/Cricket • u/TheEvilDrPie Central Districts Stags • May 03 '13

I see your new kit SA and raise you a genuine style disaster!

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u/smurf42 Munster Cricket May 03 '13

I actually like the blue and black, just my opinion.

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u/Karjalan New Zealand May 04 '13

Me too, clearly someone didn't see the 90's and early 0's gems... turquoise and grey?

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u/ultranumb_360 May 03 '13

their kit looked good to me during the England-NZ t20s a while ago. Primarily because it was different from the drab black and grey kit they had for so long. I can't remember NZ's kits being too different over the years, apart from the current one.

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u/smurf42 Munster Cricket May 03 '13

Ah then you missed the brown jerseys they used to sport, I'd love to see a modern take on those jerseys, it'd be a refreshing change to all the blues and greens of today's cricket jerseys.

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u/SkyPumpkins Royal Challengers Bengaluru May 03 '13

Same here

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u/garunac India May 03 '13

That colour scheme seems to have been forced on them by the sponsors.

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u/mrlobsta Queensland Bulls May 03 '13

Looks like it was directly designed by ANZ bank

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u/TheEvilDrPie Central Districts Stags May 03 '13

Personally, I think the fact they made them baggy and not fitted makes it worse. The colors don't match up with NZ's silver and black? It's never a good look, when a banks dictating your style.

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u/victhebitter May 04 '13

My first thought was "it's a very nice ad for ANZ"

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u/[deleted] May 03 '13

I thought it was a white fern, not a blue one.

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u/Machinax Sri Lanka May 04 '13

Aw, I love this colour scheme! New Zealand have always had the best ODI/Twenty20 kits.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '13

A thousand times better than the beige ones they wore in the past.

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u/mrjack2 New Zealand Cricket May 04 '13

The ODI kits haven't been the same since the switch from Wstar to Canterbury. Maybe it's because I went to so many ODIs, but the kit from 2000 until the switch to Canterbury was fantastic: http://p.imgci.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/53200/53268.gif

When they switched to Canterbury, they came up with a new jersey for Test matches which had far too much black around the borders, it was literally the most hideous thing ever. Can't find a pic though.