Why do
cricketers wear white kit?
PROF WAQAR HUSSAIN
There are two reasons for it,
firstly, cricket use to be called gentleman's game, and gentlemen use to
wear clean spotless clothes as neat as a new pin, and white is a colour which
high lights even slightest and dimmest spot on it. So they have to get it
cleaned after every inning played to keep them clean and spotless. Sadly this
conditionality of game resulted in keeping lots of poor but talented people
away from this great game.
Secondly, the colour of balls was red thus
sight screens, umpire’s shirts and bowlers clothes must be white in order to
make red ball clearly visible for batsman.
Now a day, pattern of cricket has
changed and three new forms of cricket have also come in to action: One Day International,
Twenty-Twenty Match and Six Sixes. The cricketers are using colored uniforms in
these formats of cricket because there are white ball in play and thus has no
technical reason to be in white clothing .However in test matches, the ball is still
red and uniform and other things are white as before.
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