Leaked Pak Jersey For World Cup Doesn’t Show India As Hosts, Other Teams Follow Tradition

The ICC T20 World Cup 2021 is scheduled to start on October 17, 2021, which is less than a week away. This means that while most of the participating teams have already revealed their official jerseys, teams like India and Pakistan will be doing so soon.

However, this also means that eagle-eyed paparazzi and fans were on the lookout for any means to leak the pictures of the official jerseys before they are launched by the respective cricket boards.

PAKISTAN JERSEY FOR WT20 !!?

RATE THIS ONE pic.twitter.com/ip2s5VkjAa

— M S C (@_friendlycheema) October 6, 2021

For the Pakistani squad, the jersey allegedly leaked a couple of days ago when skipper Babar Azam was pictured wearing the kit, standing in broad daylight. The pictures were starting to spark loads of debates around the mundane and boring design. 

However, soon enough, the discussion changed to something a lot more important. The logo patch printed on the top right corner of the jersey shows the United Arab Emirates as the hosts of the tournament and not India.

Australia ,Scotland ,and PAKISTAN JERSEY for T20WC , the most interesting thing is that PAKISTAN Writes ‘UAE 2021’ Instead of ‘india 2021’ on T20 world cup JERSEY HAHAHAH i like PAKISTAN ZINDABAD

#T20WorldCup2021 pic.twitter.com/aBnID9Ixm3

— Mariam PAKISTANI (@Mariam_Jamali) October 7, 2021

While all the other countries that have released their jerseys, recognise India as the hosts and have printed so on their kits, the Pakistani jersey remains the only one so far that refuses to follow this tradition.

The tournament was originally supposed to take place in India but due to the prevalent COVID-19 risks in the country, the venue was switched to the United Arab Emirates. Having said that, it is the Indian cricket board that is hosting the mega event, and therefore, all teams must add India’s name on their jerseys.

Cricket fans were not happy to see this anomaly and expressed their rage on Twitter:

It’s a rule to put the name of WC hosting country on the jersey.
Every team put India’s name as India is the official host for T20 WC 2021 except Pakistan, they put UAE instead.
Intentional? #T20WorldCup2021 pic.twitter.com/yd9IkzKQw4

— Rushil Patale (@rushilpatale) October 12, 2021

Pakistan ko T-20 World Cup 2021 me khelne se Ban karna chahiye kyunki Isne World Cup ke Rules ko follow nhi kiya hai

— O P Gurjar (@OPGurja34362639) October 8, 2021

@ICC Hefty fines should be imposed on Pakistan so that no country does such a thing again, the host of the World Cup is India, while Pakistan did not write the name of India on its jersey.

— Bhiya Patel (@BhiyaPatel) October 9, 2021

After seen the pakistani mindset..
Le Imran : pic.twitter.com/NvVs2rbH9h

— ABHISHEK RAI (@ABHISHE62116374) October 8, 2021

The Pakistan Cricket Board is yet to reveal their jersey officially and based on the social media backlash this kit has received so far, it will be interesting to see whether they will go ahead with the same logo or if they will change it last minute.

Virat Kohli and the Men in Blue are also set to reveal their kits on October 13, 2021 (Wednesday) as their first match of the tournament will take place against Pakistan on October 24, in the Super 12 round.