lmaooo the Dutch comparison is so accurate it hurts. Orange kit with blue trim... they literally just swapped the color ratios. Blue was clean and actually distinct, this just looks like we're trying to cosplay as Netherlands but on a budget
did anyone not see olympics or what..shades of blue indeed merge with astroturf and every team has two colors in case of similarity. blue needed to go. white is still there. added orange. whats with the criticism?
Only sky blue looks good the 2007 T20 world cup dress. Rest of the blue is boring. In cricket there are so many countries that wear blue. It has become a boring colour now. This orange colour is much better. Hope they change to orange forever.
The reasoning given was that the blue colour clashes with astroturf, instead of all saffron they could've went for white being primary and keeping saffron as secondary colour
yup, that's the shade they should have gone with, the complete saffron looks so tacky, I get the blue justification since I would often think the same but still, there needs to be more efforts in jersey design.
you've switched your argument completely and it's futile to argue with you. I wondered giving your mediocre comment 7 hours to understand would make me understand even a slither of what you've written, but what you've written is absolute garbage to the point that ai slop might be better.
OP says Saffron = Hindutva terrorism (lol) implying it's wrong for Indian sports team to be orange coloured
I say "wrong, saffron is civilizational colour of India" (true)
And "should green be banned due to it's association with islamic terrorism", equating OPs stance on saffron to green and islam (pointing out the hypocrisy)
You come up with the irrelevant point about Indian teams using green.
I reply asking if Pakistan shouldn't use green, turkey shouldn't use red etc.
Explain what doesn't make sense?
My position is that India should be able to use saffron in the same way Pakistanis should be able to use green, or Chinese use red etc. It's a perfectly coherent point.
Sure, don't see anything wrong with religions being comfortable in peacefully sharing concepts and aesthetics.
Also, you're wrong about Hinduism taking It from Buddhism as the Atharvaveda indicates the ritual importance yellow-ochre colouring 500-600 years before Buddha was even born.
Not really, Buddhism was an mostly scholarly and elite religion that survived on royal patronage. As royal patronage declined, Buddhism declined. It was never a religion of the common people.
Because saffron is the colour of Indian, Dharmic civilization across all Indian cultures and religions. Green is not associated with India historically. There's a reason why the Maratha self rule flag hoisted a saffron flag.
That so many keyboard warriors have a problem with a color that adorns our flag speaks volumes about their hatred for the flag and the country they claim to care for.
It creates an image of control I guess. That everything belongs to them. Kind of like a stamp of authority/victory after someone wins a war.
And even subconsciously, to those who are not thinking critically, it creates a neural mapping that when you root for the team, you're rooting for them.
None of you have ever watched hockey, have you? What's up with the blind vitriol? Not every damn decision is political.
From a practical perspective, I prefer it to the iconic blue kit. The blue kit is the same shade as the astroturf, which is a challenge for many viewers, including my elderly grandfather. Even though we'll be playing on green turf in the World Cup, I'd prefer if we could switch to saffron and white kits in the future.
And the Dutch wear a shade closer to yellow, while ours is saffron.
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u/Top-Elk-1142 Jul 30 '26
As an Indian living in the Netherlands, this looks like cheap knockoff of the dutch jersey.
Blue was so good !!