During a game, cricket players wear jerseys with their names and chosen numbers on the back. It makes the player more recognisable to his teammates and viewers. When playing cricket, the players typically don their own uniforms. However, there have been a few occasions over the years where cricket players were forced to wear their teammate’s jersey.
Suryakumar Yadav wore Sanju Samson’s jersey for the opening One-Day International between India and the West Indies, which was played on July 27, in Barbados. Samson was not a member of the starting lineup for India. Due to a sizing problem with his jersey and a hold-up in the supply of a replacement, Yadav wore his jersey.
An Indian cricket player has worn a teammate’s shirt before. We’ll look back on the three occasions when cricket players entered the pitch wearing the shirt of a teammate in this listicle.
1. Suresh Raina participated in a Test game while sporting MS Dhoni’s shirt.
After the 2019 ICC World Test Championship began, Test cricket adopted jersey names and numbers on the back. Before it, the cricket board emblem and a number were the only things on the shirt.
When MS Dhoni announced his departure from Test cricket in 2014–15, he gifted his close buddy Suresh Raina a double XL shirt. After retiring after the third Test against Australia, Dhoni told Raina that he will never again put on the whites.
In the fourth Test of that series, Raina entered the pitch with Dhoni’s jersey, which was inscribed with the number 251. It was interesting to learn that it was Raina’s final Test for India. At the Sydney Cricket Ground, the southpaw defeated Australia with a golden duck in the first innings and a three-ball duck in the second.
2. Prasidh Krishna’s jersey was worn by Deepak Hooda.
While touring the West Indies, it seems that cricket players frequently experience troubles with their jersey. When a backup Indian team travelled to the Caribbean islands the previous year, all-rounder Deepak Hooda was seen donning Prasidh Krishna’s uniform.
Fans first observed Hooda donning Krishna’s jersey on the pitch during the second of the three-match series between India and the West Indies. In that ODI game, Hooda scored 33 runs and grabbed one wicket.
3. Arshdeep Singh’s jersey was worn by Suryakumar Yadav in the West Indies.
Suryakumar Yadav was forced to wear Arshdeep Singh’s shirt for a T20I match against the West Indies during the same tour last year owing to scheduling conflicts. In the second T20I of the five-match series, Yadav entered the field to begin India’s batting while sporting the uniform of fast bowler Arshdeep.
Before losing his wicket to Obed McCoy in that game, Yadav had scored 11 runs off six balls.
The right-handed batter hasn’t had much success when donning another player’s jersey. For the upcoming game, he could want a jersey with his name and number on it that was the ideal size.