The road to their first Indian Premier League season has not been the most joyous one for Lucknow Supergiants. First, they were trolled by Indian cricket fans for making an unnecessarily huge marketing campaign around revealing the team’s name, then they were criticised for the mundane name that was given to the franchise and now that they have officially launched their jersey (which got leaked over a couple of weeks ago), the fans are on their case like white on rice.

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The Supergiants had revealed their jersey for IPL 2022 earlier this week while also compositing and releasing their team anthem featuring rapper and singer Badshah but fans were already disappointed with the way it looked and the colours that were used to make it authentic.

Many went on to say that the practice jersey that they had shown its teammates wearing in the nets looked far better than the official ones and that all the “technology” that went into making the jersey material did very little to nothing in terms of making it look like a uniform.

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However, almost all the pictures and graphics that were shared by the Supergiants’ social media platform on the day of the launch were edited or shot under studio lights. 

So when a day after the launch, cricketers Avesh Khan and Shahbaz Nadeem were clicked wearing their full kits in natural lights, fans’ frustration with the jersey turned into an amusement and the people started trolling them for “taking design inspiration from nightgowns”.

Inspiration pic.twitter.com/enIt6VYfrt

— RISH∆BH (@Rishabh__18) March 23, 2022

Good Night pic.twitter.com/JGnGZ0vTwG

— ꪜ𝓲ꪀꪮ⁹⁶.(ॐ).𝔸𝔹ℝ𝔸𝕋𓃵 (@Vino96s) March 23, 2022

Inspiration pic.twitter.com/2wJ8Fzgt1E

— S𝓪𝓿𝓪𝓰𝓮 𝓡𝓮𝓹𝓵𝓲𝓮𝓼/𝓔𝓭𝓲𝓽𝓼 (@savage_replies_) March 23, 2022

Ye Jersey hai ? Isko night suit nahi kehtey ? pic.twitter.com/EQ5lkc6Ao0

— kaustubh padwal (@kaustubh_padwal) March 23, 2022

Bachpan mein aise night dress pehenne ka shauk abhi poora karre yeh log pic.twitter.com/PmCv1uYK5c

— sanket (@sankyapa) March 23, 2022

Seriously man!? pic.twitter.com/VEEaYw96uM

— Silverster Glad (@IamSilverster) March 23, 2022

Yes, it is true that fashion design is a tough profession and no two people would like a particular design equally. However, when literally thousands of people are trolling and agreeing to the fact that the jersey definitely looks like a cheap night suit, even the people who designed it must give in and accept the fact that they messed up.

Back when the first season of the IPL was introduced in 2008, the jersey designs were a lot simpler but even those ancient designs have a better chance of being picked up by a cricket fan as opposed to this ugly-looking kit. Seriously guys, how was this designed even authorised to go into mass production?

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