Australia's history-making new ODI kit

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Cricket Australia has unveiled a caller jersey plan for the upcoming summertime one-day internationals, celebrating the nation's Indigenous heritage.

Both Australian teams volition deterioration the jerseys - the women's squad for each 3 matches against England, with the men wearing it successful their archetypal ODI against New Zealand.

Next twelvemonth successful March and April, however, the men's squad volition marque past by being the archetypal squad to deterioration a kit celebrating Australia's Indigenous practice abroad, erstwhile they don the shirts connected their circuit of Pakistan.

Two Indigenous women, Aunty Fiona Clarke and Courtney Hagen, person been integral to the plan process and Cricket Australia's tendency to amended correspond the Indigenous assemblage going forward.

Hagen precocious worked arsenic Cricket Australia's Indigenous Engagement Specialist.

The jersey volition see circles, which correspond the spot betwixt radical and the continuation of the journey, stream and onshore to correspond family, and stars for the ancestors.

They besides diagnostic Clarke's Walkabout Wickets design, which volition diagnostic connected the collar of the men's and women's Test jerseys arsenic well.

A Kirrae Whurrong woman, Clarke is simply a nonstop descendent of legendary cricketer 'Mosquito' Couzens (known arsenic Grongarrong), who 1 of the Aboriginal players who toured England successful 1868.

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