The jersey of cricket has many changes with time. Each of the changes in the cricket jersey was due to some reasons or campaigns initiated by the boards, etc. If we talk about older times, cricketers used to wear only white-coloured jerseys before 1985. After 1985, India started wearing coloured jerseys. It was a blue and yellow colour jersey that the Indian team wore in 1985. Next, The drastic change in the jersey of cricket took place in the 1992 World Cup. All the teams of the world wore colourful jerseys that resembled their nation’s flag colours. Indian team wore indigo-coloured jerseys that had various colourful stripes on the shoulder. The other change in the Indian jersey happened in 1996, the jersey was made with a combination of a lighter shade of blue and yellow colour stripes. The next transformation of the Indian jersey was very special as India won the 2011 ICC World Cup. They wore the darker shade of blue-coloured jerseys that had text written in orange colour.
Now coming to the jersey numbers, each players select the available jersey numbers as per their special numbers or occasions of life. Sometimes players have to take the jersey number without any reason behind it due to the lack of availability of jersey numbers in Indian cricket teams. Also, some jersey numbers are repeated that is old player’s jersey numbers get picked by new players after they retire. Here we are going to explore the 1 to 100 Jersey Number in Cricket India. Let’s get started!
List of 1 to 100 Jersey Numbers in Cricket India
| Jersey Number | Player Name | Team | Career Span |
| 1 | KL Rahul | India | 2014-2024 |
| 2 | Arshdeep Singh | India | 2022-2024 |
| 3 | Yuzvendra Chahal | India | 2016-2024 |
| 5 | Wriddhiman Saha | India | 2010-2021 |
| 7 | MS Dhoni | India | 2004-2019 |
| 8 | Ravindra Jadeja | India | 2009-2024 |
| 9 | Sanju Samson | India | 2014-2024 |
| 10 | Sachin Tendulkar | India | 1989-2013 |
| 11 | Mohammed Shami | India | 2013-2024 |
| 12 | Yuvraj Singh | India | 2000-2017 |
| 13 | Munaf Patel | India | 2006-2011 |
| 14 | Sanju Samson | India | 2014-2024 |
| 15 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | India | 2012-2022 |
| 16 | Mayank Agarwal | India | 2018-2022 |
| 17 | Rishabh Pant | India | 2017-2024 |
| 18 | Virat Kohli | India | 2008-2024 |
| 19 | Dinesh Karthik | India | 2004-2022 |
| 20 | Axar Patel | India | 2014-2024 |
| 21 | Umran Malik | India | 2022-2023 |
| 23 | Kuldeep Yadav | India | 2014-2024 |
| 24 | Krunal Pandya | India | 2018-2021 |
| 25 | Shivam Dube | India | 2019-2024 |
| 26 | Murali Vijay | India | 2008-2018 |
| 27 | Ajinkya Rahane | India | 2011-2023 |
| 28 | Rahul Chahar | India | 2019-2021 |
| 29 | Pragyan Ojha | India | 2021-2021 |
| 30 | Pragyan ojha | India | 2008-2013 |
| 31 | Ruturaj Gaikwad | India | 2021-2024 |
| 32 | Ishan Kishan | India | 2021-2023 |
| 33 | Hardik Pandya | India | 2016-2024 |
| 34 | Krishnappa Gowtham | India | 2021-2021 |
| 35 | Varun Chakravarthy | India | 2023-2024 |
| 36 | Harshal Patel | India | 2021-2023 |
| 37 | Devdutt Padikkal | India | 2021-2021 |
| 42 | Rinku Singh | India | 2010-2022 |
| 43 | Prasidh Krishna | India | 2021-2024 |
| 44 | Hanuman vihari | India | 2018-2022 |
| 45 | Rohit Sharma | India | 2007-2024 |
| 48 | Suresh Raina | India | 2005-2018 |
| 49 | Mukesh Kumar | India | 2023-2024 |
| 54 | Shardul Thakur | India | 2017-2023 |
| 55 | Washington Sundar | India | 2017-2024 |
| 56 | Ravi Bishnoi | India | 2022-2024 |
| 57 | Deepak Hooda | India | 2022-2023 |
| 59 | Vijay Shankar | India | 2018-2019 |
| 63 | Suryakumar Yadav | India | 2021-2024 |
| 64 | Yashasvi Jaiswal | India | 2023-2024 |
| 65 | Avesh Khan | India | 2022-2024 |
| 73 | Mohammed Siraj | India | 2017-2024 |
| 77 | Shubman Gill | India | 2019-2024 |
| 79 | Kedar Jadhav | India | 2014-2020 |
| 88 | Shahbaz Nadeem | India | 2019-2021 |
| 90 | Deepak Chahar | India | 2018-2023 |
| 93 | Jasprit Bumrah | India | 2016-2024 |
| 96 | Shreyas Iyer | India | 2017-2024 |
| 97 | Ishant Sharma | India | 2007-2021 |
| 99 | Ravichandran Ashwin | India | 2010-2024 |
| 100 | Prithvi Shaw | India | 2018-2021 |
There Are Some Interesting Changes in Jerseys of Cricket Occasionally, They Are as Follows
- England’s 2019 team jersey was inspired by the 1992 World Cup edition where England was into the finals.
- In the 2016 India vs New Zealand series decider, India wore a jersey that had their mother’s name above the jersey number. This was done in favour of the campaign Nayi Soch by Star India partnering with BCCI.
- In the 2019 ICC World Cup, all the teams were supposed to wear different coloured jerseys if the opposition team had the same coloured jersey as them. Indian team wore saffron and blue colour jerseys against England.
- In the 2023 ICC World Cup, the Indian team jersey was designed with three colored stripes on the shoulder that represent the Indian flag colors, orange, green and white. They also added the two stars on the jersey that is dedicated to the ODI World Cup wins of 1983 and 2011.
- In the 2023 India vs South Africa ODI series at Johannesburg, South Africa wore the pink-coloured jersey to support the initiative against breast cancer.
- Virat Kohli’s jersey number 18 is dedicated to his late father’s death. Virat was 18 years old when his dad died.
- BCCI has retired the jersey numbers of MS Dhoni and Sachin which were 7 and 10 respectively. These jersey numbers are not allowed in Indian teams to be picked by any future cricketers.
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