Coloured clothing was one of the new initiatives of Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket in 1978 – while the breakaway was quelled, it left various legacies among them was the move away from whites for shorter-form versions of the sport.
Even so, teams continued to wear whites in the Cricket World Cup up to and including the 1987 edition of the competition, but there was a sea-change for the 1992 tournament, held in Australia.
A Sydney company named ISC (International Sports Clothing), which had commenced business the previous year, secured the contract to outfit each of the nine competing countries and each of them had a common blue, green, red and white shoulder panel (see more here).
While shirt numbers would not appear at a Cricket World Cup until 1999, players did have their names on the back, pre-dating the football equivalent by two years. Pakistan won the competition, beating England in the final.
