![]() ![]() Before sponsor logos crowded cricket shirts, Sri Lanka's had enough space for a full-blown golden lion from the national flag. Ishita Mazumder / © ESPNcricinfo LtdThe World Cup win in 1996 could well have made that year's blue uniform the Sri Lankan fan's favourite kit of all time, but their jersey game probably peaked in 1999, in what was a middling tournament on the field. Since then, they have played around with various combinations of green with yellow accents, before switching to the current kit, which features seven shades of green. The Klusener years, in fact, produced two of South Africa's best World Cup kits: dark green with an inverted Y adapted from the national flag running down the front in 1999, and the one with sharp tiger-print sides that they wore at home in 2003. ![]() Since then, they have been in different shades of green for their heroics and heartbreaks - from Jonty Rhodes' shirt-muddying run-out in the forest shade of 1992, to the twin heartbreaks of 19, featuring Lance Klusener in yellow-green combinations.
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