The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) was forced to alter the team’s World Cup kit design after fans complained about absence of the colour red in it.

According to ESPNcricinfo, the International Cricket Council had asked the Bangladesh board to avoid using red for names and number on jerseys as that would make it difficult for viewers to read against a green backdrop.

However, after the BCB sent a few designs to the ICC, the one that was finally approved had just green and white in it and no red – which is an integral part of Bangladeshi flag. The kit was unveiled in Dhaka in Monday.

According to the report, BCB president Nazmul Hassan said: “After the jersey unveiling yesterday, I sat with the board directors to look at the jersey again. Someone spotted the lack of red in the jersey. We have now decided to add the red to our jersey.

“Initially, it was the ICC who told us to not have the red in our jersey. We have a separate jersey, completely red [with white lettering], for some of the other games,” he added.

The new kit has a red across the middle the jersey.

“We have usually had red and green in our jerseys over the years but there were times when we didn’t have the red,” Hassan said. “I remember it was yellow and green during the 1999 World Cup and the 2000 Asia Cup.”