Over the Easter weekend I caught my first view of the new England one-day international kit for 2009. Now at first you’ll probably think (like me), didn’t they only release one last year? Well yes, they did – but in these times where a company such as Adidas is on board they are clearly trying to stitch up the public like they do in football by releasing a new kit as often as possible.

Moaning out of the way though – it doesn’t look all that different from the previous kit as you can see in the image to the right. There is a hint more white in it with a new collar and piping, but otherwise it is still the dark blue of the 2008 version (if not even darker than that one).

I can’t say I’ll be buying it myself, but if you want to pre-order you can do so from Kitbag here.

And as if they weren’t going to make enough money out of the ashes, there is also talk of a special England vs Australia odi kit (maybe it’ll have 5-0 or however many odi’s we’re playing written on it already!)