Cricket asks more of a kit supplier than almost any other sport. A football club orders one shirt in two colourways. A cricket club may need coloured limited-overs shirts, traditional whites, sleeveless sweaters, long-sleeve sweaters, trousers, caps, sun hats, training wear, and polos for coaches and officials often in the same season, sometimes in the same order.

Most suppliers who advertise cricket kits are set up for the first job and improvise the rest. This guide covers what to actually check before choosing a cricket jersey manufacturer, and the format-specific and technical questions that separate a supplier who understands cricket from one who prints shirts.

What a Full Cricket Kit Actually Includes

Before comparing quotes, list every item. A quote for “cricket jerseys” and a quote for a full club kit are not comparable numbers.

Two things clubs consistently forget at quote stage:

Support staff kit. Umpires, scorers, and volunteers are part of how a league looks. League administrators ordering across multiple clubs should budget for this from the start.

Sweaters. The sleeveless and long-sleeve cricket sweater is a distinct garment with its own pattern and its own minimum. Suppliers set up only for sublimated shirts often cannot make them, or will quote a generic knitwear item that does not look right.

Format-Specific Requirements

Test and limited-overs kits are different products, not different colours of the same product. A supplier who treats them the same has not made much cricket kit.

Limited-overs (ODI and T20). Coloured, bold, designed for visibility under floodlights and on camera. Full sublimation is the correct method: unlimited colours, gradients, sponsor logos, and player names and numbers all print in one pass at no extra cost. High-contrast designs read better under lights.

Test and club red-ball cricket. White or cream, traditional cut, minimal decoration. This is where the technical complications sit, and they are worth understanding before you order.

Many clubs order both in a single production run. Ask whether the manufacturer can process format-specific kits together under one order with coordinated delivery good cricket suppliers can, and it usually lands you in a better price tier than ordering separately.

Whites: The Part Most Suppliers Get Wrong

Whites are technically harder than coloured kits, for two reasons most clubs never hear about.

Sublimation cannot print white. Sublimation dye is transparent. It adds colour to fabric; it cannot add white. On a white shirt this is fine a coloured club badge sublimates onto white fabric perfectly well. But it means any white element inside a design has to be unprinted base fabric, and it means a white detail on a coloured kit is a genuine design constraint rather than a colour choice.

White polyester shows everything. Grass stains, ball marks, sweat shadowing, and the yellowing that comes from repeated hot washing. A cheap white polyester will look tired by mid-season.

What to ask for on a whites order:

• Fabric weight and opacity. Thin white polyester goes translucent when wet. Ask for a physical swatch and hold it up.
• Cream or optic white? Traditional cricket whites are often cream rather than bright white. Decide which, and get a swatch the difference is very visible when two players stand together in different shades.
• Stain-release finish, if available.
• Decoration method. Many clubs prefer embroidery on whites for the traditional look. Sublimated badges work and cost less. Both are valid decisions deliberately rather than accepting the default.
• Colour consistency across the order. Whites from two dye lots will not match. Order the full set together.

Clothing Regulations and Sponsor Placement

Cricket has clothing and equipment regulations covering logo sizes, sponsor placement, and how names and numbers appear. These are set by the governing body for your competition, and they vary between international, national, and club level.

What is typically regulated:

• Maximum size and number of sponsor logos, often specified separately for the chest, sleeve, and trouser
• Manufacturer logo size on the shirt
• Player name and number size and placement on limited-overs shirts
• Whether logos are permitted at all on whites, which differs sharply between formats and competitions

Two practical points:

Check with your competition, not your supplier. Rules come from your league, national board, or county association. A supplier’s assurance that “everyone does it this way” is not a substitute for a written confirmation from whoever runs your competition.

Get the confirmation before the mockup, not after. Sponsor placement affects the whole design layout. Finding out a chest logo is oversized after approving artwork means redesigning, not resizing.

This is the same discipline that governs school sport in other codes; our guide on high school football uniform rules covers how compliance requirements shape a design brief, and the approach transfers directly.

Fabric and Construction for Cricket

Cricket is played in heat, over long periods, with sustained running between overs. Fabric choice matters more than in short-format sports.

Weight. Cricket shirts sit lighter than most team apparel typically 130 to 180 GSM for a match shirt. Heavier than a running vest, lighter than a football shirt. Ask for the number rather than accepting “lightweight”.

Construction. Interlock or micro-mesh polyester knit. Mesh panels under the arms and down the sides for airflow. A shirt that traps heat over a full innings will be complained about.

Moisture management. Ask whether wicking is built into the yarn structure or applied as a finish. Fibre-level wicking is permanent; chemical finishes wash out.

UV protection. Genuinely relevant for cricket, which is played in the open sun for hours. Ask whether the fabric carries a UPF rating, and whether it comes from the construction or a treatment.

Trousers. Four-way stretch, reinforced seat and knee, a proper waist system, and enough length to allow for pads. Ask about the inseam range available.

Sleeve options. Cricket clubs typically need both short and long sleeve in the same design. Confirm the supplier will produce both from one artwork file without treating it as two designs.

For more on how weight works, see our notes on fabric weight and GSM.

Minimums and Squad Reality

Ask how the minimum is counted, not just what the number is. Cricket squads are awkward for standard MOQ structures.

A cricket club is not a fixed roster. There is a playing XI, substitutes, a second XI, juniors, and players who appear three times a season. Suppliers in this space set minimums around 15 units, which suits a squad but the counting method matters more than the number.

The three questions:

Per style, per colour, or per order? A coloured T20 kit and a white Test kit are two styles. If the minimum is per style, your real minimum is double what you were quoted.

Do mixed sizes count as one order? They must. A cricket club runs from youth XS through 4XL.

Are short and long sleeve counted separately? They should not be, if the design is identical.

At Pamoo Industries our minimum is 20 pieces per style per colour with mixed sizes counted as a single order which lets a club order a full squad set with spares rather than buying stock it will never issue.

Reorders and the Sublimation Trade-Off

Understand this before you order: on a sublimated kit, names and numbers are printed into the fabric during manufacturing. A new player means a new shirt, not a new name.

This is an honest limitation of the method, and it is worth planning around rather than being surprised by.

How clubs handle it:

Order unnamed spares. Two or three shirts per size band with numbers but no names, or with neither. New players are covered immediately.

Number only, no names, on club kit. Numbers are reissuable; names are not. Many clubs reserve named shirts for first XI only.

Confirm artwork retention. A supplier who keeps your design file on record makes a mid-season addition a quick repeat order rather than a new setup. Ask directly, and get it in writing.

Ask about dye lot records. A shirt ordered eight months later should match the original set. Manufacturers who record the lot can match it; those who do not will send you a slightly different shade.

How to Compare Suppliers

Most cricket kit suppliers say the same things. These are the questions that produce different answers.

1. Can you make cricket sweaters sleeveless and long-sleeve or only shirts and trousers?
2. Can you produce whites and coloured kits in one order with coordinated delivery?
3. What GSM is your match shirt fabric? A supplier who cannot answer immediately does not control their fabric.
4. Is wicking in the yarn or a finish?
5. How is your minimum counted per style, per colour, per order?
6. Do you keep artwork files and dye lot records for reorders?
7. Do you supply support staff kit umpire shirts, scorer wear, coaching polos?
8. Can I get a physical sample before bulk, and what does it cost?
9. What is your revision policy if the sample is wrong?
10. Where is the kit actually manufactured?

That last question is worth asking plainly. Many suppliers are registered in one country and manufactured in another which is normal and fine, but you should know it rather than discover it. It affects lead times, shipping, duty, and who you are actually dealing with when something needs fixing.

Where Cricket Kit Is Made

Cricket teamwear manufacturing is concentrated in South Asia, primarily Pakistan and India. This is where the expertise, the fabric supply chain, and the pattern knowledge sit.

We manufacture in Pakistan, which for cricket is not a compromise it is the centre of the industry. Sialkot has produced cricket equipment and teamwear for over a century, and the pattern knowledge for garments like the cricket sweater exists there in a way it does not in most manufacturing regions.

What that means practically for a club ordering from the US, UK, Australia, or the Gulf:

• Lower minimums than domestic manufacturing allows
• Format-specific expertise whites, sweaters, and caps are standard work, not special requests
• Longer shipping than a local decorator, which is why lead time planning matters
• Direct manufacturer contact rather than a broker relaying your requirements

Plan for 8 to 10 weeks from first contact to delivery, including a sample step. Rushing that window is where most kit problems originate.

Conclusion

Choosing a cricket kit supplier is mostly about checking whether they actually make cricket kit or just print shirts. The sweater question sorts most of it a supplier who cannot produce a sleeveless cricket sweater is set up for generic teamwear, whatever their cricket page says.

The other three questions worth insisting on: what GSM is the match shirt fabric, how is the minimum counted, and will you keep the artwork and dye lot for reorders. Those three determine whether the kit performs, whether you can afford the order you need, and whether next season’s additions will match.

We manufacture full cricket kits coloured limited-overs shirts, whites, trousers, sweaters, caps, training and travel wear for clubs, academies, and leagues, from a 20-piece minimum with mixed sizes counted as one order. Send us your club colours, sponsor artwork, and squad list and we will come back with a mockup and a full spec sheet before you commit to anything.