IPL 2023: Why are some Mumbai Indians players wearing emoticon jumpsuits?

Mumbai Indians (MI) have a unique style of punishing their players who get late for departures, team meetings and net sessions. Recently, the IPL cricket team shared a video on their social media handle where players can be seen wearing emoticon jumpsuits.

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The video captioned “Lesson learnt – No one wants to be in The Jumpsuit Club.”

Rohit Sharma led MI make their players wear the emoji kit during the team’s travel from one city to another if they fail to report on time.

The emoji kit is basically a blue jumpsuit with all of the players’ faces printed on it, making it look very embarrassing.

The video shared on Twitter shows MI bowler Akash Madhwal dressed up in a blue emoticons jumpsuit, saying that he got late during the time of departure, he was sleeping at that time.

Lesson learnt