Pick the Kit: '99 WC or Perth Challenge

Round One of our Pick the Kit fan vote beings with a heavyweight against a seldom seen niche challenger.

Cricket Australia, with the support of kit-maker Asics and sponsor Alinta Energy, are throwing open the choice for the design of 2019-20 men’s one-day uniform to Australia's fans.

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED. The 1999 World Cup kit won 69% of the vote compared to 31% for the Perth Challenge kit

Keep an eye on cricket.com.au and our social media accounts for the latest results from the voting held across web, app AND social media.

The fan vote will be run in a head-to-head format until there's a final winner from the shortlist of eight uniforms worn by some of the greats of Australian cricket in the golden age between 1980 and 1999.

The 1999 World Cup

This 20th anniversary of Australia's 1999 World Cup win and fond memories of the tournament make this kit an early favourite for a 2019 revival in our Pick the Kit challenge.

On a classic Australian Gold palette, the front features the Southern Cross in green and zooming in from the lower left. Green collar and cuffs with golden stars complete the top, while the left leg also bears the Southern Cross over a right-handed batter's thigh guard.

Steve Waugh wore this kit when he lifted Australia's second World Cup trophy at Lord's – something Aaron Finch will be aiming to repeat this year – but that is far from the most memorable moment that occurred in this outfit. Indeed, it was the back-to-back games against tournament favourites South Africa that are most famous in Australian eyes.

Herschelle Gibbs' dropped catch and Steve Waugh's subsequent century, Shane Warne's match-turning spell of leg-spin bowling and, of course, Allan Donald's run out are the stuff of cricket folklore.

But Australia started life in this uniform in uncertain fashion. They won their first up match against Scotland but then lost to New Zealand and Pakistan, leaving them on the cusp of an inglorious early exit. But Waugh boldly proclaimed Australia could still lift the Cup – they just needed to win their next seven matches on the trot.

Bangladesh, the West Indies, India and Zimbabwe were all swept aside in increasingly assured performances before Australia met the Proteas in the final match of the Super Six stage at Headingley.

Gibbs dropped Waugh – and the World Cup, so the tale goes – and Australia's captain went on to post an unbeaten 120 in one of his finest ever ODI knocks to set up the rematch four days later.

It all looked to be going pear-shaped for the Aussies in their semi-final until Warne turned the match. In a thriller, Lance Klusener looked to have the Proteas home until Donald's brain explosion.

After that drama, Warne's four wickets to skittle Pakistan for 132 and Adam Gilchrist's quick-fire fifty in the final were almost anti-climactic, but Australia still celebrated long and hard with what would prove to be the first of three successive World Cup titles.

The 1986-87 Perth Challenge

A yachting-themed cricket tournament? Yep, that's exactly what happened in the summer of 1986-87. Australia was in the grip of sailboat racing fever that summer with Fremantle hosting the defence of the America's Cup following the 1983 victory of Australia II and its famous 'winged keel'.

This kit is a dark horse in our Pick the Kit challenge, and while it faces a tough opening draw, it should not be discounted so easily. A blazing Australian Gold collar sits above a verdant green across the shoulders and chest, on which is embroidered an image of the 12m yachts used in the America's Cup. Yellow vertical stripes top a thick white band across the midriff before the colours are reversed on the lower portion of the shirt, with gold trousers. Unusually for a cricket kit, the long-sleeved version also features a button cuff.

Adding to the regatta feel, the other nations wore kits bearing the same design, in blue for England, green for Pakistan and maroon for the West Indies.

In conjunction with the sailing, a one-off tournament was held at the WACA Ground between 30 December 1986 and 7 January 1987, with seven matches in nine days featuring the four nations.

It was also the first matches at the WACA under lights, and more than 27,000 poured through the gates on New Year's Day to see Dean Jones smash 104 against England.

Jones backed up that form the very next day with another century, this time blazing 121 from 113 balls against Pakistan.

The same match saw Jones and Steve Waugh put on 173 for the fourth wicket, then an Australian record. Waugh made 82 before he was bowled by Imran Khan, and later took his then best ODI bowling figures of 4-48.

Sadly for the Aussies, they lost both matches, and two days later were skittled by the West Indies for just 91 to lose by 164 runs and be bundled out of the quadrangular tournament without a win to their name.

An England side inspired by Ian Botham – 'Beefy' had earlier hit Aussie seamer Simon Davis for 26 runs in an over – charged through the tournament undefeated. ODI newcomer Gladstone Small and Botham took three wickets apiece in the final as Pakistan reached just 9-166 in their 50 overs. Wasim Akram's three wickets kept Pakistan in the hunt but England cantered to victory and lifted the yacht trophy.