Rohit Sharma to MS Dhoni: If These 5 Cricketers Played in the ‘80s

​Cricket 'reimagined'​

Utkarsh Upadhyay, a fashion designer and generative-AI creator, imagines what contemporary cricketers would look like if they represented India in the 1980s. Aside from 5 anachronistic figures, including Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, their work also includes Sachin Tendulkar, the only one who actually played in the decade.

​Hardik Pandya, born in 1993, sports a moustache and mane characteristic of the '80s.​

​An AI's interpretation of MS Dhoni as a player in the decade of decadence.​

​Rohit Sharma, one of the last few '80s-borns still active, with a moustache and longer hair.​

​Virat Kohli seemingly embraces the materiality and excess that defined the decade in which he was born.​

​Shubman Gill, born in 1999, is reimagined as a charismatic 1980s' cricketing heartthrob.​