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The Chargers are going for the gold this season.

Or are they going for the mustard bottle?

Or the banana?

Fans will be able to figure that out for themselves this fall when the team debuts its “Charger Power” uniforms, one of two alternate looks revealed by the team Tuesday that will be worn during the 2025 season.

The Chargers also announced that they now have the option to wear powder blue pants with their regular jerseys, which are powder blue at home and white on the road.

The Charger Power look features yellowish gold jerseys with matching pants, to be worn with the regular white helmet.

“If you’re going to do gold, the way we did it with all gold, it looks amazing,” Chargers safety Derwin James Jr. said in a team news release. “It’s a great alternate!”

When the Bolts don the uniforms Oct. 19 against the Indianapolis Colts at SoFi Stadium, it will be the first time Chargers players have worn gold jerseys in a game. Fans, however, have had the opportunity to wear them in the past.

“Nike had previously done a retail version of the 2020 jerseys in gold,” A.G. Spanos, the Chargers’ president of business operations, said in a statement. “It sold quite well and had really good word of mouth. In fact, in my own household, it was my kids’ favorite uniform. It definitely appeals to the younger demographic.”

The look has already garnered plenty of online reactions. One longtime fan, who appreciated the nod to the yellow “Charger Power” T-shirts worn by Bolts faithful in the late 1970s and early 1980s, wrote on X that the uniforms are “simply beautiful.”

Retired NFL offensive lineman and current Amazon football analyst Andrew Whitworth spoke from experience after wearing similarly colored alternative uniforms on occasion during his time with the Rams.

“Been there done this,” Whitworth wrote on X. “Had me out there looking like Big Bird!”

The Minions, the cartoon characters from the “Despicable Me” film franchise, seemed to like the uniforms … though perhaps not for how they’ll look on an NFL field.

“the new recruits look so cool,” the fictional creatures wrote on X in response to a team post highlighting the Charger Power look.

Cam Jordan, a defensive end for the New Orleans Saints, had a more critical take, posting on X: “Gold!???? Nah that’s … French’s! That is mustard yellow…”

One X user compared the look to that of a popular novelty baseball team.

“We look like damn Savannah Bananas,” the fan wrote. “At least the Navy’s are [fire emoji].”

The latter part of that post referred to the team’s second set of alternate duds: the Super Chargers uniforms. They feature navy blue jerseys, pants and helmets and are meant as a “modern throwback” to the San Diego Chargers’ look from 1992 to 2006 — a span that included the organization’s only Super Bowl appearance, following the 1994 season.

“When you saw that jersey, more than likely you were in Qualcomm Stadium,” retired running back LaDainian Tomlinson, who played for the Chargers from 2001 to 2009, said in the team’s news release. “And, more than likely, if you were on the other team in that era you were leaving with a loss.”

The Super Chargers uniforms will debut during the team’s “Thursday Night Football” game against the Minnesota Vikings on Oct. 23, the same night the Chargers will be inducting former safety Rodney Harrison into the team’s Hall of Fame. The uniforms will be worn again Nov. 30 against the Las Vegas Raiders.

England get an early breakthrough on day five as Jofra Archer bowls Rishabh Pant for nine to reduce India to 71-5, chasing 193 to win on the final day of the third Test at Lord’s.

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England captain Ben Stokes produces a stunning throw to run out Rishabh Pant for 74 in the last ball of the morning session on day three of the second Test at Lord’s, to leave India 248-4 at lunch, 139 runs behind England’s first innings score of 387.

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India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant struggles with finger injury as India keep England in sight on day two of third Test.

As his India teammates closed in on dismissing England in the third Test at Lord’s, Rishabh Pant gave himself one last personal fitness test.

When England were nine men down, Pant left the dressing room with bat in hand and walked the boundary for an impromptu net session on Friday.

He just wanted to be sure the left index finger he damaged while wicketkeeping on Thursday could handle his eccentric batting style.

The finger seemingly did.

He walked in as arranged at number five in the order and was still there at stumps after scoring 19 off 33 balls.

Although Pant was visibly in pain after some shots, England didn’t really test him.

He mainly faced tired medium-pacer Chris Woakes and spinner Shoaib Bashir, off whom he hit his three boundaries. He faced only one delivery from the faster Brydon Carse and got a leg bye.

The real test for Pant’s finger and tolerance for pain will surely come on Saturday when India resume on 145-3, trailing England by 242 runs, and he will have to face 145-kilometre-per-hour (90-mile-per-hour) zingers from Jofra Archer and Carse.

Pant was hurt after lunch on Thursday and never returned to keep for India. England wasn’t dismissed until after lunch on Friday, but Pant’s replacement behind the stumps, Dhruv Jurel, shone by taking three catches.

Pant, India’s vice captain, made back-to-back centuries in the first Test and a 65 in the second Test.

India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant has been handed a demerit point after he admitted showing dissent towards the umpires during the first Test with England.

Pant, 27, was deemed to have committed a level one offence by the International Cricket Council (ICC) under article 2.8 of its code of conduct., external

The incident occurred in the 61st over of England’s first innings on day three of the Test at Headingley, when Harry Brook and Ben Stokes were batting.

Pant was seen having a discussion with on-field umpires Paul Reiffel and Chris Gaffaney in relation to the condition of the match ball.

When the umpires refused to change the ball after they had checked it with the ball gauge, Pant reacted by throwing the ball on the ground in front of them.

Because Pant admitted the offence, and accepted the sanction proposed by match referee Richie Richardson, he was not required to attend a formal hearing.

An ICC statement said: “One demerit point has been added to Pant’s disciplinary record, for whom it was the first offence in a 24-month period.”

When a player reaches four or more demerit points within a two-year time frame, the points are converted into suspension points and a player is banned.

Two suspension points equate to a ban from one Test or two ODIs or two T20Is.

Left-hander Pant has played a key role for India during the match in Leeds.

He became only the second batter to make hundreds in each innings in a Test at Headingley and the second wicketkeeper to do so anywhere.

India was all out for 364, opening the door for England to stage a dramatic test cricket win at Headingley on final day.

Another India lower-order collapse gave England a fighting chance of a thrilling cricket victory in the first Test at Headingley, with the hosts 21-0 in their second innings at the close of play on day four, chasing 371 to win.

Josh Tongue, just as he did in the first innings, came to the fore when seeing off the Indian tail, with three wickets in four balls helping ensure the tourists lost their final six second-innings wickets for 31 runs on Monday.

The collapse, which saw India all out for 364, gave the dangerous Jasprit Bumrah the chance to attack England before close of play. But neither opener, Zak Crawley nor Ben Duckett, looked troubled as they repelled the Indian attack until stumps.

Reaching 371 would be England’s second-highest successful Test run chase against India, and the second-highest at Headingley, more than the Ben Stokes-inspired heroics on the same ground against Australia in 2019.

“To get them all out and not lose a wicket in the last half hour, Ducky [Ben Duckett] and Zak [Crawley] batted really well,” Tongue told Sky Sports.

“The first session we batted really well, I thought we were unlucky. The message was to hit the pitch as hard as we can. It flattened out in the second session. We just had to stay patient.”

Resuming day four on 90-2 in their second innings, with a lead of 96 runs, India captain Shubman Gill, who made his highest Test score in the first innings, chopped onto his stumps to fall for eight to Brydon Carse.

England sensed an opportunity, having dragged themselves back into the Test on Sunday. But Rishabh Pant’s 195-run middle-order partnership with KL Rahul swung the momentum back in India’s favour.

Rahul, Pant rally

The normally box-office Pant started his innings quite conservatively, happy to watch on as Rahul moved smoothly to his century, his ninth in Tests, eight of which have come overseas.

After smashing two sixes in three balls after lunch, however, Pant hit the accelerator and brought out his typically flamboyant shots to all corners of the ground, with his hundred meaning, for the first time, that there have been five India centuries scored in one Test match.

Pant eventually tried one shot too many, caught chasing another six on the boundary by Crawley for 118 before Rahul fell shortly after tea for 137, again chopping onto the stumps off the bowling of Carse.

Then came the Tongue-inspired collapse, as the fast bowler took three wickets and the catch that brought about the end of India’s innings as the touring side, having lost their final six first-innings wickets for 24 runs, fell apart again.

Bumrah, the number one-ranked Test bowler in the world, who took five wickets in the first innings, immediately grabbed the ball but got very little joy as Crawley remained unbeaten on 12, while Duckett will return for a tantalising Tuesday on nine.

The odds are stacked against England on the final day, but there is hope at least. In 59 Tests when defending totals of over 350, India have only lost once. That, however, was against England in 2022.

“Someone’s got to win tomorrow; it will be an interesting day,” Rahul told Sky Sports.

“The wicket is not as easy as the first innings. They won’t find it as easy to hit the ball on the rise. Even if they get a big partnership, if we get a couple of wickets, we’ll be right in the game.”