The Adelaide Strikers have been mocked for launching a T-shirt featuring a silhouette of Ben Stokes celebrating his greatest Test moment against Australia.

Stokes has signed with the Big Bash franchise for the entire season following his retirement from the England Test team.

A long-time nemesis of Australia, it will mark the 35-year-old’s first foray into the BBL — in the same season former England teammate Jonny Bairstow also debuts for the Melbourne Stars.

Stokes’s arrival is a coup for the Strikers after missing the finals in three of the past four years.

And Adelaide’s attempt to max out their investment is already underway with new merchandise unveiled on Wednesday night.

“We’re Stoked with our limited edition Strikers merch,” the Strikers said.

“Celebrate Ben Stokes joining the Adelaide Strikers this season with your very own limited edition ‘Stoked’ T-shirt.”

But fans quickly questioned the use of Stokes’s celebration from the famous Headingley Test in the 2019 Ashes.

“You do realise what match that silhouette of Stokes is from and why no Australian cricket fan will buy it, don’t you?” one wrote.

Another called it “un-Australian” while one more said it was a “hard no”.

Then Stokes himself got involved, seemingly accepting the problem and suggesting a solution: ‘Ben Stokes is a s*** bloke.’

“Would have loved recreating one of the greatest T-shirts ever made,” he wrote.

“Stuart Broad’s name just a straight swap for mine and a blue tee.”

Aussie fans donned the T-shirts in the 2013-14 Ashes when Broad was public enemy No.1 for failing to walk during the 2013 series in England.

Opinions turned later in Broad’s career, something now on offer for Stokes with his BBL stint.

Bairstow’s Stars also poked fun at the Strikers’ T-shirt.

The Melbourne franchise edited a silhouette of Bairstow’s infamous Ashes stumping from the 2023 Ashes onto a green T-shirt with the caption ‘Stumped’.

Adelaide’s Stokes merchandise remains available to pre-order for $45.

Stokes is in line to make his Strikers debut on December 16 against the Sydney Thunder in Canberra.

Bairstow could pull on Stars colours for the first time two nights later — against Stokes’s Strikers at the MCG.