Cricket Team Name Generator

Franchise-style sides and cricket puns for any XI

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Generate cricket team names for club, school, corporate, tennis-ball and fantasy sides: franchise-style names like Coastal Cobras and Monsoon Kings, and puns on the game's own words such as Just Googly It, Ministry of Silly Points and Slogdog Millionaires.

About cricket team names

Cricket team names come in two broad kinds. The first is the franchise name that the T20 leagues made familiar: a city or region followed by a plural with some swagger, usually Kings, Royals, Strikers, Warriors or Titans. The franchise-style names here follow that pattern but are built mostly on generic geography, a coast, a harbor or a hill station, as in Coastal Cobras, Spice Coast Strikers and Seven Hills Sultans.

The second kind is the pun on cricket's own vocabulary. A googly is a leg-spinner's ball that turns the other way, a yorker lands at the batter's feet, a maiden is an over in which the bowler gives away no runs, silly point is a fielding position close to the bat, a duck is a score of zero, and howzat is the appeal to the umpire. That gives you Just Googly It, New Yorkers, Iron Maidens, Ministry of Silly Points, Golden Ducks and Howzat Possible.

The list also covers the sides people really run: gully and tennis-ball teams (Tape Ball Tigers, Six and Out), office elevens (Out of Office XI, Reply All Rounders), fantasy line-ups (Wrong Captain Again) and traditional club and pub names such as Old Orchard Cricket Club and Royal Oak Ramblers.

How to choose cricket team names

  • For a league entry, take a franchise-style name and replace the place with your own. Your town, suburb, housing society or company in front of Strikers, Royals or Titans reads as a real side at once.
  • Pick the pun that fits how your team plays. A side of hitters can be Slogdog Millionaires or Six Shooters, and a bowling side can be Seam Team, Spin Doctors or Toe Crushers.
  • Self-mocking names are a club tradition. Lower Order Collapse, Butter Fingers and Extras Top Scored tell the opposition you are there for the tea as much as the result.
  • Check that the name fits the scorebook and the scoring app. Two or three words such as Monsoon Kings or Sticky Wickets are easier to write, shout and abbreviate than a full sentence.
  • Fantasy leagues fill up with the same famous puns, so scroll further and take a less common one, such as Carrom Ballers or Nurdle Turtles.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a good cricket team name?

It should be easy to shout, short enough for a scorebook, and either sound like a proper side or make the opposition smile. Franchise-style names such as Harbor City Hawks and Delta Dynamos do the first job, and puns such as Crease Lightning or Umpire Strikes Back do the second.

Are any of these the names of real T20 franchises?

They are not meant to be. The franchise-style names pair generic geography, such as a coast, a harbor or a hill station, with a common plural like Strikers or Royals instead of a real franchise city. The list has not been compared with any league's records, and with thousands of clubs in the world a local side may share one, so search the name in your own competition before you register it.

What does XI mean in a cricket team name?

XI is the Roman numeral for eleven, the number of players in a cricket side, so Out of Office XI simply means the Out of Office eleven. It is a traditional ending for invitational, school and works teams, which is why President's XI and Staff Room XI sound established without trying.

Do these work for tennis-ball, box and gully cricket teams?

Yes. One group of names is written for exactly those games, including Tennis Ball Titans, Gully Boys, Box Cricket Bosses and the house rules every street side knows, such as One Hand One Bounce and Over the Fence Is Out. Several use Hindi and Urdu words, for example toofan (storm), bijli (lightning) and dosti (friendship).

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This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 9 names

  • Absolute Jaffas
  • Absolute Peaches
  • Alumni All Stars
  • Arm Ball Aces
  • Armchair Captains
  • Armchair Selectors
  • Ashes to Ashes
  • Audit Openers
  • Automatic Wickie

B: 45 names

  • Back in the Hutch
  • Backbenchers XI
  • Backseat Selectors
  • Backwater Buccaneers
  • Backyard Test Match
  • Bad Light Brigade
  • Bad Light Stopped Play
  • Bail Outs
  • Banana Swing
  • Bat Attitude
  • Bat Pad Catchers
  • Bat Signal
  • Bats in the Belfry
  • Batsman Begins
  • Batsman Forever
  • Batting Above Average
  • Batting Below Average
  • Bayside Blasters
  • Beach Cricket Kings
  • Beamer Me Up
  • Bench Strength
  • Bijli Bowlers
  • Bin for a Wicket
  • Bits and Pieces Players
  • Block C Blasters
  • Blockers Anonymous
  • Blue Mountain Blasters
  • Boardroom Bouncers
  • Bottle Openers
  • Bottom of the Table
  • Boundary Badshahs
  • Boundary Hunters
  • Boundary Issues
  • Boundary Riders
  • Bowled and the Beautiful
  • Bowler Hats
  • Box Cricket Bosses
  • Broken Window Brigade
  • Bucket Hands
  • Buffet Bowlers
  • Bunk Masters
  • Bursting at the Seams
  • Bus Stand Bashers
  • Butter Fingers
  • Bye Bye Byes

C: 47 names

  • Can Openers
  • Can't Get Out First Ball
  • Canteen Kings
  • Cantonment Cavaliers
  • Capital City Chargers
  • Car Park Cricketers
  • Carrom Ballers
  • Cartwheeling Stumps
  • Castled
  • Catches Win Matches
  • Caught and Bowled Over
  • Caught Behind
  • Caught in the Deep
  • Caught Napping
  • Centurions
  • Chai Break XI
  • Cheeky Singles
  • Chin Music
  • Chirpers
  • Chirping Crickets
  • Church Meadow CC
  • Clean Bowled
  • Clean Sweepers
  • Close of Play
  • Club Bouncers
  • Coastal Cobras
  • Colony Kings
  • Copper Coast Cougars
  • Coral Coast Chargers
  • Corridor Cricket Club
  • Corridor of Uncertainty
  • Couch Commentators
  • Cover Drive Me Crazy
  • Cover Drivers
  • Covers Off
  • Covers On
  • Cow Corner Cowboys
  • Crease Is the Word
  • Crease Lightning
  • Crease Monkeys
  • Creative Scoring
  • Cricket Tea Champions
  • Cricketers Arms XI
  • Crown Colony Kings
  • Cubicle Cutters
  • Cucumber Sandwiches
  • Cut Above

D: 32 names

  • Daddy Hundreds
  • Daisy Cutters
  • Dark Nightwatchmen
  • Dead Bat Society
  • Dead Rubber
  • Death Overs
  • Declaration Bowlers
  • Deep Midwicket Thoughts
  • Delta Dynamos
  • Desi Dashers
  • Diamond Ducks
  • Dibbly Dobblies
  • Differential Picks
  • Direct Hits
  • Dolly Droppers
  • Doosra Chance
  • Doosra Opinion
  • Dosti XI
  • Dot Ball Counters
  • Double Nelson
  • Downtown Dynamites
  • Drinks Break
  • Drinks Carriers
  • Driving Miss Daisy Cutter
  • DRS Drama
  • Duck and Cover
  • Duck Hunters
  • Duck Season
  • Duck Tales
  • Ducks in a Row
  • Duckworth Lewis Victims
  • Dukes of Yorker

E: 10 names

  • Early Shower
  • Eastside Emperors
  • Economy Class
  • Edged and Taken
  • Emerald Isle Eagles
  • Evening League Legends
  • Evil Umpire
  • Express Pace
  • Extra Cover Charge
  • Extras Top Scored

F: 20 names

  • Final Year Finishers
  • Finance Finishers
  • Fine Legs
  • Fishing Outside Off
  • Five Day Wonders
  • Five For Fighting
  • Flat Track Bullies
  • Flight and Guile
  • Floodlight Fanatics
  • Flying Bails
  • Follow On Enforcers
  • Foothill Falcons
  • Fortune Favors the Bowled
  • Forward Defensive
  • Fox and Hounds XI
  • Free Hit Wonders
  • Freshers XI
  • Freudian Slips
  • Front Foot No Balls
  • Frontier Falcons

G: 18 names

  • Galle Force Winds
  • Garden City Giants
  • Gate Crashers
  • Gateway Gladiators
  • Genuine All Rounders
  • Golden Ducks
  • Golden Gate Googlies
  • Goldfield Gladiators
  • Gone Fishing
  • Googly Eyes
  • Great Lakes Lightning
  • Green Tops
  • Green Valley Guardians
  • Ground Staff
  • Gully Boys
  • Gully Cricket Graduates
  • Gully Gang
  • Gully Ke Sher

H: 19 names

  • Harbor City Hawks
  • Hat Trick Heroes
  • Hat Tricksters
  • Heavy Rollers
  • Helicopter Shots
  • Hello Dolly
  • Helmet Rattlers
  • Here for the Teas
  • Highland Strikers
  • Hill Country Hawks
  • Hill Station Heroes
  • Hit and Giggle
  • Hit for Six
  • Hit Wicket Heroes
  • Holy Cow Corner
  • Hostel Block Heroes
  • Howzat
  • Howzat Possible
  • HR All Rounders

I: 6 names

  • Inside Edges
  • Into the Stands
  • Iron Maidens
  • Island Breakers
  • It's Just Not Cricket
  • Ivory Tower Invincibles

J: 5 names

  • Jaffa Cakes
  • Jiminy Crickets
  • Jugaad XI
  • Juicy Full Tosses
  • Just Googly It

K: 5 names

  • Kandy Crush
  • King's Head XI
  • Kings of Swing
  • Knocked for Six
  • Knocked In

L: 17 names

  • Lagaan Legends
  • Lagoon Leopards
  • Lake City Lightning
  • Lakeside Lions
  • Lame Ducks
  • Last Minute Lineup
  • Last Wicket Stand
  • Late Cutters
  • Leather Chasers
  • Leather on Willow
  • Leg Break Dancers
  • Legside Larrikins
  • Linseed Oilers
  • Long Walk Back
  • Lost Ball Legends
  • Lower Order Collapse
  • Lunch Break Legends

M: 23 names

  • Maiden Heaven
  • Maiden Overs
  • Maiden Voyage
  • Mangrove Marlins
  • Marina Mavericks
  • Market Town Marauders
  • Marketing Mavericks
  • Masala Chai Strikers
  • Metro Monarchs
  • MG Road Mavericks
  • Middle Order Muddle
  • Middle Stump Magnets
  • Midlands Mavericks
  • Midweek Marauders
  • Midwicket Crisis
  • Mighty Ducks
  • Military Medium
  • Mill Lane CC
  • Ministry of Silly Points
  • Monsoon Kings
  • Monsoon Wedding Crashers
  • Mullygrubbers
  • Mystery Spinners

N: 13 names

  • Neighbor's Garden XI
  • Nelson's Column
  • Nervous Nineties
  • Net Run Rate Nerds
  • New Ball Partners
  • New Yorkers
  • Ninety Nine Not Out
  • No Rest for the Wicket
  • Northside Nawabs
  • Nudge and Nurdle
  • Number Elevens
  • Nurdle Turtles
  • Nurdlers

O: 17 names

  • Oasis Royals
  • Off Breakfast Club
  • Off the Middle
  • Old Boys XI
  • Old Orchard Cricket Club
  • Old Scholars XI
  • Old Town Outlaws
  • One Hand One Bounce
  • Opening Stand
  • Out for a Duck
  • Out of Office XI
  • Out of Our Crease
  • Over Achievers
  • Over and Out
  • Over the Fence Is Out
  • Over the Moon
  • Over Thinkers

P: 23 names

  • Pace Cadets
  • Pace Invaders
  • Pace Makers
  • Pace Yourself
  • Padded Up
  • Palm Coast Pirates
  • Pavilion Bar Regulars
  • Pavilion End
  • Peninsula Pirates
  • Pie Chuckers
  • Pitch Deck XI
  • Pitch Perfect XI
  • Plastic Bat Legends
  • Plateau Panthers
  • Played and Missed
  • Playing XI Predictors
  • Plumb in Front
  • Points Table Toppers
  • Popping Creases
  • Port City Panthers
  • Powerplay Rangers
  • President's XI
  • Pushing Boundaries

Q: 3 names

  • Quack Squad
  • Quarter End Quicks
  • Quick Singles

R: 18 names

  • Railway Arms XI
  • Railway Town Rockets
  • Rain Stopped Play
  • Raise the Bat
  • Ramp It Up
  • Reply All Rounders
  • Reverse Sweepers
  • Right Off the Bat
  • Ring Road Royals
  • Riverfront Rhinos
  • Riverside Royals
  • Rooftop Rockets
  • Rose and Crown XI
  • Royal Oak Ramblers
  • Run Machines
  • Run Out Specialists
  • Run Rate Analysts
  • Runs on the Board

S: 85 names

  • Safe Hands
  • Samosa Sloggers
  • Sandshoe Crushers
  • Sandstorm Stallions
  • Sapphire Coast Sharks
  • Savannah Stallions
  • Saved by DLS
  • Scorebook Fiction
  • Seam Team
  • Seams Legit
  • Sector 7 Strikers
  • Seven Hills Sultans
  • Shandaar Strikers
  • Shine One Side
  • Short Legs
  • Sightscreen Movers
  • Silk City Spartans
  • Silly Mid Offs
  • Silly Mid Ons
  • Silly Point Break
  • Silly Points
  • Silver City Seamers
  • Sister Sledge
  • Sitting Ducks
  • Six and Out
  • Six Shooters
  • Sixer Kings
  • Sixer Sultans
  • Sixth Sense
  • Sledge Hammers
  • Slip Cordon
  • Slip Sliding Away
  • Slip Ups
  • Slog Sweepers
  • Slogdog Millionaires
  • Slow Over Rate
  • Snicko Says No
  • Snow Line Leopards
  • Society Superstars
  • Sofa Selectors
  • Soft Signal
  • Something Wicket This Way Comes

S, continued

  • Southside Sultans
  • Spice Coast Strikers
  • Spin City
  • Spin Cycle
  • Spin Doctors
  • Spin to Win
  • Splice Girls
  • Splice of Life
  • Sporting Declaration
  • Spreadsheet Sloggers
  • Square Legs
  • Square Turners
  • Staff Room XI
  • Stat Padders
  • Station Road CC
  • Station Road Strikers
  • Steel City Strikers
  • Sticky Dogs
  • Sticky Wickets
  • Storm Coast Cyclones
  • Street Light Strikers
  • Strike Rate Snobs
  • Strike Rotators
  • Stump Mic Confessions
  • Stump Speech
  • Stumped
  • Stumps Drawn
  • Suburban Superstars
  • Summit Strikers
  • Sun Coast Smashers
  • Sunday Best XI
  • Sunday Drivers
  • Sunday Morning Sixers
  • Sunday Seconds
  • Sunrise Strikers
  • Sunset Boulevard Sloggers
  • Super Over Achievers
  • Sweep Dreams
  • Sweep Stakes
  • Sweet Spot
  • Swing and a Miss
  • Swing When You're Winning
  • Switch Hitters

T: 51 names

  • Tableland Tuskers
  • Tail Waggers
  • Tape Ball Tigers
  • Tape Ball Tornadoes
  • Tea Break Titans
  • Tea Country Titans
  • Tea Interval
  • Temple City Titans
  • Tennis Ball Titans
  • Tennis Ball Tonkers
  • Tenth Wicket Partnership
  • Terrace Test Team
  • The Casuals
  • The Common Cricket Club
  • The Ferrets
  • The Hung Overs
  • The Nightwatchmen
  • The Nomads CC
  • The Occasionals
  • The Rabbits
  • The Ramblers CC
  • The Red Lion XI
  • The Stragglers
  • The Third Men
  • The Wanderers
  • The Wicket Man
  • The Wrong 'Uns
  • Thick Edges
  • Third Floor Third Umpires
  • Third Umpires
  • Through the Gate
  • Timber Merchants
  • Timberline Tigers
  • Timeless Test
  • Tip and Run
  • Toe Crushers
  • Toe Enders
  • Ton Up Boys
  • Toofan XI
  • Top of Off
  • Top Spinners
  • Toss Time Tinkerers
  • Tower B Titans
  • Trade Wind Tornadoes
  • Tri-State Titans
  • Trundlers
  • Turf Night Titans
  • Turn and Bounce
  • Twelfth Men
  • Twin Rivers Tigers
  • Twirlymen

U: 10 names

  • Ultra Edgy
  • Umpire State Building
  • Umpire Strikes Back
  • Umpire's Call
  • Underarm Bowlers
  • Undercover Drivers
  • University City Comets
  • Upper Cuts
  • Uptown Royals
  • Urn Respect

V: 4 names

  • Valley Vipers
  • Village Green Preservation Society
  • Village Green XI
  • Village Sloggers

W: 17 names

  • Wasted Reviews
  • We Always Walk
  • Well Left
  • Westside Warlords
  • Wicket Game
  • Wicket Smart
  • Wicket Witches
  • WicketLeaks
  • Wicketpedia
  • Wide Boys
  • Willow Warriors
  • Willow Wielders
  • Wind in the Willows
  • Wing A Warriors
  • Wobble Seam
  • Wrist Spin Wizards
  • Wrong Captain Again

Y: 3 names

  • Yes No Sorry
  • Yes No Wait On
  • Yorker Puddings