National Team Nickname/Team Name

[Goughy]

Scenario- The ICC have decided that all national teams have to compete in Test, ODIs and T20 with an associated team/franchise/national name like English county teams, IPL teams, and those in American sport (eg Cowboys, Knight Riders, Spitfires etc)

Despite your own thoughts on the matter, you have been tasked to decide on the name for your national team (or other if you want)

Be as traditional or creative as you think best.

England Stoics
Zimbabwe Farm Invaders

 

[Smudge]

New Zealand Black Caps.

Oh, wait....




Nah, I'd probably go for:

New Zealand Hobbits

 

[sledger]

India are often referred to as Australia B team around here.

 

[Goughy]

New Zealand Black Caps.

Oh, wait....




Nah, I'd probably go for:

New Zealand Hobbits

You'd go with Black Caps? I guess that is what they would choose. Same as England would surely be the Lions. South Africa the Proteas etc

How about New Zealand Pākehās?

 

[Smudge]

How about New Zealand Pākehās?

Errr, that would make Ryder, Taylor, Patel and any other non-whites feel rather uncomfortable...

 

[Top_Cat]

The Australian Collapsoblues

Middle order woes and NSW selection bias in one title. You know it's troo.

 

[Hurricane]

Errr, that would make Ryder, Taylor, Patel and any other non-whites feel rather uncomfortable...

What ethnicity is Ryder?

 

[Smudge]

Part-Maori.

 

[benchmark00]

England Springboks.

 

[Smudge]

England Springboks.

QFT.

England International Invitational XI would also have been an acceptable answer.

 

[benchmark00]

Australian John Farnhams.

 

[Goughy]

Errr, that would make Ryder, Taylor, Patel and any other non-whites feel rather uncomfortable...

I was not being entirely serious

 

[vcs]

The Indian media have already bestowed the cringeworthy "Men In Blue" nickname to our chaps.

 

[G.I.Joe]

That'd make our bowlers the Blueballs. Sounds about right.

 

[Pratters]

I remember Pepsi in blue color released a few years back. YUCK.

 

[NUFAN]

The baggy-greens or seeing as though all of sports teams in Australia have something to do with a native animal (Wallabies, Kookaburras, Socceroos etc) How about the Aussie Fruit Bats or Wombats.

 

[Pratters]

Wombats. HOTT.

 

[Jezroy]

Australian John Farnhams.

That is the best idea. Not since sliced bread. Since ever.

 

[Jezroy]

Also the Black Caps appear to get the Black Craps quite a bit in our media.

Mostly around day 3 or 4 of a test match.

 

[Zinzan]

Part-Maori.

Yeah, always thought Ryder was 1/4 Maori, 1/4 NZ European & 1/2 drunk