There's some pretty decent merchandise that MLC franchises are offering, even though they've barely made a peep to let people know it exists. Here's a rundown of what's available (and what's not). 

Photo credit: Seattle Orcas Online Store

By Peter Della Penna (Twitter/X @PeterDellaPenna)
 
One of the easiest ways to connect with sports fans in America is through a team’s variety of official merchandise. Even in cricket grounds in foreign countries, there’s a high probability of spotting more fans on the concourse wearing the caps of American sports teams than those of the cricket team that they’re there to watch on the day (and it’s not just people wearing 10 different versions of a New York Yankees hat). 
 
As many readers are aware, this reporter has been hammering on about this point ad nauseum since the league began in 2023 regarding the overall apathy from the six franchises when it comes to fan engagement and especially as it relates to team merchandise. However, it’s not all bad. Some teams have made significant strides in the years since, and some are definitely better than others. But now that the 2026 season is over, there’s an opportunity to more acutely scrutinize who’s doing it well versus who isn’t (if they’re even doing anything about it at all). 
 
Another motivation for doing this article is to make people aware of what exactly is out there because it’s a chore just to locate official team merchandise in the first place. The official MLC web site currently doesn’t even have a link to its online store anywhere on the home page. An online store definitely exists, but you would have had to bookmark it previously or find it through a Google search because it is not clickable off the current home page even though the online store is functional and linked inside the back end of the MLC web site. 
 
After jumping through enough hoops to land on the MLC online store (which itself just redirects you to six separate online store links to each of the franchises), one of the first things to note is the different approaches that each franchise has taken. Some teams offer a wide variety of options while others have kept it basic. Some offer men’s items only, while others sell items designed for women and kids. Amazingly, none of the six teams offers a wide brimmed floppy hat, one of the iconic staples on a cricket field (and a favorite of Orcas bowler Jessy Singh). In terms of cold-weather suited options, none of the teams offers a beanie style hat, which is a generally popular offering even for traditionally summer season or indoor arena sports teams to sell. 
 
Anyway, here’s a graded rundown of what each MLC team has been offering, both online and in person at the MLC stadium venues. 
 
Seattle Orcas – Overall: A-
 
It should be no surprise to anyone following the first four years of MLC that the Orcas currently have hands down the best array of merchandise in 2026. This is a major step up from the first few seasons of the league, when Orcas items were in high demand from fans at the ground even though they were mysteriously unavailable from the on-site store in Grand Prairie. Things shifted dramatically in 2025 and have continued trending upward in 2026. Much of the items have a quirkiness to them that fits with Seattle’s persona, making it stuff you’d want to buy if you live in Seattle but don’t even know about cricket. If you’re a neutral or casual fan, you’d be attracted to visit and buy purely because much of the Orcas merch simply looks cool, whether or not you know it has anything to do with cricket. 
 
Jerseys: A
 
The Orcas are the only team to offer player name and number jerseys for the 2026 squad, and it’s not just one or two players. They have 13 available player jerseys on offer, including all the Americans: Harmeet Singh, Jessy Singh, Cameron Gannon, Shayan Jahangir, Shehan Jayasuriya, Ali Sheikh, Ayan Desai and Rahul Jariwala. They also have Marcus Stoinis, Tim Seifert and Shimron Hetmyer available as overseas players. You can also get a generic jersey with nobody’s name or number on the back. No matter which one you choose, it’s a flat $55 price. 
 
In spite of such a wide variety available, they do not offer a jersey for three of their best performing overseas players from 2026: Ottneil Baartman, Matthew Breetzke and Dasun Shanaka. Going back to previous years, they also still have available for sale jerseys for Heinrich Klaasen, David Warner, Quinton de Kock, Imad Wasim, Wayne Parnell and even Aaron Jones (which could become a quirky collector’s item considering his ICC suspension). You can also even buy a jersey with “Yorka” on the back, the Orcas mascot. They also offer a bright orange alternate color training style jersey with players names on the back, but only available with players from prior seasons (de Kock, Klaasen, Parnell, Jones). Even though it’s fairly outdated, they’re also stubbornly sticking to a $55 price on it. 
 
General merchandise: A- 
 
The Orcas sell nine different types of unisex t-shirts (all between $29.99 and $34.99), two hooded sweatshirts (a bit steep at $74.99), five types of polo/golf shirts ($33.99 to $34.99), two types of hats and even a scarf ($29.99). The t-shirts have an interesting range, and almost all of them are catchy in different ways. At the top of the list is the “Bigfoot” one, touching on the mythical beast’s links to the Pacific Northwest, holding an Orcas branded bat and wearing batting leg guards. One shirt has Yorka wearing an Uncle Sam hat with “America’s Favorite Cricket Team” (Orcas have been pushing this in a somewhat goofy manner for several years, but if none of the other five MLC teams is claiming it, who can blame the Orcas for trying) in block letters. Another has “SEATTLE ORCAS CRICKET” in block letters in the style and color of the iconic Pike Place “PUBLIC MARKET CENTER” sign in Seattle. 
 
Even what at first appears to be a basic “Seattle Orcas” t-shirt has creative flair with a cricket bat drawn in above the E and A while the bat handle crosses the two Ts. There’s also two different t-shirts featuring Yorka, including one where the mascot is banging a traditional dhol drum. One of the golf shirts has a cricket bat crossed with a golf club over the breast. It’s another example of the Orcas designers inserting subtle notes to connect with cricket and Seattle.  The Orcas also sell a reversible bucket hat and a traditional baseball style cap. 
 
Women: B
 
The Orcas sell four apparel items – three t-shirts ($34.99) and one hooded sweatshirt ($74.99) designed specifically for women. The best of these from a concept standpoint is a t-shirt that says “Wicket” in big letters with “For Seattle Orcas” in much smaller green letters underneath. The design is aimed as a play on “Wicked: For Good” with a matching green color scheme shared by the movie and the Orcas. It also has a faded embed of stumps being broken with bails flying behind the letters. Considering how bland the majority of cricket merchandise is around the world, this is a tremendous item for thematic scheme, design and execution. The “Queen of the Ovals” t-shirt features a Queen from a deck of playing cards with the color scheme changed from traditional black or red to Orcas green instead. It’s ambiguous what they’re going for and overall it looks like a misfire, but at least they’re tinkering. There’s also an Orcas female tank top which is one of those love it or hate it items with no middle ground. 
 
Youth: C+ 
 
There’s only one item available for purchase designed for youth so the Orcas get a downgrade in the category for lack of options, but the one item they do have is fairly good from a quality standpoint. It’s a t-shirt ($29.99) centered on Yorka in which the mascot is pictured 14 different ways performing different cricket poses or skills. In a “Toy Story” kind of way, the shirt appeals to both kids and adults. But it is expensive for a kids size item and not priced lower than the lowest adult shirts.  
 
Texas Super Kings – Overall: B
 
The Texas MLC franchise gets extra points for being the only franchise that actually uses some of their players to model the actual merchandise available in the team store with Calvin Savage and Mohammad Mohsin pictured on the team web site wearing various items. The team’s predominantly yellow color scheme doesn’t naturally lend itself to popular clothing, yet they’ve still managed to come up with some creative options that don’t come off looking so garish that you wouldn’t want to be seen in public. TSK also gets credit for making their stuff readily available in person at Grand Prairie Stadium, which sounds pretty basic except when you see where other franchises dropped the ball. They’ve also incorporated some Texas themed traits into different t-shirt designs, such as a man in a cowboy hat running in to bowl. 
 
Jerseys: B-
 
TSK’s only available option is the standard team jersey ($55) with no name or number on the back. So if you wanted a specific Faf du Plessis one or a Sai Mukkamalla to support USA’s premier locally developed batter, you’re out of luck. However, TSK’s redeeming option is the fact that they sell a kids size version of the jersey ($50), something the Orcas don’t offer in spite of their far wider supply of adult player options. 
 
General merchandise: B
 
As mentioned above, TSK offer some creative options within their color limitations, with the most obvious one being the “Cricket Cowboy Tee” ($28) as well as a button down beige shirt which looks classy and has cowboys subtly embedded. There’s also a more obvious TSK yellow roaring lion polo shirt ($36). They offer five different types of hats including three baseball style ($28) and two different types of bucket hat including the wildly popular traditional TSK yellow one ($24) which is reversible. Bizarrely, you can’t buy the version of the hat which the players actually wear on field. Understandably for a team based in Texas playing a summer sport, they don’t offer any type of cold weather items like a hooded sweatshirt or a beanie hat, but it would be a plus to have the option for fans traveling or based elsewhere. 
 
Women: F
 
TSK does not offer a single item in women’s sizes or themed options. 
 
Youth: B
 
In addition to the kids size team jersey, TSK offers four different types of shirts in kids sizes. Three of them are t-shirts ($24), including the “Cowboy Cricket tee” which could be a fun gift item. The roaring lion collared polo shirt is also available in a kids size version ($32). 
 
San Francisco Unicorns – Overall: B-
 
Unicorns have improved dramatically from 2025 to 2026, but their strategy is also muddled. Problem number one is that the link to Unicorns merchandise from the MLC team store online web site actually takes you to their outdated 2025 merchandise range. If you want what was available for the 2026 season, which is not just newer but better and more creative, you have to go directly to the Unicorns independently run web site. There’s also a disparity between what’s available online vs what you could get in person at the Oakland Coliseum MLC store, specifically the t-shirt jerseys of R Ashwin, Finn Allen and Haris Rauf which for some reason are not being sold online. 
 
Jerseys: B
 
The Unicorns offer the traditional orange team jersey ($45) as well as an alternate and arguably more palatable in public dark blue “training” jersey ($45). However, none of these options are available with player name or number on the back. Aside from the overseas player options who might be in demand, it looks like a major error as an outside observer that they have never made a #27 Sanjay Krishnamurthi jersey available for purchase when he’s arguably been the most marketable local star in the team for the last three seasons. The Unicorns also offer a kids size version of the traditional jersey ($45) but the fact that it’s the same price as the adult version is off-putting. 
 
General merchandise: B+ 
 
If you combine what’s still available from the old Unicorns inventory on their 2025 merchant web site with their more up to date 2026 options, Unicorns have a decent variety with five different t-shirts ($36-45), two different types of hooded sweatshirt (newer one $70, older one $110 but only available in 4XL), a crew neck sweatshirt ($70), but only one hat which is the team’s on-field one ($35). The fact that they offer multiple hoodies in the cold-weather Oakland Coliseum is smart, but the lack of a beanie cap is disappointing. However, they’re also the only team that offers team logo training shorts to buy. 
 
The two newest design items available in 2026 are arguably the best offered by any franchise in terms of incorporating local thematic elements. One is the “Art Deco” item, which has a dark blue background and can be purchased as a t-shirt or hoodie. It has the Unicorns logo over the breast on the front and on the back it has a cricket bat balanced against the Golden Gate Bridge with a Unicorns logo ball splashing into the Bay. There’s also images of Coit Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid. Unicorns also offer a white t-shirt called the “415 to 510 Lifestyle” which references the two major phone area codes in the Bay area. It features both the Golden Gate Bridge to the left as well as the Bay Bridge to the right, the Mission District and Oakland Coliseum in the center along with a batter and a bowler. 
 
Women: F 
 
The Unicorns offer no female sized or themed merchandise, which is all the more surprising considering their Director of Communications is a female who used to work for MLC in season one as the league’s digital marketing coordinator. She also previously spent five years working for the San Francisco Giants as part of their in-stadium gameday scoreboard operations team. 
 
Youth: C+ 
 
As mentioned above, Unicorns offer a youth sized version of the team jersey. Their older t-shirts as well as the shorts are available in youth sizes, but disappointingly neither the Art Deco nor the 415 to 510 shirt are offered in a youth size. However, they sell a plush stuffed animal Unicorn $25, the only team to officially offer a toy version of the franchise mascot. They also partnered with Cricbaby, a startup company that was featured at the Cricket Impact Group Summit in October 2025, to produce a Unicorns branded “My First Cricket Kit” ($39.99). The items include three different color versions of soft/squeezable cricket balls, and a mini cricket bat along with a mini kit bag to carry them in. This writer was able to get some free samples of Cricbaby products at the Cricket Impact Summit to give away as gifts to family friends who have had newborns and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. The fact that no other team offers a product like this aimed at toddlers and infants means the Unicorns have the market covered within MLC. 
 
MI New York – Overall: B-
 
For all the flack that MI New York gets for being inauthentic, some of it deserved, they actually have made a decent effort with their merchandise to establish some sort of connection with New York. They also have a wide variety of options. The more traditional stuff mainly hits the mark, though they also have an outsized percentage of items that were attempts at being creative that backfire spectacularly. Most people wouldn’t want to be caught dead in a lot of their merchandise options, which are seemingly destined to end up on a bargain rack at a Goodwill shop for $1.  
 
Jerseys: B+

MINY sell the on-field jersey ($55) but also offer a lower price point option called a fan jersey ($35) which has a slightly modified design to differentiate it from the genuine article as well as a training jersey ($35) which substitutes orange trim for the traditional gold alongside the dominant blue in the team’s color scheme. However, you can’t get individual player name and number options, which is disappointing considering the large number of USA reps that MINY has had over four years, including the league’s leading scorer in 2025, USA captain Monank Patel. They also still offer the 2025 version of the jersey ($55) which is definitely different and arguably more appealing for some people than the 2026 version as well as the fact that it’s the one they wore when they won their second MLC title. On the offbeat track, they also sell a “Cricket Print Baseball Jersey” ($40.99), which looks hideous. 
 
General merchandise: B+
 
MI New York has nine different t-shirt options ($16.99 to $24.99) and two different hooded sweatshirts ($34.99). Of the t-shirts, the biggest thematic successes they’ve attempted are the Statue of Liberty shirt with the flame in her right hand being replaced by a cricket bat being raised as if she’s just scored a century while the book in her left hand is replaced by a cricket ball. There’s also a shirt that mimics a NYC subway map with the traditional subway lines of A, B, C, etc., replaced by “M” “I” “N”  and“Y” subway lines. 
 
The other concept that comes off well is capitalizing on the longstanding tourism campaign with the iconic “I (Heart) NY” in black letters with a red heart on a white background. The cricket team version shows a white background shirt with blue letters, instead of black, showing “MI (Heart) NY”. 
 
Of the misfires, there’s a shirt that’s similar to the baseball style jersey mentioned above, though it’s not quite as garish, that says, “MI New York: Where Yorkers Meet Yorkers” and also includes the words “Champions ’23, ‘25”. The wording is clever, but the design is poor and not something you could envision people actually buying as a result. There are also multiple much less adventurous generic options too. 
 
The two hoodies both have fairly conservative designs compared to the Art Deco option offered by the Unicorns. But the MINY ones are half the price than what Unicorns sell theirs for, which is a major plus. Of the two MINY options, the “Marine Park” version has a classic look and is one that plenty of fans might take up if they were aware of it. The only minus for both hoodies is that the dominant color is white. Darker color hoodies tend to be more popular to wear in cold/bad weather simply due to not staining as easily as whites. 
 
In terms of hats, MI New York sells a popular reversible bucket hat ($24.99) as well as a “fan” baseball style cap ($24.99). But for some inexplicable reason, they don’t offer the on-field cap that the players were. 
 
Aside from wearable merchandise, MI New York also offers a stainless steel 17 oz. water bottle ($26.99). The design is identical to the baseball cricket jersey. It looks far more palatable on a water bottle than it does on something to wear. 
 
Women: F
 
MI New York sell nothing in women’s sizes or themes, which is surprising from the standpoint that their owner, Nita Ambani, is female. 
 
Youth: F
 
MI New York offers nothing catering to kids designs or sizes, which is a major no-no for a New York-linked team. 
 
Washington Freedom – Overall: C-
 
Freedom’s major downgrade is due to the fact that they offered zero merchandise for sale in person at the stadium venues in 2026. Impulse buying at sports stadiums is a major source of merchandise revenue. Many fans will overpay at a stadium store because they have their hands on the stuff directly rather than wait to go home and purchase online or at a partner license retailer. At the moment, the only way to secure Freedom merchandise is online, which is hugely disappointing for a team that won MLC in 2024 and has been to the final three years in a row. 
 
However, they make up for their lack of physical presence by having the widest array of merchandise options available, whether it is wearable apparel or other creative branded options that other franchises haven’t thought of capitalizing on. 
 
Jerseys: D
 
Freedom only offer a replica jersey ($45) which doesn’t have the full logos that the team wears on the field of play. You can’t get it with any players name or number on it. This is hugely disappointing considering that they have two of the most highly marketable USA players in the league – Saurabh Netravalkar and Andries Gous – aside from the major international stars like Steve Smith and Glenn Maxwell. There are no alternate options such as a training jersey like some of the other franchises have. 
 
General merchandise: B- 
 
Freedom’s main options (t-shirt, hoodie) are extremely limited. They only sell one very basic traditional blue t-shirt ($35), a basic traditional hoodie in either blue or red ($85), an even more basic polo shirt in either blue or red ($40). They also sell only one style of cap ($25), which is similar to what they wear on field but not the real McCoy. In terms of design creativity, there isn’t any. 
 
However, they get points for thinking outside the box when it comes to presenting other options that no other team has. They offer a cricket type sweater in team colors that is available in the full sleeve option ($95) or the sleeveless vest style ($45). The full sleeve option with the subtle faded color transition from blue to red would not look out of place anywhere in public and would be very sellable if they actually pushed it, even though the price point is steep. There’s also a unique “varsity jacket” ($95) available in red dominant chest with blue sleeves, or blue dominant chest with red sleeves, although I can’t imagine anyone but a team staff member or owner seriously interested in wanting to wear one of these in public because it looks more nerdy instead of the nostalgic feel they were clearly aiming for. 
 
Freedom also stand out for offering other branded merchandise options that you’d expect to find in a big four US pro sports franchise store: mugs ($20), iPhone covers ($15), team duffel bags ($75), stainless steel water bottles ($30), and sunglasses ($49). If you’re really hardcore, they also offer branded cricket specific gear. You can get Freedom logo stumps ($35), batting helmets ($70), batting gloves ($40), wicketkeeping gloves ($35), and a tennis ball cricket bat ($60). 
 
Women: F
 
Freedom offer no items in women’s sizes or designs. 
 
Youth: F
 
Freedom offer no items in junior sizes or designs. 
 
LA Knight Riders – Overall: F
 
Knight Riders may have come out on top on the field in MLC 2026, but they are comfortably dead last in terms of their merchandise offerings. Considering they have just been crowned MLC 2026 champions, Knight Riders staff are asleep at the wheel. There is no link to an online team store off the team’s official web site, and there is plenty of other evidence that shows the entire web site has been badly neglected. 
 
The only way to find LAKR stuff online is through the MLC web site, which itself doesn’t have a link anywhere on the home page to buy merchandise. As mentioned earlier, you’d need to find the MLC online store via a Google search or had it bookmarked previously. Another sign of the severely outdated and poorly managed nature of the LAKR online shop becomes evident when you realize the stuff they offer is all from 2025. They were selling limited 2026 team gear in person at Oakland Coliseum by the time the playoffs came around, but nothing was available for the start of the season to buy in person in Texas. 
 
Jerseys: D
 
LAKR sold the 2026 team jersey (with Jeet Buzz branding) on site at Oakland Coliseum, but this year’s jersey is not available online. However, they do sell a 2025 version ($55) with player options available for Andre Russell and Sunil Narine. You can also get a standard version with no name or number on the back. The fact that they do not sell any jersey for Shadley van Schalkwyk, Matthew Tromp or Ali Khan as local stars is mind-boggling.  
 
General merchandise: F
 
The only t-shirt available online is the “LA Sunset” ($27.50) which has the LAKR logo on the breast on front and a palm tree faded sunset on the back. In the MLC team store at Oakland Coliseum, LAKR also sold quite possibly the most hideous looking polo shirt imaginable. It’s not available online, which is probably a good thing. They also sell a purple bucket hat ($29.99) that is the only non-reversible one manufactured by the teams selling one. However, they do not sell the standard baseball style cap that is worn on field. 
 
That’s it. A t-shirt, a polo and a bucket hat. The biggest miss by LAKR is the fact that the players were walking around wearing purple “2026 MLC Champions” t-shirts immediately after winning this year’s title at Oakland Coliseum. Fresh championship t-shirts and hats are huge moneymakers for the American big four sports teams when their team wins a title. Just look at how many people in New York are wearing Knicks NBA championship merchandise, which has sold in record numbers after they beat the San Antonio Spurs in June. 
 
But even though the LAKR championship looked good in person as worn by the players at Oakland Coliseum, they’ve not made it available for fans, which is a monumental blunder. To be fair, neither Freedom nor MINY offered any championship merch for sale to fans when they won their titles (if any was ever even produced for them to wear on field which didn’t appear to be the case), though that doesn’t make it any easier to swallow.
 
Women: F

Knight Riders offer nothing in women’s designs or sizes, which is surprising as one of their co-owners is Indian actress Juhi Chawla.
 
Youth: F
 
Knight Riders offer nothing in junior designs or sizes.