Cricket certificate templates and badges
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A cricket certificate template helps a club, a school or a league turn its presentation evening into something players keep. Cricket awards come at the end of a tournament or a season: player of the tournament, best batter, best bowler, best fielder, the captain's award and the most improved junior. Club sides, school elevens, county age-group squads and corporate leagues all hand them out, whether they played T20, 40 overs or the longer game.
A good cricket award says what earned it. Name the player, the team and the competition, then give the figures: runs and the top score (with an asterisk for not out), wickets and the best bowling, catches and run-outs. The captain, the coach or the tournament organiser usually signs it.
The designs here come as certificates in A4 and US Letter and as digital badges, so a certificate for cricket can hang in the clubhouse while the player adds the badge to a profile or a cricket CV.
Wording
What to write on a cricket certificate
Use these lines as they are, or as a start for your own. Every template comes with wording you can change in the studio.
Wording for a cricket player of the tournament award
- “For an outstanding all-round performance across the tournament, with bat, ball and in the field.”
- “Awarded for 412 runs, 18 wickets and a match-winning century in the final.”
- “For the innings, the spells and the catches that carried the team through the tournament.”
Cricket award wording for batting, bowling and fielding
- “Best Batter: for the most runs of the season, scored with patience and style.”
- “Best Bowler: for 25 wickets and the spells that turned close games.”
- “Best Fielder: for safe hands, sharp run-outs and a standard the whole side followed.”
Lines for junior and school cricket
- “For a first season of hard work at the nets and a great team spirit.”
- “Most Improved Player: for a big step forward with bat and ball this summer.”
- “For your first fifty for the club. Well batted.”
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FAQ
Questions, answered
Many clubs do both. Separate batting, bowling and fielding prizes reward specialists, while a single player of the tournament goes to the one who did most across all three. Junior sections often add awards for effort and team spirit, and many give every young player a certificate for the season.
Totals read best on a tournament award: runs with the top score, wickets with the best bowling figures, catches and run-outs. Averages and economy rates suit a full season with many matches. Take the figures from the scorebook or the league's scoring app so they match the official record.
In cricket an asterisk after a score, such as 104*, means the batter was not out at the end of the innings. Keep it on the certificate when it is part of the record, because players are proud of an unbeaten score.
A wagon wheel is a chart of a batter's innings seen from above. Each scoring shot is a line from the batter's crease towards where the ball went, so the chart shows where on the ground the runs came from: square of the wicket, down the ground or behind it. Scorers and broadcasters use it, and it makes a good picture of a best innings.
Either is fine. Many clubs have the captain and the coach sign together, or the captain with the tournament organiser or the club chair. For a school competition the teacher in charge of cricket and the head teacher often sign.
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