San Francisco Unicorns Team: Squad, Results, Stats & Schedule

San Francisco Unicorns are one of Major League Cricket's six founding franchises. The Bay Area club was launched in 2023 by co-owners Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan and has used Oakland Coliseum as its home venue since the 2025 season.

Matt Short captained Cameron White's 2026 MLC side to first place in the ten-match league phase with six wins, four losses, 12 points and a +0.487 net run rate. Los Angeles Knight Riders won the Qualifier by seven runs, then Washington Freedom won a 476-run Challenger by seven runs, ending the Unicorns' title bid.

Short produced the competition's strongest two-skill team line: 513 runs at 64.12 and 17 wickets at 13.12. Lhuan-dre Pretorius added 465 runs at a 176.14 strike rate, while Brody Couch took 14 wickets. These are completed MLC totals and are not blended with the later GSL statistics.

The Unicorns then travelled to Guyana for the separate Global Super League with Hassan Khan as captain and a 14-player touring squad. They went 2–2 in the league phase, beat Desert Vipers by eight wickets in the Qualifier and lost a remarkable 85-to-79 final to Guyana Amazon Warriors by six runs.

Across both 2026 competitions the club played 18 completed matches, winning nine and losing nine. MLC points, GSL standings and each competition's player totals remain separately labelled throughout the page.

The 25-name directory is a two-competition season timeline, not one oversized match squad. Twenty names come from the current MLC directory; the 14-player GSL group reused nine of them and introduced Tim Robinson, Fabian Allen, Callum Stow, Karima Gore and Gideon Peters.

Those five additions belong only to the Guyana tour on this page. Treating 20 plus 14 as 34 would double-count shared players, while calling all 25 the MLC squad would assign five players to the wrong competition.

First place secured a top-two playoff route, not an automatic championship berth. San Francisco first lost the Qualifier to Los Angeles Knight Riders by seven runs, then received a second chance in the Challenger.

Washington Freedom won that Challenger by the same seven-run margin, so the Unicorns finished 6–4 in the league phase but 0–2 in the playoffs. The final standing therefore records first in the table and a Challenger exit without contradiction.

No. The combined record is a calendar summary, not a shared league table. San Francisco went 6–4 in the MLC regular season, lost both MLC playoff games, then went 2–2 in the GSL league phase before splitting two knockout matches.

Competition shape changes the meaning of the same total. The MLC campaign produced a first-place league finish and Challenger exit; the GSL campaign produced second place in the league phase and runners-up status.

Short led San Francisco's completed MLC batting and bowling columns at the same time: 513 runs at 64.12 and 17 wickets at 13.12. His unbeaten 94 in the Qualifier and unbeaten 121 in the Challenger also account for 215 of those runs under playoff pressure.

The double is a transparent team-level comparison, not a fabricated tournament award. It excludes the later GSL tour, where Hassan Khan captained and Tim Robinson, Callum Stow and Peter Siddle led the relevant team columns.

Bowling out an opponent does not complete a chase. San Francisco restricted Guyana Amazon Warriors to 85 in 18.5 overs, but were then dismissed for 79 in 18.3 overs and lost by six runs.

It was the lowest-scoring result in the Unicorns' 2026 record and the opposite of their 476-run MLC Challenger. Those two losses show why conditions and innings context matter more than assuming one scoring pattern defined the season.