Vinny Codrington, Middlesex chief executive, confirmed that the club had received "one or two" complaints from Muslim and Jewish communities concerned that the name was a reference to the medieval Christian crusades against other faiths.
He said some people found the name "rather upsetting" but denied that the change was being made for reasons of political correctness.
He added: "For example, one of our former presidents was Jewish and he didn't particularly like the name, although he just got on with it. We wanted more kids to pick up a cricket bat, that's why it was devised. We were on a crusade to get children into cricket."
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