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🚨 New Report - Hit for Six: The Danger Zone 🚨

🏏🌍 Following on from the original Hit for Six report, The Danger Zone is a stark reminder of the existential threat to cricket from climate breakdown.

Read more on our blog:
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🏏🌍 World Cup Warming Stripes! Today it's 🇦🇺 #AUSvBAN 🇧🇩🔥

🚨 Air quality in Vishakhapatnam today is UNHEALTHY. NO OUTDOOR EXERCISE.

💡DYK... Alyssa Healey's Cricket for Climate recently secured $50million of government funding to help clubs tackle climate change 💚👏
🏏🌍 World cup warming stripes! Today it's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿#ENGvPAK 🇵🇰 🔥

💡Did you know...Pakistan is one place ahead of the UK in the global race for solar with 18TWh to the UK's 15TWh ☀️💪🏻👏

🤯 HALF of this was installed IN THE LAST YEAR! 🚀

#CWC25
🏏🌍 World cup warming stripes! Today it's 🇱🇰 #SLvNZ 🇳🇿 in Colombo 🔥

🌡️Average surface temperatures in Colombo have risen 1.6°C since 1997 - partly due to rapid urbanisation - further exacerbated by fossil fueled global warming 🥵

#CWC25
🏏🌍 World cup warming stripes! Today it's 🇿🇦 #SAvBAN 🇧🇩 in Vishakhapatnam 🔥

🚨 Poor air quality again, with an AQI of 100+. Advice is 'Don't exercise outdoors without a mask' 😷

#CWC25
🏏🌍 World cup warming stripes! Today it's 🇳🇿 #NZvBAN 🇧🇩 in Guwahati 🔥

🚨 Air Quality right now in Guwahati is POOR with an AQI of 130. Advice is 'Don't exercise outdoors without a mask' 😷

#CWC25
🏏🌍 World cup warming stripes! Today it's 🇮🇳 #INDvSA in Visakhapatnam🔥

🚨 Air Quality right now in Visakhapatnam is UNHEALTHY with an AQI of 167. Advice is 'Don't engage in physical exertion outdoors' 😷
🏏🌍 World cup warming stripes! Today it's 🇦🇺#AUSvPAK 🇵🇰 🔥

💡Did you know... Aussie skipper, Alyssa Healy was one of the co-founders of Cricket for Climate, along with Pat Cummins 💪🏻👏
🌱🏏 Next in our series of #PlantPowered veggie or vegan cricketers is... Indian legend, Rohit Sharma! 🇮🇳 💚💪
🏏🌍 World Cup Warming Stripes! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Today it's #ENGvBAN 🇧🇩🔥

💡Did you know... The ECB were the first cricketing national body to sign the UN Sport for Climate Action framework 💚👏

🇧🇩 Bangladesh is responsible for only around 0.47% of global emissions 🤔
🏏🌍 "With temperatures around the world rising because of climate change, many cricket playing nations are facing great challenges which pose HUGE risks to the future of the game."

The sage words of World Cup winning captain, Eoin Morgan, the MCC's new Chair of Cricket 💚
🏏🌍 World Cup Warming Stripes! 🇳🇿 Today it's #NZvSA 🇿🇦 🔥

💡 The Holkar Stadium in Indore has 376 solar panels ☀️
🏏🌍 World Cup Warming Stripes! 🔥

🇮🇳 Today it's #INDvPAK! 🇵🇰

💡 In the race for solar power, India ranks 3rd in the world in terms of installed capacity. Pakistan is 18th - one place ahead of the UK and growing fast! 💪🏻
🏏🌍 "With the prediction of where the climate is going to get to by 2050, this issue is going to become more prevalent, and we will be dealing with extremes."

Groundskeeper talking cricket & climate in Katya Witney's fab article in latest WCM 👍

www.wisden.com/cricket-feat...
The Secret Life Of A Club Groundskeeper: 'Without Us, Cricket Would Stop'
Katya Witney investigates the life and challenges of a club cricket groundskeeper, including the issues posed by climate change and the pressure to please the home team.
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🏏🌍 World Cup warming stripes! 🔥

Today it's #BANvPAK in Colombo 🇧🇩 🇵🇰

💡 Last year, Pakistan installed around 15 gigawatts of solar power - around half the capacity of the entire national grid! ☀️
🚨BREAKING: Today we join a coalition of leading human rights and climate organisations to warn the ICC along with a number of the world’s biggest sports bodies - that their sponsorships with Aramco risk contravening human rights standards and holding back climate action.

Watch this space
🏏🌍 World cup warming stripes!

🔥 Today it's #AUSvNZ in Indore.

💡Fun fact... The Holkar Stadium in Indore has over 300 solar panels, saving 277 tonnes of carbon pollution every year 👏
🏏🌍 Woop! It's the world cup! 🎉

Today's opener sees the two hosts go head to head in Guwahati 🔥

Forecast: Hot and humid, 35°C 🌦️
Air quality: Moderate 🟨

#INDvSL
🏏🌍 "In cricket more generally, we don't talk about climate change enough... cricket, more than any other sport is going to be impacted by a changing climate."

More mention of cricket and the environment from Yas Rana on the Wisden Cricket podcast 💚
England break the 300 barrier and their looming Ashes selection calls | Wisden Cricket Podcast
Mark Butcher, Katya Witney, Lawrence Booth and Yas Rana discuss England's record-breaking display of hitting at Old Trafford, a thrilling T20 Blast Finals Day, England's looming Ashes selection calls…
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🔥 "Air pollution from burning fossil fuels has been shown to disproportionately affect women."

🏏🌍 The Next Test's Tanya Aldred ahead of the start of The ICC Women's World Cup - sponsored by... Oil giant, Aramco! 💀
The six storylines that will define the Women’s Cricket W...
There has been an historic prize-pot increase for women’s ODI, but the real test is in the fanbase
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💀 "We should abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas and instead invest in them..."

🛢️ The words of Amin Nasser, CEO of the ICC's main sponsor - Saudi Aramco.

🏏 There's no cricket on a dead planet 🌍
😂 The next thing you know, Trump will be claiming the Earth is flat and that Barstow's stumping was within the spirit of cricket! 🍊🤡