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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:
bit.ly/4m64faK
🏏🌍 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:
bit.ly/4m64faK
🐦 Did you take part in the @rspb.bsky.social Big Garden Birdwatch? Andy Wilson did at Whalley Range CC, winner of The Cricketer's Greenest Cricket Ground competition in 2021. He spotted 16 species, including 15 goldfinches!
🏏 What birds have you spotted at your local club?
🏏 What birds have you spotted at your local club?
January 27, 2026 at 9:45 AM
🐦 Did you take part in the @rspb.bsky.social Big Garden Birdwatch? Andy Wilson did at Whalley Range CC, winner of The Cricketer's Greenest Cricket Ground competition in 2021. He spotted 16 species, including 15 goldfinches!
🏏 What birds have you spotted at your local club?
🏏 What birds have you spotted at your local club?
🌟 2025 highlight #2... Back in March our Chair, Tanya Aldred sat down with England batter and EcoAthletes champion, Maia Bouchier.
🏏 Maia is one of the most high profile cricketers standing up for climate action and it was fab to hear her thoughts 👇
🏏 Maia is one of the most high profile cricketers standing up for climate action and it was fab to hear her thoughts 👇
Maia Bouchier on Cricket, Climate & Sustainability — The Next Test - Cricket, Climate & Sustainability
Maia Bouchier, England star and EcoAthletes Champion, is one the most powerful voices in cricket speaking out on climate change and calling for climate action and sustainability within the sport, and…
www.thenexttest.org
January 26, 2026 at 9:30 AM
🌟 2025 highlight #2... Back in March our Chair, Tanya Aldred sat down with England batter and EcoAthletes champion, Maia Bouchier.
🏏 Maia is one of the most high profile cricketers standing up for climate action and it was fab to hear her thoughts 👇
🏏 Maia is one of the most high profile cricketers standing up for climate action and it was fab to hear her thoughts 👇
🌟 Highlights from 2025 #1... Our Co-Founder, Xeena Cooper scooping a Gloucestershire Cricket Foundation Cricket Collective Award for Tackling Climate Change!
🏏 Xeena "has been an indefatigable campaigner for climate action and sustainability within the cricket world" 🌱
🏏 Xeena "has been an indefatigable campaigner for climate action and sustainability within the cricket world" 🌱
January 22, 2026 at 8:56 AM
🌟 Highlights from 2025 #1... Our Co-Founder, Xeena Cooper scooping a Gloucestershire Cricket Foundation Cricket Collective Award for Tackling Climate Change!
🏏 Xeena "has been an indefatigable campaigner for climate action and sustainability within the cricket world" 🌱
🏏 Xeena "has been an indefatigable campaigner for climate action and sustainability within the cricket world" 🌱
🏏🌍 We're back! Happy New Year, cricket lovers.
In 2026 we're going to be exploring our purpose and working on a Theory of Change.
What do you think we should be focusing on this year?
In 2026 we're going to be exploring our purpose and working on a Theory of Change.
What do you think we should be focusing on this year?
January 20, 2026 at 9:01 AM
🏏🌍 We're back! Happy New Year, cricket lovers.
In 2026 we're going to be exploring our purpose and working on a Theory of Change.
What do you think we should be focusing on this year?
In 2026 we're going to be exploring our purpose and working on a Theory of Change.
What do you think we should be focusing on this year?
🙏 Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of our friends in Australia who have been affected by the terrible wildfires.
Blog, from Tanya Aldred 👉 www.thenexttest.org/blog/bushfires-down-under-pose-threat-to-life-cricket-amp-community
Blog, from Tanya Aldred 👉 www.thenexttest.org/blog/bushfires-down-under-pose-threat-to-life-cricket-amp-community
Bushfires Down Under pose threat to life, cricket & community — The Next Test - Cricket, Climate & Sustainability
Awful news from our cricketing cousins in Australia, where wild fires are once again burning across the country.
www.thenexttest.org
January 14, 2026 at 8:56 PM
🙏 Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of our friends in Australia who have been affected by the terrible wildfires.
Blog, from Tanya Aldred 👉 www.thenexttest.org/blog/bushfires-down-under-pose-threat-to-life-cricket-amp-community
Blog, from Tanya Aldred 👉 www.thenexttest.org/blog/bushfires-down-under-pose-threat-to-life-cricket-amp-community
🎄 We're taking a break. Have a restful Christmas and we'll see you in the New Year for more cricket, climate and sustainability 🏏🌍🙏
December 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🎄 We're taking a break. Have a restful Christmas and we'll see you in the New Year for more cricket, climate and sustainability 🏏🌍🙏
🏏🌍 Cricketers put their money where their mouth is on climate.
Tanya Aldred on the new Sport One, Carbon Zero climate movement from High Impact Athletes:
👉 www.thenexttest.org/blog/cricketers-put-their-money-where-their-mouth-is-on-climate
Tanya Aldred on the new Sport One, Carbon Zero climate movement from High Impact Athletes:
👉 www.thenexttest.org/blog/cricketers-put-their-money-where-their-mouth-is-on-climate
Cricketers put their money where their mouth is on climate — The Next Test - Cricket, Climate & Sustainability
Where governing bodies fail, individuals step up. Three cheers then for the 100 plus athletes who have joined Sport One, Carbon Zero , a new climate fund from the organisation High Impact…
www.thenexttest.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🏏🌍 Cricketers put their money where their mouth is on climate.
Tanya Aldred on the new Sport One, Carbon Zero climate movement from High Impact Athletes:
👉 www.thenexttest.org/blog/cricketers-put-their-money-where-their-mouth-is-on-climate
Tanya Aldred on the new Sport One, Carbon Zero climate movement from High Impact Athletes:
👉 www.thenexttest.org/blog/cricketers-put-their-money-where-their-mouth-is-on-climate
📢📢 New blog - Desert Vipers: Pioneers for Sustainability in Cricket 🏏🌍
Ahead of their Sustainability Match on Sunday, we sat down with Sustainability Lead, Ben Hardy-Jones to chat all things green 🐍💚
Find it here 👉 www.thenexttest.org/blog/desert-vipers-pioneers-for-sustainability-in-cricket
Ahead of their Sustainability Match on Sunday, we sat down with Sustainability Lead, Ben Hardy-Jones to chat all things green 🐍💚
Find it here 👉 www.thenexttest.org/blog/desert-vipers-pioneers-for-sustainability-in-cricket
Desert Vipers: Pioneers for Sustainability in Cricket — The Next Test - Cricket, Climate & Sustainability
Desert Vipers are a rather unusual cricket team. How many other cricket clubs can you name that have placed sustainability, climate and nature at the very heart of their identity?
www.thenexttest.org
December 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
📢📢 New blog - Desert Vipers: Pioneers for Sustainability in Cricket 🏏🌍
Ahead of their Sustainability Match on Sunday, we sat down with Sustainability Lead, Ben Hardy-Jones to chat all things green 🐍💚
Find it here 👉 www.thenexttest.org/blog/desert-vipers-pioneers-for-sustainability-in-cricket
Ahead of their Sustainability Match on Sunday, we sat down with Sustainability Lead, Ben Hardy-Jones to chat all things green 🐍💚
Find it here 👉 www.thenexttest.org/blog/desert-vipers-pioneers-for-sustainability-in-cricket
📢 Check out our Comms Lead, Chris Britt-Searle on The Last Wicket pod, chatting all things cricket, climate and sustainability 🏏🌍💚👇
youtu.be/w4_2WIA1c4c?...
youtu.be/w4_2WIA1c4c?...
The Last Wicket E115: Climate change & Cricket with Chris-Britt Searle
YouTube video by The Last Wicket
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
📢 Check out our Comms Lead, Chris Britt-Searle on The Last Wicket pod, chatting all things cricket, climate and sustainability 🏏🌍💚👇
youtu.be/w4_2WIA1c4c?...
youtu.be/w4_2WIA1c4c?...
🏏🌍 Earlier this year, The Next Test's Tanya Aldred sat down for a chat with England star and @ecoathletesteam.bsky.social Champion, Maia Bouchier ✨
Maia has been an inspiring voice for climate action and sustainability in the cricket world.
Read more here:
www.thenexttest.org/blog/maia-bo...
Maia has been an inspiring voice for climate action and sustainability in the cricket world.
Read more here:
www.thenexttest.org/blog/maia-bo...
Maia Bouchier on Cricket, Climate & Sustainability — The Next Test - Cricket, Climate & Sustainability
Maia Bouchier, England star and EcoAthletes Champion, is one the most powerful voices in cricket speaking out on climate change and calling for climate action and sustainability within the sport, and...
www.thenexttest.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🏏🌍 Earlier this year, The Next Test's Tanya Aldred sat down for a chat with England star and @ecoathletesteam.bsky.social Champion, Maia Bouchier ✨
Maia has been an inspiring voice for climate action and sustainability in the cricket world.
Read more here:
www.thenexttest.org/blog/maia-bo...
Maia has been an inspiring voice for climate action and sustainability in the cricket world.
Read more here:
www.thenexttest.org/blog/maia-bo...
🏏 🌍 Cricketers - Concerned about the climate? Feel like you might be labelled hypocritical for speaking about it? Help is at hand...
100+ athletes across sport have joined Sport One Carbon Zero.
Cricket's huge. Our voice matters.
Ready to lead? Go 👉
100+ athletes across sport have joined Sport One Carbon Zero.
Cricket's huge. Our voice matters.
Ready to lead? Go 👉
Sport's Most Impactful Climate Fund | Sport One Carbon Zero
Helping athletes tackle sport's biggest emissions – travel, energy, and infrastructure. Solutions backed by the world's top climate researchers.
www.socz.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🏏 🌍 Cricketers - Concerned about the climate? Feel like you might be labelled hypocritical for speaking about it? Help is at hand...
100+ athletes across sport have joined Sport One Carbon Zero.
Cricket's huge. Our voice matters.
Ready to lead? Go 👉
100+ athletes across sport have joined Sport One Carbon Zero.
Cricket's huge. Our voice matters.
Ready to lead? Go 👉
🏏 Bamboo cricket bats?!🎍Pineapple leather pads?!🍍
Cricket is facing both a bat crisis and a sustainability crisis, but innovation is stepping up to the crease...
Read more about these game-changing projects: www.ukri.org/who-we-are/h...
Cricket is facing both a bat crisis and a sustainability crisis, but innovation is stepping up to the crease...
Read more about these game-changing projects: www.ukri.org/who-we-are/h...
Cricket futures: batting for a greener game
UK researchers are crafting bamboo bats and vegan pads to tackle gear waste and make cricket more sustainable and inclusive.
www.ukri.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM
🏏 Bamboo cricket bats?!🎍Pineapple leather pads?!🍍
Cricket is facing both a bat crisis and a sustainability crisis, but innovation is stepping up to the crease...
Read more about these game-changing projects: www.ukri.org/who-we-are/h...
Cricket is facing both a bat crisis and a sustainability crisis, but innovation is stepping up to the crease...
Read more about these game-changing projects: www.ukri.org/who-we-are/h...
⚡ The power of Pat Cummins 💪
🏏 🌍 Hear Joanne Bowen, CEO of Pat's Cricket for Climate chat to ABC about how the climate crisis is affecting cricket down under and how having the Aussie test captain on your team really opens some doors! 👇
🏏 🌍 Hear Joanne Bowen, CEO of Pat's Cricket for Climate chat to ABC about how the climate crisis is affecting cricket down under and how having the Aussie test captain on your team really opens some doors! 👇
Cricket: Joanne Bowen - Cricket for Climate - Unseasonal rain is washing out too many kids games - ABC listen
On Summer Grandstand - Joanne Bowen - the CEO of Cricket for Climate spoke to Lehmo and Sam about the platform that cricket has provided for the messaging around climate change.
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
⚡ The power of Pat Cummins 💪
🏏 🌍 Hear Joanne Bowen, CEO of Pat's Cricket for Climate chat to ABC about how the climate crisis is affecting cricket down under and how having the Aussie test captain on your team really opens some doors! 👇
🏏 🌍 Hear Joanne Bowen, CEO of Pat's Cricket for Climate chat to ABC about how the climate crisis is affecting cricket down under and how having the Aussie test captain on your team really opens some doors! 👇
🏆 Great to see the Playing for our Future documentary winning a Broadcast Sport Award for best Sustainability initiative 🌱👏
🏏 "Without grassroots cricket, you don't have international cricket, or any other form of cricket." Sir Alistair Cook speaking on the film.
🏏 "Without grassroots cricket, you don't have international cricket, or any other form of cricket." Sir Alistair Cook speaking on the film.
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🏆 Great to see the Playing for our Future documentary winning a Broadcast Sport Award for best Sustainability initiative 🌱👏
🏏 "Without grassroots cricket, you don't have international cricket, or any other form of cricket." Sir Alistair Cook speaking on the film.
🏏 "Without grassroots cricket, you don't have international cricket, or any other form of cricket." Sir Alistair Cook speaking on the film.
🏏🌍 It's the Ashes! The Climate Ashes, that is...
🌱 Australia take on England to discern who is leading the way in climate action and sustainability.
🏆 Five tests. One planet. Who will take home the urn?
➡️ Scroll through to find out... 🧵1/9...
🌱 Australia take on England to discern who is leading the way in climate action and sustainability.
🏆 Five tests. One planet. Who will take home the urn?
➡️ Scroll through to find out... 🧵1/9...
November 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🏏🌍 It's the Ashes! The Climate Ashes, that is...
🌱 Australia take on England to discern who is leading the way in climate action and sustainability.
🏆 Five tests. One planet. Who will take home the urn?
➡️ Scroll through to find out... 🧵1/9...
🌱 Australia take on England to discern who is leading the way in climate action and sustainability.
🏆 Five tests. One planet. Who will take home the urn?
➡️ Scroll through to find out... 🧵1/9...
🌍 🏏 Chairman of the Players Cricket Association, James Cameron has been one of the leading architects of the COP climate process.
Hear him discuss its history, successes and failures on the Fossil vs. Future podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/4EkQ...
#COP30
Hear him discuss its history, successes and failures on the Fossil vs. Future podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/4EkQ...
#COP30
WHAT ABOUT COP? A complex, outdated process or an important platform for vulnerable countries?
Fossil vs Future · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🌍 🏏 Chairman of the Players Cricket Association, James Cameron has been one of the leading architects of the COP climate process.
Hear him discuss its history, successes and failures on the Fossil vs. Future podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/4EkQ...
#COP30
Hear him discuss its history, successes and failures on the Fossil vs. Future podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/4EkQ...
#COP30
🏏🌊 Worcestershire's New rd making the papers sadly for the wrong reasons.
First flood of the winter - how many more will there be?
Strangely no mention of climate change in this particular newspaper... 🤔
First flood of the winter - how many more will there be?
Strangely no mention of climate change in this particular newspaper... 🤔
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🏏🌊 Worcestershire's New rd making the papers sadly for the wrong reasons.
First flood of the winter - how many more will there be?
Strangely no mention of climate change in this particular newspaper... 🤔
First flood of the winter - how many more will there be?
Strangely no mention of climate change in this particular newspaper... 🤔
🌱 Protecting biodiversity matters for every sports club and community organisation
Sport England and Buddle have created a fantastic resource showing how sports clubs can protect local biodiversity.
Learn more:
Sport England and Buddle have created a fantastic resource showing how sports clubs can protect local biodiversity.
Learn more:
Biodiversity and physical activity | Buddle
Information from Buddle to help organisations understand biodiversity and why it’s important to support it in their outdoor spaces.
buddle.co
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🌱 Protecting biodiversity matters for every sports club and community organisation
Sport England and Buddle have created a fantastic resource showing how sports clubs can protect local biodiversity.
Learn more:
Sport England and Buddle have created a fantastic resource showing how sports clubs can protect local biodiversity.
Learn more:
📢 New blog: Fillongley CC - Cricket at the COP30 Climate Conference...
🌱 An inspiring example of how cricket clubs, even small ones, can set a global example for climate and nature action ✨
Read more:
🌱 An inspiring example of how cricket clubs, even small ones, can set a global example for climate and nature action ✨
Read more:
Fillongley CC - Cricket at the COP30 Climate Conference — The Next Test - Cricket, Climate & Sustainability
When Fillongley Cricket Club started digging out a neglected pond full of rubbish, they were not thinking of the international stage…
www.thenexttest.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
📢 New blog: Fillongley CC - Cricket at the COP30 Climate Conference...
🌱 An inspiring example of how cricket clubs, even small ones, can set a global example for climate and nature action ✨
Read more:
🌱 An inspiring example of how cricket clubs, even small ones, can set a global example for climate and nature action ✨
Read more:
📢 Cricket clubs! Sport England's Movement Fund provides funding of up to £15,000 to help sports clubs adapt to climate change and protect participation 👍
More info 👇
www.sportengland.org/news-and-ins...
More info 👇
www.sportengland.org/news-and-ins...
Chair: Let's fight back on climate change | Sport England
Sport England chair Chris Boardman uses a speech at the Blue Earth Summit to unveil a package of measures to help the sport and physical activity sector respond to the impact of extreme weather,…
www.sportengland.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
📢 Cricket clubs! Sport England's Movement Fund provides funding of up to £15,000 to help sports clubs adapt to climate change and protect participation 👍
More info 👇
www.sportengland.org/news-and-ins...
More info 👇
www.sportengland.org/news-and-ins...
🏏🌍 Cricket x Climate x COP30! Fillongley CC to be showcased by the UK Pavilion...
🌱 This video, showcasing all their amazing efforts to make their cricket club more sustainable and nature friendly will be showing at the UK's pavilion 👍
youtu.be/K9cnmfSuUMM?...
🌱 This video, showcasing all their amazing efforts to make their cricket club more sustainable and nature friendly will be showing at the UK's pavilion 👍
youtu.be/K9cnmfSuUMM?...
Fillongley Cricket Club | Showcased at the UK Pavilion, COP30
Fillongley Cricket Club is an open entry cricket club run by volunteers in the ancient Arden Forest, North Warwickshire, England. We have two pitches and an excellent pavilion and run men's, women's…
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
🏏🌍 Cricket x Climate x COP30! Fillongley CC to be showcased by the UK Pavilion...
🌱 This video, showcasing all their amazing efforts to make their cricket club more sustainable and nature friendly will be showing at the UK's pavilion 👍
youtu.be/K9cnmfSuUMM?...
🌱 This video, showcasing all their amazing efforts to make their cricket club more sustainable and nature friendly will be showing at the UK's pavilion 👍
youtu.be/K9cnmfSuUMM?...
🏏🌍 While ExxonMobil very publicly sponsor the Guyana Global Super League, behind the scenes they have been quietly funding climate denial for decades.
They have a lot to answer for.
More damning evidence:
They have a lot to answer for.
More damning evidence:
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
🏏🌍 While ExxonMobil very publicly sponsor the Guyana Global Super League, behind the scenes they have been quietly funding climate denial for decades.
They have a lot to answer for.
More damning evidence:
They have a lot to answer for.
More damning evidence:
🏏 Cricket + Community + Climate 🌍
Great initiative from The Kia Oval - Surrey County Cricket Club and SSE plc, educating local school children about sustainability and the green energy transition - looking to create the sustainability leaders of tomorrow 👍🏻
www.kiaoval.com/surrey-count...
Great initiative from The Kia Oval - Surrey County Cricket Club and SSE plc, educating local school children about sustainability and the green energy transition - looking to create the sustainability leaders of tomorrow 👍🏻
www.kiaoval.com/surrey-count...
Surrey County Cricket Club and SSE Energy Solutions work to create sustainability leaders of tomorrow - Kia Oval
Surrey have joined forces with long-term partner SSE Energy Solutions to empower local schoolchildren to become sustainability champions.
www.kiaoval.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
🏏 Cricket + Community + Climate 🌍
Great initiative from The Kia Oval - Surrey County Cricket Club and SSE plc, educating local school children about sustainability and the green energy transition - looking to create the sustainability leaders of tomorrow 👍🏻
www.kiaoval.com/surrey-count...
Great initiative from The Kia Oval - Surrey County Cricket Club and SSE plc, educating local school children about sustainability and the green energy transition - looking to create the sustainability leaders of tomorrow 👍🏻
www.kiaoval.com/surrey-count...
🏏🌍 The MCC don't always shout about their amazing sustainability work, so we thought we'd do some shouting for them!
Check out the latest Carbon Impact Report from @HomeofCricket here:
www.lords.org/lords/news-s...
Check out the latest Carbon Impact Report from @HomeofCricket here:
www.lords.org/lords/news-s...
News From The Home of Cricket | Lord's
Get all the latest news from the home of cricket here.
www.lords.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🏏🌍 The MCC don't always shout about their amazing sustainability work, so we thought we'd do some shouting for them!
Check out the latest Carbon Impact Report from @HomeofCricket here:
www.lords.org/lords/news-s...
Check out the latest Carbon Impact Report from @HomeofCricket here:
www.lords.org/lords/news-s...
Our thoughts are with our friends in the Caribbean this morning.
Cricket grounds will undoubtedly be affected by the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, but there are more important things to worry about right now. Please help if you can:
www.unicef.org.uk/donate/hurri...
Cricket grounds will undoubtedly be affected by the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, but there are more important things to worry about right now. Please help if you can:
www.unicef.org.uk/donate/hurri...
Hurricane Melissa Emergency Appeal
Thousands of families and children are at risk as Hurricane Melissa rips across the Caribbean. Please donate to our appeal.
www.unicef.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Our thoughts are with our friends in the Caribbean this morning.
Cricket grounds will undoubtedly be affected by the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, but there are more important things to worry about right now. Please help if you can:
www.unicef.org.uk/donate/hurri...
Cricket grounds will undoubtedly be affected by the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, but there are more important things to worry about right now. Please help if you can:
www.unicef.org.uk/donate/hurri...