🏏 Fantastic to see the legendary Wisden Almanack giving over its front cover this year to Great British Wildlife to highlight the crucial importance of nature and biodiversity! 🐝
🦡 And what could be more fitting for a cricket annual than a badger??
About time too!
✅ Strong recommend. Today's episode of Rare Earth covered the future of sport with regards the climate crisis.
Amazing to hear both historian, Peter Frankopan and cricketer, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala speaking about cricket and climate alongside the awesome Claire Poole💥
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🏏💚 Sustainability for grassroots cricket isn't just about going green, it's about long-term survival...
This deep-dive by John Fuller of Cricket Yorkshire into the efforts of Muff Field Cricket Club in Bradford is a fantastic example of what can be achieved
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🏏🌍 Did you know, winners of the UK Greenest Ground comp, Fillongley CC were showcased by the UK Pavilion at COP30?
🌱 This video, highlighting all their amazing efforts to make their cricket club more sustainable and nature friendly was shown at the UK's pavilion 👍
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On this day, atmospheric CO2 was at 359.81ppm. Today we're hitting 430ppm and global temperature has risen ~0.8°C since then.
💀 "We should abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas" says Amin H Nasser, President of Saudi Aramco - sponsors of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup.
We call on the ICC to review its relationships with sportswashing sponsors and make cricket a credible, positive force for climate action 💚
🏏Former England fast bowler, Sajid Mahmood is on a mission: to make cricket affordable and accessible for everyone.
We sat down for a chat with Saj about his new initiative: Reeqip - an online marketplace for pre-loved cricket and sports gear.
www.thenexttest.org/blog/talking...
🌳🐝 Cricket clubs will be gearing up for the new season, corralling willing volunteers and making plans.
As it's World Wildlife Day, we thought we'd give you some super simple ideas for things you can do to make your cricket club more nature friendly.
www.thenexttest.org/blog/six-of-...
😷 Meanwhile, in Delhi... Air pollution has quite literally been off the scale.
This is a reading from 10th Feb, where air pollution was hazardous - with an AQI of 305.
All the while, the T20 World Cup rolls on - and the main sponsor? Saudi Aramco.
Cricket has a fossil fuel problem💀
🌟 2025 highlight #4 🌟
Our Chair, Tanya sat down for a chat with the Guerilla Cricket podcast to talk all things cricket and climate 👇
megaphone.link/COMG2190569346
@guerillacricket.bsky.social 👍
✨ 2025 Highlight #3 - Hit for Six: The Danger Zone
🏏 Following on from 2019's Hit for Six report, that warned of the threat to cricket from climate change, Hit for Six: The Danger Zone is a stark reminder of what's at stake.
👇 Read the report 👇
www.thenexttest.org/resources
🥳 Huge congratulations to Brechin Buccaneers CC who have been awarded the 2025 Greenest Ground Award from The Cricketer and Ortus Energy 🌱
Read more in Tanya Aldred's feature in The Cricketer:
www.thecricketer.com/Topics/featu...
🔥 As Australia swelters in extreme heat close to 50°C and is again battling huge wildfires, The Next Test's Tanya Aldred writes in this week's Spin newsletter about a hopeful tale of cricketing communities coming together to recover and rebuild 💪
🐦 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?
🌟 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 👇
🌟 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" 🌱
🏏🌍 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?
🙏 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
🎄 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
📢📢 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
📢 Check out our Comms Lead, Chris Britt-Searle on The Last Wicket pod, chatting all things cricket, climate and sustainability 🏏🌍💚👇
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🏏🌍 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...
🏏 🌍 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 👉
🏏 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...
⚡ 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! 👇
🏆 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.
🏏🌍 Join us: www.thenexttest.org/thepledge
