Hit for Six Report: Cricket Heading into Climate Danger Zone
“There is no doubt in my mind that today cricket faces its ultimate test. Forget concerns around different formats, TV deals or the battle for eyeballs in a multi-screen age. This challenge is an existential one and it comes in the form of a rapidly changing climate.”
A Trip to Grace Road: A Little Slice of Heaven
Leicestershire CCC were the runaway leaders of Division Two at the end of the spring block of Championship matches. But alongside their entertaining cricket, and fabulous home-made cakes sold by the Friends of Grace Road (including a vegan cinnamon cake, tested in the name of research) is some inspiring climate action…
Scoring the Next Century: A Climate and Nature Action Plan for Cricket
Of all sports, cricket faces a unique vulnerability to the impacts of a changing climate. From Mumbai to Manchester, Melbourne to Multan, cricket players and fans are seeing the game they love change in front of their eyes due to the damage done by extreme heat, unprecedented rainfall, drought, wildfires, flooding or hurricanes.
IPL: Too hot for the players to handle?
Catches may win matches, but could the extreme heat and humidity in this year’s IPL be causing them to slip through (sweaty) fingers?
MCC/Lord’s: Sustainability Champions (Sponsored by Barclays)
The MCC and Lord’s are pioneers in sustainability within sport and leading the way for climate action in cricket. But is partnership with Barclays, Europe’s biggest financiers of fossil fuels sending the right image?
Maia Bouchier on 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 beyond. Recently she spoke to The Next Test’s co-founder, Tanya Aldred, about some of her personal experiences, her fears and her hopes for the future.
Extreme Heat and Hazardous Air - Is the IPL really safe?
We all know that India can be roasting hot and we’ve undoubtedly heard about the terrible air pollution in some of its cities, but what were local conditions like during last year’s IPL matches?
International Women’s Day: Where Next for Women’s Cricket?
Female cricketers have come a long way since “eleven Maids of Bramley, and eleven Maids of Hambledon, dressed all in white...” played each other on Gosden Common in 1745, at the first recorded women’s match…
Fillongley: UK’s Greenest Cricket Ground 2024
Interested in making your cricket ground more sustainable, but a bit lost on how to do it?
Inspiration comes from The Cricketer’s Greenest Ground competition
Greener Games Sustainability Conference: Key Takeaways
In October 2024, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club hosted the inaugural Greener Games Sustainability Conference at the Seat Unique Stadium in collaboration with The Next Test and the Bristol Climate and Nature Partnership. Here we look at some of the key takeaways from the speakers…
Six of the Best: simple things to make your club more nature friendly
Mark Cocker is an author, naturalist and cricket lover who writes regularly for the Guardian’s much-loved Country Diary column. Here he shares six great ideas he has seen while judging the winners of the Cricketer’s greenest ground competition…
