🧠 🤝 🏏 Join us for a thirty minute session showing how mindfulness techniques can aid your cricket brain 👀 We’ll look at concentration, letting go of worry and perspective 🕙 10am Sunday (5th) 💻 Zoom 🔗 Sign up for free here form.jotform.com/243572897495072

Happy 38th birthday, Alex. The season is nearly here and you’d have been itching to get the gloves on 😊 A little while after Alex died by suicide, Opening Up Cricket was set up to promote mental wellbeing and suicide prevention The best way we can all try is to let our mates know we care ❤️

Keen to get out and see as many clubs as possible this summer 🏏 ☀️ 📧 [email protected] or reply (If you’ve contacted in the last week we will catch up tomorrow 👍)

Glad to be with Heywood CC this morning 🧠🏏

🧠 Mindfulness For Cricketers 🏏 Our first online session of the year covers focus and how this can be developed as a skill for cricket and wellbeing 🤝 Join us for 30 mins to try for yourself ⌚️ 8pm on Thursday (18th) 💻 Use this link to sign up form.jotform.com/243572897495072

We’re looking forward to the next Alex Miller Cup @ Sefton Park CC on Sunday 30th August ☀️ 🏆 📷 2015 winners Huyton

We have 2️⃣6️⃣ club reps signed up so far If you’d like to get involved and help us promote mental wellbeing & suicide prevention through cricket please see the link below form.jotform.com/252382498040...

Opening Up Cricket Club Reps 🤝 In your club 👇 📌 Display posters/flyers 💻 Encourage members to complete Zero Suicide Alliance training 🧠 Create your plan to promote mental wellbeing in your setting Register your interest here form.jotform.com/252382498040054

Alex died on this day in 2012. His suicide still prompts thoughts. From how it might have been prevented to little things like what we’d talk about if he was here with me now having a coffee. Look out for your mates ❤️

Thanks to University of York Women’s CC for their time tonight 🧠🏏

Join us for a thirty minute online session on Tuesday at 7:30pm introduce you to techniques that helps both performance & wellbeing Sign up here form.jotform.com/243572897495072

Join us for a thirty minute session on Tuesday to introduce you to techniques that helps both performance & wellbeing Sign up here form.jotform.com/243572897495072

Thank you to University of Liverpool CC for their time tonight 🧠 🏏

Thanks to Lancaster University CC for having us along tonight 🧠🏏

Good to be out and about again, seeing University of Birmingham CC 🧠 🏏

🤝 Opening Up Cricket Club Reps 🤝 In your club 👇 📌 Display posters/flyers 💻 Encourage members to complete Zero Suicide Alliance training 🧠 Create your plan to promote mental wellbeing in your setting Register your interest here form.jotform.com/252382498040054

Good to join Cheadle Hulme Ladybridge CC tonight to chat about a range of things related to mental fitness, wellbeing and our great sport 🧠 🏏

It was a pleasure to chat with the folks at Leeds & Broomfield CC tonight 🧠 🏏

We always have a lovely day when our fixture vs England’s Barmy Army comes 🏏 Thanks to Hunningham CC for hosting 🤝

Dropped in to have a chat with the @_mccfoundation North West Regional Springboard groups today 🧠 🏏

Looking forward to playing our friends England’s Barmy Army this Sunday @ Hunningham CC This will be the fourth time we’ve faced each other 🏏 📷 2021

Alex Miller Cup POTT 🏆 2014- Khalid Wahbi 2015- Adam Moscrop (📷 👇) 2016- Peter Kelly 2017- Liam Naylor 2018- ☔️ 2019- Craig Black 2020- Greg Harvey 2021- Macauley Lawrenson 2022- Pruthvi Krishnamurthy 2023- ☔️ 2024- Harry Deveney 2025 @ Sefton Park CC on 24th August

The twelfth Alex Miller Cup is @ Sefton Park CC on 24th August In the previous eleven, there has been the following winners Sefton Park 🏆 🏆 🏆 Huyton 🏆🏆 Birkenhead Park 🏆 Maghull 🏆 Opening Up 🏆 The Outlaws 🏆 (Rained off ☔️ ☔️) justgiving.com/seftonparkcc

Glad to be with the folks @ Horsmonden CC tonight to talk about positive mental health in cricket 🧠 🏏

Glad to be supporting the WIOC T10 Tape Ball World Cup being played at Liverpool College over the next couple of weeks 🌍 🏏 The opening games last night were very entertaining with a great atmosphere around the ground 😎 🤝

🏏 This July we are encouraging our cricket community to take the free, online 20 minute training from Zero Suicide Alliance 🤝 When you’ve completed it post your certificate on here so we can share with more 🔗 zerosuicidealliance.com

Thanks to St Chad’s Broomfield CC for inviting us down last night ☀️ 🧠 🏏

Enjoyed chatting with Cricket Wales Disability players tonight about self talk 🗣️ 🧠 🏏

Enjoyed chatting with Cricket Wales Disability players tonight about self talk 🗣️ 🧠 🏏

If you’d like to promote positive mental health at your club, join us on Thursday 💻 Sign up for free here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We’ve got a session on Thursday that shares ideas on how to put together a plan to promote positive mental health at your club 🧠 🏏 Anything from a few bullet points to a detailed document ✍️ Sign up here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We’re fundraising for C.A.L.M at the Alex Miller Cup on Sunday 24th August @ Sefton Park CC Any contributions to the prize draw would be appreciated 🏏 Please reply if you can help 🤝

24th August @ Sefton Park CC is the 12th Alex Miller Cup 🏆 We’re keeping two twists to this 6-a-side tournament 👀 💥 Any runs scored off the last ball of each over are doubled 💥 A one handed catch results in ten runs taken off the batting total May add one more- any suggestions? 💭 📷 2022

You can tell a team environment is spot on when players enjoy the success of others 🙌 The power of this support and connection can ripple well beyond performance too 🧠

🏏 You cannot beat our sport 🏏 “It is exactly what I need to get back into cricket. Back on the pitch, having a bowl, meeting some new people and being part of a team. Very cathartic with how busy life can get.” (Received from a team mate after returning to playing this week)

Time to talk: Mental wellbeing and suicide prevention through cricket @adamhopkins23.bsky.social chats to Mark Boyns from @openingupcricket.bsky.social www.ecb.co.uk/news/4274381...

We’re working with Devon Cricket to help clubs promote mental wellbeing through cricket 🧠 🏏 Our sport can be so powerful in helping the people we care about 🙌

Getting started on this today 📚 www.amazon.co.uk/Crickets-Bla...

🔈 Book A Session For Your Club 🔈 ⏰ 30 minutes 💰 Free 🏠 In person / online ☀️ Pre season / in the summer ✅ Mental skills & fitness for cricket Taking care of wellbeing Looking out for team mates Signposting to support 📧 [email protected] or reply

Good to have joined MCC Foundation Hub players online tonight to look at mental health & fitness in cricket 🧠 🏏

We had a great day with Wallasey CC yesterday at their annual golf day ⛳️ You can’t beat the fresh air and a chance to chat 🧠 We’re grateful for the support of the club in raising money that helps us provide sessions & resources 🏏

Enjoyed joining ECB umpires tonight on Zoom to talk about mental wellbeing in our sport 🧠 🏏

Thanks to Penn Street CC for inviting us along tonight and for their continued support 🧠 🏏

Glad to talk with Cricket Wales Disability players tonight online as part of our series of sessions 💻 Looking out for signs of declining mental health and supporting team mates was the focus 🏏

Lovely to chat with Ripon CC tonight 🧠🏏