🎄 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 🏏🌍💚👇 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...

🏏 🌍 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.

🏏🌍 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...

🌍 🏏 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

🏏🌊 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... 🤔

🌱 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:

📢 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:

📢 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...

🏏🌍 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?...

🏏🌍 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:

🏏 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...

🏏🌍 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...

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...

🏏🌍 "It remains to be seen whether the authorities do take this report seriously and if further conversations and actions are taken." Great to hear the Hit for Six Report and the effects of climate change on cricket on the latest Stumped podcast. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🏏🌍 World cup warming stripes! Today it's 🇮🇳#INDvNZ 🇳🇿🔥 💡Did you know... India recently hit its target of 50% non-fossil fuel energy generation, 5 years ahead of schedule! 👍🏻 #CWC25

🥾 The Next Test's Dan Looney recently set out on an epic 130 mile walk along the Kennet and Avon Canal, searching for stories of cricket clubs taking climate and nature action. Check out the first instalment of his travelog here:

🏏🌍 World cup warming stripes! Today it's 🇿🇦#SAvPAK 🇵🇰 in Colombo ☔ ⛈️ Lots of rain forecast, sadly. Rainfall has been steadily increasing in Colombo as the climate warms - and this trend is only likely to continue.

🏏🌍 World Cup Warming Stripes! Today it's 🇱🇰 #SLvBAN 🇧🇩 in Navi Mumbai🔥 🚨 Air quality in Navi Mumbai today is UNHEALTHY. Advice is NO OUTDOOR EXERCISE 😷

⚽🌍 Athletes all over the world are waking up to the fact that climate change poses an existential threat to their sports and our societies. 🏏 It would be great to see more cricketers standing up and speaking out 💪🏻 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🏏🌍 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

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🏏🌍 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 ☀️

"The money these organizations are accepting from Aramco is fueling their own demise as climate creates increasingly hazardous performance conditions." www.forbes.com/sites/vitasc...

🏏🌍 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...

🏏🌍 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 💚

🔥 "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! 💀

🏏🌍 Want to make your cricket club more sustainable, resilient and nature friendly? 💚 Here are our top tips:

💀 "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! 🍊🤡