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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · Jul 22
🚨 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.

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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 13h
🏏🌍 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 💪🏻👏
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 16h
🌱🏏 Next in our series of #PlantPowered veggie or vegan cricketers is... Indian legend, Rohit Sharma! 🇮🇳 💚💪
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 1d
🏏🌍 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 🤔
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 1d
🏏🌍 "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 💚
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 2d
🏏🌍 World Cup Warming Stripes! 🇳🇿 Today it's #NZvSA 🇿🇦 🔥

💡 The Holkar Stadium in Indore has 376 solar panels ☀️
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 2d
"The money these organizations are accepting from Aramco is fueling their own demise as climate creates increasingly hazardous performance conditions."

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FIFA, Formula 1, ICC Under Fire For Aramco Sponsorships
Aramco is spending billions of dollars on sports sponsorships with FIFA, Formula 1, Concacaf and international cricket that buy it goodwill and visibility.
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 3d
🏏🌍 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! 💪🏻
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 5d
🏏🌍 "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 👍

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The Secret Life Of A Club Groundskeeper: 'Without Us, Cricket Would Stop'
Katya Witney investigates the life and challenges of a club cricket groundskeeper, including the issues posed by climate change and the pressure to please the home team.
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 6d
🏏🌍 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! ☀️
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 6d
🚨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
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 7d
🏏🌍 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 👏
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 8d
🏏🌍 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
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 8d
🏏🌍 "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 💚
England break the 300 barrier and their looming Ashes selection calls | Wisden Cricket Podcast
Mark Butcher, Katya Witney, Lawrence Booth and Yas Rana discuss England's record-breaking display of hitting at Old Trafford, a thrilling T20 Blast Finals Day, England's looming Ashes selection calls…
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 9d
🔥 "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! 💀
The six storylines that will define the Women’s Cricket W...
There has been an historic prize-pot increase for women’s ODI, but the real test is in the fanbase
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 12d
🏏🌍 Want to make your cricket club more sustainable, resilient and nature friendly? 💚

Here are our top tips:
7 Tips to Make Your Cricket Club More Sustainable — The Next Test - Cricket, Climate & Sustainability
Here are some top sustainability tips for cricket clubs large and small
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 13d
💀 "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 🌍
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 14d
😂 The next thing you know, Trump will be claiming the Earth is flat and that Barstow's stumping was within the spirit of cricket! 🍊🤡
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 14d
🌍🗽 It's New York Climate Week!

💡 Did you know... the first EVER international cricket match took place in New York on 24th September 1844, between the USA and Canada??? 🏏

🌳 Back then, global CO2 was a very reasonable 284ppm... Today we're hitting 424ppm 🥵

#ClimateWeekNYC
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 15d
🌱🏏 Next in our series of #PlantPowered veggie or vegan cricketers is... Aussie fast bowling legend, Peter Siddle! 🇦🇺 💚

“I have lost eight kilos and I’m the fittest, fastest and strongest I’ve ever been." 💪
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 15d
Pakistan Super League, right? 🤔
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 16d
🏏🌍 "Cricket overall needs to have a look at itself and decide - is it a sport that cares about the environment?"

Ben Gardner on a recent Wisden Cricket podcast, discussing cricket, climate and the merits of Adam Zampa flying 34,000km for 20 balls.

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Why Oval are so dominant, Sonny Baker's England debut & what to expect from South Africa | Wisden
Mark Butcher, Ben Gardner, Yas Rana and The Telegraph's Tim Wigmore reflect on Oval Invincibles' third men's Hundred title in a row and wonder what the competition might look like next year under new…
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 17d
☀️⚡It's Sun Day! Solar energy is the future + it's here NOW ☀️⚡

🏏 Cricket clubs big and small are making the switch. You can too, with help from the ECB County Grants Fund: bit.ly/3KxB3Mb

💚 Free surveys & funding for West of England clubs: bit.ly/4muoDCh
Free Carbon Surveys & Green Grant Funding for West of England Cricket Clubs — The Next Test - Cricket, Climate & Sustainability
The West of England Combined Authority are supporting sports organisations within the West of England and would like to introduce cricket clubs to our free Carbon Surveys and Green Business Grant…
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 19d
🌱🏏 Next in our series of #PlantPowered veggie or vegan cricketers is... Indian demi-god, Virat Kohli! 💚

"Take a deep breath and eat your Veggies (if you want 😉)💪😂✌️"
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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 20d
🏏 The Best Cricket Stories Daily 💫

The Next Test on Toyota's poor climate record 👇

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The Next Test @thenexttest.org · 20d
🪙💚 Putting his money where his mouth is...

🇦🇺🏏 Cricket for Climate legend, Pat Cummins not only putting solar panels on clubs, but investing in the clean energy grid 👏

www.startupdaily.net/topic/fundin...
Fast bowler Pat Cummins backs AI-powered energy grid startup's $7.5 million Series A
The round for Gridsight was led by Airtree Ventures, with support from US VC Energy Transition Ventures & Singapore's Aera VC
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