The Next Test is a hub for climate concerned cricket players, clubs and fans.

Chair

Very slow bowler.

My background was Arts & community engagement projects across Bristol & the southwest for 12 years. The last 4 years I’ve worked in the NHS.

A curious mind and a creative soul. I’m returning to a lost love of my childhood, cricket.  I’m deeply worried for the future of the game amongst an unfolding climate crisis. However I feel buoyed by the cricket community and the spirit of the game. I’m compelled to take  my place in time and history; to strive for a future worth playing cricket in. If anyone can reshape our world, it’s cricketers, for our game thinks in Centuries.

Treasurer

Happy beach cricketer

Hello! I grew up in a cricket-loving family and have been writing about sport, particularly cricket, since 1997.

It took me a while to see the links between environmental issues and cricket, in fact the first time it dawned on me was at the end of a T20 in the noughties when I looked at the litter left behind and wondered why a game had to produced so much waste. From there, I met inspirational people like Russell Seymour from BASIS, tentatively wrote more about cricket and climate, including the now annual Environment piece in Wisden, and started @TheNextTest twitter feed. I am so delighted to have met this team of lovely go-getting people, and hope that The Next Test is somewhere cricket lovers from all levels & abilities can come together in strength to help fight the climate emergency.

Website & Research

Nick is an environmental researcher. He studied at Cambridge (BA) and Bristol Uni (MA) where he specialised in Environmental History. He is currently based at the Centre for Sustainable Energy where his research focusses on a just transition to a smart green energy system. He also writes about cricket and sport. Part of the generations who fell in love with cricket during the 2005 Ashes. Nick is now passionate about addressing the historical and racial roots of cricket and the climate crisis. Nick brings this passion to support the digital content and research at The Next Test.

Marketing, Content & Comms.

Dibbly Dobbler, Dodo and Cuttlefish

I have a background in Peace Studies and have worked for many years in special needs education. Currently pursuing a career switch into digital marketing and copywriting.

I’m the Club Secretary for Easton Cuttlefish CC in Bristol and have loved playing and watching cricket since my grandad introduced me to it as a wee boy. Looking forward to introducing the game to my baby son and very much hoping that the game and our planet will still be alive and well by the time my grandchildren are taking the field. Willing to do everything I can to preserve our great game and home turf for future generations.

Research & Education

I’m an MCC member, take young people to Lord’s (most for the first time) for a weekly net from our state school in London – one of the very few state secondary schools who do so. I’m a chemistry teacher (former head of science), former Public Relations and coordinator of Climate Educators, a group of teachers and other educators deeply concerned about the future we are leaving our young people.

Tim Wye

Tim Wye has a career in the NHS and Local Government as well as having been Chief Executive of Active Travel Charity Lifecycle UK.
He is now a consultant in Social Care and an elected Green Party Councillor in Bristol. 
Tim brings a wealth of experience, particularly around governance and project management which he brings to the next phase of The Next Test. Furthermore, he brings links to the Green Party and the wider environmental movement.
A lifelong Cricket fan and current member of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club he is also aware of the needs of cricket and the followers of the game.