World Cricket Connects 2025 takes place at Lord's on 7 and 8 June. This is the second edition of the forum that brings together the most influential voices from across cricket to debate the key issues in our game today.
This year's event features four main topics - a Global Overview of the game, a debate on the subject "Is Cricket Cool?", Franchise Cricket and Women's Cricket. There will also be discussions on other important cricket matters including environmental sustainability, the cost of cricket bats, and cricket for social impact.
Guests will hear from a range of figures in cricket including Jay Shah, Ellyse Perry, Pat Cummins, Heath Mills, Heather Knight, Sourav Ganguly, Kumar Sangakkara, Mel Jones, Alistair Dobson, Satyan Gajwani, Graeme Smith, David White, Kane Williamson, Johnny Grave, Vikram Banerjee and Sana Mir. There will also be presentations from organisations including Boston Consulting Group, World Cricketers' Association, JioStar, Cricket for Climate and the MCC Foundation.
On Monday 9 June the World Cricket Connects Advisory Board will meet to review the main discussion points arising from the event.
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