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Cricket Unites

Transforming lives overseas

Cricket Unites is the MCC Foundation’s global framework for using cricket to bring people together, strengthen communities, and create positive opportunities for young people facing disadvantage around the world. Launched formally in 2025, it represents a significant step forward in how we deliver, support, and scale our international work. 

Our Overseas work in numbers

Brazil

A new partnership between MCCF, Cricket Brasil and Cricket Without Boundaries began in April 2025. The collaboration aims to establish community cricket hubs across Brazil, focusing on unearthing talent, fostering inclusive participation, and using cricket as a platform for social change. 

East Africa

Rwanda

Combining broad participation with clear development pathways. Delivery across hubs including Kayonza, Nyamata, Ndera and Mahama provided regular training, competition and school outreach for thousands of young people. 

Uganda

Expanding both reach and depth, with hubs in Gulu, Jinja, Lira and Masindi delivering consistent school and community-based cricket. Gulu emerged as a regional centre, hosting national girls’ school competitions and strengthening access through new community facilities. 

Kenya

Maintaining well-established hubs in Nairobi, Kisumu, Muranga and Nakuru delivering year-round coaching, competition and community engagement. 


Watch the short film on our 2024 trip to Rwanda and Uganda

2024 DIRECTOR'S REPORT


India

A new Cricket Unites pilot in India has been launched in 2025, establishing a pioneering girls’ cricket and life-skills programme in Mumbai and Pune in partnership with Cricket Without Boundaries, The Right Pitch, the OSCAR Foundation and Barclays.  

Focused on girls aged 10–18 from undeserved communities, the initiative combines weekly school-based sessions, hub-level progression for talented players, coach education grounded in Positive Youth Development, and high-profile soft-ball and hard-ball festivals to create safe, inclusive pathways into the game. 

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Lebanon

In 2021, we launched a transformative project to support young Syrian refugees in Lebanon by funding cricket Hubs which provide skills, hope, and opportunity to children living in the Bekaa Valley and Shatila refugee camps. All of these Hubs are delivered by Alsama Cricket, and provide six hours of coaching and match play every week year-round. The Hubs are a lifeline for the young refugees struggling to survive in the challenging environment of these camps after witnessing the unimaginable horrors of war. 


Nepal

There is huge passion for cricket in Nepal, but a lack of investment and infrastructure. Working with key partners including Kidasha, Cricket Without Boundaries, and MCC, we are providing life-enhancing opportunities through cricket for young people and supporting Nepal's ambitions to become a great cricketing nation.

We are currently delivering in schools across Pokhara, Koshi Province and Madhesh Province, helping young people to access and progress through the game by building facilities, providing kit, up-skilling local teachers and coaches to deliver cricket, and running festivals and competitions. The cricket sessions also incorporate gender equality messaging, and are empowering girls to take part in sport and reach their full potential.

Many of the children we work with are from some of the country’s most disadvantaged slum communities, and lack access to sport and recreation. Cricket gives them a rare opportunity to play and escape their daily struggles while also improving physical and mental well-being. Several players have gone on to be selected for district and provincial cricket teams and now dream of playing for their country after playing cricket for the first time through one of our projects.


Watch highlights from MCC's Legacy Tour to Nepal in 2019

2023 DIRECTOR'S REPORT

ANGUS BERRY 2024 TRIP REPORT


Global Refugee Fund

MCC Foundation together with Marylebone Cricket Club proudly launched the Global Refugee Cricket Fund. A bold initiative designed to extend the Foundation’s work using cricket as a force for unity, dignity, and opportunity for displaced communities around the world. 

In 2025, we supported the Afghan women’s cricket team to attend the ICC Women’s World Cup in India, using the platform to advocate for women’s rights, inspire displaced communities, and reaffirm cricket’s power to amplify voices that might otherwise be silenced. 

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