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The Guardian - UK
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Tanya Aldred

Cricket must rethink sponsorship deals amid ongoing climate crisis

General view of Lord's.
The Lord’s partnership with JP Morgan Chase appears to be in conflict with the MCC”s own stance on the climate crisis. Photograph: Dan Mullan/Getty Images

Welcome to The Spin, the Guardian’s weekly (and free) cricket newsletter. Here’s an extract from this week’s edition. To receive the full version every Wednesday, just pop your email in below:

In 1962 the London Royal College of Physicians published an in-depth and groundbreaking report on the dangers of smoking to human health. Ten years later the Benson & Hedges Cup was born – a sponsorship deal between a tobacco company and cricket that lasted 30 years.

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