What looms on the horizon for cricket in 2026? In England & Wales we are contending with new ownership of The Hundred teams and the threat of player strikes in the Men’s County Championship, while looking forward to hosting a T20 World Cup, and a maiden women’s Test match at Lord’s. Globally, cricket is poised for entry into the Olympics in 2028, while governance issues loom large in the USA and elsewhere. As we come together in Cambridge, it’s important to look at our sport through a critical lens.

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Margrethe Voll Storaas’ PhD study narrows down to the moving body and asks, ‘how may we understand the moving body ecologically in technologized environments?’ For this study, the cultural and body-contingent arena of sport is a well-suited context. To ensure a holistic treatment, she looks to the effects on both our physical exterior, physical interior, and environing linguistic milieu through three cases: humanly constructed sporting sites, the private international sport event of Enhanced Games, and a modern form of political language engineering that aims to enhance (‘ameliorate’) society.