HAMPSHIRE will play their first T20 match at Lord’s next season– and will return to headquarters after an eight-year absence in the LV County Championship.
Jimmy Adams’ side begin their first season back in division one at home to Sussex on April 12, but their first floodlit match at the home of cricket is the highlight of their T20 group fixtures.
After more than a decade of T20 matches at outgrounds like Uxbridge, Richmond and Southgate – and last season’s visit to Merchant Taylors’ School, Northwood - Hampshire will become the seventh county (after Surrey, Kent, Essex, Sussex, Somerset and Gloucestershire) to play Middlesex in a T20 match at Lord’s.
A record domestic T20 crowd of 28,500 saw Surrey beat Middlesex at headquarters last season and Hampshire’s visit on Thursday, June 18 is also sure to be a popular one.
Ten days after their T20 visit, Hampshire will play their first Championship match at Lord’s since August 2006.
Hampshire have returned for three cup finals since then, but this will end their longest spell without a first-class match at the home of cricket since they first played Middlesex at Lord’s in 1907.
APRIL
2-4 Loughborough MCCU (h) fr
7-8 Kent (h) fr
12-15 Sussex (h) LVCC
19-22 Warwickshire (Edgbaston) LVCC
26-29 Nottinghamshire (h) LVCC
MAY
10-13 Yorkshire (Headingley) LVCC
15 Essex (h) T20
17-20 Middlesex (h) LVCC
22 Kent (h) T20 – f
29 Glamorgan (Swalec) T20 – f
31-3 Worcestershire (h) LVCC
JUNE
4 Middlesex (h) T20
5 Somerset (Taunton) T20
7-10 Sussex (Hove) LVCC
12 Kent (Canterbury) T20 – f
14 England v New Zealand (Ageas Bowl ODI)
18 Middlesex (Lord’s) T20 – f
19 Sussex (h) T20 – f
21 Somerset (h) LVCC
26 Essex (Chelmsford) T20 – f
28-1 Middlesex (Lord’s) LVCC
JULY
3 Glamorgan (h) T20 – f
6-9 Worcestershire (New Road) LVCC
10 Surrey (h) T20 – f
14 Gloucestershire (Cheltenham) T20
17 Sussex (Hove) T20 – f
19-22 Durham (h) LVCC
23 Somerset (h) T20 – f
27 Sussex (h) 50L - f
30 Kent (Canterbury) 50L - f
AUGUST
1 Middlesex (h) 50L
2 Glamorgan (Swalec) 50L
4 Essex (h) 50L – f
5 Warwickshire (Edgbaston) 50L – f
7-10 Warwickshire (h) LVCC
12-14 T20 quarter-finals
17 Lancashire (h) 50L – f
19 Nottinghamshire (Trent Bridge) 50L - f
25-27 50L quarter-finals
SEPTEMBER
1-4 Durham (Riverside) LVCC
3 England v Australia (Ageas Bowl ODI)
9-12 Somerset (Taunton) LVCC
14-17 Yorkshire (h) LVCC
22-25 Nottinghamshire (Trent Bridge) LVCC
Key LVCC: LV County Championship T20: Twenty20 50L: Royal London One-Day Cup f: floodlit
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