County Championship 2023: Champions Surrey to start next season at Lancashire

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County champions Surrey volition commencement the 2023 play with a repetition of past season's last game, a travel to Emirates Old Trafford to look Lancashire.

Promoted Middlesex volition commencement astatine location to Essex, portion Division Two champions Nottinghamshire spell to Hampshire.

Relegated Yorkshire commencement beingness backmost successful Division Two astatine location to Leicestershire.

For the Tykes, relegated connected the last day of the 2022 run by Liam Norwell's astonishing nine-wicket haul for Warwickshire, it volition beryllium a archetypal Division Two fixture successful 11 years.

They volition beryllium up against the Foxes who person not won a County Championship crippled since September 2021.

Worcestershire, whose crushed is adjacent to the River Severn and prone to aboriginal play floods, commencement with 2 distant games, to Derbyshire and Durham, earlier a archetypal location crippled against Gloucestershire astatine New Road connected 20 April.

The opening circular of fixtures commencement connected Thursday, 6 April and past statesman connected a Thursday for the pursuing six rounds passim April and the archetypal 3 weeks of May.

That includes the archetypal London derby of the summer, Surrey v Middlesex astatine The Kia Oval connected 11 May, with the instrumentality astatine Lord's starting connected 18 July.

After the interruption for the T20 Blast, which volition begin with a double-header astatine Edgbaston connected 20 May, determination volition past beryllium 2 rounds of Championship fixtures successful June, some starting connected a Sunday.

2022 County Championship squad of the season

There are past 3 much rounds of red-ball cricket successful July, either broadside of the T20 Blast Finals Day backmost astatine an already sold-out Edgbaston connected 15 July.

There volition again beryllium nary Championship cricket successful August. The highest clip of the schoolhouse summertime holidays volition again beryllium saved for the Men's and Women's Hundred - and the One-Day Cup.

The last 4 rounds of Championship enactment instrumentality spot successful September, including 2 visits to the superior for Warwickshire, archetypal against Surrey astatine The Oval, past Middlesex astatine Lord's, their archetypal instrumentality determination since becoming the past region squad to triumph the Bob Willis Trophy, successful 2021.

T20 Blast and One-Day Cup

Defending T20 Blast champions Hampshire commencement astatine Somerset connected 24 May.
Friday nights person again been designated arsenic 'Blast nights', with 48 games taking spot crossed six consecutive Friday nights.
One-Day Cup champions Kent statesman the defence of their rubric against Yorkshire astatine Scarborough connected 1 August.
The One-Day Cup last volition again beryllium held astatine Trent Bridge, connected Saturday, 16 September.

More women's cricket connected schedule

The Charlotte Edwards Cup volition diagnostic 20 double-headers, shared with men's T20 Blast matches from 25 May until 7 June, astatine 17 venues. That means an other fixture per team.
Sunrisers big Central Sparks successful the archetypal Charlotte Edwards Cup crippled of the summertime connected 18 May.
New Road volition big the last connected 10 June.
The fixture database for the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy has been doubled for 2023. There volition beryllium 14 50-over fixtures per play for each women's determination team, starting connected 22 April.
Northampton's County Ground volition big the last connected 24 September.