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

A repeat of last season's final game will be played in the first game of the 2023 season.

Middlesex will start at home against Essex.

Yorkshire is back in Division Two.

It will be the first Division Two fixture in 11 years for the Tykes, who were demoted to the second tier in the summer of 2022.

They will face off against the Foxes who have not won a game in over two years.

The River Severn is next to the New Road ground and it is prone to early season floods.

The first round of games starts on Thursday, April 6th and will be followed by six rounds in April and the first three weeks of May.

On 11 May, the first London derby of the summer will take place, with the return at Lord's taking place on 18 July.

There will be two rounds of Championship games in June after the break for the T20 Blast.

• 2022 County Championship team of the season

There are at least two more rounds of red-ball cricket in July, either side of the T20 Blast Finals Day, which is already sold out.

In August, there will be no cricket. The Men's and Women's Hundred and the One-Day Cup will be included in the school summer holidays.

The final four rounds of Championship action take place in September, including two visits to the capital for Warwickshire, the first at The Oval and the second at Lord's, where they haven't won a trophy since 2011.

T20 Blast and One-Day Cup

• Defending T20 Blast champions Hampshire start at Somerset on 24 May.
• Friday nights have again been designated as 'Blast nights', with 48 games taking place across six consecutive Friday nights.
• One-Day Cup champions Kent begin the defence of their title against Yorkshire at Scarborough on 1 August.
• The One-Day Cup final will again be held at Trent Bridge, on Saturday, 16 September.

More women's cricket on schedule

• The Charlotte Edwards Cup will feature 20 double-headers, shared with men's T20 Blast matches from 25 May until 7 June, at 17 venues. That means an extra fixture per team.
• Sunrisers host Central Sparks in the first Charlotte Edwards Cup game of the summer on 18 May.
• New Road will host the final on 10 June.
• The fixture list for the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy has been doubled for 2023. There will be 14 50-over fixtures per season for each women's regional team, starting on 22 April.
• Northampton's County Ground will host the final on 24 September.

Opening fixtures - Thursday, 6 April

There is a division one.

Hampshire and Nottinghamshire are in the same state.

The game was played between Lancashire andurrey.

The game is between the states of Somerset and the state of Warwickshire.

The game is between Essex and Middlesex.

The game is between Kent and Northamptonshire.

The second division:

The game is between Durham and the state of Sussex.

The game is between the counties of Glamorgan and Gloucestershire.

The game is between the counties of Derbyshire and Worcestershire.

Yorkshire and Leicestershire are both part of the same region.

Full Championship fixtures by county