WORCESTERSHIRE will launch their 2020 County Championship campaign at Lord’s in a new look to the schedule next summer.
The County will take on Middlesex from Sunday, April 12, having tasted their first action with a three-day match at Loughborough MCCU earlier in the week.
The first home Championship fixture will get under way at Blackfinch New Road from Saturday, April 25, against Sussex and the opening 12 rounds of fixtures will feature at least one weekend day.
Worcestershire are also staging a prestigious Tour Match with the West Indies being welcomed to Blackfinch New Road in a four-day fixture from Thursday, May 28.
The Vitality Blast will take centre stage from the start of June until mid-July.
Rapids will launch their bid to reach a third successive finals day at home to Northamptonshire Steelbacks on June 2.
The eagerly-awaited derby against Birmingham Bears will take place at Blackfinch New Road on June 19 with the return encounter at Edgbaston on July 10.
Worcestershire will be in home action on three Fridays and three Sundays plus one Tuesday for the Vitality Blast Campaign.
From the middle of July it will be the Royal London Cup which forms the bulk of the action with the competition being staged during the school holidays.
The first home game in the 50-over competition will be against Sussex Sharks on July 26 and Rapids will be bidding to reach the knockout stages for a fifth year on the trot.
Tickets for all Worcestershire home fixtures will go on sale from 9am on Thursday.
WORCESTERSHIRE 2020 FIXTURES
April 7 Loughborough MCCU v Worcestershire UNI
April 12 Middlesex v Worcestershire CC2
April 25 Worcestershire v Sussex CC2
May 1 Glamorgan v Worcestershire CC2
May 8 Leicestershire v Worcestershire CC2
May 15 Worcestershire v Middlesex CC2
May 22 Worcestershire v Nottinghamshire CC2
May 28 Worcestershire v West Indies TOM4
June 2 Worcestershire v Northamptonshire T20
June 4 Nottinghamshire v Worcestershire T20
June 5 Leicestershire v Worcestershire T20
June 7 Worcestershire v Yorkshire T20
June 11 Northamptonshire v Worcestershire T20
June 12 Worcestershire v Nottinghamshire T20
June 14 Derbyshire v Worcestershire CC2
June 19 Worcestershire v Birmingham Bears T20
June 21 Worcestershire v Leicestershire T20
June 25 Derbyshire v Worcestershire T20
June 26 Yorkshire v Worcestershire T20
June 28 Nottinghamshire v Worcestershire CC2
July 2 Lancashire v Worcestershire T20
July 3 Worcestershire v Durham T20
July 5 Worcestershire v Durham CC2
July 10 Birmingham Bears v Worcestershire T20
July 12 Worcestershire v Lancashire T20
July 17 Herefordshire v Worcestershire NC
July 19 Hampshire v Worcestershire 50L
July 22 Essex v Worcestershire 50L
July 26 Worcestershire v Sussex 50L
July 29 Lancashire v Worcestershire 50L
July 31 Worcestershire v Middlesex 50L
August 2 Worcestershire v Kent 50L
August 4 Gloucestershire v Worcestershire 50L
August 6 Worcestershire v Durham 50L
August 23 Sussex v Worcestershire CC2
August 29 Worcestershire v Leicestershire CC2
September 8 Worcestershire v Derbyshire CC2
September 14 Durham v Worcestershire CC2
September 22 Worcestershire v Glamorgan CC2
UNI v Universities; CC2 County Championship Division Two; T20 Vitality Blast; 50L Royal London Cup; TOM4 4-Day Tourist; NC v National County.
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