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