November 15, 2006
Sussex 2007 Fixtures
Double Winners Sussex begin the 2007 season with the annual match MCC v County Champions at Lord’s on Friday 13 April and the domestic season begins officially on Wednesday 18 April at home in a local derby against Kent in the Liverpool Victoria County Championship.
Our first ECB Trophy match (formerly the C&G Trophy) will be away against Somerset on Sunday 29 April, the semi-finals will take place on Wednesday 20 June and Sussex will be hoping to secure their place.
The ever-popular Twenty20 Cup arrives in Sussex on Sunday 24 June when the Sharks take on the Middlesex Crusaders. And with two Friday night fixtures, against Surrey Brown Hats on 29 June and Hampshire Hawks on 6 July it’s the perfect way to begin a great weekend in Brighton and Hove.
The Sharks’ NatWest Pro40 season begins on Monday 6 August with the Gloucestershire Gladiators as our opponents. This year our Division 1 Pro40 opposition are Lancashire, Warwickshire, Essex, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire.
Sri Lanka A will be touring England and will be playing Sussex in a three-day match from Thursday 19 July.
Sussex Chief Executive, Gus Mackay, commented, ‘2007 will be a challenging year for us having won the Double in 2006. We will be looking to consolidate our position in all competitions and the fixtures have certainly given us a lot to look forward to. We have four home Twenty20 matches and two of these are on Friday night, which will delight our support base and virtually guarantee a full house. We begin our Liverpool Victoria County Championship campaign with a local derby against Kent at home and are lucky to end our season at Hove against Worcestershire on 19 September. The NatWest Pro40 provides a great feature to the late summer after the high-impact of the Twenty20 and it all makes for an extremely exciting year.’