Sky Sports has announced its opening selection of live matches for the 2018 County Cricket season.
Televised coverage starts in mid-May with the 50-over Royal London One-Day Cup, followed by selected matches throughout the summer from the T20 Vitality Blast, women’s Kia Super League and Specsavers County Championship.
Nottinghamshire Outlaws begin the defence of the title they won in such impressive fashion against Surrey – thanks in no small part to Alex Hales’ 187 not out – by travelling to Emirates Old Trafford, live on Sky Sports.
Live coverage of the Vitality T20 Blast begins in July, with the Outlaws also featuring in the first match in front of the Sky Sports cameras in the rebranded T20 competition as the road to Finals Day at Edgbaston on Saturday, 15 September, begins.
In addition, 12 matches from the Kia Women’s Super League will be broadcast this summer, almost double the amount of games broadcast from the 2017 competition, which was won by Western Storm.
Fans of first-class cricket can follow both divisions of the Specsavers County Championship throughout the summer with regular updates from around the grounds on Sky Sports News.
Essex won their first pennant since 1992 last summer and Sky’s cameras will again catch the climax to the competition with two live four-day matches covering the final two rounds of the season in September.
Sky’s county cricket coverage complements its exclusively live coverage of all England’s home Tests against Pakistan and India, plus One-Day and T20 Internationals versus Australia and India.
The broadcaster’s digital platforms – skysports.com and the Sky Sports app – will bring fans all the scorecards, latest news and reaction from county cricket, as well as match round-ups, while Sky Go will stream all the action online, on iPhone, iPad or selected Android smartphones with the Sky Go app.
Follow all the domestic cricket action across Sky Sports this summer. Details of the confirmed live matches below or visit our Live Cricket on TV page for the latest listings.
THURSDAY 17th MAY
Lancashire Lightning v Notts Outlaws Royal London One-Day Cup
14:00
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FRIDAY 18th MAY
Durham v Yorkshire Vikings Royal London One-Day Cup
14:00
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MONDAY 21st MAY
Hampshire v Surrey Royal London One-Day Cup
14:00
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WEDNESDAY 23rd MAY
Glamorgan v Middlesex Royal London One-Day Cup
14:00
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SATURDAY 30th JUNE
Royal London One-Day Cup Final Lord’s
11:00
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WEDNESDAY 4th JULY
Notts Outlaws v Birmingham Bears Vitality Blast
18:30
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THURSDAY 5th JULY
Middlesex v Surrey Vitality Blast
18:15
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WEDNESDAY 11th JULY
Gloucestershire v Kent Spitfires Vitality Blast
18:30
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SUNDAY 15th JULY
Worcestershire Rapids v Yorkshire Vikings Vitality Blast
14:30
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SUNDAY 22nd JULY
Western Storm v Yorkshire Diamonds Kia Super League
14:30
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WEDNESDAY 25th JULY
Southern Vipers v Loughborough Lightning Kia Super League
19:00
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FRIDAY 27th JULY
Yorkshire Diamonds v Lancashire Thunder Kia Super League
14:30
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SUNDAY 29th JULY
Western Storm v Loughborough Lightning Kia Super League
12:00
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TUESDAY 31st JULY
Surrey Stars v Lancashire Thunder Kia Super League
14:30
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TUESDAY 7th AUGUST
Lancashire Thunder v Surrey Stars Kia Super League
14:30
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WEDNESDAY 8th AUGUST
Southern Vipers v Yorkshire Diamonds Kia Super League
14:30
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TUESDAY 14th AUGUST
Southern Vipers v Surrey Stars Kia Super League
14:30
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WEDNESDAY 15th AUGUST
Loughborough Lightning v Western Storm Kia Super League
15:00
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MONDAY 27th AUGUST
Kia Super League Day Hove
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SATURDAY 15th SEPTEMBER
Vitality Blast Finals Day Edgbaston
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18-21 SEPTEMBER
Specsavers County Championship Penultimate Round (Match TBC)
10:30
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24-27 SEPTEMBER
Specsavers County Championship Final Round (Match TBC)
