Sky Sports will feature all 18 first class counties live during the new-look domestic season as part of an bumper summer of cricket in 2014.
The line-up of more than 50 matches will include the new Royal London One-Day Cup, now played in a 50-over format, and the NatWest T20 Blast, the new name for the domestic T20 competition.
Sky Sports’ schedule of live county cricket begins with the first of three LV=County Championship matches and continues with 39 NatWest T20 Blast fixtures, including a Middlesex double header over the first weekend.
Later in the summer, the 50-over Royal London One-Day Cup gets underway on Sky Sports beginning with the Roses match at Old Trafford.
Ian Ward, Charles Colville and Matt Floyd will present Sky Sports’ live country cricket coverage throughout the season and will be joined by regulars Nick Knight, David Lloyd, Nasser Hussain, Michael Atherton, Dominic Cork and many more.
A busy summer of international cricket on Sky Sports includes live coverage of all England’s Tests, ODIs and T20s against Sri Lanka and India plus an ODI against Scotland.
The fifth Investec Test between England and India in mid-August will mark the 200th England Test match to be shown live on Sky since 1991.
David Gower will continue to present Sky Sports’ exclusively live coverage of England’s Test and ODI matches alongside Sir Ian Botham, David Lloyd, Michael Atherton, Michael Holding and Nasser Hussain.
Bryan Henderson, cricket executive producer for Sky Sports, said: “We’ve got all the stories covered this summer with a new schedule and new competitions.
“There’s every county live, all of England’s matches, plus lots of features and programmes. It’s going to be a great summer of cricket with Sky Sports.”
The summer of cricket forms part of an unrivalled schedule of sport across six Sky Sports channels, including the end of the football season, golf’s US Open and US PGA Championship, summer international rugby, US Open tennis, every Formula 1 race and the 2014 Ryder Cup.
Cricket coverage on Sky Sports is available on TV, PC and on the move via mobile and tablet devices through Sky Go.
Sky Sports News will continue to provide daily reports from county and international matches throughout the year, as well as views and analysis from the Sky Sports team, while the Sky Sports cricket has the latest live scores, interviews and news.
Scroll down for full details of Sky Sports’ live international and country matches during the summer of 2014.
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| 2014 COUNTY CRICKET SEASON on SKY SPORTS |
| DOMESTIC |
NatWest T20 Blast
Friday 16th May 18:30 Nottinghamshire v Lancashire Saturday 17th May 12:00 Middlesex v Essex 16:00 Middlesex v Sussex Sunday 18th May 14:30 Somerset v Surrey Friday 23rd May 18:30 Birmingham Bears v Yorkshire Thursday 29th May 18:30 Derby v Northamptonshire Friday 30th May 18:30 Surrey v Middlesex Sunday 1st June 14:30 Leicestershire v Birmingham Bears Thursday 5th June 18:30 Hampshire v Kent Friday 6th June 18:30 Lancashire v Yorkshire Saturday 7th June 14:30 Worcestershire v Durham Sunday 8th June 14:30 Gloucester v Glamorgan Wednesday 11th June 18:30 Kent v Essex Thursday 19th June 17:00 Birmingham Bears v Northamptonshire Friday 20th June 19:00 Essex v Middlesex Wednesday 25th June 18:30 Glamorgan v Hampshire Thursday 26th June 18:15 Middlesex v Gloucestershire Friday 27th June 17:30 Yorkshire v Lancashire Saturday 28th June 14:30 Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire Sunday 29th June 14:30 Durham v Derby Tuesday 1st July 17:30 Yorkshire v Leicestershire Wednesday 2nd July 18:30 Surrey v Kent Thursday 3rd July 18:30 Northamptonshire v Birmingham Bears Friday 4th July 17:30 Gloucestershire v Sussex Sunday 6th July 14:30 Hampshire v Somerset Tuesday 8th July 18:30 Birmingham Bears v Nottinghamshire Friday 11th July 19:00 Sussex v Kent Tuesday 15th July 18:30 Sussex v Glamorgan Wednesday 16th July 18:30 Surrey v Somerset Friday 18th July 19:00 Kent v Somerset Tuesday 22nd July 18:30 Essex v Hampshire Wednesday 23rd July 18:30 Northamptonshire v Nottinghamshire Thursday 24th July Match TBC Friday 25th July Match TBC Friday 1st August Quarter Final 1 Saturday 2nd August Quarter Final 2 Quarter Final 3 Sunday 3rd August Quarter Final 4 Saturday 23rd August Finals Day ..
Royal London One-Day Cup
Saturday 26th July 14:00 Lancashire v Yorkshire Tuesday 5th August 14:00 Sussex v Durham Wednesday 6th August 14:00 Kent v Glamorgan Tuesday 12th August 14:00 Warwickshire v Surrey Wednesday 13th August 14:00 Essex v Hampshire Thursday 14th August 13:00 Middlesex v Nottinghamshire Wednesday 20th August Group B final round Thursday 21st August Group A final round Tuesday 26th August Quarter Final 1 Thursday 28th August Quarter Final 2 Quarter Final 3 Friday 29th August Quarter Final 4 Thursday 4th September Semi Final Saturday 6th September Semi Final Saturday 20th September Final ..
LV= County Championship
May 4-7 11:00 Durham v Yorkshire Sep 15-18 11:00 Match TBC Sep 23-26 11:00 Match TBC.
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| INTERNATIONAL |
One Day International
Friday 9th May 10:30 Scotland v England (Aberdeen).
NatWest Series ODI / T20
Tuesday 20th May 18:00 England v Sri Lanka – T20 (The Oval) Thursday 22nd May 13:00 England v Sri Lanka – 1st ODI (The Oval, d/n) Sunday 25th May 10:30 England v Sri Lanka – 2nd ODI (Durham) Wednesday 28th May 14:00 England v Sri Lanka – 3rd ODI (Old Trafford, d/n) Saturday 31st May 10:30 England v Sri Lanka – 4th ODI (Lord’s) Tuesday 3rd June 14:00 England v Sri Lanka – 5th ODI (Edgbaston d/n).
Investec Test Series
June 12-16 11:00 England v Sri Lanka – 1st Test (Lord’s) June 20-24 11:00 England v Sri Lanka – 2nd Test (Headingley) July 9-13 11:00 England v India – 1st Test (Trent Bridge) July 17-21 11:00 England v India – 2nd Test (Lord’s) July 27-31 11:00 England v India – 3rd Test (Ageas Bowl) August 7-11 11:00 England v India – 4th Test (Old Trafford) August 15-19 11:00 England v India – 5th Test (The Oval).
One-Day Match
Saturday 5th July 10:45 MCC v Rest of the World (Lord’s).
NatWest Series ODI / T20
Monday 25th August 10:30 England v India – 1st ODI (Bristol) Wednesday 27th August 10:30 England v India – 2nd ODI (Cardiff) Saturday 30th August 10:30 England v India – 3rd ODI (Trent Bridge) Tuesday 2nd September 10:30 England v India – 4th ODI (Edgbaston) Friday 5th September 10:30 England v India – 5th ODI (Headingley).
NatWest Women’s International T20 Series
Monday 1st September 18:30 England v South Africa – 1st T20 (Chelmsford) Wednesday 3rd September 18:30 England v South Africa – 2nd T20 (Northampton) Sunday 7th September 10:30 England v South Africa – 3rd T20 (Edgbaston)
Under-19 ODI Series
Friday 22nd August 14:00 England U19 v South Africa U19 (Derby).
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