Leicestershire 2023 Fixtures Revealed

• Foxes begin season at Headingley against Yorkshire on 6 April
  
• East Midlands Derby versus Derbyshire starts home campaign
• Oakham Cricket Festival to return in July after 16-year absence
• Blast campaign starts away at Lancashire (25 May). Bears first home fixture (26 May)
• Foxes battle Falcons (1 June) and Outlaws (20 June) in home Blast matches
• One-Day Cup begins with visit to Surrey (2 August)

Leicestershire CCC will kick off the 2023 campaign with a trip to Headingley, as the Foxes face promotion-favourites Yorkshire in their LV= Insurance County Championship opener on Thursday, 6 April.

Two home County Championship fixtures follow, as the Foxes take on East Midlands Rivals, Derbyshire, (Thursday, 13 April), before welcoming Glamorgan (Thursday, 27 April).

Foxes fans will also have the hotly anticipated return of the Oakham Cricket Festival to look forward to, as first-class cricket makes its comeback to Oakham School after a 16-year absence for the County Championship clash versus Worcestershire (Wednesday, 19 July).

Leicestershire’s final home match of the 2023 season will be the reverse fixture of the opening day, as Yorkshire make the trip to Grace Road (Tuesday, 19 September), before the Foxes end the campaign at Durham (Tuesday, 26 September).

T20 Blast:

Following the opening six red-ball matches, attention will turn to the Vitality Blast, with the Foxes travelling north to face 2022 runners-up Lancashire at Emirates Old Trafford (Thursday, 25 May).

Uptonsteel County Ground will then host a double-header the following day (Friday, 26 May), as The Blaze battle Central Sparks in the Charlotte Edwards Cup, before Leicestershire look to ignite their home T20 campaign later that evening against Birmingham Bears.

Three of the side’s home Blast fixtures will be played on Friday nights under the lights at Uptonsteel County Ground, while the visit of Worcestershire Rapids will offer weekend afternoon T20 action (Sunday, 18 June).

The group stage concludes with back-to-back East Midlands Derbies on the road, with Paul Nixon’s squad heading to Derbyshire Falcons (Friday, 30 June) and Notts Outlaws (Sunday, 2 July).

Should the Foxes finish in the top four of the North Group, they will feature in a quarter-final on either Thursday, 6 July or Friday, 7 July, with Finals Day to once again be held at Edgbaston on Saturday, 15 July.

One-Day Cup:

After making the quarter-final stages of the One-Day Cup for the first time in 14 years last summer, Leicestershire will be looking to go all the way in 2023. The side kick-start their 50-over campaign in identical fashion to 2022, making the journey to Surrey (venue TBC) on Thursday, 3 August.

An East Midlands Derby at home to Notts Outlaws (Tuesday, 8 August) sits between trips to Kent, Lancashire, and Hampshire, before the Foxes end the group stage with three successive matches at Uptonsteel County Ground, welcoming Essex (Tuesday, 15 August), Middlesex (Friday, 18 August) and Yorkshire (Sunday, 20 August).

Women's Cricket:

Women’s Cricket will also feature prominently at Grace Road next summer. The Blaze will visit twice for Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and Charlotte Edwards Cup fixtures, while England Women ‘A’ will take on Australia in a three-day tour-match ahead of next summer’s Ashes.

Heather Knight’s side will also return to Leicester for a seventh consecutive summer, as England open their ODI series against Sri Lanka on Thursday, 14 September.

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