From the England and Wales Cricket Board
The England and Wales Cricket Board today released the major match programme for the 2010 season. The international season will commence on May 27 with the 1st npower Test Match v Bangladesh at Lord’s. Following the 2nd npower Test at Old Trafford, the Bangladesh team will head off to participate in the Asia Cup.
The England team will then play an ODI in Scotland on June 19 in the lead up to the five-match NatWest Series v Australia. The three-match NatWest Series v Bangladesh then follows.
As previously announced, ECB has agreed with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Cricket Australia (CA) to host a programme of cricket between Pakistan and Australia which had been due to be held in Pakistan — two International Twenty20s will be played at Edgbaston on July 5 and 6, followed by Test Matches at Lord’s and Headingley Carnegie starting on July 13 and June 21 respectively.
England then play Pakistan in a four-match npower Test Series with matches staged at Trent Bridge, Edgbaston, the Brit Oval and Lord’s. The teams then play two NatWest International Twenty20 matches at Cardiff followed by five One Day Internationals in The NatWest Series.
The Rose Bowl will be the venue for the ever popular Twenty20 Finals Day on Saturday August 14 while the final round of LV= Championship matches, to be played from September 13-16, and the new ECB 40-over Final at Lord’s on Saturday September 18 will provide an exciting climax to the domestic season.
Thu 27-31 May 1st npower Test v Bangladesh Lord’s
Fri 4-8 June 2nd npower Test v Bangladesh Old Trafford
Sat 19 June Scotland v England ODI Edinburgh
Tue 22 June 1st NatWest Series ODI v Australia Rose Bowl (f)
Thu 24 June 2nd NatWest Series ODI v Australia Cardiff (f)
Sun 27 June 3rd NatWest Series ODI v Australia Old Trafford
Wed 30 June 4th NatWest Series ODI v Australia Brit Oval (f)
Sat 3 July 5th NatWest Series ODI v Australia Lord’s
Mon 5 July 1st International T20 Pakistan v Australia Edgbaston
Tue 6 July 2nd International T20 Pakistan v Australia Edgbaston
Thu 8 July 1st NatWest Series ODI v Bangladesh Trent Bridge (f)
Sat 10 July 2nd NatWest Series ODI v Bangladesh Bristol
Mon 12 July 3rd NatWest Series ODI v Bangladesh Edgbaston
Tue 13-17 July 1st Test Pakistan v Australia Lord’s
Wed 21-25 July 2nd Test Pakistan v Australia Headingley Carnegie
Thu 29 July-2 Aug 1st npower Test Match v Pakistan Trent Bridge
Fri 6-10 Aug 2nd npower Test Match v Pakistan Edgbaston
Sat 14 Aug Twenty20 Finals’ Day Rose Bowl
Wed 18-22 Aug 3rd npower Test Match v Pakistan Brit Oval
Thu 26-30 Aug 4th npower Test Match v Pakistan Lord’s
Sun 5 Sept 1st NatWest International T20 v Pakistan Cardiff
Tue 7 Sept 2nd NatWest International T20 v Pakistan Cardiff (f)
Fri 10 Sept 1st NatWest Series ODI v Pakistan Riverside
Sun 12 Sept 2nd NatWest Series ODI v Pakistan Headingley Carnegie
Fri 17 Sept 3rd NatWest Series ODI v Pakistan Brit Oval
Sat 18 Sept ECB 40-over Final Lord’s
Mon 20 Sept 4th NatWest Series ODI v Pakistan Lord’s (f)
Wed 22 Sept 5th NatWest Series ODI v Pakistan Rose Bowl (f)
ECB also confirmed England’s Tour schedules to Bangladesh 2010
England will play 3 ODIs followed by 2 Test Matches in Bangladesh with all matches played in Dhaka and Chittagong:
Warm-up schedule to be confirmed
Sun 28 Feb 1st One Day International SBNCS Dhaka
Tue 2 March 2nd One Day International SBNCS Dhaka
Fri 5 March 3rd One Day International JACSC Chittagong
Sun 7-9 March 3-day Tour Match JACSC Chittagong
Fri 12-16 March 1st Test Match JACSC Chittagong
Sat 20-24 March 2nd Test Match SBNCS Dhaka
Thu 25 March Team departs
For further information contact the ECB Communications Department – 0207 4321200
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