Yorkshire County Cricket Club has released the fixtures for the 2024 domestic season which will see North Marine Road host two County Championship Matches and two One Day Cup games.
Yorkshire will begin next year’s pursuit of silverware at home to Leicestershire in the County Championship, while the Northern Diamonds begin their summer by hosting a blockbuster clash with arch-rivals Thunder in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy.
The Foxes, as they did earlier this year, will travel to Headingley for the season opener, this one beginning on Friday 5 April.
The Diamonds, meanwhile, head to Durham’s Seat Unique Riverside to kick off their bid to win back the 50-over RHF Trophy they won in 2022. Thunder are the visitors on Saturday 20 April.
Scarborough's North Marine Road will play host to a number of Yorkshire's home games. The first being a 4 day county championship game against Gloucestershire on Sunday June 23rd.
There will also be two One Day Cup games at North Marine road in August. Essex are the visitors on Tuesday August 6th and Leicestershire Foxes will play there on the 8th.
Later in the month Sussex will visit Scarborough for another 4 day county championship match starting on Thursday August 22nd
The opening seven rounds of the County Championship are to be played from Friday-Monday on successive weeks before the start of the Vitality Blast at the end of May. Each county has a week off for rest and recovery during the first five rounds of the season.
Yorkshire Head Coach Ottis Gibson said:
“We want success in four-day cricket.
“We want to get ourselves back in the first division. That’s where most of the attention is in county cricket.
“Then, in white ball cricket, especially in the Blast, we want to put forward a better showing than we did this year.”
Yorkshire’s season opener against Leicestershire is a repeat of the first game of 2023, which the visitors won by chasing down a final day target of 389 in early April.
Gibson, however, is confident things will be different in 2024.
He added:
“A lot has happened since then, and we’ve progressed nicely (as a squad).
“It’s a good opportunity for us, against a good team, to get our season up and running.”
Dani Hazell, Head Coach for the Diamonds, said:
“Fixture release day is always something to look forward to.Now marks the next step on the journey to the 2024 season and we can really begin to bring a closer focus for players already working hard this winter.
“We want to build on last season. We know we’ve got a great mix of youth and experience in the squad at the moment and it’s about looking at how we can improve and push on for trophies.
“We’re really looking forward to next season and it’s really important for us to get off to a good start in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and Charlotte Edwards Cup what a couple of opening first clashes against Thunder (RHFT).
“We’re really looking forward to playing at our host venues at Headingley and Seat Unique Riverside and outgrounds which we will use next year – we look forward to taking the game into our local regions.”
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