Lancashire cricket fixtures confirmed for Vitality Blast and Royal London Cup

The T20 Blast competition returns to the 14-game group format, with Lancashire playing the other seven sides in the North group at home and away between June 9 and July 20. All home fixtures will be at Emirates Old Trafford.

This will be followed by the return of the Royal London 50-over competition, which was not contested last year because of the pandemic.

The counties have been randomly drawn into two groups of nine, each club playing four home games and four away.

Lancashire's group games will take place between July 23 and August 12.

The venues for the first three Red Rose home games are yet to be confirmed, though Blackpool has usually staged one of these.

Teams will warm up for this competition with a 50-over match against a National County. Lancashire's match will be away to Cumberland on Tuesday, July 20.

In both the Blast and Royal London Cup, the top four in each group will progress to the quarter-finals.

These shorter-format fixtures follow the confirmation of County Championship fixtures in December.

Lancashire Vitality Blast fixtures:

Wed June 9: Derbyshire (home)

Thu June 10 Leicestershire (home)

Sun June 13 Worcestershire (away, New Road)

Tue June 15 Derbyshire (away, Incora County Ground)

Thu June 17: Durham (away, Emirates Riverside)

Fri June 18: Birmingham Bears (away, Edgbaston)

SunJune 20: Nottinghamshire (home)

Fri June 25: Northamptonshire (away, County Ground)

Sat June 26: Nottinghamshire (away, Trent Bridge)

Thu July 1: Worcestershire (home)

Fri July 2: Yorkshire (away, Emerald Headingley)

Fri July 9: Northamptonshire (home)

Fri July 16: Durham (home)

Sat July 17: Yorkshire (home)

Aug 24-27: Quarter-finals

Sept 18: Finals Day (Edgbaston)

Lancashire Royal London Cup fixtures

Fri July 23: Sussex (home, TBC)

Sun July 25: Gloucestershire (away, Bristol)

Wed July 28: Kent (away, Beckenham)

Sun August 1: Hampshire (away, Ageas Bowl)

Tue August 3: Middlesex (home, TBC)

Thu August 5: Durham (away, Emirates Riverside)

Sun August 8 Worcestershire (home, TBC)

Thu August 12: Essex (home, Emirates Old Trafford)

Sat August 14: Quarter-finals

Tue August 17: Semi-finals

Thu August 19: Final (Trent Bridge)

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