England international venues from 2020-24 confirmed

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The ECB have confirmed the grounds which will host England’s home internationals and major domestic fixtures from 2020-24, including the eight venues which will host games in the City T20 competition which will take place for the first time in 2020.

England’s Test matches will be split between six venues – The Oval, Trent Bridge, the Rose Bowl, Headingley, Old Trafford, and Lord’s, which will host two Tests every year in the period. The venues for the 2023 Ashes series will be Edgbaston, Headingley, The Oval, Lord’s, and Old Trafford. The County Ground in Bristol, Sophia Gardens in Cardiff, and the Riverside Ground in Durham are the other grounds which will host international matches in this period.

The eight host venues for the new competition will be the Rose Bowl, Edgbaston, Headingley, The Oval, Lord’s, Old Trafford, Trent Bridge, and Sophia Gardens. The names for the eight teams which will take part in the competition are still unconfirmed.

Edgbaston has been confirmed as the continued host of the T20 Blast Finals Day, but Lord’s will no longer host the One-Day Cup Final, with Trent Bridge the new home of the biggest day in the domestic 50-over calendar, perhaps allowing the fixture to become a Day/Night affair.

Ian Lovett, chair of the Host Venue Panel and Deputy Chairman of ECB, said, “Today’s discussion and decision followed a rigorous, comprehensive and detailed process by the independent Host Venue Panel, in which they assessed a range of high quality submissions and presentations.

“With a five-year period of international and domestic cricket in prospect, as well as our New Competition being developed, there was very strong interest in hosting these events and the overall standard of submissions was excellent.

“From the start of the process we had clear objectives, set a strong methodology and made best use of all relevant data and insight. To help to assess the submissions a balanced scorecard was used, with key aspects up-weighted to meet the needs of each specific set of matches."