Major match schedule 2007

2 September 2006

The England and Wales Cricket Board have announced the major match schedule for the 2007 season.

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npower Test series v West Indies

May 17-21: 1st Test v West Indies, Lord’s
May 25-29: 2nd Test v West Indies, Headingley Carnegie Stadium
June 7-11: 3rd Test v West Indies, Old Trafford
June 15-19: 4th Test v West Indies, Chester-le-Street

NatWest International Twenty20 series v West Indies

June 28: 1st match v West Indies, The Brit Oval
June 29: 2nd match v West Indies, The Brit Oval

NatWest Series v West Indies

July 1: 1st ODI v West Indies, Lord’s
July 4: 2nd ODI v West Indies, Edgbaston
July 7: 3rd ODI v West Indies, Trent Bridge

npower Test series v India

July 19-23: 1st Test v India, Lord’s
July 27-31: 2nd Test v India, Trent Bridge
August 9-13: 3rd Test v India, The Brit Oval

NatWest Series v India

August 21: 1st ODI v India, The Rose Bowl (day/night)
August 24: 2nd ODI v India, Bristol (d/n)
August 27: 3rd ODI v India, Edgbaston
August 30: 4th ODI v India, Old Trafford (d/n)
September 2: 5th ODI v India, Headingley Carnegie Stadium
September 5: 6th ODI v India, The Brit Oval
September 8: 7th ODI v India, Lord’s

Domestic finals

August 4: Twenty20 Finals Day, Edgbaston
August 18: Friends Provident Trophy final, Lord’s

John Carr, the ECB’s director of England cricket, said: “We have an exciting programme of npower and NatWest international cricket planned in 2007 with series against two 'big-draw' teams in West Indies and India as well as the very popular highlights of the domestic season, the Twenty20 Cup finals day at Edgbaston on Saturday August 4 and the Friends Provident Trophy final at Lord’s on Saturday August 18.

“The ECB and the Board of Control for Cricket in India have had a long-standing agreement that India’s tour to the UK would directly reciprocate the three Test matches and seven one-day internationals played by the England team in India earlier this year.

"The ECB is delighted to have secured the agreement of the West Indies Cricket Board to play a four-match npower Test Series and a three-match NatWest Series that enables us to present this exciting seven-Test and 10-ODI international match programme for the 2007 season.

“The ECB would normally plan to stage one NatWest International Twenty20 match against each of the touring teams but as the Indian team were not playing international Twenty20 cricket when the schedules were agreed, we have scheduled two matches against West Indies and we are expecting successive evenings of exhilarating stroke-play at The Brit Oval on June 28 and 29.”