2024 fixtures: Gloucestershire’s season in full
23 November 2023
Gloucestershire Cricket is delighted to announce our full fixture list for the 2024 season.
Dale Benkenstein’s side will begin the 2024 season in Division Two of the County Championship with ambitions of challenging for promotion back to Division One.
Shire will kick the season off with a block of seven County Championship fixtures, starting with a trip to face Derbyshire on the opening weekend of the season on Friday 5th April. Gloucestershire’s first home match will be on Friday 12th April when Yorkshire are the visitors.
Gloucestershire’s T20 Vitality Blast season will begin on Thursday 30th May with a home fixture against 2023 finalists Essex Eagles. After four home T20 matches in Bristol in May and June, T20 cricket will return to the Towergate Cheltenham Cricket Festival in July 2024 for the first time since 2021. In what promises to be a thrilling festival of cricket for 2024, Shire will face off against Kent Spitfires, Glamorgan and Middlesex in the Vitality Blast at the stunning Cheltenham College Grounds.
Commenting on the schedule for 2024, Head Coach at Gloucestershire, Dale Benkenstein, said: “It’s always great to get confirmation of our fixtures and in many ways this acts as the starting point for the season that’s to come. It’s exciting to be able to look forward with optimism to returning to playing matches in the spring, and work to get us ready for that has already begun in the early stages of pre-season training.
“It’s especially pleasing to see us have the chance to showcase our T20 game at Cheltenham. The players love every opportunity they get to play at the College and it’s great to have the variation of playing a range of formats at the festival year-on-year.
“We’re all looking forward to the start of the season with lots of hard work planned in the meantime to give us the best possible chance of getting off to a good start in the championship come April.”
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County Championship
Gloucestershire’s 2024 County Championship Division Two campaign gets underway on Friday 5th April with a trip to face Derbyshire which will be followed the week after, on Thursday 13th April, with The Shire’s first home match of the season v Yorkshire.
The first block of the County Championship campaign comes to a close with the reverse fixture against Derbyshire in Bristol on Friday 24th May.
The final home match of the domestic season takes place on Tuesday 17th September when Sussex are the visitors, while the 2024 season comes to a close with an away trip to Cardiff to face Glamorgan on Thursday 26th September.
Vitality Blast
After beginning the 2024 Vitality Blast group stage campaign with a home match against Essex Eagles on Thursday 30th May, Shire will play three more home T20 matches in Bristol before playing the final three home fixtures at the historic Towergate Cheltenham Cricket Festival.
Gloucestershire’s home West Country showdown against local rivals Somerset will take place at the Seat Unique Stadium on Friday 21st June, while the reverse fixture will be played on Sunday 7th July in Taunton.
Meanwhile, the annual double-header combining Gloucestershire and Western Storm’s T20 matchdays will take place on Sunday 9th June, as Shire face Sussex Sharks and Western Storm take on Southern Vipers in the Charlotte Edwards Cup.
Towergate Cheltenham Cricket Festival
The Towergate Cheltenham Cricket Festival returns for a 152nd in 2024 and promises to be bigger and better with the inclusion of T20 cricket in a bumper schedule of fixtures.
The stunning Cheltenham College will host SEVEN matches across 20 days, offering something for all ages of cricket fans.
The festival will kick-off with a County Championship match against Glamorgan on Sunday 30th June and will be followed by three T20 Vitality Blast matches, two Western Storm matches and a hugely exciting international fixture between England U19s and India U19s. The U19s Test Match will close the 2024 festival from Tuesday 16th July – Friday 19th July.
Metro Bank One Day Cup
Gloucestershire enjoyed a thrilling 2023 Metro Bank One Day Cup – reaching the semi-finals of the competition – and will be hoping to once again find their groove in the 2024 edition of the 50-over cup next season.
Shire’s campaign will get underway at Glamorgan on Thursday 25th July with Seat Unique Stadium hosting the visit of Essex three days later. Bristol will once again host four home group matches with the final one scheduled to take place on Wednesday 14th August against Leicestershire.
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