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Gloucestershire to face Somerset in Pre-Season Schedule

25 February 2021

We are pleased to announce that we will be playing local rivals Somerset in pre-season friendlies as we gear up for the start of the LV= Insurance County Championship campaign.

The Bristol County Ground will also be hosting a 3-day pre-season warm-up match fixture (details of this fixture will be revealed soon), which begins on March 29.

Full list:

March 23/24 | Somerset v Gloucestershire | 2-day friendly (red ball) (Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton)

March 25 | Gloucestershire v Somerset | T20 friendly x2 (Bristol County Ground)

March 29 - 31 | Pre-season warm up match | 3-day friendly (Bristol County Ground)

Please note – these matches will all be played behind closed doors.

Gloucestershire Cricket Chief Executive Will Brown said: "Rarely has our squad of players and all our staff looked forward to a season like this one. With everything that the country has been through in the last year, we are so excited to be gearing up for a full cricket season and have a very real hope of the imminent return of our glorious Members and supporters to cheer us on at Bristol and Cheltenham.

We cannot wait to get started, and there will be no better way to finalise our preparation than with these fixtures against Somerset, so we’re really keen to hit the ground running for the 2021 season.”

Our first LV= Insurance County Championship fixture of the season will see the team face Surrey in Bristol with the match beginning on Thursday 8 April at 11:00am. View our full fixture list here.

Gloucestershire are in Group 2 of the new LV= Insurance County Championship group structure, our group consists of Surrey, Somerset, Hampshire, Middlesex and Leicestershire.

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