Essex’s fixtures for the 2025 County Championship, which will be title sponsored by Rothesay for the next three years, and Metro Bank One Day Cup women’s and men’s competitions have today been confirmed.
The men’s side are scheduled to kick off the season with a rematch of last summer’s finale at home to Surrey, beginning on Friday 04 April.
Meanwhile, Essex Women will commence the summer with a Metro Bank One Day Cup trip to Durham on Wednesday 23 April, before taking on Warwickshire in their home opener at The Cloud County Ground four days later.
Essex’s opening block of Championship fixtures, following on from the home clash with Surrey, will take in trips to Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Worcestershire, and a return match against the Brown Caps, alongside further home encounters with the Pears and Yorkshire.
A further four rounds of red-ball action, that will feature usage of the Kookaburra ball, are set to follow at the end of June and end of July, with Essex slated to host Hampshire and Warwickshire either side of travelling to Yorkshire and Sussex.
The Championship season will conclude with three games in September, during which the Eagles will welcome Durham to Chelmsford prior to heading to Warwickshire, before the season concludes from Wednesday 24 September with a home match against Somerset.
Meanwhile, the first block of the new One Day Cup women’s competition will be played in April and May, and after the first two fixtures, Essex Women will go on to face Somerset, The Blaze, and Hampshire away, alongside hosting Durham and Lancashire.
The competition returns in July and concludes, following an August break for The Hundred, in September, with the Eagles set to entertain Somerset, Hampshire, and The Blaze at home, as well as visiting Lancashire, Warwickshire, and Surrey.
Finally, the men’s One Day Cup returns in its now-traditional August block, with Essex kicking the competition off with back-to-back away matches, at Nottinghamshire and Hampshire on Tuesday 05 and Thursday 07 August, respectively, before welcoming Worcestershire and Surrey to The Cloud County Ground.
The final four group-stage matches will see Glamorgan, who are the competition’s defending champions, and Gloucestershire visit Chelmsford, while Essex will twice head to the East Midlands to face Leicestershire and Derbyshire.
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Special thanks to our fixture sponsor, Eastern Crane Hire for their continued support.
