Ashes venues 2013

1st Test- Trent Bridge 10-14/6/13
2nd Test- Lords 18-22/6
3rd Test- Old Trafford 1-5/7
4th Test- Durham 9-13/7
5th Test- The Oval 21-25/7

Love that we open at TB. Making home advantage count early doors. Seem to pick grounds that suit us too.

Really happy for OT, but the traditionalist in me is a bit sad that there won't be a test at Headingley.

Lovely to see the organisers showing common sense - get the First Test at Trent Bridge where Jimmy and co. will swing it round corners, go 1-0 up and heap the pressure on the Aussies! Also really good to see Old Trafford gets a test ...not Cardiff.

A better looking schedule next year than this

As well as those posted above we have

New Zealand v England Tests

1st Test, Lord's - 16th-20th May
2nd Test, Headingley - 24th-28th May

New Zealand v England ODIs

1st ODI, Lord's - 31st May
2nd ODI, Rose Bowl - 2nd June
3rd ODI, Trent Bridge - 5th June (d/n)

ICC Champions Trophy

Group matches at Swalec Stadium, Edgbaston and The Oval between 6th and 17th June. Two groups of four, with the top eight in the world at a certain date (this October?) qualifying.

First Semi-Final, The Oval - 19th June
Second Semi-Final, Swalec Stadium, 20th June
Final, Edgbaston - 23rd June

England v New Zealand T20 Internationals

1st T20 International, The Oval - 25th June
2nd T20 International, The Oval - 27th June

England v Australia T20 Internationals

1st T20 International, Rose Bowl - 29th August
2nd T20 International, Riverside - 31st August

England v Australia ODIs

1st ODI, Headingley - 6th September
2nd ODI, Old Trafford - 8th September
3rd ODI, Edgbaston - 11th September
4th ODI, Swalec Stadium - 14th September
5th ODI, Rose Bowl - 16th September

I don't get the point of a 2 match test series. Pointless

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:I don't get the point of a 2 match test series. Pointless

Usually it is. But we have five Tests v Australia (I don't think anybody would dispute that), and it would be rather pushing things to squeeze 8 Tests into the summer.

I'd rather dump the Champions Trophy. Pointless tournament.

Graeme Swann's Cat wrote:I'd rather dump the Champions Trophy. Pointless tournament.

You get your wish after the 2013 event. Unfortunately the ICC's sponsors and broadcasters refused a proposal to swap 15 days of one-day cricket in the Champions Trophy for Test match semi-finals and a final between the top four teams, on the grounds that India and Pakistan's participation would not be guaranteed.

Its basically world cup lite anyway.

So we get a pointless Champions Trophy as opposed to a third Test against New Zealand. And we get another batch of 5 ODIs against the Aussies. But'll be nice to play New Zealand again - it'll be 5 years since we last had a Test Match against them when we play on the 16th May 2013.

Oh and just to add, the next Ashes series after the 2013 summer in England will take place in 2013/14 in Australia which effectively means 10 back-to-back Tests against Australia. England will then next host the Ashes in 2015.

Duty281 wrote:Oh and just to add, the next Ashes series after the 2013 summer in England will take place in 2013/14 in Australia which effectively means 10 back-to-back Tests against Australia. England will then next host the Ashes in 2015.

This has been getting my goat ever since they announced it. They claim that it was the only way to not have the Ashes and World Cup in the same winter any more, but they could just as easily have achieved that with series in 2013, 2014/15, 2016 and so on than needing to have one in 2015. The only issue I can see with that is that they might not want the Ashes in Olympic year, but that is only a couple of weeks and in my view preferable to the overkill which is now scheduled.