The 2019 English cricket season will run between 26 March and 26 September. It will be the 120th in which the County Championship has been an official competition and will feature first-class, one-day and Twenty20 cricket competitions throughout England and Wales.

The season will see the 2019 Cricket World Cup played in the country between 30 May and 14 July as well as an Ashes tour by Australia following the competition. Pakistan will take part in a one-day tour before the World Cup and the England men’s team will play a One Day International in Ireland and a Test match against Ireland at Lord’s in the first Test between the two teams. The West Indies and Australian women’s sides will both tour during the season.

UK Domestic Cup Competitions

The 18 first-class counties will compete in the 2019 County Championship, One-Day Cup and T20 Blast competitions, whilst women’s teams will compete for the 2019 Women’s Cricket Super League and for the Women’s County Championship. The 2019 Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy will be competed for by the Minor Counties of England and Wales and club cricket will be played throughout both countries.

The season will be the last before the scheduled introduction of a city based 100-ball competition by the ECB in 2020 and changes to the organisation of Minor County cricket.

The 2019 Vitality Blast is scheduled to be the 2019 season of the t20 Blast, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in England and Wales. It will be the second season in which the domestic T20 competition, run by the ECB, has been branded as the Vitality Blast due to a new sponsorship deal. The league will consist of the 18 first-class county teams divided into two divisions of nine teams each with fixtures played between July and September. The final day is scheduled to take place at Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham on 21 September 2019. Worcestershire Rapids are the defending champions.

The 2019 Royal London One-Day Cup tournament is scheduled to be a limited overs cricket competition that forms part of the 2019 domestic cricket season in England and Wales. Matches will be contested over 50 overs per side and have List A cricket status. All eighteen first-class counties will compete in the tournament which due to the 2019 Cricket World Cup being hosted in England will take place at the beginning of the English cricket season starting on 17 April 2019, with the final taking place just over a month later at Lord’s on 25 May 2019. Hampshire are the defending champions.