2020 Marylebone Cricket Club University Matches

The 2020 Marylebone Cricket Club University Matches were a series of cricket matches that were scheduled to be played between the eighteen County Championship teams and the six Marylebone Cricket Club University teams (MCCU) of England and Wales. The first two rounds of fixtures would have been classed as first-class matches.[1] Each county side was scheduled to play one fixture against an MCCU side ahead of the start of the 2020 County Championship.[2] In August 2019, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced that the 2020 University Matches would be the last ones to have first-class status.[3]

2020 Marylebone Cricket Club University Matches
Dates2 April – 16 April 2020
Administrator(s)England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket formatFirst-class

However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ECB announced that the domestic cricket season would be delayed until at least 28 May 2020.[4][5][6]

Fixtures

Round 1

References
  1. "MCC Universities". Lord's. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  2. "Marylebone Cricket Club University Matches 2020 - Fixtures and Results". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  3. "Universities set to lose first-class status". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  4. "No professional cricket in England and Wales before May 28, ECB says". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  5. "County season delayed until at least 28 May because of coronavirus". BBC Sport. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  6. "Coronavirus outbreak: County cricket latest". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
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