Lancashire will commence their return to the top-flight of the County Championship with a trip to Trent Bridge on Sunday 6th April, as they take on a fellow former holder of the Division One title, Nottinghamshire.
The expansion of the t20 format has meant that the tournament starts a little earlier this season in mid-May and Nottinghamshire will also have the honour of hosting the Lightning for the curtain-raiser of the shortest form of the game.
The most exciting prospect this season for Lancashire fans was the promise of five, yes, five matches against Yorkshire across all formats.
The Tykes visit Emirates Old Trafford for a Championship match in the closing stages of the season, the match commencing on the 31st August, with the reverse fixture at Headingley taking place in late May.
Yorkshire will also visit Old Trafford for the first of Lancashire's 50-over matches in the newly named Royal London Cup, which starts much later than last seasons 40-over contest in late July.
There is a possibility for 11 matches in a single month, August, for Lancashire, eight of which are in the RLC competition.
All 11 of Lancashire's home one-day matches will be floodlight, with 6.30pm starts for NatWest T20 Blast and 2pm for Royal London Cup games, which promises to entice big crowds from the local area.
The only marginally disappointing aspect to these fixtures is the confirmation that, in Lancashire's 150th season, just one match will be played at an out-ground, either Liverpool or Southport, when Nottinghamshire visit the Division Two champions.
The clash of the Champions will take place on 15th of June and August respectively, with Lancashire travelling North to Durham first for what promises to be an interesting match.
The last time Lancashire travelled to this ground they snatched a narrow win by two wickets as Ajmal Shahzad and Kyle Hogg guided the Roses outfit over the line against a challenging bowling attack.
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