Lancashire Pre-season schedule

Lancashire will take part in the annual Emirates Airline T20 tournament as part of their pre-season tour to Dubai this March.

The reigning Twenty20 champions will take on Yorkshire, United Arab Emirates or the MCC in the semi-final at The Sevens Stadium.

Lancashire will play rivals Yorkshire in a two-day match, before potentially facing the White Rose county in the T20 tournament a few days later.

After completing the double over Yorkshire in the Natwest T20 Blast, Lancashire will be hoping for a better performance in the Airline tournament than last year. The Lightning were beaten by 21 runs in the semi-final last year when Jonny Bairstow guided the Vikings to a comfortable victory.

Lancashire have decided not to travel to Sri Lanka, as they did last year, but instead to challenge UAE in a two-day match to complete their tour preparations. The Red Rose county will then fly back to Manchester to take part in two pre-season friendlies against Somerset and Cambridge MCCU respectively.

This is the first of four years in which Lancashire will make Dubai their permanent pre-season home, after agreeing to a deal to deal in October. Yorkshire and the MCC will open the tour to Abu Dhabi, with Ian Bell set to captain the MCC side in the annual champion county match.

Tour fixture list:

• March 14/15 - Yorkshire v Lancashire, two-day match at ICC Academy Grounds
• March 17 - Emirates Airline T20 v Lancashire, warm-up match at The Sevens Stadium
• March 18 - Emirates Airline T20 tournament at The Sevens Stadium
• March 21/22 - UAE v Lancashire, two-day match at ICC Academy Grounds

Lancashire have named a 22-man squad for the tour of Dubai:

Tom Bailey, Karl Brown, Nathan Buck, Glen Chapple, Jordan Clark, Steven Croft, Alex Davies, George Edwards, Gavin Griffiths, Haseeb Hameed, Kyle Jarvis, Rob Jones, Simon Kerrigan, Toby Lester, Arron Lilley, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Matthew Parkinson, Stephen Parry, Luke Procter, Luis Reece and Tom Smith.

All information from Lancashire's matches will be available on my Twitter profile with match information, including reports and images, being posted on this blog.