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Counties and BBC team up for Twenty20 audio blitz

ECB and the counties have extended their partnership with BBC Local Radio around the country to provide unrivalled audio coverage of the new Twenty20 Cup

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ECB and the counties have extended their partnership with BBC Local Radio around the country to provide unrivalled audio coverage of the new Twenty20 Cup.

All the five launch-day matches on June 13 will be streamed live online, as will the complete opening weekend line-up and many of the games through the June group stages of the competition. Finals Day from Trent Bridge on July 19 will be broadcast on BBC Radio Five Live, and streamed online.

The links can be accessed from the Live Audio section on ecb.co.uk (as well as county websites and BBC Local Radio sites) and will be updated to allow you to keep right up to date with all the action in this exciting new domestic event.

And if you're a fan of either Worcestershire or Northants and want to hear suitably partisan coverage of their opener at New Road, then you're in luck as you can listen to either BBC Hereford & Worcester or BBC Radio Northampton with both stations streaming live commentary.

There will also be live coverage of the official Twenty20 curtain-raiser between south coast rivals Hampshire and Sussex from a sell-out Rosebowl courtesy of BBC Radio Solent, as well as the capital derby between Surrey and Middlesex from the AMP Oval on BBC London 94.9.

To complete the first-day line-up, you can listen to BBC Radio Nottingham's coverage of Nottinghamshire up at Durham, or BBC WM as Somerset host Warwickshire at Taunton.

Twenty20 audio schedule:

Fri June 13
Durham v Nottinghamshire
BBC Radio Nottingham
Somerset v Warwickshire
BBC WM
Worcestershire v Northamptonshire
BBC Hereford & Worcester
BBC Radio Northampton
Hampshire v Sussex
BBC Radio Solent
Surrey v Middlesex
BBC London 94.9

Sat June 14
Yorkshire v Derbyshire
BBC Radio Derby
Surrey v Essex
BBC London 94.9 BBC Radio Essex
Gloucestershire v Worcestershire
BBC Hereford & Worcester

Mon June 16
Leicestershire v Yorkshire
BBC Radio Leicester
Nottinghamshire v Lancashire
BBC Radio Nottingham
Glamorgan v Northamptonshire
BBC Radio Wales
Kent v Hampshire
BBC Radio Solent
Surrey v Sussex
BBC London 94.9