County champions Surrey will start the 2023 season with a repeat of last season’s final game, a trip to Emirates Old Trafford to face Lancashire.
Surrey, who won their 20th outright title in 2022, were beaten inside three days as Lancashire sealed the runners-up spot.
Promoted Middlesex will start at home to Essex, while Division Two champions Nottinghamshire go to Hampshire.
Relegated Yorkshire start life back in Division Two at home to Leicestershire.
For the Tykes, relegated on the final afternoon of the 2022 campaign by Liam Norwell’s amazing nine-wicket haul for Warwickshire, it will be a first Division Two fixture in 11 years.
They will be up against the Foxes who have not won a County Championship game since September 2021.
Worcestershire, whose ground is next to the River Severn and prone to early season floods, start with two away games, to Derbyshire and Durham, before a first home game against Gloucestershire at New Road on 20 April.
