TO celebrate the start of the 1999 season at Old Trafford, the last of the Millennium, Lancashire County Cricket Club wi ll be opening the gates to the first County Championship match starting on Tuesday, April 13 and it will be free of charge for all four days.
Lancashire, runners-up in last season's County Championship, will take on Sussex in the opening match.
This is a chance for cricket fans throughout the North West to come and see some of the country's top cricketers in action.
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