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THE longest season in Durham's firstclass history will end six days later than this year at the same venue.

They clinched second place in the County Championship by beating Kent at Canterbury on September 21, but next year's match is scheduled to end on the 27th.

The extension is partly to accommodate two more Twenty20 games as counties will play all five other teams in their groups home and away.

This will end the imbalance which has seen Durham play Derbyshire only once in the last two seasons, and this time their opening Twenty20 match will be at home to the Peakites on June 11. The last of the ten group games in the competition is also at Riverside, against Lancashire, 16 days later.

Durham begin the season on April 16 with a three-day match against Durham University at Riverside and start their defence of the Friends Provident Trophy at home to Yorkshire the following Sunday.

Instead of the two groups used in the last two seasons, the FPT will be played in four groups of five, playing each other home and away. Durham will play Scotland at The Grange, Edinburgh, on Sunday, May 11 and at home two weeks later.

Riverside's annual floodlit match will be against Somerset in the NatWest Pro40 League on July 23.

The opening championship game is at home to Surrey, starting on Wednesday, April 23, and the return fixture provides Durham fans with their only visit to an outground.

It will be staged on July 16-19 at Guildford, where Durham won a Pro40 League match last season.

9:52am Thursday 15th November 2007

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