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Cricket Hospitality

The Ashes 2027
18 June - 2 August 2027
Five Test grounds in England
Named account manager · No hidden fees
Test cricket · Corporate & individual

Premium hospitality across English Test cricket

The 2027 English summer is dominated by one thing: Australia are here. The Ashes returns from 18 June to 2 August across five Test grounds, with England attempting to reclaim an urn they lost 1-4 in Australia the previous winter. It is the biggest cricket market in the world, and it happens on home soil once every four years.

DN Global arranges premium hospitality across all five Tests, sourced through our network - private boxes, restaurant and suite packages, and premium reserved seating with lounge access. Every ground below has its own page setting out what is genuinely available there. We do not publish prices, and where we are not an official provider we say so plainly on the page.

DN Global is not the official hospitality provider for England Cricket or the ECB. Experiences are sourced through our network and confirmed to you in writing before booking.

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The 2027 series

The Ashes 2027 - England v Australia

Five Tests, five grounds, six weeks. Start with the series hub, or go straight to the ground you want.

The Ashes 2027 series hub

The full schedule, what is available at each ground, multi-Test itineraries and the practicalities of following the series from Australia.

The Ashes 2027 hospitality

First Test · Trent Bridge

Friday 18 - Tuesday 22 June 2027. The series opener, at the ground with the most beautiful pavilion end in English cricket.

Trent Bridge hospitality

Second Test · Lord's

Wednesday 30 June - Sunday 4 July 2027. The Home of Cricket. The Long Room, the slope, the honours board.

Lord's hospitality

Third Test · Edgbaston

Thursday 8 - Monday 12 July 2027. The loudest Test ground in England, and England's fortress against Australia.

Edgbaston hospitality

Fourth Test · Utilita Bowl

Wednesday 21 - Sunday 25 July 2027. A first men's Ashes Test for Southampton, and the 10th UK ground ever to stage one.

Utilita Bowl hospitality

Fifth Test · The Oval

Thursday 29 July - Monday 2 August 2027. Where English summers end, and where the urn is traditionally decided.

The Oval hospitality
The case for it

Why Test cricket works as a hospitality day

Test cricket is structurally better suited to entertaining than almost any other sport, and the reason is simply time. A day of play runs to roughly six hours across three sessions, broken by a forty-minute lunch and a twenty-minute tea. Compare that with ninety minutes of football, during which nobody sensible is talking business, and the difference is obvious.

The pace helps too. Cricket rewards attention but does not demand it continuously, so a conversation can run for twenty minutes without anyone feeling they have missed something - and when something does happen, the whole box turns to the field together. It is the rare sporting occasion where the sport itself makes the socialising easier rather than competing with it.

The five-day format then gives a flexibility that single-day events cannot. A group can take a Thursday when the ground is quieter and the hospitality more relaxed, or a Saturday when it is full and loud. On an Ashes Test both are defensible choices, and we will give you a straight recommendation based on what your guests are actually there for.

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FAQs

Cricket hospitality FAQs

Our current cricket focus is the 2027 Ashes series, England v Australia, played across five Test venues from 18 June to 2 August 2027 - Trent Bridge, Lord's, Edgbaston, the Utilita Bowl and the Kia Oval. Each ground has its own hospitality page here. Beyond the Ashes we can arrange hospitality for other international fixtures in England on request; tell us the match you have in mind and we will confirm honestly what can be sourced.

Each county club runs its own hospitality operation, so there is no single product across the grounds. Typical packages combine a premium reserved seat with a private box or a table in a hospitality restaurant, a drinks reception, a multi-course lunch, afternoon tea, a hosted bar through the day, a matchday programme and dedicated entrances. Some grounds offer hosted tables with former England and Australia players. Inclusions are always confirmed in writing before you commit.

The format is the reason. A day of Test cricket runs roughly six hours of play across three sessions, broken by a forty-minute lunch and a twenty-minute tea - which gives you far more time in a client's company than a ninety-minute football match or a single race. The pace of the game means conversation never has to compete with the action. It is one of the few sporting occasions where a full working day of relationship-building is the natural shape of the event rather than something squeezed around it.

Yes. Multi-Test itineraries are the standard request from visitors travelling from Australia, who are typically in England for two or three weeks rather than the full six. The two London Tests - Lord's at the end of June and the Oval at the end of July - bookend the series and work from a single base. Trent Bridge and Edgbaston are around ninety minutes apart in the Midlands. Tell us your travel dates and we will build around them.

No. DN Global is not the official hospitality provider for the ECB, England Cricket or any of the host county clubs, and we do not claim to be. We arrange premium hospitality experiences sourced through our network. What is being sourced, what it includes and what it does not are set out to you in writing before you commit to anything. We would rather be straight about that than imply a status we do not hold.

As early as you reasonably can. An Ashes summer in England is the highest-demand cricket in the world, and the marquee dates - the Lord's Test, the weekend days at Edgbaston, and the closing Tests if the urn is still live - are committed well in advance. Enquiring early gives you a genuine choice of ground, day and dining. Later enquiries are always welcome and we will tell you plainly what remains.
Register interest

Enquire about cricket hospitality

Tell us which Test or Tests you have in mind, your guest numbers and whether the booking is personal or corporate. Your named account manager will confirm exactly what can be sourced, in writing, with no hidden fees and no obligation to book.

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