The season saw the 2019 Cricket World Cup played in the country between 30 May and 14 July, followed by an Ashes tour by Australia in August and September.
The season was the last before the scheduled introduction of a city based 100-ball competition by the ECB in 2020 and changes to the organisation of Minor County cricket.
Pakistan toured England during the end of April to play a complete limited overs leg, which consisted of a T20I and a five match ODI series ahead of the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
[3] Pakistan played the one-off T20I at Cardiff, in which England won by 7 wickets to kick off the limited overs tour.
[31] After six weeks of round-robin matches, which saw four games not have a result, India, Australia, England and New Zealand finished as the top four, with Pakistan missing out on net run rate.
In the knockout stage, England and New Zealand won their respective semi-finals to qualify for the final, which was played at Lord's in London.
[36][37] Between 26 March and 7 April, three rounds of matches between first-class counties and the six Marylebone Cricket Club University teams took place.
[38] In the opening round of fixtures, Alastair Cook scored 150* for Essex against Cambridge MCCU, in his first match since retiring from Test cricket.
[39][40] The opening round also saw Somerset beat Cardiff MCCU by 568 runs, a record margin for a first-class match in England.
[41][42] In the third and final round of matches, England Test cricketer Haseeb Hameed scored a double century, albeit in a fixture without first-class status.
[43] In August 2019, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced that the 2020 fixtures will be the last ones to have first-class status.
[44] The men's County Championship season began on 5 April and finished on 26 September, with each team playing 14 matches.
[54] The Minor Counties Championship ran from June to September with teams organised in two divisions based on their geographical location.
Each team played six three-day matches against sides from within their division, with the four-day final taking place at Banbury Cricket Club Ground in Oxfordshire.