All three touring teams could be playing Sussex at Hove next season.

The provisional fixture list for 2003 includes a four-day game against Zimbabwe and a one-day match against South Africa while another one-dayer against Pakistan could also be slotted in, depending on the county's progress in the C&G Trophy.

The county will probably play both their home matches in the group stage of the new 20 overs-a-side competition under the Hove floodlights.

The National League division two matches start with a trip to Hampshire. Four of the home games will be under lights as well as the trip to Durham while Scotland, admitted to the competition for the first time, travel to Hove on August 3 with the return fixture in Edinburgh on August 25.

The county have confirmed that only Arundel and Horsham will stage outground fixtures. Essex will visit Arundel in July and Nottinghamshire play at Cricketfield Road at the end of May.