By Oliver Brett

Football and cricket fans are both following the national team

England sports fans who enjoy their football as much as their cricket have a dilemma in the next few weeks as the World Cup and the one-day series against Sri Lanka go head to head.

When David Beckham leads out the footballers against Trinidad & Tobago at 1700 BST on 15 June, England's cricketers will be preparing for the Twenty20 international at Hampshire's Rose Bowl.

Some nine days later, perhaps with Wayne Rooney in the side, England face the possibility of an afternoon match in Munich in the last-16.

That is also the same day as the third one-day international at the Riverside in Durham.

If, however, the football team qualify top of their group they would not be playing on 24 June, but could instead by playing in a quarter-final on 1 July, which would clash with the last of the one-day internationals in Leeds.

So what contingency plans are in place, if any, at these venues?

The cricket is strong enough to stand on its own Andrew Jarvis Marketing manager Durham CCC

Hampshire have been proactive in their approach, moving the start time of the Twenty20 to the later time of 1915 BST to avoid a direct clash with the football.

And they are enticing fans to get to the Rose Bowl early by showing the World Cup on two big screens.

The doors will open at lunchtime to allow early-birds to watch a PCA Masters v Hampshire exhibition Twenty20 starting at 1400 BST before the football starts at 1700.

"The two screens are at square leg at either end," said the Rose Bowl's sales and hospitality manager Kim Lawford.

"Every seat will have a view of the football."

There are still tickets left for the Twenty20 international although Hampshire are confident it will be a sell-out.

Durham sold out their tickets for the ODI on 24 June in February and confirmed cricket alone will be the focus at the Riverside.

Will fans want to see Strauss in the flesh or Rooney on the TV?

"The cricket is strong enough to stand on its own," said marketing manager Andrew Jarvis.

"We looked at the possibility of recording the football and beaming it around the ground after the cricket finished.

"But we took the decision not to, because of stewarding and policing issues, and the fact we would have probably not get people out of the ground until 10.45pm.

"Bearing in mind that we are asking people to arrive here soon after 9am, and then hanging around to wait for the presentation ceremony and so on, we don't know how many would stay on for stewarding."

The county has also decided not to show the football in any of the bars or public areas that have TV screens.

By contrast, at Headingley the TVs will be on in some hospitality suites and behind the counters the bars.

But, citing health and safety issues, marketing and sponsorship manager Liz Sutcliffe said screening the football after the match had not even been considered.

"It's not something we've made an issue about," she added.