The ODI sequence towards Australia will kick off on September 22 in Mohali, adopted by matches in Indore on September 24 and Rajkot on September 27. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) introduced the house season schedule on Tuesday.
BCCI secretary Jay Shah had beforehand talked about that venues like Mohali, Nagpur, Rajkot, Indore, and Thiruvananthapuram, which weren’t chosen to host World Cup video games, might be compensated through the house season with a minimal of two matches every.
Interestingly, after the World Cup in October-November, there are not any scheduled ODI video games in India. The focus then shifts to T20 cricket, as India will play the T20 World Cup subsequent yr within the USA and West Indies.
The Hardik Pandya-led staff can have eight T20 matches at house, together with 5 towards Australia per week after the ODI World Cup, and three extra towards Afghanistan in January 2024.
With the BCCI anticipated to announce the media rights tender through the week, the discharge of the house season calendar was a needed step. The schedule ensures a very good stability of video games throughout totally different codecs, permitting the Indian staff to organize completely for the World Cup and different main tournaments on their house soil.
Afghanistan had performed a Test match in India in 2018 however the white ball staff will play its maiden sequence in India.
Visakhapatnam (November 23), Thiruvananthapuram (November 26), Guwahati (November 28), Nagpur (December 1) and Hyderabad (December 3) will host the T20s towards Australia whereas Mohali (January 11), Indore (January 14) and Bengaluru (January 17) will stage matches towards Afghanistan.
The big-ticket occasion through the house sequence is the Anthony De Mello Trophy between India and England. Hyderabad (January 25-29), Visakhapatnam (February 2-6), Rajkot (February 15-19), Ranchi (February 23-27) and Dharamsala (March 7-11) will get to host the video games within the 5 Test sequence.
Dharamsala received a recreation as a result of it missed out through the Border-Gavaskar Trophy earlier this yr as the bottom could not be ready on time.
After England sequence, there might be a three-week hole earlier than the beginning of Indian Premier League.
Fixtures
Australia sequence
1st ODI: Sep 22 (Mohali)
2nd ODI: Sep 24 (Indore)
third ODI: Sep 27 (Rajkot)
1st T20I: Nov 23 (Visakhapatnam)
2nd T20I: Nov 26 (Thiruvananthapuram)
third T20I: Nov 28 (Guwahati)
4th T20I: Dec 1 (Nagpur)
fifth T20I: Dec 3 (Hyderabad)
Afghanistan sequence
1st T20I: Jan 11 (Mohali)
2nd T20I: Jan 14 (Indore)
third T20I: Jan 17 (Bengaluru)
England Series
1st Test: Jan 25-29 (Hyderabad)
2nd Test: Feb 2-6 (Visakhapatnam)
third Test: Feb 15-19 (Rajkot)
4th Test: Feb 23-27 (Ranchi)
fifth Test: Mar 3-7 (Dharamsala).
(With PTI inputs)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com