New Delhi: The Indian cricket team will play 14 T20 Internationals and just four Tests at home between November 2021 and June 2022. The BCCI announced its international itinerary, which also features just three ODIs. The teams that will visit India during the eight-month period are New Zealand (in November-December), West Indies (in February, 2022), Sri Lanka (February-March 2022) and South Africa (in June, 2022).
The Barabati Stadium in Cuttack will host the India-West Indies T20 game which will be played February 15. It will be the first game of the three-match T20 series between the two countries.
The BCCI also informed that in between in December-January, India will tour South Africa and the IPL will be played in April-May.
Against New Zealand, India will be playing two Tests and three T20Is while West Indies are due to play three ODIs and three T20Is.
Sri Lanka will play two Tests and three T20Is while South Africa will come for the shortest tour where they would play five T20Is in a space of 10 days.
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“We have kept 14 T20Is because we have another T20 World Cup in Australia in a year’s time. So we need to have adequate matches before the big event,” a BCCI official said Monday.
The four Test matches will be held at Kanpur and Mumbai for the New Zealand series. On the other hand Bangalore and Mohali will host Sri Lanka in the traditional format.
As per the rotation system, most of the cities will be getting the 17 white-ball games that have been scheduled.
The Itinerary
Versus New Zealand
Nov 17: 1st T20I (Jaipur); Nov 19: 2nd T20I (Ranchi), Nov 21: 3rd T20I (Kolkata), Nov 25-29: 1st Test (Kanpur), Dec 3-7: 2nd Test (Mumbai)
Versus West Indies
Feb 6: 1st ODI (Ahmedabad), Feb 9: 2nd ODI (Jaipur), Feb 12: 3rd ODI (Kolkata); Feb 15: 1st T20I (Cuttack), Feb 18: 2nd T20I (Vizag), Feb 21: 3rd T20I (Trivandrum)
Versus Sri Lanka
Feb 25-March 1: 1st Test (Bangalore), March 5-9: 2nd Test (Mohali), March 13: 1st T20I (Mohali), March 15: 2nd T20I (Dharamsala), March 18: 3rd T20I (Lucknow)
Versus South Africa
June 9: 1st T20I (Chennai), June 12: 2nd T20I (Bangalore), June 14: 3rd T20I (Nagpur), June 17: 4th T20I (Rajkot), June 19: 5th T20I (Delhi).
