India’s 2023 home season – Major Test venues miss out on England series

Mohali, Indore, Rajkot and Visakhapatnam will host two video games every throughout India’s 2023-24 house season, which is able to characteristic bilateral collection in opposition to Australia (three ODIs and 5 T20Is), Afghanistan (three T20Is) and England (5 Checks). The BCCI could have awarded further video games to those 4 venues since they’re lacking out on the World Cup in October-November.

Amongst different venues that missed out on the World Cup, Thiruvananthapuram, Guwahati, Nagpur and Ranchi may also host matches in the course of the 2023-24 bilateral season. Among the many cities which can be set to host World Cup video games, solely Hyderabad – the place Australia will play one T20I and England one Check – Bengaluru and Dharamsala have been awarded bilateral video games.

With the bilateral calendar skewed away from the normal venues, England will play none of their 5 Checks at India’s 5 greatest cities (Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru). As a substitute, their tour will take them to Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Rajkot, Ranchi and Dharamsala. All 5 of those grounds have hosted 5 Checks or fewer.

India’s first task on this house season is the ODI collection in opposition to Australia, scheduled to run from September 22 to 27 within the rapid lead-up to the World Cup. The T20I collection begins on November 23, 4 days after the World Cup closing, and runs till December 3.

India are then scheduled to tour South Africa for 3 T20Is (December 10 to 14), three ODIs (December 17 to 21) and two Checks (December 26-30 and January 3-7). They’ll get solely a three-day break earlier than the house T20I collection in opposition to Afghanistan from January 11 to 17.

It is possible that a variety of India’s Check gamers will get a break from the Afghanistan T20Is, permitting them to recuperate forward of the primary Check in opposition to England, which begins on January 25. That collection is scheduled to run till March 11, with eight-day gaps between the second and third Checks and the fourth and fifth Checks.