India’s home season: Major Test venues set to miss out on England series

Mohali, Indore, Rajkot and Visakhapatnam will host two video games every throughout India’s 2023-24 residence season, which can function sequence in opposition to Australia (three ODIs and 5 T20Is), Afghanistan (three T20Is) and England (5 Assessments). The BCCI might have awarded additional 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 can even host matches throughout the 2023-24 bilateral season. Of the cities which can be set to host World Cup video games, solely Hyderabad – the place Australia will play one T20I and England one Take a look at – Bengaluru and Dharamsala have been awarded bilateral video games.

With the bilateral calendar skewed away from the standard venues, England will play none of their 5 Assessments 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 Assessments or fewer.

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

After this, India are scheduled to tour South Africa for 3 T20Is (December 10 to 14), three ODIs (December 17 to 21) and two Assessments (December 26-30 and January 3-7). They are going to get solely a three-day break earlier than the house T20I sequence in opposition to Afghanistan from January 11 to 17. This can be Afghanistan’s first-ever white-ball bilateral sequence in opposition to India. Their solely earlier match in opposition to India in India was their inaugural Take a look at match in June 2018. India, has, nonetheless, served as Afghanistan’s ‘residence’ venue in bilateral sequence in opposition to Eire, Bangladesh and West Indies.

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