Schedule for Team India's 23 home games this season

The BCCI’s tours and fixtures committee met today and made the decision on awarding matches to the venues across the country.

Published - 01 Aug 2017, 18:59 IST | Updated - 01 Aug 2017, 18:59 IST

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The Indian team has a packed schedule for the next rest of the year as they will be involved in home series’ against Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka. The three teams will tour India between September and December 2017. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today announced the schedule for the matches and they will be hosting a combined total of 23 matches.

Australia will be the first team to visit India for five ODIs and the tour starts in mid-September. Chennai, Bangalore, Nagpur, Indore and Kolkata will host the matches. Following the ODIs, the Aussies will challenge Team India in a 3 Twenty20 Internationals series which will be played at Hyderabad, Ranchi and at the newly built stadium in Guwahati. The BCCI’s tours and fixtures committee met today and made the decision on awarding matches to the venues across the country.

Kiwis will fly into India in mid-October for three ODIs and as many T20Is. Pune, Mumbai and Kanpur will play hosts for the 50 overs games while Delhi, Cuttack and Rajkot are slated to host the T20Is. To complete the last part of the home season for the Men in Blue, the Lankans will visit for 3 Tests, 3 ODIs and 3 T20Is.

The Test series will get underway at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata the second match of the series will be hosted by the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur. It will be the first match at the venue after being suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as the wicket was termed “poor pitch” by the Match referee. The concluding Test is scheduled to be played at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi.

Dharamsala, Mohali and Visakhapatnam have the ODIs whereas Kochi or Thiruvananthapuram which has been recently awarded international status will host the first T20I and the other two will be played in Indore and Mumbai.