India’s dwelling season: Main Test venues set to overlook out on England sequence

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

Among different venues that missed out on the World Cup, Thiruvananthapuram, Guwahati, Nagpur and Ranchi will even host matches through the 2023-24 bilateral season. Of the cities which are set to host World Cup video games, solely Hyderabad – the place Australia will play one T20I and England one Test – 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 Tests at India’s 5 largest cities (Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru). Instead, their tour will take them to Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Rajkot, Ranchi and Dharamsala. All 5 of those grounds have hosted 5 Tests or fewer.

India’s first project on this dwelling season is the ODI sequence in opposition to Australia, scheduled to run from September 22 to 27 within the speedy lead-up to the World Cup. The T20I sequence begins on November 23, 4 days after the World Cup closing, 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 Tests (December 26-30 and January 3-7). They will get solely a three-day break earlier than the house T20I sequence in opposition to Afghanistan from January 11 to 17. This might 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 Test match in June 2018. India, has, nevertheless, served as Afghanistan’s ‘dwelling’ venue in bilateral sequence in opposition to Ireland, Bangladesh and West Indies.

It’s possible that quite a lot of India’s Test gamers will get a break from the Afghanistan T20Is, permitting them to recuperate forward of the primary Test 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 Tests and the fourth and fifth Tests.