India to play Australia, Afghanistan and England in home season
The Hindu
India to play 8 T20Is, 5 Tests & 3 ODIs vs Aus & Eng in 2023-24 home season. Mohali, Nagpur, Rajkot, Indore, Thiruvananthapuram to host min. 2 games each. T20 WC in USA & WI next year, 1st T20I vs Aus a week after ODI WC & 3 vs Afghanistan in Jan 2024. Dharamsala gets game due to missed Border-Gavaskar Trophy. India to play 5 T20Is vs Aus, 3 vs Afghanistan & 8 vs Eng. 3-week gap before IPL. #India to play 8 T20Is, 3 ODIs & 5 Tests vs Aus & Eng in 2023-24 home season. Venues like Mohali, Nagpur, Rajkot, Indore, Thiruvananthapuram to host min. 2 games each. T20 WC in USA & WI next year, 1st T20I vs Aus a week after ODI WC & 3 vs Afghanistan in Jan 2024. Dharamsala gets game due to missed Border-Gavaskar Trophy. 3-week gap before IPL.
India will get to fine-tune their World Cup preparations with a three-match ODI series against Australia besides playing eight T20 Internationals and five Tests against England during the 2023-2024 home season.
The first ODI against Australia will be in Mohali on September 22 with Indore and Rajkot hosting the remaining two on September 24 and 27 respectively. The BCCI announced the home season schedule on Tuesday.
As BCCI secretary Jay Shah had indicated, venues like Mohali, Nagpur, Rajkot, Indore, Thiruvananthapuram, all of which have missed out on hosting World Cup games, have been compensated during the home season with minimum two games each.
With the BCCI set to announce the media rights tender during the course of this week, it was a necessary to announce the calendar and one of the striking feature is absence of any ODI game after the World Cup at home in October-November.
With India playing the T20 World Cup in the USA and West Indies next year, the Hardik Pandya-led team will get eight T20 games at home including five against Australian a week after the ODI showpiece and three more against Afghanistan in January 2024.
Afghanistan had played a Test match in India in 2018 but the white ball team will play its maiden series in India.
Dharamsala got a game because it missed out during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy earlier this year as the ground couldn't be prepared on time.
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