MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday announced the 2019-20 home season which will include five Tests, nine ODIs, and 12 T20Is.
The season will start with the Freedom Trophy for the Gandhi-Mandela series played between India & South Africa in September, followed by a T20I & Test series against Bangladesh in November.
The West Indies will then tour India in the month of December and following suit will be Zimbabwe and Australia in January.
The five Tests to be played in the 2019-20 season are part of the inaugural World Test Championship which involves the nine top-ranked test nations competing in a league between July 2019 and April 2021, with the top two teams progressing to the final to be held in June 2021.
India’s 2019-20 home schedule:
South Africa: Three T20s in Dharamsala, Mohali and Bengaluru; three tests in Visakhapatnam, Ranchi and Pune; three ODIs (in March 2020) in Dharamsala, Lucknow and Kolkata
Bangladesh: Three T20s in Delhi, Rajkot and Nagpur; two tests in Indore and Kolkata
West Indies: Three T20s in Mumbai, Thiruvananthapuram and Hyderabad; three ODIs in Chennai, Visakhapatnam and Cuttack
Zimbabwe: Three T20s in Guwahati, Indore and Pune
Australia: Three ODIs in Mumbai, Rajkot and Bengaluru
