Team India will be hosting New Zealand, West Indies, Sri Lanka, and South Africa in teh upcoming home season of 2021/22 for four Tests, three ODIs, 14 T20Is. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced its home season for the 2021/22 season. The Test matches will be played against New Zealand, who had defeated the Indian team in the final of the World Test Championship earlier this year in England, and Sri Lanka.
New Zealand’s tour to India will be commencing with a three-match T20I series that will be played from November 17 to 21 in Jaipur, Ranchi and Kolkata. It will be followed by the first Test which is scheduled to be commencing on November 25 in Kanpur and the second Test will be played from December 3 in Mumbai.
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New Zealand will be playing their first Test series in India since 2016 in which the visitors were whitewashed in the three-match Test series. The West Indies will be touring in earlier next year after the completion of India’s tour to South Africa and the Caribbean team will be coming for three ODIs and as many T20Is. The ODI series will be played from February 6 to 12 in Ahmedabad, Jaipur, and Kolkata.
Sri Lanka’s tour to India is then scheduled to start on February 25 with a couple of Tests. The first Test will be played in Bengaluru while the second will be hosted in Mohali from March 5.
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Mohali will be hosting the first T20I against Sri Lanka on March 13 after which the second and third matches will be played in Dharamshala and Lucknow on March 15 and 18 respectively. South Africa will then tour India for a five-match T20I series from June 9 to 19. The matches will be played in Chennai, Bengaluru, Nagpur, Rajkot, and New Delhi.