A board official of the Sri Lankan cricket board has revealed that India have agreed to play more international games in Sri Lanka when both teams will face each other in the upcoming white-ball series. India will be helping Sri Lanka by doing that in order to make up for financial losses from the coronavirus. Team India will play three One-Day Internationals and five T20Is against Sri Lanka in July.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India, recently, announced that the team will be touring Sri Lanka in July. India is scheduled to play the World Test Championship final against New Zealand in June before heading into the five-match Test series against England starting in August. Hence, the board decided to send a second-string team to Sri Lanka.

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Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will request other visiting teams to play extra games as well to boost the television revenues, revealed newly elected SLC President Shammi Silva.

“India agreed to double the number of matches in their upcoming tour and this means we will get more revenue from television rights,” Silva told reporters.

First, India added three One-Day games in this tour to the pre-existing three T20Is. Furthermore, both boards agreed to play five T20I games, keeping the upcoming T20 World Cup in mind.

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Last year, England called off their series in Sri Lanka in March but returned in January this year to make up for it.

Currently, Sri Lanka is in Bangladesh to play the three-game ODI series. After the India series, South Africa are scheduled to come over in August, Scotland in September, and Afghanistan in November.

Only a few games have taken place so far in Sri Lanka since the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic. The country has been battered by a new wave of a pandemic that has hit South Asia. It has banned airline passengers from entering until the end of May in a bid to contain a surge in infections.