BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Sunday said that Team India will journey to Sri Lanka for a restricted over tourney, consisting three ODIs and 5 T20Is, in the month of July. However, no offical date have been introduced for the sequence.
As per ICC’s Future Tours Programme (FTP), Team India are scheduled to play three T20Is in Sri Lanka in July. The group have been scheduled to participate in a limited-over sequence in opposition to Sri Lanka final 12 months, nevertheless it bought cancelled due to COVID-19.
BCCI final week introduced a 20-man squad, which is able to depart for England to participate in the World Test Championship finals in opposition to New Zealand in Southampton and will probably be adopted by a five-match Test sequence in opposition to the hosts, ranging from August 4.
Meanwhile, Sri Lanka even have a few fixtures lined up in England in June, three ODIs and the identical variety of T20Is scheduled for June 23 to July 4.
“We have planned a white ball series for the senior men’s team during the month of July where they will play T20 Internationals and ODIs in Sri Lanka,” Ganguly informed PTI in an interplay.
Asked how will India segregate the 2 groups, Ganguly mentioned that will probably be a distinct facet, which will not have anybody from the outfit that might be in the United Kingdom at the moment.
“Yes, it will be a team of white ball specialists. It will be a different team,” the previous India captain mentioned, making it clear that the cricket board additionally has the preparation of white ball regulars in thoughts.
India’s tour of England will finish on September 14 and with the schedule of the rest of IPL but to be chalked out, the BCCI would need the likes of Shikhar Dhawan, Hardik Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Yuzvendra Chahal to be match prepared.
The group may also like to give an opportunity to perform experiments, like whether or not will probably be Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Chahar or Rahul Tewatia for the leg break bowler’s slot, if Chetan Sakariya may be tried as left-arm possibility, whether or not Devdutt Padikkal or Shreyas Iyer will get match to play by then.
– with PTI inputs
