West Indies and South Africa will tour India for limited-overs matches, while New Zealand and Sri Lanka will play two Tests and three T20Is each
India are set to host New Zealand, West Indies, Sri Lanka and South Africa over the next nine months as part of the 2020-21 home season.
These tours were all part of the Future Tours Programme (FTP) for the 2018-23 cycle, but the final schedule has come with one change: Sri Lanka will now play two Tests instead of three, as originally planned, and three T20Is in February-March 2022. The Tests will start on February 25 (Bengaluru) and March 5 (Mohali), and the three T20Is on March 13 (Mohali), March 15 (Dharamsala) and March 18 (Lucknow).
The tours of New Zealand and West Indies remain as scheduled.
Only three days after the T20 World Cup final on November 14 in Dubai, New Zealand will play the first T20I in Jaipur, followed by two more on November 19 (Ranchi) and 21 (Kolkata), and then the two Tests starting November 25 (Kanpur) and December 3 (Mumbai).
West Indies are slotted to play three ODIs on February 6 (Ahmedabad), February 9 (Jaipur) and February 12 (Kolkata) and as many T20Is, on February 15 (Cuttack), February 18 (Visakhapatnam) and February 20 (Thiruvananthapuram).
Only five days after that series ends, Sri Lanka will play the first Test in Bengaluru.
South Africa will play five T20Is in June 2022, covering for the 2020 tour that was abandoned last year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. That tour, earlier comprising three ODIs and three T20Is, had to be postponed after the first ODI in Dharamsala had been abandoned because of rain. The BCCI has now decided to replay that tour as a T20I series on June 9 (Chennai), June 12 (Bengaluru), June 14 (Nagpur), June 17 (Rajkot), and June 19 (Delhi).
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Source: ESPN Crickinfo