Delhi will host a Test match after more than five years when Pat Cummins’s Australia travel to India for the high-profile Border-Gavaskar four-match series in February-March next year.
Other centers which are firmly set to host the remaining Tests are Ahmedabad, Dharamsala and either Nagpur or Chennai.
The series will be very important as it will be the last four matches for India in the second edition of the World Test Championship (WTC) cycle. In fact, to qualify for the summit clash, India may need to thrash Australia 4-0, which may be an uphill task for them. Rohit SharmaK’s man.
The series traditionally consists of four Test matches, but will be contested over five matches during the next ICC Future Tours & Programs (FTP) starting in 2024.
As per the BCCI’s rotation formula, Delhi, who missed two years during the COVID-19 pandemic, is all set to get one of the Test matches. The city last hosted a Test in December 2017 against Sri Lanka.
“Delhi is likely to host the second of the four Tests so far. The dates will be known when the tour and fixtures committee holds its meeting. Dharamsala, which hosted its first and only Test nearly six years ago against Australia Will probably host the third Test in March, 2017,” a senior BCCI official told PTI on condition of anonymity.
It is understood that Australia will most likely start the series in either Nagpur, Chennai or Hyderabad, as Bengaluru hosted a Test match against Sri Lanka earlier this year. It was a day/night test.
The Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad is expected to host the series finale.
Which of the four Tests will be day/night is yet to be decided.
The BCCI has so far hosted three pink-ball Tests – the first in the country against Bangladesh at the Eden Gardens, one against England at Motera and the last against Sri Lanka in Bengaluru.
After the COVID-19-induced break, the BCCI plans to host eight Test matches in 2021 with four against England (Chennai and Ahmedabad), two against New Zealand (Kanpur and Mumbai) and two against Sri Lanka (Chandigarh and Bengaluru) Is.
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