With an eye on next year’s ICC World Cup, the BCCI announced Indian cricket team’s International schedule in 2018-19 season. They will be playing around 30 ODIs and an estimated 63 international games across formats, scheduled for the 2018-19 season.
India’s ongoing season (2017-18) will come to an end with the Nidahas Tri-Nation T20 tournament in Sri Lanka (Bangladesh, being the third team).
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The Indian squad will then disperse to join their respective franchises in the 11th season of the Indian Premier League, the national team will start its campaign in June with a short two-match T20 series against Ireland. In the same month, India will host Afghanistan at Bengaluru for the historic one-off Test.
The tour of England will start in July and end early-September where India will play five Tests, three ODIs and three T20Is. India will be defending their Asia Cup title in September on home turf, although the dates and the venues are yet to be finalized.
India’s home season will be a short one with the West Indies coming for two Tests, five ODIs and three T20 Internationals during October-November. And then they will head to Australia, to face the heat down-under in four Tests, three T20 Internationals and three ODIs in November-December.
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2019 will kick off with India’s Tour of New Zealand which will feature five ODIs and five T20Is. As per the reports in DNA, the BCCI has taken a policy decision of not playing Test cricket in New Zealand as 3:30 am IST start to Test matches is not commerically viable for the world’s richest cricket board.
In the second half of February, Australia will come to India for a limited overs series where they will play five ODIs and two T20 Internationals. The curtains will be drawn on the 2018-19 season with Zimbabwe visiting for a three-match T20 series.
Indian cricket team’s International schedule in 2018-19 season
June 2018: vs Ireland (2 T20I) (Away)
June 2018: vs Afghanistan (1 Test) (Home)
July-September 2018: vs England (5 Tests, 3 ODI, 3 T20I) (Away)
September 2018: Asia Cup (Approx 9 ODIs) (Venue and Date yet to be finalised)
October-November 2018: vs West Indies (2 Tests, 5 ODIs, 3 T20I) (Home)
November-December 2018: vs Australia (4 Tests, 3 ODIs, 3 T20I) (Away)
January-February 2019: vs New Zealand (5 ODIs, 5 T20I) (Away)
February-March 2019: vs Australia (5 ODI, 2 T20I) (Home)
March 2019 : vs Zimbabwe (3 T20I) (Home).
