A very busy schedule waits for the Indian cricket team following the World Cup
in March-April, with a short tour of Bangladesh setting off a gruelling programme
right up to the summer of next year, sources said.
Talking to scribes, BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah
said: "The tour to the eastern neighbours in May would involve two Tests
and three one-dayers and would be followed by a full tour of England".
In between these two visits, the Indian team would take part
in the Afro-Asia Cup to be hosted in Chennai and Bangalore from the second week
of June.
The Indian cricket team's tour of England, from July 7 to September
8, would include three Tests and seven one-dayers against the hosts plus a one-off
limited overs game against Scotland in August.
"India would go to South Africa straightaway for
the World Twenty20 Championship and immediately afterwards would host Australia
in a seven-match limited overs series in October," Shah told reporters
here.
Then follows the full home series against archrivals Pakistan,
comprising three Tests and five ODIs, he said.
"We will go to Australia for a four-Test series and take
part in a one-day tri-series with Sri Lanka as the third team. We will return
on March 7.
"Then we are hosting a three-Test series against South
Africa," Shah said.
Later, the team will go to Pakistan for the Asia Cup, he added.
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