Chennai, Mar 28:
Chennai will host one of the Test in the series between India and Australia for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, the BCCI announced on Thursday.
The Indian board released the calendar for senior men’s team’s home season which will comprise five Tests, nine ODIs and eight T20Is.
The ODI matches will certainly have a premium attached to it with the legendary white ball duo of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma expected to feature in all of them.
The series will start with the opening Test in Nagpur from January 21 followed by Chennai (January 29-February 2) with the third Test in Guwahati from February 11 to 15 after a eight-day gap. The fourth Test in Ranchi will be played between February 19-23 while the final Test in Ahmedabad will commence from February 27.
Among the five venues, as per rotation, Nagpur (last hosted Test in vs Australia 2023), Chennai (last hosted Test vs Bangladesh in 2024), Ranchi (last hosted Test vs England in 2024) have all got their due games.
India will also play host to West Indies, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.In fact, Zimbabwe will be playing in India in a bilateral series for the first time since 2002 when Sourav Ganguly was leading India.The season will comprise 22 international matches in 17 cities with the West Indies tour of India, starting on September 27.