The Indian cricket team has reportedly approved the programme after which the said FTP was tabled at the informal ICC chief executives meet in Singapore on 7th and 8th December. The months of April and May are set as an international cricket free window, which is reserved for the IPL.Considering the fact that India will be hosting the 2023 World Cup and the 2021 Champions Trophy, the schedule can really help the team with ample of International exposure.Īs for the home-games, team India will play 19 Tests, 38 ODIs, and 28 T20Is according to the four-year FTP. If we bifurcate the tally into limited overs cricket and the Test format, it clearly shows that team India’s focus will be on the former. Out of the 158 matches included in team India schedule from 2019/20 to 2022/23, there will be 37 Tests, 67 ODIs, and 54 T20Is. have played a lot of home cricket, hosting oppositions like England, New Zealand, Australia and Sri Lanka, while the only two tours they have been on, after the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy 2017 were West Indies and Sri Lanka, both of which were nothing but one-sided fixtures. While the number itself seems huge, the fact that team India will play 85 home and 73 away matches comes as a rather welcomed surprise. nothing but an even tiring schedule.Īccording to the Future Tour Programme (FTP) for 2019-23, a total number of 158 matches have been included in Team India Schedule for the said four years. It seems like yesterday when Virat Kohli publically took a jibe at BCCI for giving his team a hectic schedule which hasn’t given his teammates to prepare for subsequent series, but it seems like as the Indian skipper got married in Tuscany, the first thing the board wants to give Virat Kohli & Co.

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