Kolkata’s Eden Gardens and Delhi’s Arun Jaitley Stadium will swap their allotted Test matches against West Indies and South Africa respectively throughout India’s upcoming home season, the BCCI introduced on Monday (June 9, 2025).
While Delhi was set to host the opening Test against South Africa from November 14-18, it’s going to now host the second Test against West Indies beginning October 10.
Though the BCCI launch would not state the rationale for the venue swap, it’s understood that air air pollution ranges in mid-November within the National Capital Region grow to be a well being hazard prefer it occurred throughout a Test match against Sri Lanka few years again.
The Sri Lankan fielders have been sporting masks and a couple of reportedly suffered from respiration issues.
It is known that BCCI’s Cricket Operations group collated the AQI knowledge over the previous few years and determined that venue swap is a viable choice.
India’s home season begins with two WTC Tests against West Indies, beginning October 2 in Ahmedabad, adopted by the Delhi Test.
India then play a full three format collection against South Africa beginning with two Tests, adopted by three ODIs and 5 T20 Internationals throughout varied Indian venues.
While Kolkata hosts the opening Test against the Proteas, Guwahati’s Barsapara Stadium will grow to be the newest Test venue because the second Test will probably be performed from November 22 to 26.
The ODIs will probably be held at Ranchi (November 30), Raipur (December 3) and Visakhapatnam (December 6). The 5 T20Is will probably be held at Cuttack (December 9), New Chandigarh (December 11), Dharamsala (December 14), Lucknow (December 17) and Ahmedabad (December 19).
Meanwhile Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) has expressed its incapacity to host the ladies’s ODI collection against Australia beginning September 14, which was presupposed to function a pre-cursor to the 50-over World Cup beginning September 30.
The first two matches of the collection will now be performed in Mullanpur (New Chandigarh) and the third match in New Delhi.
Men’s A collection vs Australia and South Africa
The fringe gamers in Indian males’s group set-up may have their arms full with BCCI internet hosting each Australia A and South Africa A for 4 ‘unofficial Tests’ and six List A video games.
Both the touring sides will play two ‘Tests’ and three List A video games every. Australia A collection will occur in Lucknow and Kanpur whereas Bengaluru’s COE will host the Proteas A group for the ‘unofficial Tests’. Rajkot will host three ODIs.
Australia A Tests will probably be in Lucknow from September 16-19 and 23-26 giving probability to the Test specialists to get into groove for the West Indies video games.
Ditto for SA A collection, which will probably be a shadow tour earlier than the primary occasion.
Published – June 09, 2025 02:40 pm IST
