MUMBAI: Kolkata’s Eden Gardens will be the venue for the opening Test when India host Sri Lanka in a full series starting next month, the country’s cricket board has announced.

India blanked Sri Lanka 9-0 across all three formats on their tour there earlier this year. Sri Lanka will begin the tour with a three-day warm-up match in Kolkata.

The first Test starts from Nov 16 while Nagpur and Delhi will host remaining Tests before teams play three ODIs and a same number of Twenty20 Internationals.

Schedule:

Nov 11-13: Three-day match (Kolkata).

Nov 16-20: First Test (Kolkata).

Nov 24-28: Second Test (Nagpur).

Dec 2-6: Third Test (Delhi).

Dec 10: First ODI (Dharamsala, D/N).

Dec 13: Second ODI (Mohali, D/N).

Dec 17: Third ODI (Visakhapatnam, D/N).

Dec 20: First T20 (Cuttack, N).

Dec 22: Second T20 (Indore, N).

Dec 24: Third T20 (Mumbai, N).

Published in Dawn, October 5th, 2017