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India-Sri Lanka series will not be played from July 26, BCCI suddenly announced the new schedule

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|13-07-2024

The Indian team has to tour Sri Lanka after Zimbabwe. On this tour, ODI and T20 series will be played between India and Sri Lanka in July and August. For which BCCI had recently announced the schedule. This tour was to start from 26 July. But suddenly the schedule of this tour has been changed. Let us tell you, Team India's Sri Lanka tour will be Gautam Gambhir's first assignment as head coach.

Change in the schedule of India-Sri Lanka series

BCCI has released the new schedule of this tour. Now this tour will start from 27 July instead of 26 July. Let us tell you that all three matches of the T20 series will be played at Pallekele Stadium and three ODIs will be played at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

According to the old schedule, the dates of all three T20 matches were set as 26 July, 27 July and 29 July. Now these matches will be played on 27 July, 28 July and 30 July. At the same time, the matches of the ODI series will now be played on 2 August, 4 August and 7 August.

At what time will the matches be played

There has been no change in the timing of the matches from the BCCI. All three T20 matches of the series will be played from 7 pm Indian time.

At the same time, all three matches of the ODI series will start at 2:30 pm Indian time. Let us tell you, Team India has not been announced for this tour yet. But according to reports, Hardik Pandya will be the captain of the T20 team, while KL Rahul will be given the command of the ODI team.

First Sri Lanka tour after 2021

Team India last visited Sri Lanka in the year 2021 for a bilateral series. Then the command of the Indian team was given to Shikhar Dhawan. While the ODI series was in the name of Team India, but in the T20 series it had to face defeat by 1-2.

In such a situation, this time BCCI would like to send a strong team for the Sri Lanka tour. However, there are reports that Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah will not be a part of this tour.