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Dubai | St John’s – West Indies will host India for a full house sequence in July and August subsequent 12 months adopted by a white-ball tour from England in December 2023 initially of its future excursions programme (FTP) for the interval 2023-27.
The game’s world governing physique, the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) introduced on Thursday the FTP, a results of a collective effort of Full Members with ICC’s help, ensures certainty of cricket fixtures with the affirmation of all bilateral sequence throughout the three codecs.
Cricket West Indies, the game’s regional governing physique, indicated that the visits from India and England will kind a part of greater than 150 worldwide matches that West Indies will play house and away inside the new FTP.
“Cricket West Indies (CWI) is happy that the new males’s (2023-2027) and girls’s (2023-2025) FTP have been lastly agreed,” CWI president Ricky Skerritt stated. “They supply some operational and monetary certainty of our medium-term bilateral excursions and matches throughout all codecs in opposition to all different full member nations.”
West Indies have two difficult excursions early within the FTP, as they’re scheduled to tour Australia for 2 Checks, three ODIs, and three T20Is between January and February 2024, adopted by a tour of Pakistan for 3 Checks, all Check matches being a part of the third cycle of the ICC World Check Championship (WTC).
The West Indies are additionally scheduled to play restricted overs sequence in opposition to England, New Zealand, South Africa, and Sri Lanka other than their Check obligations to be performed as a part of the 2 WTC competitions throughout the FTP cycle.
CWI chief govt officer Jonny Grave stated the main spotlight throughout the interval would be the joint internet hosting of the ICC Males’s Twenty20 Worldwide World Cup in June 2024.
“We’ll accomplice with the USA to ship an occasion of the very best high quality on and off the sector,” he stated.
“The internet hosting of the boys’s T20I World Cup will assist to encourage the subsequent technology of younger West Indians and re-ignite the cricketing ardour of our followers within the Caribbean and around the globe, in addition to present a legacy and catalyst for progress of the game inside the U.S.”
He added: “We’re additionally happy that now we have as soon as once more been capable of safe full home windows for the Indian Premier League and Caribbean Premier League for our gamers as we attempt to discover a steadiness between our worldwide commitments and the numerous incomes alternatives for our gamers from home leagues.
“The 2023-27 FTP will even kind a part of the countdown and build-up to the centennial celebrations of West Indies participation in worldwide cricket. 2028 marks the a hundredth anniversary of our first Check match and a implausible alternative to commemorate all the nice issues about our wealthy cricket legacy and to advertise the superb model of West Indies cricket as we put together for the historic celebrations.”
The precise dates of the sequence are for the opposing groups to announce sooner or later.
(PR/AR)