Cricket Desk: The BCCI has announced a schedule for the home seried against New Zealand and England starting from August 2012 till March 2013. India will play 10 Tests, 5 ODIs and 4 T20 matches during that period.

 

India and New Zealand would play two Tests and two T20 maches in August-September. Hyderabad and Bangalore will host the Tests, while the T20s will be held at Vishakhapatnam and Chennai.

 

India will then take part in the ICC Twenty20 World Cup, which will be held in Sri Lanka from September 18 to October 7. England will come to India to play four Tests, two T20 matches and five ODIs from November 2012 to January 2013.

 

The Subrato Roy Sahara Stadium in Pune will host one of the T20 matches. A new stadium in Rajkot will also host an ODI. Apart from that Ranchi and Dharamsala will also get two ODIs for the firs time.

 

India will play a four-match test series against Australia in February-March 2013.

 

The Complete Schedule:

 

India-New Zealand Series

 

Aug 23-27: Ist Test (Hyderabad)

Aug 31-Sep 4: 2nd Test (Bangalore)

Sep 8: 1st T20 (Visakhapatnam) (D/N)

Sep 11: 2nd T20 (Chennai) (D/N)

 

 

 

India-England series:

 

Oct 30- Nov 1: 3-day Tour Match (Mumbai)

Nov 3-5: 3-day Tour Match (Mumbai)

Nov 8-11: 4-day Tour Match (Ahmedabad)

 

 

Tests:

 

Nov 15-19: 1st Test (Ahmedabad)

Nov 23-27: 2nd Test (Mumbai)

Dec 5-9: 3rd Test (Kolkata)

Dec 13-17: 4th Test (Nagpur)

 

 

T20s:

 

Dec 20: 1st T20 (Pune) (D/N)

Dec 22: 2nd T20 (Mumbai) (D/N)

 

 

ODIs:

 

Jan 6: 50-over Warm-up Game (Delhi)

Jan 8: 50-over Warm-up Game (Delhi)

 

 

Jan 11: 1st ODI (Rajkot) (D/N)

Jan 15: 2nd ODI (Kochi) (D/N)

Jan 19: 3rd ODI (Ranchi) (D/N)

Jan 23: 4th ODI (Dharamsala) (D/N)

Jan 27: 5th ODI (Mohali) (D/N)