BCCI confirm http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 – Cricket News Update
BCCI have confirmed the itineraries for the Indian team’s home bouts against New Zealand, which sees the two sides play together in a short series, including Tests and T20s only.
The Men In Blue have suffered immensely on their travels in recent times, losing back to back away series to England and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 by 4-0 margins. The upcoming series, which begins in late August, will help them redeem themselves and further allow them to
climb up the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 ranking where they currently occupy the fourth spot.
Their counterparts have also performed poorly in 2012; overwhelmed by second ranked http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 at their home, losing all formats convincingly. The Kiwi suffered a 1-2 loss in the T20s before being embarrassed by a 0-3 margin in the ODI version. They further
kept the same tone in the Test arena, and loss the 3-match series 0-1.
The Black Caps have slumped to eight in the Test rankings and will be considered underdogs against the Men In Blue, who despite having a poor 12 months are still considered a tough proposition at home.
Apart from the two tests, the team will further clash in two T20s, with the first one being held in Visakhapatnam on September 8. The tour concludes with the second T20, which will take place at Chennai on September.
The tour will give both sides a chance to prepare themselves for the World T20 Cup, which will be shortly held after their series, in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758. BCCI have further confirmed that there will be no warm-up matches, which means Kiwi will have little time to
adjust to the conditions, with the first Test played at Hyderabad from August 23.
The last time the two sides met, in India, was back in 2010, where the tourists lost the Test series 1-0, and were whitewashed in the ODIs by a 5-0 margin. Following the conclusion of the bouts, and the subsequent World T20 Cup, India will then host no.
1 ranked http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c749 – with both sides playing 4 Tests, 2 T20s and 5 ODIs.
New Zealand tour to India:
August 23-27 - 1st test, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hyderabad-c792
August 31-September 4 - 2nd test, Bangalore
September 8 - 1st T20, Visakhapatnam
September 11 - 2nd T20, Chennai
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