India’s schedule for his or her males’s and girls’s tour of England subsequent yr has been introduced, with the boys’s workforce to play solely restricted overs cricket and the ladies’s aspect enjoying three T20Is and a Check. The boys’s white-ball tour will consist of 5 T20Is and three ODI, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) mentioned on Thursday. The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) additionally confirmed the identical and it probably signifies that veterans Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli may tour England one final time, with the pair having retired from Checks and T20Is.
The ladies’s tour begins first with the primary T20I set to be performed on the Ambassador Cruise Line Floor in Chelmsford. Bristol will host the second T20I on Could 30 and the collection ends in Taunton on June with the third T20I. The standalone Check will then be hosted at Lord’s from July 10.
The boys’s five-match T20I tour begins at Chester-le-Road on July 1, adopted by the second T20I in Manchester at Outdated Trafford on July 4. The third T20I will likely be performed at Trent Bridge on July 7. Briston will host the fourth T20I on July 9 after which the collection ends on the Rose Bowl in Southampton.
The three-match ODI collection comes after that with the primary match in Birmingham on Juky 14. This will likely be adopted by matches at Cardiff, on July 16 and Lord’s at July 19.
The Ben Stokes-led England males’s Check workforce may even welcome New Zealand and Pakistan in two Rothesay Check collection, whereas Harry Brook’s white-ball aspect will host Sri Lanka in addition to India in ODIs and T20Is.
“We’re actually excited to unveil what guarantees to be a spectacular summer season of worldwide cricket in 2026. With world class opposition visiting iconic venues throughout the nation, followers can have the prospect to witness the perfect of the boys’s and girls’s recreation,” ECB Chief Govt Officer Richard Gould mentioned in an announcement.
“The spotlight of the summer season will undoubtedly be the ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup, hosted right here in England for the primary time since 2009. It’s an enormous second for the ladies’s recreation, for Nat Sciver-Brunt and her workforce, and it’s a improbable alternative to encourage the following technology of gamers and followers.
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“And simply after that, we’re thrilled that Lord’s may even host an England Girls’s Check match for the primary time, marking a very particular time period for the ladies’s recreation,” he added.