The Indian team will tour Nepal in December this year. On Friday, Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) issued a statement saying that ‘India A’ will tour Nepal for a 3-match T20 series in December this year. CAN has also released the schedule of the upcoming series, which will be played from December 9-December 13.

The decision on the bilateral series was taken after a meeting between Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) President Chatur Bahadur Chand, CAN Secretary Paras Khadka and BCCI Secretary Devjit Saikia. Three T20 matches will be played between the two teams, which will be hosted by TU International Cricket Ground, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur.

• 9 December – 1st T20
• 11 December – 2nd T20
• 13 December – 3rd T20

A blockbuster series awaits!

Nepal will host India A in a three-match T20 Series at the TU International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur

The series was confirmed following a meeting held during the ICC Conference in Scotland between CAN President Chatur Bahadur Chand, CAN… pic.twitter.com/ykYFW986et

— CAN (@CricketNep) July 10, 2026

This will be a big opportunity for Nepal, because India A also includes big stars of IPL and some players who have been part of India’s senior cricket team. Nepal cricket team has shown great performance in the last few years.

Nepal had qualified in both the last T20 World Cups. Nepal’s team could not register a single win in the 2024 World Cup, but in the 2026 World Cup, it improved its performance and defeated Scotland. Nepal had almost defeated England in the World Cup, but in the end it had to face a close defeat by 4 runs.

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International Cricket Council (ICC) Chairman Jay Shah described the 2026 World Cup as the biggest T20 World Cup in history. He has congratulated all the teams including India, Pakistan and Australia. Actually, the 2026 Women’s T20 World Cup is going to start from June 12. For the first time, 12 teams are going to participate in the Women’s T20 World Cup, hence Jay Shah described it as the biggest World Cup.

This time the Women’s T20 World Cup is being hosted by England and Wales. The first match will be played on 12th June and the final is to be played on 5th July. Let us tell you that Team India has never won this title, but this time the team captained by Harmanpreet Kaur would like to create history. See here the complete World Cup schedule of the Indian team.

This time 12 teams from the world are participating in the Women’s T20 World Cup, which have been divided into two groups of seven each. India has been placed in Group A, whose first match is to be held with Pakistan on June 14.

Group A – India, Australia, Pakistan, Netherlands, Bangladesh and South Africa

Group B- England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Ireland and Scotland

India’s T20 World Cup schedule

The Indian team will play its first match with Pakistan on June 14. Team India has to face Netherlands on 17th June and South Africa four days later. South Africa has been the runner-up last two times. Team India’s match is to be played with Bangladesh on 25th June and the last league match will be with Australia on 28th June.

• 14 June – India vs Pakistan
• 17 June – India vs Netherlands
• 21 June – India vs South Africa
• 25 June – India vs Bangladesh
• 28 June – India vs Australia

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The Indian cricket team will go on a tour of England next month, for which BCCI has also announced a 15-member squad. The biggest change has been seen in the captaincy, as Suryakumar Yadav has been dropped from the team and Shreyas Iyer has become the new T20 captain. Whereas 15 year old Vaibhav Suryavanshi has been selected in Team India for the first time.

Shreyas Iyer will be captaining Team India for the first time on the England tour. At the same time, making Tilak Verma the vice-captain is also an indication that the Indian team management is making a long-term plan by taking the youth forward. Fans will also be eager to see the debut of Vaibhav Suryavanshi. When there are so many interesting aspects associated with a series, then take a look at the entire schedule as well. Know how many matches will be played in the T20 series between India and England?

Complete schedule of T20 series

The Indian team’s tour of England will start from July 1 and five T20 matches will be played between the two teams. The first match will be played at Chester-le-Street, while the second match is to be played in Manchester on 4th July. This five-match T20 series will run till July 11.

• 1st T20 – 1 July
• 2nd T20 – 4th July
• 3rd T20 – 7 July
• 4th T20 – 9 July
• Fifth T20 – 11 July

Let us tell you that after the T20 series, an ODI series will also be played between India and England. This ODI series will be played from July 14-July 19. BCCI has not yet announced the squad for the ODI series.

India’s squad for England T20 series: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Tilak Verma (vice-captain), Ravi Bishnoi, Abhishek Sharma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mohammed Siraj, Sanju Samson, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Ishan Kishan, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Shivam Dubey, Varun Chakraborty, Prince Yadav, Vaibhav Suryavanshi.

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Vaibhav Suryavanshi created history as soon as he joined Team India, broke Sachin Tendulkar’s 37 year old record.

The IPL 2026 season proved to be a record breaker for Vaibhav Suryavanshi. He made many big achievements in his name including scoring the most runs and hitting the most sixes in the season. He got the Orange Cap for scoring 776 runs in the season, he also got the Sierra car for hitting 72 sixes in the season. Apart from this, he was also selected as the Most Valuable Player of the Season.

Let us tell you that Vaibhav has been selected in India A squad for the upcoming Tri Series. After IPL 2026, Vaibhav will be seen playing in Team India’s jersey for the first time in this series. Let’s see which teams will come face to face in this tri-series and when is the first match of the Indian team.

When will Vaibhav Suryavanshi be seen in action?

The tri-series between India A, Sri Lanka A and Afghanistan A team will start from June 9 and the final match will be played on June 21. Sri Lanka is going to host this tri series. The series will start with the India A vs Sri Lanka A match, which will be played on June 9 in Dambulla.

Under the captaincy of Tilak Verma, Team India will play its second match with Afghanistan on June 11. Let us tell you that in this tri-series, each team will face each other twice. India has to play the third and fourth matches on June 15 and June 17 respectively.

India A’s full schedule

• 9 June – India A vs Sri Lanka A
• 11 June – India A vs Afghanistan A
• 15 June – India A vs Sri Lanka A
• 17 June – India A vs Afghanistan A
• June 21 – Final

Team India’s squad for the tri-series: Tilak Verma (captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad (vice-captain), Priyansh Arya, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Ayush Badoni, Nishant Sindhu, Suryansh Shedge, Prabhsimran Singh (wicketkeeper), Kumar Kushagra (wicketkeeper), Vipraj Nigam, Yash Thakur, Yudhveer Singh, Anshul Kamboj, Arshad Khan, Anukul Roy

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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is striving for the growth of Test cricket. It is reported that BCCI has prepared a special plan to promote the red ball format. Major decisions are also likely to be taken on Under-19 and Under-25 level cricket. According to media reports, Center of Excellence Director VVS Laxman and his team will also focus more on red ball cricket.

According to reports, India’s Under-19 and Under-25 team is going to tour Sri Lanka for the Test match series. India’s Under-19 team has recently won the Under-19 World Cup title under the captaincy of Ayush Mhatre. Vaibhav Suryavanshi can also be seen playing in this test series.

BCCI will organize a big tournament

BCCI’s Center of Excellence is going to organize Intra-COE tournament in the months of June and July this year. Meaning, a lot of red ball cricket will be played right after the conclusion of IPL 2026. 4-day matches will be played in this tournament. Its objective is to prepare such superstar players for the Test format, who can represent Team India in the future.

It is being told that 64 young cricketers can be seen playing in this tournament. The age of all these 64 players will be less than 25 years. VVS Laxman, Head of Cricket, Center of Excellence, will play a key role in finding the talent that will play in this intra-COE tournament. According to the report, a message has also been sent to the national selectors and coaches to prepare new superstar players for the Test format.

This update has come at a time when the Indian Test team seems to be struggling. In the last 5 Test series, Team India has been able to register victory only once. Team India is currently at sixth place in the points table of WTC and the path to reach the final is now looking very difficult for them.

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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has released the international schedule of Team India for the next 12 months. BCCI has announced the dates of all the home series and within the next one year, India has to host Australia, West Indies, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka. Team India has to play a total of 22 matches at home within the next one year, which will be played in 17 cities.

This domestic season of Team India will start with the white ball series against West Indies. The West Indies team’s tour of India will run from 27 September to 17 October, during which 3 ODIs and 5 T20 matches will be played between the two teams. After about 2 months, the Sri Lankan team will come to India to play, where a series of three ODI and T20 matches will be played from 13-27 December.

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An action-packed home season awaits #TeamIndia is set to host West Indies, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, and Australia for 22 matches across 17 venues

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— BCCI (@BCCI) March 26, 2026

In the month of January 2027, Zimbabwe team will visit India, which will have to play three ODI matches from 3-9 January. The Australian team will come to India at the end of January. A series of five test matches will be played between the two top teams from 21 January to 27 February.

India’s schedule (home series)

West Indies tour of India: 27 September-17 October – 3 ODIs and five T20s

Sri Lanka tour of India: 13 December-27 December – 3 ODIs and 3 T20s

Zimbabwe tour of India: January 3-January 9 – 3 ODIs

Australia tour of India: 21 January-27 February – 5 Tests

Since India has to play only one home Test series in the next one year, due to which its hopes of playing the WTC final seem to be fading. The Indian team is currently at sixth position in the points table of the World Test Championship.

Let us tell you that just before the West Indies, the Indian team has to play an ODI series and a Test match against Afghanistan. After that, Team India will go to Ireland to play T20 series and from there will leave for England, where it has to play ODI and T20 series.

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The Indian cricket team will tour Ireland this year. After IPL 2026, a series of 3 T20 matches will be played between India and Ireland. India vs Ireland T20 series will be played in July this year. This will also be a new beginning for Ireland as Paul Stirling has recently resigned from the post of captain of the Ireland team.

Ireland Cricket’s Director of High Performance Graham West confirmed that the Ireland team has already qualified for the 2028 T20 World Cup, so Paul Stirling’s departure from the captaincy means that a new captain will have a chance to establish himself in the next two years. Along with this, he told that the Irish team is setting out on a new journey from June this year, when it has to play a T20 series with India.

Let us tell you that immediately after the conclusion of IPL 2026, the Indian team has to play a Test match and a series of 3 ODI matches with Afghanistan. The last match of India vs Afghanistan ODI series will be played on 20th June. The Indian team’s tour of England is going to start from July 1. The India vs Ireland T20 series has not been announced yet, but it is being speculated that the Indian team will leave for England after playing the series in Ireland.

Till now in history, Team India has played T20 series on Ireland tour thrice and on all three occasions, India has defeated Ireland in its own home. A total of 8 T20 matches have been played between India and Ireland so far and Team India has won every time. Their last encounter was in the 2024 T20 World Cup, when after bowling out Ireland for 96 runs, Team India won the match by 8 wickets with 46 balls remaining.

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Afghanistan Tour of India 2026: Afghanistan cricket team is going to tour India this year, where it has to play 3 ODIs and one test match. So far in history, only one Test match has been played between India and Afghanistan. This will be only the second time in the history of red ball cricket when the teams of India and Afghanistan will face each other wearing white jerseys. See the complete schedule of this tour here.

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The test match between India and Afghanistan will start from June 6. This match will be played at Maharaj Yadavinder Singh International Cricket Stadium in New Chandigarh. This will be the first time that a Test match will be played on this ground.

For the first time in the year 2018, a Test match was played between India and Afghanistan. In that match played in Bengaluru, Team India had registered a huge victory by an innings and 262 runs. Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan had scored centuries for the Indian team in that match. Whereas Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul had scored half-centuries.

3 ODI matches will also be played

The ODI series between India and Afghanistan will run from June 14-June 20. The first ODI will be played on June 14 in Dharamshala, while the second ODI will be played on June 17 in Lucknow. The last ODI match is to be held on June 20 in Chennai.

Afghanistan tour of India: full schedule

• One-off Test: June 6-June 10 – New Chandigarh
• 1st ODI: 14 June – Dharamshala
• 2nd ODI: 17 June – Lucknow
• 3rd ODI: 20 June – Chennai

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2 years and retirement from 2 formats of cricket. Here we are talking about Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, who took retirement from T20 in 2024 and Test cricket in 2025. Virat and Rohit now play only 50-over format. The Indian team has staked its claim to play the 2027 World Cup by performing strongly in the recent ODI matches as well as in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Now the whole world has entered the new year i.e. 2026. Know here when the fans of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will be able to see them playing in 2026.

Rohit-Virat will play only 18 days in 2026

In the year 2026, the Indian team has to play only 18 ODI matches. Therefore, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will be seen playing for the Indian team only 18 days out of 365 days in the year 2026. This year, Team India has to play ODI series against New Zealand, Afghanistan, England, West Indies and Sri Lanka. In 2026, India will play two ODI series with New Zealand and three matches will be played in each series.

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India vs New Zealand – November 2026

India vs Sri Lanka – December 2026

India-New Zealand series will start from January 11

In the year 2026, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma can be seen playing in the series against New Zealand for the first time. According to media reports, India-New Zealand ODI series matches will be played on January 11, January 14 and January 18. According to media reports, BCCI can announce the Indian squad on January 3.

Both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are in excellent form at the moment. On one hand, Virat Kohli is coming back after scoring a century in South Africa and then in Vijay Hazare Trophy also. On the other hand, Rohit Sharma has scored 2 half-centuries in the ODI series against South Africa and a century for Mumbai in the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

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In the year 2025, many cricket matches took place between India and Pakistan. From Champions Trophy to Asia Cup and Women’s ODI World Cup 2025, both the teams came face to face, but every time Team India defeated Pakistan. The Indian team also won the title of Asia Cup 2025 by defeating Pakistan. Are India-Pak matches going to be held in the year 2026 also, if yes, then how many times will both the countries come face to face. Know the dates of all the matches here.

Let us tell you that in cricket, India and Pakistan now come face to face only in big events. Due to poor political relations, no bilateral series has been played between India and Pakistan for a long time.

How many times will India-Pakistan match take place in 2026?

Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup: Many big cricket events will be played in the year 2026. The Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup will be played from 15 January to 6 February. India and Pakistan have been placed in different groups, so India and Pakistan can come face to face in the knockout matches of the Under-19 World Cup.

Men’s T20 World Cup: After this, the Men’s T20 World Cup will be played from 7 February to 8 March. India and Pakistan have been placed in Group A along with Namibia, Netherlands, USA. In this World Cup, the match between India and Pakistan will be played on 15 February. Apart from this, India-Pakistan match is also possible in the Super-8 stage and thereafter in the knockout matches of T20 World Cup.

Women’s T20 World Cup: Women’s T20 World Cup will be played from June 12-July 5. In this group, 6 teams including India and Pakistan have been placed in Group A. The World Cup match of India vs Pakistan women’s cricket teams will be played on 14 June.

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