India will host Sri Lanka for a five-match ladies’s T20I collection from December 21 to 30, with the primary two video games to be performed in Visakhapatnam earlier than the remaining fixtures will probably be performed in Thiruvananthapuram, stated the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday.
As per an announcement by BCCI Secretary Devajit Saikia, India and Sri Lanka will play first two T20Is on December 21 and 23 on the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. The remaining three matches will probably be performed on December 26, 28 and 30 on the Greenfield Worldwide Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram.
The announcement comes after Bangladesh’s scheduled journey to India in December was postponed earlier this month amid political tensions between the 2 nations, which had beforehand led to India males’s tour of Bangladesh being postponed to September 2026.
Visakhapatnam was the host to India’s league matches in opposition to South Africa and Australia throughout the 2025 Ladies’s ODI World Cup, in addition to for the aspect’s ten-day pre-tournament camp. Thiruvananthapuram, in the meantime, will probably be enjoying hosts to ladies’s worldwide video games for the primary time after internet hosting males’s T20Is and ODIs, in addition to youth ODIs and Assessments.
The collection in opposition to Sri Lanka will even be India’s first worldwide outing after profitable their maiden Ladies’s ODI World Cup title in Navi Mumbai earlier this month. It should additionally mark a key step in India’s preparations for the 2026 ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup, to be held in England from June 12 to July 5.
The T20I collection in opposition to Sri Lanka will probably be adopted by fourth version of the Ladies’s Premier League (WPL), to be performed from January 9 to February 5, 2026 in Navi Mumbai and Vadodara, earlier than India leaves for the multi-format tour of Australia taking place from February 15 to March 6.