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 shall be performed in Thiruvananthapuram, stated the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Friday.
As per a press release 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 shall 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 in the course of the 2025 Girls’s ODI World Cup, in addition to for the facet’s ten-day pre-tournament camp. Thiruvananthapuram, in the meantime, shall 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 may even be India’s first worldwide outing after profitable their maiden Girls’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 Girls’s T20 World Cupto be held in England from June 12 to July 5.
The T20I collection in opposition to Sri Lanka shall be adopted by fourth version of the Girls’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.
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