Ranchi’s Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) will host one of the three T20 matches between India and New Zealand on November 19, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced on Monday while releasing the fixtures for three T20s and two Test matches.
While Jaipur will host the first T20 on November 17, Ranchi will be hosting the second header two days later followed by Kolkata on November 21. Two test matches will be played in Kanpur and Mumbai between Nov. 25-29 and Dec 3-7 respectively.
BCCI also announced fixtures for West Indies, Sri Lanka and South Africa’s tour of India next year.
Former team India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s home town will be hosting an international T20 tie after a gap of four years. JSCA stadium had last hosted a T20 match between India and Australia on October 7, 2017. India had beaten Australia by nine wickets in that rain-curtailed match in a three-match series.
Since its inception in 2013, JSCA stadium, with a seating capacity of 50,000, has so far conducted 2 Test matches, 5 ODIs and 2 international T20s besides a few IPL matches.