New Delhi: Lucknow will host his first test match in almost 28 years when the New Zealand team came to India after the T20 World Cup in the UAE in November.
This will be the first first test match at Bihari Vajpayee after the Uttar Pradesh (UPCA) Cricket Association opened it for first grade cricket in 2016.
The match against Sri Lanka at KD Singh Babu Stadium in January 1994 was the last test featuring India in the city.
Toi has learned that the Indian cricket board (BCCI) has completed a venue for two test matches to New Zealand.
Other test matches will be played at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
Toi understands that the council feels that Lucknow will be the center of the big cricket.
With two new IPL teams that will come next year, Lucknow is believed to be one of the host cities other than Ahmedabad.
“The stadium has good facilities and a capacity of nearly 70000,” said a senior BCCI official to Ti.
‘Lucknow was chosen for T20 WC if India played host this year’ “It’s good for every franchise of IPL.
Like Ahmedabad, it’s important to give Lucknow’s exposure to Marquee International Matches before the IPL team was completed.
Lucknow was also chosen as a place for the T20 World Cup if it was happened in India this year, “A senior BCCI official then told TII.
The test series will be preceded by the Three-T20i series which is likely to begin in the last week of November.
T20 specialists will travel in bubbles from UAE after the T20 World Cup.
It will also offer opportunities for senior players, who have been on the road for most years, to pass the series and rest.
The time of completion of the house series against New Zealand and the first test in Johennesburg in the third week of December will be around 10 days.
The council continues to remember the need for bubble-to-bubble transfer.
Sri Lanka came for two tests, three T20IS on Feb-March Toi has also learned that the Sri Lanka team will come to India for the two tests and three T20IS in February-March after the Indian team returned from a full tour of South Africa at the end of January.
Both tests will be part of the world test championship.
At Mumbai has focused on the host of one of the test matches.
The Board will soon complete the entire domestic season.