India will play a three-match One-Day International series against Australia at home sometime in January 2020, in what is being considered a significant shift in the schedule of the Australian home season.
According to the new ICC Future Tours Program (FTP), Australia were scheduled to complete a three-match ODI tour to India in late January 2020, but multiple reports stated that Cricket Australia (CA) had requested the BCCI to shift the series to later in the year. However, the Indian board refused to budge and even reportedly insisted that the series begin several days earlier.
The scheduling of the India series has, however, has put new CA chief executive Kevin Roberts in a spot of bother. It means prominent stars such as Glenn Maxwell, Steve Smith and David Warner might have to miss a chunk of the Big Bash League which is generally played during the month of December and January.
While this schedule is likely to affect the broadcasters in more ways than one, not agreeing to it could have also put India’s tour of Australia in 2020 under jeopardy.
