ICC Men’s FTP 2023-27 | India to play 38 Tests, 39 ODIs, 61 T20Is; more time for IPL
The Hindu
The Indian cricket team expectedly has a choc-a-bloc calendar but as usual there will not be any bilateral cricket series with Pakistan due to political reasons
The Indian men's team will be playing a whopping 138 bilateral international matches during the next four-year Future Tour Program (FTP) cycle between May 2023 to April 2027, the ICC said on Wednesday.
Most sought-after team commercially, the 'Men In Blue' will play 38 Tests, 39 ODIs and 61 T20Is in the four-year period and focus on shortest format is an indicator how priorities across formats will be changing.
The ODI bilaterals will remain but mostly be three-match series.
India expectedly has a choc-a-bloc calendar but as usual there won't be any bilateral cricket series with Pakistan due to obvious political reasons.
The 12 Members will play a total of 777 international matches – 173 Tests, 281 ODIs and 323 T20Is – in the 2023-2027 FTP cycle compared to the 694 in the current one.
This includes the next two cycles of the ICC Men's World Test Championship, multiple ICC events and a host of bilateral as well as tri-series action.
The Indian Premier League will get more space over the next four years. The independently run IPL, which is the world’s biggest and richest Twenty20 league, gets an extended window in April and May every year in the new FTP cycle with little international cricket scheduled during this period.
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