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Sri Lanka To Play Boxing Day Test In New Zealand

Written by Abhishek Patil

ew Zealand have announced their schedule for the 2018-19 international season that includes visits from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh bookending the tour by India.

The season will begin with Sri Lanka coming over for two Tests, three one-day internationals and one Twenty20 International to be played from 15 November 2018 to 11 January 2019. These fixtures include a Boxing Day Test match in Christchurch beginning 26 December, the second of the series, while the first will be played in Wellington from 15-19 November.

The ODIs follow the Tests and will be held in Mount Maunganui and Saxton on 3, 5 and 8 January, and the tour will conclude with a one-off T20I in Auckland on 11 January.

The tour by the Indian men and women begins 12 days after the final T20I against Sri Lanka wherein the men play five ODIs and three T20Is and the women play three ODIs and as many T20Is. While the T20Is will be double-headers, to be played on 6, 8 and 10 February in Wellington, Auckland and Hamilton, three of the men’s ODIs will precede the women’s 50-over games on the previous day.

New Zealand v Sri Lanka

Fixture Dates Venue

1st Test 15-19 November 2018 Basin Reserve
2nd Test 26-30 December 2018 Hagley Oval
1st ODI 3 January 2019 Bay Oval
2nd ODI 5 January 2019 Bay Oval
3rd ODI 8 January 2019 Saxton Oval
1st T20I 11 January 2019 Eden Park

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