Indian Cricket and Team India 2021

Cricket is a religion in India, is a great leveler and the spirit of cricket is raging across the nation today. The game is existing as a pure source over India and the people around the nation love playing and watching the game. The Indian team of 2021 includes a lot of professionals who are set to make the country proud.

The Indian cricket team’s schedule for 2021 is out and it is brimming. Virat Kohli’s men are scheduled for playing non-stop cricket for around 15 months beginning from the series against England all the way to the 2022 World Cup in Australia. Subsequently, the tours will get only more extreme as teams are getting ready for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 that will be taking place in India. The years from 2021 to 2023 will see three World Cups, along with two World T20s and the ODI World Cup due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. India will present the 2021 World T20 as well as the 2023 ODI World Cup. The whole schedule of the Indian team in 2021 are:

During the month of April to May 2021, the Indian Premier League is scheduled. The England series that is moving to an end in March with four Tests, three ODIs, and five Twenty20 Internationals, India will be set to play the IPL and primarily the venue will be the country itself. Due to the pandemic rise in 2020, IPL 2020 edition was shifted to the UAE.

As soon as the end of the IPL, India still has a bursting scheduled to go on. During the month of June to July 2021, India may have to travel to Lord’s for the ICC World Test Championship final against New Zealand. India is expecting to play three ODIs and five Twenty20 Internationals in Sri Lanka. Despite that, they will stay in Sri Lanka till July as they will be guarding their Asia Cup title.

After the end of the Asia Cup, India will tour Zimbabwe for three ODIs in the month of July 2021. But it is expected that most of the senior players will ignore the tour as they will be preparing for other major series.

From July 2021 to September, India will be traveling to England for a five-Test series which will be arduous. This is going to be the first series in the new ICC World Test Championship cycle and they will have to hope for the best that they can get ahead of England this time after three failed attempts in 2011, 2014, and 2018.

October 2021 will be the month where India will present South Africa for three ODIs and five Twenty20 Internationals.

October to November 2021 India, for the second time, will be hosting the ICC World T20, after hosting it in 2016. West Indies are the existing champions and they will again get an opportunity to protect it again.

India will then host New Zealand for two Tests and three T20Is from November to December 2021. When the series comes to an end, India will then tour South Africa for three Tests and three Twenty20 Internationals. This would be a great window of opportunity for India to finally defeat the one nation where they have never won a series.