The Indian team will be on a tour of England during June-August next year (2025), where it has to play 5 Test matches against the host team. The schedule of the Test series between India and England has been released. On Thursday (22 August), the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced the schedule.
The first test will be played at Headingley
According to the released schedule, the first match of the Test series between the two countries will be played at Headingley from June 20. Then the second Test match will be played in Birmingham from July 2. After this, both the teams will face each other in the third match of the series from July 10 at Lord’s ground. Then the remaining two Test matches will be played in Manchester (July 23) and Oval (July 31).
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A glance #TeamIndiaFixtures for 5⃣ match Test series against England in 2025 🙌#ENGvIND pic.twitter.com/wS9ZCVbKAt
— BCCI (@BCCI) August 22, 2024
This Test series will be part of the fourth season of the World Test Championship (WTC). Let us tell you that the final of the third and current season of the World Test Championship is to be played in June 2025 at the Mecca of cricket, Lord’s. This five-match Test series is to be held just a few days after that final match. The Indian team last toured England in the year 2021 for a Test series, which ended in a 2-2 draw. However, due to the outbreak of Kovid-19, the last Test match of that tour was held in 2022, which England won by seven wickets.
India-England Test Series Schedule (2025)
June 20-24, 1st Test, Headingley
2-6 July, 2nd Test, Birmingham
July 10-14, 3rd Test, Lord’s
July 23-27, 4th Test, Manchester
July 31-August 4, 5th Test, The Oval
Team India’s schedule is very tight
Team India’s schedule is very tight in the coming few months. In the next 5 months (before the Champions Trophy), the Indian team has to play series against Bangladesh, New Zealand, Australia and England. It will start with the home series against Bangladesh. A series of 2 Tests and 3 T20 matches will be played between India and Bangladesh.
After this, the New Zealand team will tour India. Then a 3-match Test series is to be played between the two. At the end of the year, the Indian team will tour Australia, where a 5-match Test series will be played between the two. After this, the England team will tour India and then both teams will play a series of 5 T20 and 3 ODI matches.
Bangladesh tour of India
First Test- Chennai- September 19-23
2nd Test – Kanpur – September 27 to October 1
1st T20 – Gwalior – 6 October
2nd T20 – Delhi – 9 October
3rd T20 – Hyderabad – October 12
New Zealand tour of India
October 16-20: First Test, Bengaluru
October 24-28: 2nd Test, Pune
November 1-5: 3rd Test, Mumbai
Indian team tour of Australia (November-January 2025)
November 22-26: First Test, Perth
December 6-10: Second Test, Adelaide
December 14-18: Third Test, Brisbane
December 26-30: Fourth Test, Melbourne
Jan 03-07: Fifth Test, Sydney
England tour of India
1st T20 – January 22 – Kolkata
2nd T20 – January 25 – Chennai
3rd T20I – January 28 – Rajkot
4th T20 – January 31 – Pune
5th T20I – February 2 – Mumbai
1st ODI- February 6- Nagpur
2nd ODI – February 9 – Cuttack
3rd ODI – February 12 – Ahmedabad
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)