India Tour of England : Just 3 ODIs ?

[PBN]

Schedule has 5 Tests, 3 ODIs, and 3 T20s

With the next WC in England, it would have been ideal to have atleast a 5 match ODI series to the players some experience playing in England. Would be ideal to test the middle order.

[Cricketics]

17 minutes ago, PBN said:

Schedule has 5 Tests, 3 ODIs, and 3 T20s

With the next WC in England, it would have been ideal to have atleast a 5 match ODI series to the players some experience playing in England. Would be ideal to test the middle order.

ICC is trying to get rid of 5 match bilateral series. Only few rare series might take place as 5 match series but most in future would be only 3 match ODI series unless they have been pre approved by ICC from the older Future tour program(FTP). 

 

 

As much as people were wanting 3 matches earlier giving reasons that its boring to have a 5 match or 7 match odi series, they fail to realize that it also means that management and captains would not have the luxury of trying different players as 3 match series is really short for teams to experiement new guys easily.

 

 

[bowl_out]

And we have a 5 match series with Wi, NZ, Aus

Why not against Eng

[King Tendulkar]

Fantastic 5 test series . Great stuff . Perfect schedule . Should have been same for sa tour 

[express bowling]

5 minutes ago, King Tendulkar said:

Fantastic 5 test series . Great stuff . Perfect schedule . Should have been same for sa tour 

 

I am very happy that we have a 5-test series in England  and 4-test series in Australia.

 

We may have won if we had a 5-test series in SA.

 

Nothing better than 2 strong test teams fighting it out in a long test series !  The contests are riveting  !

[YCCC]

17 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

I am very happy that we have a 5-test series in England  and 4-test series in Australia.

 

We may have won if we had a 5-test series in SA.

 

Nothing better than 2 strong test teams fighting it out in a long test series !  The contests are riveting  !

Except England aren't a strong Test team. India will have to drop to our level to make that a competitive series.

[express bowling]

3 minutes ago, YCCC said:

Except England aren't a strong Test team. India will have to drop to our level to make that a competitive series.

 

England are a below-par test team away from home.  But competitive at home.

[Vijy]

1 hour ago, express bowling said:

 

England are a below-par test team away from home.  But competitive at home.

didn't they draw 2-2 against a quite weak Pak team? I seem to recall trundler sohail khan among the wkts. Of course, Misbah and Younis contributed to their victories as well.

[PBN]

6 hours ago, King Tendulkar said:

Fantastic 5 test series . Great stuff . Perfect schedule . Should have been same for sa tour 

Test series is fine and all but in context of preparation for the WC, it would be nice to play a few more ODIs than the 3 scheduled.