Windies tour itinerary

Bombay, Madras and Calcutta will be the venues for a three-Test series between the touring West Indies and India later this year, the Indian board announced on Wednesday.

Bombay was chosen over Kanpur to provide India's leading batsman Sachin Tendulkar a home Test on his 101st appearance, the board decided at a meeting.

He is set to play his 100th Test in the fourth and final game against England at The Oval next month.

West Indies are also scheduled to play seven one-dayers during the 50-day trip, the first full tour by the Caribbean side for eight years.

Itinerary:

Test series:

Oct 9-13 - First Test - Bombay
Oct 17-21 - Second Test - Madras
Oct 30-Nov 3 - Third Test - Calcutta

Other matches:

Oct 4-6 - v Board President's XI - venue undecided
Oct 24-26 - v India "A" - venue undecided

One-day series:

Nov 6 - First one-dayer - Jamshedpur
Nov 9 - Second one-dayer - Nagpur
Nov 12 - Third one-dayer - Rajkot
Nov 15 - Fourth one-dayer - Ahmedabad (D/N)
Nov 18 - Fifth one-dayer - Baroda
Nov 21 - Sixth one-dayer - Jodhpur
Nov 24 - Seventh one-dayer - Visakhapatnam

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