LONDON: Sri Lanka Cricket Board on Friday confirmed its tour to Sri Lanka for two Tests in January next year.
The English team will be touring Sri Lanka for two tests in 2021, games being played at the Galle International Cricket Stadium to create a bubble. The series is part of the World Test Championship. It was postponed from March this year following the outbreak of COVID-19.
The Chief Executive Officer CEO of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board Ashley de Silva said, “England will arrive around 3 January and they will have about 11 days before the first Test, which will be played from 14-18 January. The second Test will take place from 23-27 January.”
According to De Silva, they will play two warm-up matches amongst themselves. De Silva said that the England team would quarantine themselves for 14 days in the UK prior to leaving for Sri Lanka.
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The CEO added, “Sri Lanka won’t have to go into a quarantine period because the majority of the players would be taking part in the LPL, which ends on 16th December and the team will be leaving on a chartered flight on 17th December.”
First, the team will take two days off, then they will start training and then play a 3-day warm-up match in Benoni against a South African Invitation XI from 20th to 22nd December.
