{"id":1249,"date":"2020-08-25T13:36:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T08:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=37655"},"modified":"2020-08-25T13:50:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T08:20:12","slug":"india-ready-to-host-england-tests-in-february-bcci-president-sourav-ganguly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/india-ready-to-host-england-tests-in-february-bcci-president-sourav-ganguly\/","title":{"rendered":"India ready to host England tests in February: BCCI president Sourav Ganguly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the International Cricket Council\u2019s Future Tours Programme (FTP), India are scheduled to tour Australia in December and host England for their last five world Test championship matches in early 2021. Sourav Ganguly, president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, said in an email to state associations: \u201cThe BCCI and the Indian cricket team will continue to fulfill its FTP commitments.<\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s original white-ball tour to India, slated to start next month, was a casualty of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe senior Indian men\u2019s team will travel to Australia for its series starting in December this year, and will come back to the country for a series against England starting February next year,\u201d Ganguly said in the letter seen by AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The start date for this year\u2019s edition of the IPL has been pushed back repeatedly due to the coronavirus pandemic and will now be held in the UAE.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-block\">\n<p>After many delays, the 13th edition of the IPL, the world\u2019s richest Twenty20 tournament, will now start on September 19 in the United Arab Emirates with the final on November 10.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Ganguly also confirmed the BCCI\u2019s readiness to host the 2021 T20 World Cup, which was originally scheduled for Australia this year, and the 50-over showpiece event in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">Australia will host the T20 World Cup in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is committed to hosting England in February next year ahead of the 2021 Indian Premier League season, the country\u2019s cricket chief Sourav Ganguly said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":24375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}