Brabourne Stadium to host Test after 36 years

Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium will host a Test for the first time since 1973 when Sri Lanka take on India for the third and final Test of their winter tour. The Tests will be followed by two Twenty20 internationals and five ODIs, four of them day-night games.

The series, from November 8 to December 27, begins with a three-day warm-up game against the Board President's XI at Mumbai's Bandra-Kurla Complex before the first Test in Ahmedabad, starting November 16. The second Test will be in Kanpur before the teams head back to Mumbai for the third game. The city's regular venue, the Wankhede Stadium, is currently being renovated for the 2011 World Cup.

Nagpur, which hosts the first Twenty20, Visakhapatnam and Delhi, the venues of the second and fifth one-dayers, will stage their first floodlit international fixtures. The series also marks the return of Kolkata's Eden Gardens as an one-day international venue after nearly three years - it hosts an ODI on Christmas Eve.

Sri Lanka last toured India for a three-Test series in 2005-06, losing 2-0.

Itinerary

November 11-13: Three-day warm-up match in Mumbai
November 16-20: 1st Test, Ahmedabad
November 24-28: 2nd Test, Kanpur
December 2-6: 3rd Test, Mumbai
December 9: 1st Twenty20, Nagpur (d/n)
December 12: 2nd Twenty20, Mohali (d/n)
December 15: 1st ODI, Rajkot
December 18: 2nd ODI, Visakhapatnam (d/n)
December 21: 3rd ODI, Cuttack (d/n)
December 24: 4th ODI, Kolkata (d/n)
December 27: 5th ODI, New Delhi (d/n)

Nice to see Brabourne getting its due. As far as I know Brabourne is a better stadium than Wankhede.

its certainly classier and more civilised. i love the cci bar. this might also end up being the last test match at brabourne

wankhede should be the best stadium in india pretty soon though

The One wrote:its certainly classier and more civilised.

No monkey chanting there then?

the stadium is classier. you still get yobs paying money for tickets

i saw monkey chants when i went for the t20 in 2007. the offenders were immediately ejected

The One wrote:the stadium is classier. you still get yobs paying money for tickets

i saw monkey chants when i went for the t20 in 2007. the offenders were immediately ejected

Harbhajan was evicted?