Sri Lanka Cricket Suggests Inaugural series with Bangladesh and India in 2018 : Cricket

Sri Lanka Cricket proposes triangular series with India and Bangladesh at 2018

The championship will consist of seven games from all with each team playing the others twice, until the initial two progress to the final.

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Highlights

• Sri Lanka are set to play five ODIs, along with a T20I at India in March next year, and this will follow three Tests

• If the games are going to be One-day Internationals or Twenty20 Internationals, it isn’t yet apparent

• The Nidahas Trophy could be performed between March 15 and 30 season to mark Sri Lanka anniversary of liberty

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Wednesday proposed a triangular contest between India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh for the Nidahas Trophy between March 15 and 30 next year to mark the island nation’s 70th anniversary of liberty, based on an espncricinfo report.

According to SLC President Thilanga Sumathipala, the championship will consist with each team playing the others until the two progress to the final. But, it isn’t yet clear when the games are going to be Twenty20 Internationals or One-day Internationals (ODI).

“The (SLC) technical committee and cricket committee is still looking into it, however now we’d like it to function as a T20 triangular — that is exactly what the arrangement is,” Sumathipala said.

The proposed championship, will however reduce the amount of games, the Lankans are set to perform throughout their previous tour of India. According to the Future Tours Programme (FTP), Sri Lanka are set to play five ODIs, along with a T20I at India in March next year, that will follow three Tests.

Sumathipala said at least some of these games would effectively become transmuted into Nidahas Trophy games, while Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) CEO Rahul Johri said the boards were still “working on” the specific schedule.

“We anticipate playing with the Nidahas Trophy in Sri Lanka next season, because it not only coincides with the 70th year of the freedom of our country, but the 70th anniversary of Sri Lanka Cricket,” Sumathipala said.

“As our nations gained independence in a short period of each other in our modern history, this will no doubt be a substantial moment of similar sentimental significance for us to mark with pomp and pageantry as it rightfully frees,” he further added.

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