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.
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