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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Two Tests for Windies in Sri Lanka

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The West In­dies will bat­tle Sri Lan­ka in two Test match­es, three One-Day In­ter­na­tion­als and two T20s from next month in Sri Lan­ka.

The re­gion­al team will play the Test match­es first, to be fol­lowed by the ODIs and then the T20 match­es. The first Test of the se­ries will be played from Oc­to­ber 14 but the venue is yet to be fi­nalised.

The first Test of any se­ries in Sri Lan­ka is nor­mal­ly played at Galle and al­though this is the venue that has been sub­mit­ted to the West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB), there is an is­sue of fi­nance that is catch­ing the at­ten­tion of the Sri Lan­ka Crick­et (SLC) and they are yet to make a fi­nal de­ci­sion on the venue.

Sri Lan­ka Crick­et's in­ter­im com­mit­tee is con­sid­er­ing be­gin­ning the up­com­ing Test se­ries in Colom­bo in­stead of Galle. With the West In­dies tour not gen­er­at­ing big rev­enue for the SLC, chances are the in­ter­im com­mit­tee would pre­fer play­ing the two Tests at the P Sara Oval and the SSC or R Pre­madasa Sta­di­um to cut costs.

It is un­der­stood that the TV broad­cast­ing rights, will net the SLC a to­tal of TT$2.1m. This is low­er com­pared to what they got for the oth­er two home se­ries which in­volved Pak­istan TT$2.6M and the In­di­an se­ries where they got TT$14.1M.

Al­though the SLC owns the ground at Galle, it still has to pay the Galle Mu­nic­i­pal­i­ty tax­es when a Test match is staged there. They have to fork out TT$5800 per day, in ad­di­tion to oth­er over­head costs.

So it is like­ly that both Test match­es will be played in Colom­bo in or­der to cut costs. The first two ODIs will be played in Colom­bo as well and then the teams will trav­el to Pallekele for the third and fi­nal match.

They then play the first T20 game at Pallekele be­fore go­ing back to Colom­bo for the fi­nal game be­fore leav­ing for the West In­dies.

WEST IN­DIES VS SRI LAN­KA FIX­TURES

FIRST TEST Oc­to­ber 14 - Sri Lan­ka v West In­dies at Galle.

SEC­OND TEST Oc­to­ber 22 - Sri Lan­ka v West In­dies at Colom­bo (PSS).

FIRST ODI Nov 1 - Sri Lan­ka v West In­dies at Colom­bo (RPS), 1st ODI (day/night).

SEC­OND ODI Nov 4 - Sri Lan­ka v West In­dies at Colom­bo (RPS), 2nd ODI (day/night).

THIRD ODI Nov 7 - Sri Lan­ka v West In­dies at Pallekele, 3rd ODI (day/night).

FIRST T20 - Nov 9 - Sri Lan­ka v West In­dies at Pallekele, 1st T20I (night).

SEC­OND T20 - Sri Lan­ka v West In­dies at Colom­bo (RPS), 2nd T20I (night).


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