West Indies will host Zimbabwe and then India for Test and one-day series during their home season in 2006
Cricinfo staff16-Sep-2005
St. Lucia will host the first day-night ODI to be played in the West Indies © Getty Images
The West Indies Cricket Board have announced that West Indies will host Zimbabwe and then India for Test and one-day series during their home season in 2006.Zimbabwe will arrive in West Indies on April 12 to play two Tests and five one-day internationals before leaving on May 15, according to a media release. The ODI fixture in St. Lucia on May 10 will be the first day-night match to be played in the West Indies. India will arrive on May 15 to play four Test matches and five one-day internationals during their six-week tour.West Indies A will host England A during February and March 2006 followed by Sri Lanka A in May. West Indies A will also tour England in July 2006, after the conclusion of the home season. The proximity of fixtures for the national side and the A side will give the West Indies A players a chance to break into the national team.Plans are being finalised for West Indies under-19 team to tour Pakistan before the International Cricket Council Under-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka in February 2006. West Indies were runners-up in the last Under-19 World Cup in 2004.The preliminary round of the President’s Cup, the regional one-day championship, will be held in Barbados from October 3. The semi-finals will be held at the Bourda Oval in Guyana from October 12 and the final is on October 16 at the same venue.
1st Test April 20-24 Guyana 2nd Test April 28-May 2 Trinidad 1st ODI May 6 Trinidad 2nd ODI May 7 Trinidad 3rd ODI May 10 St. Lucia d/n 4th ODI May 13 Antigua 5th ODI May 14 Antigua
1st ODI May 20 Jamaica 2nd ODI May 21 Jamaica 3rd ODI May 24 St Kitts 4th ODI May 27 Trinidad 5th ODI May 28 Trinidad 1st Test June 1-5 Antigua 2nd Test June 9-13 St. Lucia 3rd Test June 22-26 St Kitts 4th Test June 30-July 4 Jamaica
