Hyderabad: Cricket Australia have announced a tentative schedule for India's tour to Australia later this year.
According to the original schedule, the tour was, to begin with, T20Is in October followed by Tests from December 3 with the ODIs kept for mid-January.
However, pressed by BCCI, the Australian cricket board altered the schedule bringing both formats of white-ball cricket to the start from November-end and forcing the Test series to begin from December 17.
The Aussie board has stuck to the changed schedule, keeping the November 25-30 slot for ODIs (in Brisbane) and December 4-10 for T20Is (in Adelaide).
The Test series will likely begin on December 17 with a day-night Test at Adelaide, followed by the second Test - the Boxing Day Test - at Melbourne (December 26-30), third at Sydney (January 7-11) and the last one at Brisbane (January 15-19).