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Withy King Solicitors will sponsor the 2002 Bath Cricket Festival. The great news for the festival was announced last night at the A.G.M. of the Bath and Wiltshire Area of Somerset County Cricket Club.Withy King sponsored this year’s festival and the Area Chairman, Robert Appleyard, said ‘We have been trying for some time to find a festival sponsor and were delighted this year when we signed Withy King. Their help financially was a boost to festival funds and their interest in the event and their help not only at the festival but also with all the fringe events showed their total commitment. To work with them again in 2002 is a tremendous boost and I am grateful for their support’.Martin Powell, Managing Partner of Withy King, said ‘We are delighted to again sponsor the festival and plan to build on what we learned this summer by running one or two events before the festival to open the doors for other companies to get behind the festival and make it stronger. Everybody said they enjoyed being part of the festival and it is an excellent way of repaying people we work with in business to thank them’.Peter Anderson, Chief Executive of Somerset County Cricket Club, said ‘The announcement of the sponsorship is a reward for the Bath Area Committee who have worked so hard over the years trying to get sponsorship for the festival. We are always looking for income to cover the costs of setting it up so having Withy King on board and the fact that they have brought other clients is great for the festival’Robert Appleyard also revealed that the festival this year made a £17,000 profit due to increased corporate hospitality, attractive opponents in Yorkshire, as well as the financial package from Withy King. This was the highest figure since the advent of four day cricket and the consequent shortening of the festival.The festival in 2002 will commence with a four day game against Hampshire starting on Wednesday 12th June and a National League game on Sunday 16th June against Leicestershire, who Somerset beat in the C & G final at Lords this year.

Nepal will play at Lord’s for the first time in 2016 after securing a fixture against the MCC. It has also been confirmed that the MCC’s tour of Nepal will go ahead in November after the trip had been left in doubt following the earthquake earlier this year.The date for Nepal’s match at Lord’s will be announced in the fixture lists towards the end of the year, but it will take place at some point in July. The fixture will help mark 200 years of relations between the UK and Nepal.The MCC’s tour of the country will take place between November 12-24 following an inspection trip by John Stephenson, the MCC’s head of cricket, which determined that the tour could take place.There have been significant links between MCC and Nepal over the years, which have included investment in helping develop the country’s cricket while Paras Khadka, the Nepal captain, was part of the MCC’s side for the Emirates T20 event in Dubai earlier this year.Rajesh Magar and Naresh Budhayer also previously spent time with the MCC’s Young Cricketers programme in 2013 and there are plans to extend this to be a more regular exchange of young players to aid Nepal’s development.

James Pattinson’s mentor Craig McDermott has moved to clarify assumptions about his pupil’s bowling action, including the contention that the 25-year-old abandoned two years of adjustments in order to claim five wickets in the second innings of the Hobart Test against the West Indies.While Pattinson did struggle for rhythm in the first innings and found himself delivering the ball from an arm position that reduced his chances of gaining any movement through the air or off the wicket, McDermott said there was still plenty of evidence of the adjustments they had made together during his 5 for 27 on the third and final day.Changes to Pattinson’s action had been devised to ease pressure on his back, which has been the subject of multiple stress fractures over his five years around the Australian team, and were as much about foot position as arm and wrist. McDermott noted that Pattinson’s back foot is now much more side on at the point of delivery and thus in sync with his waist, back and shoulders. The adjustments to his arm path made for a much more rhythmic performance on day three.”In a transition from an old action to a new action, sometimes in competition your body will want to go back a little bit to the way it was,” McDermott told ESPNcricinfo. “That happened in the second innings a little bit, but it was more about Patto jumping in a straight line through the crease and going towards the target with his body and getting his arm path down a little bit below the perpendicular and his wrist behind the ball all the time.”The bottom half is still different. Sometimes his back foot gets a bit more front on down the wicket, but generally he’s travelling pretty well. We tried to get his back foot as far towards 90 degrees as we possibly could to start with, knowing that when you get back into competition mode it’s always going to creep back the other way. He’s anywhere between 30 and 45 degrees at any one stage so it’s not too bad.”Pattinson had stated that he hoped to find a middle ground between his old ways and new ones, with the added benefit of now having an older, more mature body to cope. However, McDermott counselled that given a history of multiple stress injuries, Pattinson needed to be aware of the risks inherent in his former methods – the pair will continue their work together when McDermott travels to Melbourne ahead of the rest of the team on Monday.”Every bowler is different, but Patto’s had a number of stress fractures and even at the age of 25 he’s probably had more than someone like Mitchell Starc who’s had one,” McDermott said. “He’s got to be careful, old stress fractures sometimes don’t heal 100%, a bit like with Pat Cummins at the moment, after about a month his were still not healing that well, so he’s put in a brace just to make sure that does restrict his movement.”Patto’s still got to be careful even at his age, just because of the amount of stress fractures he has had in the past that he may not get a new one but you can always open an old one, which may not have healed as strong as some of the other bone matter has. I don’t think it’s right to compare Patto’s body with Mitchell Johnson’s body or with Mitchell Starc’s body, everybody’s differently made up.”Nevertheless, McDermott agreed that once a player is in the Test team, the last thing they should be doing is thinking too intricately about their bowling action. For this reason, he kept his advice simple and to the point between innings, much as the captain Steven Smith also did.”There were a couple of things I spoke to Patto about the night after the first innings,” McDermott said. “One was ‘don’t think too much about it, just really bowl the ball’, and the other thing was ‘try to get your arm path down a little bit, because if it’s up too high it is very hard to get your wrist behind the ball’. They were the only two things I spoke to him about the night before.”His first wicket in the second innings if you look at the slo-mo, it’s very good as far as the seam position and all of that sort of stuff goes. There’s still some variation in that with him, but everything’s coming along pretty well. There’s still a lot of room for improvement, as we’ve discussed since then. But some wickets will give him confidence.”In the absence of Starc, who underwent his ankle surgery on Tuesday night, McDermott said that Pattinson and Nathan Coulter-Nile were both well equipped to be Australia’s impact bowlers over the next four Tests against the West Indies and New Zealand, with Josh Hazlewood and Peter Siddle providing the steady counterpoint.”I think Patto’s one of those and Nathan Coulter-Nile’s got the ability to do that as well,” he said. “Josh is really starting to hone his skills with his lengths, Sidds does what Sidds does, nothing changing there. Certainly leading into the next two Test matches and New Zealand, those guys stand us in pretty good stead.”

The difference a day makes
It was like watching two different teams when Bangladesh began their innings. After showing scant regard to anything South Africa sent down last night, they offered the Australian attack much more respect. Brett Lee and Co, though, didn’t begin with a series of tempting half volleys and it wasn’t until Lee had to protect himself against a free-hit that he pitched the ball up. Bangladesh’s first boundary was a fortunate edged cut between the wicketkeeper and slip and there was a huge amount of playing and missing. The difference was summed up by Aftab Ahmed, who yesterday creamed 36 off 14 balls and here made 31 off 34.Top-left-corner
Bangladesh’s batsmen spent most of the early overs planted firmly on the back foot and as hard as they tried they couldn’t break the shackles. Facing a rapid bouncer from Mitchell Johnson, Nazimuddin went for a pull but was so late on the shot that he was clattered flush on the helmet. The ball ballooned to backward point and they ran a leg-bye. It was a fine glancing header that wouldn’t have looked out of place a few days ago at the other Newlands sports stadium when theSouth African football team played Zambia.Double free-hit
Australia continued to have a few problems with the front line and Johnson, in his second over, followed one no-ball with another. After the first one Tamim Iqbal had a wild swing-and-miss, then when the free-hit was carried over to the following delivery he went for another wild mow and didn’t make contact. So, apart from the extra run for the no-ball, the free-hit had cost Australia the grand total of one bye. That’s an escape and a half.Second chance Sunday
It was fairly clear that events were going Australia’s way when Ricky Ponting showed his brilliant reflexes to hold Nazimuddin’s powerful drive at extra cover. The shot sped towards Ponting and popped straight out of his hands, but the momentum carried him forward and he snapped up the chance on the rebound.Have a single for that
Aftab was trying his best to hold the innings together, and unfurled a trademark clip over midwicket which soared high into the air. The batsmen were sure it was going for at least four, but the Newlands outfield is still fairly soft and slow. Like a fine nine-iron into the green, Aftab’s shot pitched and plugged almost on the spot allowing deep square-leg to haul it in. Aftab only realised too late, and didn’t even make it back for two.Another Twenty20 first
After the first Twenty20 century, by Chris Gayle against South Africa, this match brought the first hat-trick in the international version. Brett Lee was the man with the honour as his pace proved too much for the middle order. Shakib al Hasan edged a catch behind, Mashrafe Mortaza was speared by a yorker and Alok Kapali was trapped in front. It nearly got better for Lee, his next delivery missed the stumps by a fraction, but he had overstepped. The free-hit found the hands ofJohnson at long-on, and didn’t count. But the over had had enough wickets.Catches win…oh dear
Bangladesh needed early wickets, and they nearly got one. With the fourth ball of the innings Mortaza brought an edge from Adam Gilchrist which flew towards Alok Kapali at slip. He moved quickly to his left, got a decent amount of hand on it, but couldn’t hold on. Australian batsmen don’t offer many chances and they hurried the game towards its conclusion.

As the ball soared into the sky and landed with a thud onto the concretestands behind long-on, you braced yourself for the explosion of noise thatusually accompanies any Mahendra Singh Dhoni big hit. Instead, there waseerie near silence. With only a few reporters and a sprinkling of othersin attendance, there was no danger to eardrums from the Indian team’spractice match at the Chinnaswamy Stadium.You’ve grown so accustomed to the hype and hoopla that follows these boysaround that the idea of them playing in front of the proverbial three menand dog seemed out of the realms of fantasy. They seemed to enjoy itthough, especially Dhoni, who smacked 32 from 30 balls before one loft toomany against the offspin of Ramesh Powar. The match billed as Rahul[Dravid] XI against [Ajit] Agarkar XI was more a straight contest betweenbat and ball, though Irfan Pathan and Harbhajan Singh enacted both rolesbefore the 40 overs were completed.Both sides had been given targets by the team management. The bowlers wereasked to choke off the runs, and look to concede less than 35 in 10 overs,whereas the batsmen were to rattle along at 75 runs in the same period.With Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid in fine fettle, that certainlyappeared a possibility. Tendulkar’s ability to throw from the deep may bea subject of debate, but there’s nothing whatsoever inhibiting hisshotmaking ability. He drove and cut with élan during a cameo of 26 (24balls) and it ended only with an outstanding catch on the run from DineshMongia at deep midwicket.Not to be outdone, Dravid stroked 10 fours before retiring to make way forYuvraj Singh, and Virender Sehwag thumped 28 in even time before Sreesanthgot one to keep low and trap him in front. Yuvraj, whose form in theone-day game was one of the features of India’s resurgence last season,crafted an elegant 41, and while he and Dhoni were in the middle, the bigshots were never too far away. Yuvraj played one superb sweep offHarbhajan and then spanked one straight down the ground, but an attempt torepeat the stroke ended up at long-on. Harbhajan, having won that littlebattle of the Punjab, couldn’t restrain his laughter.With Ian Frazer and Greg King umpiring, and Greg Chappell watching fromthe stands, Suresh Raina and Pathan didn’t stay too long, leaving MohammadKaif, very much the mid-innings anchor, and Harbhajan to see it through tothe close of play. By the time the players retreated to the shade andlunch inside the National Cricket Academy premises, 242 runs had come from40 overs, much nearer the batsmen’s target than the bowlers.

SM Yusuf, who has a special place in Indian cricket history for havingno-balled Anil Kumble’s medium-pace – prompting the switch to legspin -had scored the game, and was kind enough to provide a scorecardafterwards. Pathan went for 42 from his five overs, and will be glad thathe won’t have to come up against Tendulkar and Dravid every day, whileDinesh Mongia, who went for 30 from four overs, was reminded that morethan a Persian Gulf separates these guys from those who are lions merelyin county cricket.Ultimately though, it was a good outing for everyone, relaxed and withplenty of banter and enough of an edge to make sure that it didn’t descendinto farce. After lunch and a team meeting, it was back to the hotel and aswim to cool down. Then perhaps, a few might just tune in to watchhighlights of Sri Lanka’s remarkable win at the SSC, confirmation if anywas needed of the sterner tests that lie in wait.

The first test match between Pakistan and Australia came to a thrilling conclusion on Monday, and though it may have been a bitter disappointment for all Pakistani fans, the Pakistan team can certainly hold its head high for their spirited effort in this test match.It was a case of so close, yet so far, for Waqar’s men as the Australians held their nerve in a tension filled last day. Steve Waugh once again showed why he is regarded as the “ice-man” and kept calm throughout, marshalling his troops to victory in the end. His decision to take the new ball at the crucial juncture on the last day proved to be the killer blow.However disappointing the defeat may have been for Pakistanis, they have certainly no reason to be ashamed. They fought hard and nearly pulled off victory in a match where it seemed they did not stand a chance.It was a team full of youngsters with all the big guns missing due to injury or personal reasons, and it was this young brigade that really lead the charge for Pakistan. Taufeeq Umar showed tremendous resilience in his second knock, showing exactly what an opener needs to do, wear out the new ball and then play strokes. He showed the patience other Pakistani openers have not shown in recent times, leaving everything outside off stump and cashing in on every loose ball. One hopes Pakistan may have finally found one answer at least for their dual opening combination.Faisal Iqbal, appeared to be a dramatically improved cricketer from the time he was last picked to play for Pakistan. A very competent player of spin, he took to Shane Warne with a confidence that one does not normally see and did not hold back against the fast men either. He seems to be oozing with confidence and not the least bit disturbed by the sledging that has become a part of the modern game. An excellent prospect for the Pakistan side, one hopes that the selectors will persist with him for quite a while.The best part of this test match for Pakistan has firstly been the discovery of talented youngsters who can cover for the likes of Inzamam and Youhana and secondly, the team has rediscovered the inspiration they lacked in recent tournaments.No praise is enough for the efforts of Shoaib Akhtar and Saqlain Mushtaq. Shoaib was right back at his fiery best, and proved once again that he is single handedly capable of destroying any opposition if he is in the right frame of mind. Praise too is due to PCB for showing faith in Shoaib during his injury period earlier in the year and the effort in getting him back to full fitness. Saqlain came back with a point to prove, as he had been discarded after the tournament in Morocco, and answered all his critics in style. He bowled with tremendous accuracy and variety, and was not afraid to flight the ball, something his bowling had lacked in recent times.Though the team played brilliantly, a few tactical errors may have been the only negative to come out of the game for Pakistan.Firstly, the promotion of Razzaq to number three backfired completely, and might just be the mistake that cost Pakistan the game. Razzaq was all at sea against Warne, and too defensive, which is totally unlike his normal self. His groping around allowed a fillip to the dimmed hopes of the Aussies after Imran and Taufeeq had put on a good opening partnership. Razzaq would be a far better prospect at number six, where he can afford to play some strokes against an older ball. The best batsman in the side must occupy this position in any side. Amongst the current options, there is no one better than Younis Khan who is in great touch and should really be fitted in once and for all. The Pakistanis have experimented for too long with this position, and besides Younis or Youhana there appears to be no other option.Secondly, the selection of Mohammed Sami also proved to be an error as the game wore on. The pitch was turning square and Danish Kaneria would have been a very useful bowler under the conditions. Moreover, the Pakistani batting order seems hampered by an excessively long tail with Saqlain coming in at number eight. The management might also consider picking an extra batsman instead of Sami to strengthen the batting line up, and go into the match with four bowlers.All in all, apart from a few adjustments there is nothing to complain of, and even the biggest critics of the Pakistan team will have to put up their hands and applaud the team’s efforts. Waqar and Richard Pybus deserve a lot of praise for turning the team’s attitude around and the youngsters are a major reason for that. One can only hope that they continue to show this fighting spirit in the games to come.

Mornantau Hayward and Lance Klusener were recalled as South Africa announced the Test and one-day squads to tour Sri Lanka in August. But there were no seats on the plane for Neil McKenzie, Paul Adams or Andrew Hall, who recently denied rumours he was about to quit international cricket. There was, however, a spot in the one-day squad for the uncapped Jean-Paul Duminy.Hayward, who is 27, has been playing for Middlesex alongside Klusener and has represented his country in 14 Tests, the last of which was against Pakistan in January 2003. He recently went back on his decision to quit international cricket, and was included in the Test squad, but will return home when the one-dayers start.Klusener, 32, is another who has had his differences with the South African board in the past, and has had to wait almost three years since he played the last of his 48 Tests against Australia at Melbourne in December 2001. He was named in both the Test and one-day squads.Duminy, a 20-year-old left-handed batsman, was a member of the Under-19 team which toured England last year, and has played only 10 first-class matches for Western Province. He and Alan Dawson, the fast bowler, will join up with the one-day squad at the expense of Hayward and Boeta Dippenaar.Omar Henry, South Africa’s chief selector, said that he was pleased with both squads, and delighted to have Hayward and Klusener back. “It’s great to haveNantie back and hopefully he can pick up where he left off when he last playedfor South Africa,” said Henry. “His experience in the UK will be an asset as the lengths he will need to bowl in Sri Lanka are pretty similar to those in England. He brings real pace and aggression to the attack.”On Klusener, Henry said: “His experience and previous success in the subcontinent will be invaluable, he also brings great variety with the ball which will be critical on the pitches in Sri Lanka.”The first of the two Test starts on August 4 at Galle, and the first of the five one-day internationals will be played on August 20 at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.Test squad Graeme Smith (capt), Mark Boucher, Nicky Boje, Boeta Dippenaar, Herschelle Gibbs, Nantie Hayward, Jacques Kallis, Lance Klusener, Andre Nel, Makhaya Ntini, Robin Peterson, Shaun Pollock, Jacques Rudolph, Martin van Jaarsveld.ODI squad Graeme Smith (capt), Mark Boucher, Nicky Boje, Alan Dawson, JP Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Lance Klusener, Andre Nel, Makhaya Ntini, Robin Peterson, Shaun Pollock, Jacques Rudolph, Martin van Jaarsveld.

England 231 for 6 (Trescothick 108*) beat Pakistan 229 for 7 (Razzaq 64, Younis 63, Flintoff 4-32) by four wickets

Marcus Trescothick completed a memorable weekend with a magnificent unbeaten 108, and Chris Read chipped in with a resourceful and impish 25, as England recovered from a seemingly hopeless position to win the deciding match of the NatWest Challenge in the most thrilling manner imaginable.Chasing 230 for victory at Lord’s, England had at one stage been cruising at 129 for 2, but lost four wickets for 25 runs as Pakistan stormed back into contention. Trescothick and Read, however, withstood a ferocious onslaught from Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami, adding 77 for the seventh wicket. Such was the potency of Pakistan’s fightback, the result was never truly settled until Trescothick deposited Azhar Mahmood into the Grand Stand to seal the match with nine balls to spare.Trescothick’s innings of 86 at The Oval had been an eye-popping onslaught, but in terms of sheer gumption, it was not a patch on this performance. He rode his luck, outrageously at times, but with the memories of his past failures at Lord’s – two centuries and an 86 in his last three visits, all in a losing cause – he was not about to let it slip for a fourth match in succession.England were 154 for 6, 86 runs from victory, when Read joined Trescothick in the middle of a disturbing wobble. For Read, it was a first return to Lord’s since his famous dismissal by Chris Cairns’s slower ball in 1999, but together they kept the run rate ticking at six an over. Trescothick swept a brace of welcome boundaries off the spinners, while Read tickled Mohammad Hafeez for four to third man, before picking up four byes as Hafeez beat everyone with a skiddy doosra.A steady drizzle sent the England balcony scurrying for their Duckworth/Lewis calculations, as Shoaib returned for his final burst of the match. He could – and should – have made the breakthrough, when Trescothick, on 93, edged a searing off-stump delivery to the left of Rashid Latif, who spilled the chance. Trescothick doubled the agony by cutting Shoaib to third man to bring up his fifth ODI century, and Shoaib finally accepted it wouldn’t be his day when a Waqar-esque late-swinging yorker exploded across Read’s stumps and away for four byes.When – if – they can bear to conduct a post-mortem, Pakistan will accept that they lost this match in the first 15 overs of England’s innings. Sami and Shoaib, still smarting from their rough treatment on Friday, had strained every sinew to make the breakthrough, and it defied logic that England were able to grind their way to an extremely healthy 71 for 1.England’s confusions began in the second over, when Trescothick survived a point-blank run-out attempt from Sami, and then sparred a Shoaib short ball over the heads of the slip cordon. Vikram Solanki didn’t last long, blown out of the water by Sami’s 95mph off-stump lifter (24 for 1), but Michael Vaughan lived a charmed life – dropped on 0 at second slip by Hafeez, then bowled by a Sami no-ball.Trescothick might have been run out – again – after jabbing down late on a Sami yorker, and on 35 he was dropped at midwicket again by Hafeez. But the relative calm of Azhar Mahmood and Abdul Razzaq enabled him to grow in confidence, alongside Jim Troughton, who cracked four eye-catching boundaries in a 40-run partnership for the fourth wicket. But with the introduction of the spinners, Shoaib Malik and Hafeez, came four wickets in nine overs as the pendulum swung Pakistan’s way at last. Trescothick and Read, however, could not be halted.After winning a good toss, England had been ahead on points – just – at the halfway mark. Razzaq, with 64 from 53 balls, and Mahmood had stolen 91 runs from the last ten overs to ensure a competitive total, but England owed their position to another command performance from that unlikeliest of misers, Andrew Flintoff. Flintoff returned figures of 4 for 32, his best in a home international, picking up 3 for 13 in his first eight overs to restrict Pakistan to 118 for 5 after 35 overs. For Pakistan, Younis Khan gritted his teeth to score 63, his first runs of the series.England were deserving winners of an astonishingly close and uplifting series. Pakistan, for their part, did not deserve to lose.Click here for today’s Wisden Verdict

It is something the world has known all these years. The Board ofControl for Cricket in India (BCCI) and its inimitable secretaryJaywant Lele though still feel that it needs to be tabled during theBoard’s 72nd Annual General Meeting in Chennai on September 29.We are talking about what we shall hence call the ‘Lele findings’ onSachin Tendulkar, resulting purely from the industrious researchundertaken by the man after whom the findings have been so named.”The sky is the limit for the 28-year-old master batsman who hasalready collected 25 Test centuries and 29 one-day internationalhundreds by June 30, 2001. He has been the most consistent run-getterin both forms of the game and is already a demi-god in the Indianpantheon,” the BCCI secretary observes.After noting that Tendulkar wrote his name “in golden letters inrecord books” by becoming the first batsman to cross the 10,000-runmark in one-dayers, Lele goes on to add, “Having taken his 100thwicket in one-dayers in the course of the series against Australia,Tendulkar gets into a select list of one-day batting all-rounders likeViv Richards.”Sachin was the only current player to be included in Don Bradman’sDream Team that was released after his death, a great honour indeed toan Indian cricketer.”The Press Trust of India which carried excerpts of the ‘findings’ adds that Lele “also praises captain Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid, Shiv SundarDas, Harbhajan Singh and a few others for their performances fromApril 2000 to March 2001.”What all these profound observations prove is that even with a stylusin hand, Lele can still be Lele. Here then is to certainties…

After much deliberation, Sri Lanka Cricket’s interim committee is likely to retain Galle as a venue for the two-Test series against West Indies in October but has decided to drastically reduce the costs it will incur in hosting the match there, as well as at other venues for the tour.”We hope to cut costs down to about Rs 3 million (approx. $22,200) to try and offset the losses we will incur hosting West Indies,” Kushil Gunasekera, the interim committee vice-president, said.”We didn’t want to deprive the outstation spectators from watching an international match but at the same time we had to also curtail the losses that we will incur playing at Galle.”Galle traditionally has been an extravagant venue and we will try and keep down costs to a minimum.”Gunasekera said that SLC will not be making use of the Galle Municipal building and the Galle Cricket Club. It will also discard having marquees for spectators as well as feeding 500 school children breakfast, lunch and tea, which alone cost SLC Rs 1.2 million.Galle has been a Test venue for all tours since 1998. The two Tests played against Pakistan and India in Galle brought in revenue of Rs 14 million, Gunasekara said, but with SLC receiving only Rs 45 million for TV broadcasting rights for the West Indies series, it stands to lose overall Rs 105 million on the tour comprising two Tests, three ODIs and two T20s.SLC made a record profit of Rs 87 million from the Pakistan tour against a target of Rs 50 million, and stands to gain Rs 300 million from the recently concluded India tour.The first Test against West Indies starts October 14 with the second beginning at P Sara Oval on October 22. R Premadasa Stadium and Pallekele will host the ODIs and T20s.