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Rahul Dravid ducks under a James Franklin delivery at the Basin Reserve where the two sides will play again PHOTO: LINTOTT PHOTOGRAPHY<\/p>\n
The Black Caps will face one of the biggest cricket challenges with India confirmed for a three-format tour from October 22 until December.<\/p>\n
It is the largest inbound tour in NZC history by match count, with five T20Is, five ODIs and two Tests across five regions.<\/p>\n
Demand for India tour tickets has historically been high and with the rivalry between the two sides only getting stronger.<\/p>\n
With more than double the matches this time the prospect of sold-out crowds across the board – NZC is bracing to set a new attendance record for an in-bound tour – targeting in excess of 150,000 tickets.<\/p>\n
Auckland will host one match, an ODI at Eden Park in early October. The two tests are at the Basin Reserve 19-23 November and Hagley Oval in Christchurch the following week<\/p>\n
Thu 22 Oct 1st T20I Hagley Oval, Christchurch 8pm<\/p>\n
Sat 24 Oct 2nd T20I Hagley Oval, Christchurch 8pm<\/p>\n
Tue 27 Oct 3rd T20I Hnry Stadium, Wellington 8pm<\/p>\n
Fri 30 Oct 4th T20I Eden Park, Auckland 8pm<\/p>\n
Sun 1 Nov 5th T20I Seddon Park, Hamilton 8pm<\/p>\n
Wed 4 Nov 1st ODI Eden Park, Auckland 3pm<\/p>\n
Sat 7 Nov 2nd ODI Hnry Stadium, Wellington 3pm<\/p>\n
Tue 10 Nov 3rd ODI Seddon Park, Hamilton 3pm<\/p>\n
Fri 13 Nov 4th ODI Bay Oval, Tauranga 3pm<\/p>\n
Sun 15 Nov 5th ODI Bay Oval, Tauranga 3pm<\/p>\n
Thu 19 Nov – Mon 23 Nov 1st Test Cello Basin Reserve, Wellington 11am<\/p>\n
Fri 27 Nov – Tue 1 Dec 2nd Test Hagley Oval, Christchurch 11am<\/p>\n
Thu 10 Dec 1st T20I Saxton Oval, Nelson 4pm<\/p>\n
Sat 12 Dec 2nd T20I Saxton Oval, Nelson 1pm<\/p>\n
Tue 15 Dec 3rd T20I Cello Basin Reserve, Wellington 4pm<\/p>\n
Fri 18 Dec 1st ODI Cello Basin Reserve, Wellington 11am<\/p>\n
Mon 21 Dec 2nd ODI Bay Oval, Tauranga 11am<\/p>\n
Wed 23 Dec 3rd ODI Bay Oval, Tauranga 11am<\/p>\n
1st ODI McLean Park, Napier 11am<\/p>\n
2nd ODI Cello Basin Reserve, Wellington 11am<\/p>\n
3rd ODI University Oval, Dunedin 11am<\/p>\n
1st T20I Hagley Oval, Christchurch 6pm<\/p>\n
2nd T20I Saxton Oval, Nelson 4pm<\/p>\n
3rd T20I Saxton Oval, Nelson 1pm<\/p>\n
1st Test Bay Oval, Tauranga 11am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rahul Dravid ducks under a James Franklin delivery at the Basin Reserve where the two sides will play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-541725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}