Soon after the 2021 T20 World Cup, the Indian cricket team will clash with New Zealand at home in a three-match T20I series. This series is scheduled to commence on 17th November 2021.

And, several marquee players, including batting legend Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rishabh Pant, and Ravindra Jadeja are all set to be rested for the series against the Kiwis.

The squad for India’s T20I series against New Zealand is expected to be named on 8th November 2021. The Indian side will be led by Rohit Sharma for this T20I series, and there are also rumours that Kohli might be removed as the ODI captain as well, with Sharma taking over the reins of the Indian side in limited-overs cricket.

Former India all-rounder and World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev reckons that the BCCI and Indian team must immediately start plotting their plans for the upcoming T20 World Cup, scheduled to be played in Australia next year.

His comments come after India were officially knocked out of the ongoing multi-team event, which is the first occasion since 2012 when the team has taken an exit in the league stage of an ICC tournament.

“It’s time to look at the future. You should start planning right away. It’s not that since the World Cup is over, the Indian team’s entire cricket is too. Go and plan. I just feel that there should have been some gap between IPL and the World Cup. But this is certainly there that our players today have a lot of exposure but they could not make the most of it,” Kapil said on ABP News.

Australia will tour Pakistan for three Tests, three ODIs and a one-off T20I between March 3 to April 5, 2022, in what will be their first tour of the Asian nation in 24 years. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed the development on November 8. The series will start with the first Test in Karachi, followed by the second encounter in Rawalpindi, while the remainder of the series will .