India Tour Of Sri Lanka 2026 Full Schedule Announced

India tour of Sri Lanka 2026 [Source: AFP]

The U19 World Champions, India, are set to return to the field as the fresh two-year cycle gets underway with a tour of Sri Lanka in the coming months, as it was officially announced earlier on Wednesday evening.

The fresh cycle will see a plethora of new faces turning up for the Boys in Blue as per the BCCI guidelines, which clearly state that a player can only participate in one U19 World Cup. This means someone like Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, despite being eligible for the tour, would not feature in it, making it a bit of an even affair between the two teams.

India U19 tour of Sri Lanka 2026 announced

In the second week of June, India A will be travelling to Sri Lanka for a tri-series between India A, Sri Lanka A and Afghanistan A from June 9 to June 21, where Vaibhav Sooryavanshi will represent India A.

The U19 series between the two nations shall take place at the end of the ‘A’ series, featuring the new batch of exciting names from India and Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Cricket took to their official website and shared the details of the tour.

According to the press release, India U19 will reach Colombo on June 30 before they head to Hambantota, where the series will begin.

The two teams will go head to head in three one-day matches and two four-day games, spanning across 20 days, and three venues have been shortlisted for the same.

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India U19 Tour of Sri Lanka 2026: Full schedule

As mentioned earlier, the Indian team will reach Colombo on June 30, then they will go to Hambantota for the first three One Day matches. Following up on the white-ball series, the two four-day matches will be played in Galle and Colombo, respectively. The tour will start on July 4 and end on July 23.

Full fixture list:

Stacked 2026 for India U19

The Sri Lanka series is India U19’s first assignment after the win over England U19 earlier this year. This means a lot of players are set to go under the hit and trial in the coming months before the BCCI finalize their best lot of 15 by the time the next U19 World Cup comes in 2028.

For the gradual and consistent development of players in this period, much like 2024, Australia U19 will travel to India after India is done with the Sri Lanka tour.

In the Australia series, the teams will play each other in three Youth List A (One-Day) matches from September 18 to 23 in Rajkot. It will then be followed by a Youth Test in Rajkot from September 27 to 30, and the series will conclude in Ahmedabad, where the second and last Youth Test will commence from October 5 to 8.

By the end of these two series against Sri Lanka and Australia, the BCCI will have a rough idea of the best players from the next crop to build a core around them.

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