England to tour SL for two Tests in March
England will tour Sri Lanka for a two-test series in March next year, with 120 ICC World Test Championship points at stake.
The tour will begin on March 7, the eve of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 final, with a three-day warm-up match against a Sri Lanka Board President’s XI in Katunayake.
That will be followed by a second warm-up game, this one a four-day First-class fixture, against the same opposition, between March 12 and 15, at the P. Sara Oval in Colombo.
That will be followed by the first Test that begins on March 19 at the old Sri Lankan fortress in Galle where Sri Lanka have lost just two Tests since 2015, the last defeat, co-incidentally, also coming against England, when they visited these shores in 2018.
The tour will then conclude with the second and final Test at the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.
The series is yet another assignment in an already packed red-ball schedule for England, who are scheduled to play 14 Tests between now and next year’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in Australia in October-november.
The last time England toured Sri Lanka, in November 2018, they swept a three-test series. It was the first whitewash they inflicted in a three-test series in Asian conditions.
England tour of Sri Lanka 2020: March 7-9: v SLC Board President’s XI at Katunayake.
March 12-15: v SLC Board President’s XI at P. Sara Oval.
March 19-23: 1st Test at Galle.
March 27-31: 2nd Test at R. Premadasa Stadium. (ICC)