Mohali set to host Kohli's 100th Test; Sri Lanka series to kick off with T20Is

 Virat Kohli's 100th Test is set to be played at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium in Mohali and not in Bangalore as was before arranged. The Chinnaswamy Stadium has been the virtual home ground for Kohli due to his 14-year relationship with the neighborhood IPL establishment, Royal Challengers Bangalore, and it might have been a fitting setting for the achievement match.

Cricbuzz comprehends that in opposition to the recently declared timetable against Sri Lanka, the series, containing two Tests and three Twenty20 Internationals, will be played in a converse request, with the travelers starting off their visit in Lucknow with the T20Is. The Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) will be the host to the primary T20I on February 24 followed by second and third on February 26 and 27 at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) Stadium in Dharamsala. Both UPCA and HPCA authorities affirmed the timetable.

From the slopes of Dharamsala, the groups move to the fields of Punjab to play the principal Test in Mohali from March 3 to 7, which currently successfully could be the 100th Test for the previous India commander, except if there is a last-minute contort. The subsequent Test and last Test will be in Bangalore from March 12 to 16. It is as yet not satisfactory assuming the Chinnaswamy Test will be a day-nighter; Neither the Indian group the executives nor the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) appear to have affirmed data.

"We couldn't say whether it is a day-night Test. All we know is it will be from March 12 to 16," a KSCA official said, expressing that the affiliation is hanging tight for a conventional correspondence from the BCCI.

According to the first agenda, the series would have begun with a Test in Bangalore followed by one more Test and a T20I in Mohali with the last two T20Is in Dharamsala and Lucknow.

In the interim, a date for the choice panel meeting in front of the series has not been finished yet at whatever point the Chetan Sharma-drove advisory group meets, it is probably going to bless Rohit Sharma as the captain for the Tests, making him the India chief across designs.