Homecoming For Hardik Pandya ! Star All-Rounder Set To Play First Worldwide Sport In Entrance Of House Crowd; Heres How

The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Saturday confirmed the venues for India’s white ball collection towards New Zealand, which will probably be performed in the beginning of 2026. The schedule was confirmed throughout the Apex Council Assembly on Saturday. Vadodara, Rajkot and Indore have been finalised because the venue for ODI collection whereas Nagpur, Raipur, Guwahati, Visakhapatnam and Thiruvananthapuram will host the 5 T20Is within the yr of T20I World Cup.

Surprisingly, Vadodara will host its first males’s worldwide sport in additional than 15 years. The tour will kick off with the primary ODI on January 11 on the  newly inaugurated Kotambi Stadium. The stadium has already hosted three worldwide video games that includes India and West Indies Girls’s groups. The stadium additionally hosted six matches throughout the 2025 Girls’s Premier league (WPL). 

Vadodara internet hosting a sport means their dwelling grown famous person Hardik Pandya will lastly play a global sport infront of his dwelling crowd. Hardik obtained a heat wlecome by the Vadodara crowd after successful the T20 World Cup 2024. In the meantime, New Zealand have been the identical crew that final performed a global sport at Vadodara on the Reliance Stadium in 2010.

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The New Zealand cricket crew is about to tour India in January 2026 for a collection of One Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is). The tour kicks off with a three-match ODI collection, beginning on Sunday, January 11, 2026, in Baroda at 1:30 PM. The second ODI will probably be performed on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, in Rajkot, additionally at 1:30 PM, adopted by the third and last ODI in Indore on Sunday, January 18, 2026, on the identical time.

Following the ODI collection, a five-match T20I collection will begin. The primary T20I is scheduled for Wednesday, January 21, 2026, in Nagpur, with a begin time of seven:00 PM. Raipur will host the second T20I on Friday, January 23, 2026, at 7:00 PM. The third T20I will probably be performed in Guwahati on Sunday, January 25, 2026, at 7:00 PM. The penultimate match, the fourth T20I, is about for Wednesday, January 28, 2026, in Vizag at 7:00 PM. The tour concludes with the fifth and last T20I on Saturday, January 31, 2026, in Trivandrum, additionally beginning at 7:00 PM.

India and New Zealand final performed an ODI on the Champions Trophy last 2025 the place the Males in Blue defeated the Kiwis by 4 wickets claiming the CT trophy for the second time. Indian captain Rohit Sharma was the Man of the Match within the sport.