India has a four-game one-day international series in the West Indies immediately after the ongoing T20 World Cup, but otherwise appears to have a relatively easy schedule for most of the year. The Future Tours program is up for review at the ICC meet in Dubai this week [incidentally, what kind of scheduling has the ICC honchos meeting in Dubai while an ICC-mandated World Cup is being played in England?], and considerable angst is being expressed in some quarters that the FTP could become loaded with fixtures pitting the top four nations against one another, while the bottom half of the table languishes for want of money-spinning fixtures. More as the story develops over the week…
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