Australia to play three Tests during 2025 tour of West Indies tour

Australia will play three Tests on their tour of West Indies next year after the two boards agreed to add an extra match to the original schedule. It will be whenever the different sides first have confronted each other for three Tests or more starting around 2015 and the initial time in the Caribbean starting around 2012 when Australia won 2-0. The series will be the main in the following pattern of the World Test Title for the two groups, which brings a base prerequisite of two Tests. The past series between the groups played in Australia recently completed 1-1 after Shamar Joseph propelled West Indies to a seven-run succeed at the Gabba. It was West Indies' first triumph over Australia in quite a while. At first revealed by Nine papers, the expansion of the Test series was affirmed by Cricket Australia CEO Scratch Hockley on Saturday. "I'm truly happy that will show," he told SEN radio. "We're actually sitting tight for an authority declaration from the West Indies Cricket Board around exact dates and exact areas yet it will be a three-Test series which is clearly enormous. "It's another extraordinary open door. The World Test Title recommended that we expected to play two, no less than two. However, for the fans and for the players, you would rather not be caught in the position when it's one and everybody is feeling unsatisfied." Hockley, who will step down in Spring and be supplanted by Todd Greenberg, has recently expressed an inclination for at least three Tests in a series. "We'll continue supporting and advocating that. Truly supporting for three-Test series as a flat out least," he said recently. ESPNcricinfo comprehends that Barbados, Grenada and Jamaica are potential areas for the three matches which are supposed to occur from late June. On the ongoing Future Visits Program, the timetable likewise incorporates three ODIs and three T20Is. Australia are in the race for a spot in the current year's WTC last which will occur at Master's from June 11-15.