A buoyant yet possibly fatigued Indian team will play its first match of the Celkon Mobile Cup in Jamaica on Sunday, just a week after beating England in Birmingham to lift the ICC Champions Trophy. The short ODI tour of the West Indies is the second in a glut of matches for MS Dhoni's team in the format leading up to the massive tour of South Africa later this year.
India have only fifty-over engagements until they fly to South Africa later this year, barring one Twenty20 international against Australia. They will play a minimum of three ODIs in the West Indies, and a fourth should they reach the final in Trinidad on July 11. After that is a tour of Zimbabwe for five ODIs starting July 24 and ending on August 3, for which it is rumoured that the BCCI will not send a full-strength side.
In October, Australia will arrive in India for seven ODIs and a Twenty20 international. Soon after that India embark on a full tour of South Africa comprising three Tests, seven ODIs and two Twenty20s beginning in December this year and extending to early 2014.
A week after lifting the ICC Champions Trophy, MS Dhoni's team will play the first game of a tri-series in the West Indies.
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