The Indian cricket team will head for Sri Lanka in September for a triangular series, also involving the hosts and South Africa, while another tri-series in North America is in the pipeline, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said on Wednesday.
"We are playing a tri-series in Sri Lanka in September with South Africa as the third team. But nothing has yet been decided about a tri-series in North America, though it's in the pipeline," BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said.
Shah said India, the West Indies and Australia are expected to play the second tri-series, though "nothing concrete has been decided".
He denied media reports that the West Indies had been bought over by the Asian lobby, which successfully bid to host the 2011 World Cup in the Indian sub-continent, at the recent International Cricket Council's Executive Board meeting.
"How can you say the West Indies have been bought over? Had they voted for Australia and New Zealand, would you say they were bought over by that group? Yes, their vote in our favour was important in clinching the bid," he said.
Shah said the BCCI had already committed itself to help raise funds for the West Indies board much before the bidding process and that was the reason India will play a four-Test series in the Caribbean instead of the earlier planned best-of-three rubber.
"We are playing the fourth Test on request of the West Indies Cricket Board. We are helping them raise funds," he said on returning from Dubai.
India will play five ODIs and four Tests in the West Indies from May 18 to July 4.
