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Australia to host world, Twenty20 game this season SYDNEY, May 22 (Reuters) - Australia will host its first Twenty20 international in the coming season, and also play a one-day series and a one-off test with a Rest of the World team. Cricket Australia had already decided to run a Twenty20 competition between domestic state teams after a trial last summer, but announced on Friday they had agreed to add an international match between Australia and South Africa after the game proved a massive instant hit with fans. The one-off 20-over match will be played at Brisbane on January 9 at the end of a hectic test schedule and before the start of the triangular one-day international series between Australia, South Africa and Sri Lanka. "Our experiences to date show that the public have certainly enjoyed their first taste of twenty-over cricket and want to see more," Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said in a statement. "It's an exciting and different format that is sure to entice some big crowds." In a packed itinerary that will follow Australia's Ashes tour of England, the world champions will also host seven test matches as well as play in three separate one-day competitions. The highlight of the season will be the October series between Ricky Ponting's men and the Rest of the World. The teams will play each other in three limited-overs internationals in Melbourne before a six-day "super" test in Sydney. The Australians will also play a three match test series against the West Indies in November, in Brisbane, Hobart and Adelaide, then a three-test series against the South Africans in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney. Squeezed between those will be a three game one-day series in New Zealand for the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, with the dates and venues still to be decided. The annual trianglar one-day series with Sri Lanka and South Africa starts mid-January with the top two teams advancing to a best-of-three fnals series in Febuary. |
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