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For upcoming India vs New Zealand home series in March-April New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has decide to add an additional Test match against Indian cricket team. According to the decision the additional Test will be held in Napier, a port city of NZ, as the tour for the series was rescheduled. Consequently, now Hamilton will host the first Test from March 19 in lieu of March 26. After that Napier will hold the second one from March 26 whereas Wellington will be the venue for the third Test from April 3. According to local media reports the Test series will begin one week earlier. India’s tour will start with a Twenty20 international in NZ on March 6. So, NZC is going to reschedule the subsequent five-match ODI series.

NZC added the additional Test match on request of The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as BCCI had wanted an extra Test to be included to facilitate recover profits lost from several cancelled events. The cash-rich BCCI said a revenue loss of roughly $25 million from the two cancelled one-day games against England and the tour of Pakistan in the wake of Mumbai terror attacks last year. That’s why, they offer to NZC to organize an extra Test match and NZC agreed with them.