It will mark the first three-Test series between the two nations since the 2015–16 West Indies tour of Australia and Australia’s first Test tour of the West Indies since 2015.
Australia will tour the Caribbean in June and July for a three-Test series and five T20Is, the West Indies Cricket Board announced on Wednesday. It will be Australia’s first Test tour of West Indies since 2015 and the first three-Test series between the countries since the West Indies tour of Australia in 2015-16.
The first Test in the Frank Worrell Trophy series is set to be played at Bridgetown, Barbados beginning June 25. The second Test is scheduled to start on July 3 in St. George’s, Grenada and the third on July 12 in Kingston, Jamaica.
Additionally, the first two Twenty20 Internationals will be held in Kingston’s Sabina Park on July 20 and 22. The next three Twenty20 Internationals will be held at Basseterre, St. Kitts, on July 25, 26, and 28.
The West Indies series will begin on June 11—two weeks after Australia’s match against South Africa in the World Test Championship final at Lord’s.
Since the last time the West Indies team hosted the Frank Worrell Trophy series, they have gone on three Test trips to Australia.
Both groups have been traveling around Asia. In late January, a two-match series between Pakistan and the West Indies ended in a draw. In the current two-Test series in Sri Lanka, Australia is ahead 1-0.
