Jaipur to host India South-Africa ODI and 3 IPL Matches

Jaipur will host one India South-Africa ODI and 3 IPL Matches next year as per the BCCI meeting. The Indian board is yet to finalise the schedule for the home series against South Africa early next year but has decided on Jaipur as the venue most likely to host the tour's first ODI. Lalit Modi, chairman of the board's tours and fixtures panel, said the final schedule will be worked out at a later date - it was held up by the absence of some members at the board's working committee meeting today. He said, was picked because it had missed out during the Australia series earlier this year. That match was shifted to Vadodara due to a dispute at the Rajasthan Cricket Association between Modi and Sanjay Joshi, the then president. "As chairman of the BCCI's tours and fixtures committee I'm going to recommend to the first ODI should be allotted to Jaipur because they had missed their term last time. In principle we have decided to give it to them," Modi said.
It was also decided that Ahmedabad will host the first four Rajasthan Royals games in the next IPL, with Jaipur allotted the final three. "The last three games will happen in Jaipur, as we have recommended some upgrading to be done. The first four will happen in Ahmedabad as they have already done a lot (of preparations)," Modi said. The arrangement was only for 2010, with Jaipur restored as the host venue for the 2011 edition.