In geometrical terms, the International Cricket is a circle and not a line. There is continuance and no ends here and so, with the two and half month long tour of England finishing off and Asia Cup taking steps towards conclusion, here arrives the team of players with the most affable ascent to play a full tour of India. 

The West Indies will be in town in a few days time and play 2 Tests, 5 ODIs and 3 T20Is from October 4 till November 11, before which they'll start off their preparation with a Board President's XI game starting on September 29. 

Looking ahead to the home series, the BCCI has announced it's 13-man squad for the 2-day warm-up game in Vadodara and it includes good domestic performers of the last few seasons. 

The men from the Caribbean will be dished out the main course afterwards with the 2-Test series starting with the first game in Rajkot beginning October 4, followed by the second in Hyderabad from October 4. 

The series then moves on to the limited overs game and the 5-match ODI tussle begins on October 21 at Guwahati, followed by the 2nd ODI on October 24 at Indore and 3rd at Pune on October 27 and the last two one-dayers will be played at Mumbai and Thiruvananthapuram on October 29 and November 1 respectively. 

The tour finishes off with the 3 T20 Internationals at Kolkata (November 4), Lucknow (November 6) and Chennai (November 11).

Board President’s XI: Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, Hanuma Vihari, Karun Nair (captain), Shreyas Iyer, Ankit Bawne, Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), Jalaj Saxena, Saurabh Kumar, Basil Thampi, Avesh Khan, K Vignesh, Ishan Porel.

(Inputs from PTI)