Overview
- Game one is set for Sunday in Vadodara before Rajkot and Indore, with TV on Star Sports and streaming on JioHotstar in India, plus Sky Sports NZ, TNT Sports UK and Willow TV USA.
- Virat Kohli needs 25 runs to reach 28,000 international runs and 42 to move past Kumar Sangakkara for second on the all-format list behind Sachin Tendulkar.
- Vice-captain Shreyas Iyer has BCCI clearance after an October spleen laceration and is 83 ODI runs from 3,000, putting the fastest-by-an-Indian mark within reach.
- Rohit Sharma is within 63–64 ODI runs of overtaking Jacques Kallis and 87 List-A runs from 14,000, while captain Shubman Gill is 182 short of 3,000 ODI runs.
- Rishabh Pant sustained a practice-session knock that prompted on-site assessment, and the short ODI series precedes a five-match T20I leg geared toward T20 World Cup preparation.