New Zealand’s away ODI series in Australia has been moved from January to March 2019, the latest a series will have been played on Australian soil since a Kerry Packer-era two-match series against Pakistan in 1979.

The movement of the New Zealand series to March has materialised due to the BCCI’s insistence on India playing a home ODI series against Australia in January. Australia’s eventual compliance means New Zealand’s limited-overs fixtures against Aaron Finch’s side will now take place three months after the Tests between the sides.

The Blackcaps will return home after their away December Test series in Australia before taking on India themselves, while Australia are penned in to travel to Bangladesh and South Africa in the months between the two series against their closest neighbours.

Meetings were put in place by the ICC in 2017 in a bid to finalise the Future Tours Programme (FTP) for the 2019-2023 cycle, but it is reported that the BCCI and CA failed to find any sort of middle ground, with further meetings also doing little to rectify relations or developing an agreed schedule.

The BCCI have remained firm and have now been granted their wish for a home India v Australia ODI series, with further discussions set to take place when CA chief executive Kevin Roberts and chairman Earl Eddings arrive in India for talks with the BCCI around the date of the IPL final (May 12).