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𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠𝗦 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗗𝗢𝗪𝗡 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗢𝗥 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗨𝗣 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝟯𝟯 𝗥𝗨𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗥 𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦

28: SL 1/100--128/10 v AUS: Colombo[RPS], 20/6/22

30: SL: 140/1--170/10 v IND: Pallekele, 27/7/24

33: PAK 1/113--146/10 v IND: Dubai, 28/9/25

[Only instances involving ICC full membership status teams queried]

𝗦𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗞𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱:

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟰 𝘁𝗼 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱, 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗿𝗶 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿. 𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱?

Ans: Great spot! With last night's tied T20I match in Dubai, IND-SL have played their first match of the current calender year. The two teams have faced one another in int'l formats at least once each year between 1984 and 2025 [42 calender years inclusive, back-to-back].

Here are other opposition pairs who did this over 20 consecutive calender years or more:

27: AUS-NZ [1985-2011]
23: PAK-SL [1982-2004]
20: AUS-IND [2006-2025].

𝑺𝒐𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒍 𝑲𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅:

𝑯𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕-𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂?

𝐀𝐧𝐬: 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐨𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭-𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬, 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝/𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐚 𝐂𝐮𝐩:

𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐢 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐢--𝐐𝐋𝐃[𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟖/𝟔𝟗--𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟐/𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟑]

𝐄𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧--𝐓𝐀𝐒[𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟏/𝟖𝟐]

[Surti also played ListA cricket for QLD(1969/70-1971/72)--his only ListA team in career].