West Indies and Sri Lanka cancel Tests so that players will be free for IPL The future tours programme had Sri Lanka due to play two Tests, three ODIs and two Twenty20 matches in the West Indies. Instead, reports Cricinfo, the two boards have approached India's BCCI with a view to playing a trilateral ODI series. It is unclear what fate will befall the two T20 matches; but dates and times for a triangular series will be finalised if the BCCI approves. Sri Lanka have some previous for appearing to favour the lucrative shorter formats over Test cricket. In 2011, senior players including Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene missed Test series warm-up matches in England in favour of the IPL. Sri Lanka lost the series. West Indies have also had problems getting their best Test XI on the field in the face of the IPL's big-money counter-lure. Their exciting spinner Sunil Narine missed the first two Tests against England this summer in favour of the IPL, and the Test side has frequently appeared shorn of its most talented players, albeit that there are other conflicts between players and board in West Indies beyond the IPL. The ICC continues to resist calls for a window in the international calendar for the IPL.