Ranjan Madugalle of Sri Lanka will be the ICC Match Referee for the two-match Test series between India and New Zealand and the triangular series, which has Australia as the third team, in October and November.

Making the announcement in Kolkata on Thursday, Board of Control for Cricket in India president Jagmohan Dalmiya said David Shepherd of England and Rudi Koertzen of South Africa will officiate as umpires in the two Tests.

Shephered and campatriot Neil Mallender will officiate as umpires in the tri-series along with a panel of Indian umpires.

Dalmiya also said the dates of the first two Test matches between India and New Zealand have been finalised after the venue of one of the matches was shifted to Ahmedabad from Kanpur because of poor ground conditions.

The first Test will be played at Ahmedabad from October 8 to 12 while the second will be at Mohali from October 16 to 20.

Before the Test matches, New Zealand will also play two three-day matches against the Board President's eleven and India 'A' at Vizag (Sept 26 to 28) and Rajkot (Oct 2 to 4) respectively.

The triangular series will be held from October 23 and the teams will play against each other thrice to decide the two qualifiers for the final, to be held at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, on November 18.

Following is the complete itinerary of the India-New Zealand Test series and tri-series, with names of the two umpires for the match and third and fourth umpires in brackets:

Tests:

Oct 8 to 12 - India-New Zealand First Test at Ahmedabad, David Shepherd/R Koertzen (I Shivaram/S K Patel)

Oct 16 to 20 - India-New Zealand Second Test at Mohali, David Shepherd/R Koertzen (K Hariharan/N Menon)

Tri-series:

Oct 23 - India vs New Zeland at Chennai, David Shepherd/A V Jayaprakash (I Shivaram/F Gomes)

Oct 26 - India vs Australia at Gwalior, N Mallender/K Hariharan (A V Jayaprakash/V K Ramaswamy)

Oct 29 - Australia vs New Zealand at Faridabad, D Shepherd/K Hariharan (I Shivaram/Devendra Sharma)

Nov 1  - India vs Australia at Mumbai, N Mallender/A V Jayaprakash (K Hariharan/Umesh Kumar)

Nov 3  - Australia vs New Zealand at Pune, D Shepherd/K Hariharan (A V Jayaprakash/T R Kasyappan)

Nov 6  - India vs New Zealand at Cuttack, N Mallender/A V Jayaprakash (I Shivaram/M S Mahal)

Nov 9  - Australia vs New Zealand at Guwahati, D Shepherd/K Hariharan (I Shivaram/C R Mohite)

Nov 12 - India vs Australia at Bangalore, N Mallender/A V Jayaprakash (K Hariharan/A M Sahiba)

Nov 15 - India vs New Zealand at Hydrabad, D Shepherd/K Hariharan (I Shivaram/S N Bandekar)

Nov 18 - Final, at Kolkata, D Shepherd/A V Jayaprakash, (K Hariharan/K G Lakhminarayanan)