Sri Lanka's abandoned tour of New Zealand has been rescheduled for April.
New Zealand Cricket officials announced on Tuesday that two Tests would be played from April 4-8 and 11-15 at venues still to be decided.
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The Sri Lankans were already in New Zealand when the tsunami struck on December 26 and had played the first of five scheduled one-day matches when the tour was called off.
New Zealand Cricket chief executive Martin Snedden said the four remaining one-day games would be held in December this year.
He also announced the Kiwis would host three one-day matches later this month against a Rest of the World team captained by Australia leg spinner Shane Warne to raise money for tsunami victims.
The games will be held in Christchurch on January 22, Wellington on January 24 and Hamilton on January 26.
"We decided it was something we could have a real crack at instead of spending two weeks down in the dumps about the fact that the cricket season had been so badly affected," Snedden said.
Rest of the World squad: Shane Warne (Australia, captain), Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka), Andy Flower (Zimbabwe), Nick Knight (England), Graeme Hick (England), Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka), Ian Harvey (Australia), Lance Klusener (South Africa), Heath Streak (Zimbabwe), Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka), Chaminda Vaas (Sri Lanka), Matthew Elliott (Australia), Andy Bichel (Australia), Michael Bevan (Australia), Justin Langer (Australia), Jonty Rhodes (South Africa, player/coach).
