<p class="title">India on Friday called off two remaining one-day internationals against South Africa because of the coronavirus pandemic, the cricket board said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The first of the three-match series in Dharamsala on Thursday was washed out without a ball being bowled.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The next game was scheduled for Lucknow on Sunday followed by the last one in Kolkata on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Cricket South Africa will visit India at a later date to play three one-day internationals," the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said in a statement, adding that a revised schedule would be worked out soon.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The games were called off hours after the BCCI postponed the start of the money-spinning Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament till April 15.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The eight-team competition was to begin on March 29.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The BCCI had on Thursday announced that the two matches against South Africa would be played without spectators because of the virus.</p>.<p class="bodytext">India, the world's second most populous country after China, has reported 81 cases so far with one death from COVID-19.</p>
<p class="title">India on Friday called off two remaining one-day internationals against South Africa because of the coronavirus pandemic, the cricket board said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The first of the three-match series in Dharamsala on Thursday was washed out without a ball being bowled.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The next game was scheduled for Lucknow on Sunday followed by the last one in Kolkata on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Cricket South Africa will visit India at a later date to play three one-day internationals," the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said in a statement, adding that a revised schedule would be worked out soon.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The games were called off hours after the BCCI postponed the start of the money-spinning Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament till April 15.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The eight-team competition was to begin on March 29.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The BCCI had on Thursday announced that the two matches against South Africa would be played without spectators because of the virus.</p>.<p class="bodytext">India, the world's second most populous country after China, has reported 81 cases so far with one death from COVID-19.</p>