new delhi sanjay manjrekar one of the few commentators who calls a spade a spade will return to the tv commentary box for indias tour of australia starting this month the former india batsman confirmed on saturdaymanjrekar 55 told ians that he had been included in the tv commentary panel for indias test odi and t20 series to be played between november 27 and january 19 sony pictures network will broadcast the matches in indiathe indian cricket board had dropped manjrekar from the commentary panel for the 2020 indian premier league ipl the move was seen as a reaction to the commentator calling ravindra jadeja a bitsandpieces player during the 2019 world cup which drew a sharp backlash from the indian allrounder on twitterin the case of bits and pieces people thought it was the degradation of a player so if i would have said nonspecialist then i dont think there would have had been a furore said manjrekar in an interview with moneycontrol after he was excluded from the ipl panelindias tour of australia will start with a threematch odi series from november 27 to december 2 followed by a t20i series of as many matches from december 4 to 8a fourmatch test series will follow with the first match scheduled to be played from december 17 to 21 in adelaide the second test will be played at the melbourne cricket ground from december 26 to 30 followed by the third test from january 7 to 11 2021 at the sydney cricket groundthe final test will be played in brisbane from january 15 to 19 india had won the previous test series they played in australia 21