India will play two Twenty20 internationals against world champions West Indies in Florida in late August.
The T20 matches will mark the first full member games in four years in the United States, a huge market for cricket bosses to crack.
The T20 format is likely to be the most appealing form of the game, in the face of traditional US sports, thanks to explosive batting and a relatively short matches.
The games will be held on August 27 and 28 at the Broward Stadium in Fort Lauderdale.
The Broward Stadium is the only ground in the United States that meets international cricket specifications, and organisers say they have invested about $US1.4 million ($A1.86 million) to bring it up to standard including tweaking the floodlights to point at the pitch and erecting big video screens.
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"This will be a great opportunity for the cricket fans in America to watch the two champion sides in action. This will be developed into an annual cricketing event in the United States," BCCI president Anurag Thakur said on Tuesday.
"This will be a great initiative in our continued efforts to develop cricket in the Americas, a very important market," said Whycliffe Cameron, president of West Indies Cricket Board.
