Pakistan will tour India for a three ODI series. BCCI has confirmed the ODI series will be played between India and Pakistan in December this year. The short ODI series will be the first bilateral contest in five years between the two countries. The window for the resumption of bilateral ties with Pakistan has been created during the short span of time when the England cricket team goes home for Christmas after the Test series and before it returns for the ODI leg of its tour. England who are touring India from November to January, playing four tests, five ODIs and two Twenty-20s, go home on December 22 and return on January 3. However, the first ODI between India and England is not scheduled until January 11. Pakistan were also scheduled to tour Zimbabwe in January, but it appears the Pakistan Cricket Board has adjusted that. Relations between India and Pakistan broke down after the 2008 terror attcks in Mumbai. Since then there have been no bilateral series between the two countries.