Captain and coach have seven Tests and 12 ODIs at home in 2007

In slight changes from this year, the international season will begin on 17 May with four Tests against West Indies, running until 19 June.

There will be two Twenty20 matches against the Windies on successive days, plus a three-match one-day series.

India have three Tests from 19 July-13 August and no Twenty20 games, but are set for a seven-match one-day series.

The ECB's director of cricket, John Carr, explained the reasoning behind the schedules, which follow an arduous Ashes series from November to January and the World Cup in the Caribbean in the spring.

"ECB and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have had a long-standing agreement that India's tour would directly reciprocate the three Tests and seven ODIs played by England in India earlier this year," he said.

Carr added that the two Twenty20 matches were arranged with the West Indies as India were not playing the shortest form of the game at the time.

npower Test series v West Indies:

1st Test: 17-21 May, Lord's
2nd Test: 25-29 May, Headingley
3rd Test: 7-11 June, Old Trafford
4th Test: 15-19 June, The Riverside

NatWest Twenty20 matches v West Indies:

1st match: 28 June, The Oval
2nd match: 29 June, The Oval

NatWest Series v West Indies:

1st match: 1 July, Lord's
2nd match: 4 July, Edgbaston
3rd match: 7 July, Trent Bridge

npower Test series v India:

1st Test: 19-23 July, Lord's
2nd Test: 27-31 July, Trent Bridge
3rd Test: 9-13 August:, The Oval

NatWest Series v India:

1st match: 21 August, The Rose Bowl (day/night)
2nd match: 24 August, Bristol (day/night)
3rd match: 27 August, Edgbaston
4th match: 30 August, Old Trafford (day/night)
5th match: 2 September, Headingley
6th match: 5 September, The Oval
7th match: 8 September, Lord's