Shillong, Nov 16: Meghalaya will take on Mizoram at home in their first match of the Cooch Behar Trophy, a youth first-class tournament for U-19 men, from Friday.

The multi-day match will begin at 8:30am on Friday at the Meghalaya Cricket Association (MCA) Ground in Polo, here. The entry is free for spectators.

This will be the first BCCI domestic competition to be held in the state capital in the 2023-24 season.

Meghalaya will play a total of five matches this season, all against fellow North East state teams.

Three of these fixtures will be at home – versus Mizoram, Nagaland (from November 24) and Manipur (from December 15). The remaining two – against Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh – will be away games.