New Zealand face familiar scenarios next season after the new Future Tours Programme was confirmed by the International Cricket Council.
Sri Lanka will visit New Zealand for a third consecutive summer, and the Black Caps will again tour South Africa.
Much of the world cricket calendar was rewritten when theICC met in Dubai last week to sign off the new six-year international programme.
One change has Sri Lanka return for a three test and five match one-day series this year, stretching from late November to early January.
Sri Lanka visited New Zealand two seasons ago, but the tour was cut short after one match because of the Boxing Day tsunami. They returned late in the season to complete two tests and were back recently to finish the remaining four one-day internationals.
New Zealand are also to play again in South Africa next year, having played a one-day series there last year. They are now contesting a three-test series away to the Proteas.
This time the two tests and five one-dayers are scheduled to be played together instead of being split.
Other outcomes are that minnows Bangladesh and Zimbabwe won't be in New Zealand for four years.
Bangladesh, who have only made one visit to New Zealand, in 2001, will not return until 2010. Zimbabwe are pencilled in for a year later.
New Zealand Cricket chief executive Martin Snedden said he would not have preferred to have Sri Lanka visiting again so soon, but redrawing the calendar was a huge task.
"We could not just shift one or two tours. The whole thing has been re-drawn," he said.
"It was a nightmare, with some 10 drafts required. Sometimes you just have to compromise because every time somebody wants to shift something it has a flow-on effect."
New Zealand will host England in early 2008 in a full series in February and March before heading to England in the middle of that year.
However, no second tourist has yet been scheduled for the early part of 2007-08 season.
"We try to have two inbound tours apart from World Cup seasons," Snedden said.
"Moving to a six-year schedule has stretched things slightly, but I will be working to fill that."
