Indian cricket schedule for 2026-27 home matches announced: Chennai gets one Border-Gavaskar Trophy fixture, Home season commences on September 27

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday unveiled the schedule of the men’s Indian cricket team’s home season 2026-27.

Four teams—the West Indies, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, and Australia—are set to visit the country and play multi-format fixtures.

The season, comprising 22 international matches in 17 cities, will commence with the West Indies tour of India, starting on September 27. The tour will feature a three-match ODI series followed by a five-match T20I series. The ODIs will be played in Trivandrum, Guwahati, and New Chandigarh before the action shifts to the T20Is, which will be hosted across Lucknow, Ranchi, Indore, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru.

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India will then host Sri Lanka in December for a white-ball series comprising three ODIs and as many T20Is. The ODI leg will be played in Delhi, Bengaluru, and Ahmedabad, while Rajkot, Cuttack, and Pune will host the T20Is.

Zimbabwe will tour India for a three-match ODI series at the turn of the new year. The matches will be held in Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Mumbai.

The season will culminate with the prestigious and much-anticipated Border-Gavaskar Trophy, featuring a five-match Test series against Australia, beginning on January 21 in Nagpur. The contest will then move to Chennai, Guwahati, Ranchi, and Ahmedabad.