{"id":556720,"date":"2026-03-22T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/556720\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:29:09","slug":"international-cricket-schedule-confirmed-for-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/556720\/","title":{"rendered":"International cricket schedule confirmed for 2026\/27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia and England will meet twice at the MCG during an extended cricket season, with Cricket Australia on Sunday night confirming the 2026\/27 international schedule will include three fixtures at the \u2018G.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday November 21, Australia\u2019s men\u2019s side will host long standing sporting rivals England to open the T20I series between the two teams. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Australia will return for the NRMA Insurance Boxing Day Test against New Zealand from December 26, before the highly anticipated 150th Anniversary Test Match against England which begins on March 11, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>MCC member arrangements for these matches will soon be communicated.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2026\/27 international cricket at the MCG:<\/p>\n<p>Men\u2019s T20I &#8211; Australia v England \u00a0<br \/>November 21, 2026 &#8211; 7.15pm\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NRMA Insurance Boxing Day Test &#8211; Australia v New Zealand\u00a0<br \/>December 26 \u2013 30, 2026 &#8211; 10.30am\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>150th Anniversary Test Match \u00a0&#8211; Australia v England<br \/>March 11 &#8211; 15, 2027 &#8211; 2.00pm (day-night Test)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia and England will meet twice at the MCG during an extended cricket season, with Cricket Australia on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-556720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}