Australia will tour India for a five-match Test series starting January 21 next year<\/p>\n
Australia will kick-start their Border Gavaskar Trophy title defense in the hostile conditions of Nagpur, the site of an innings defeat on their last Test tour of India.<\/p>\n
Chennai, Guwahati, Ranchi and Ahmedabad are the other venues locked in for the five-match series by the BCCI, who revealed their schedule for India’s 2026-27 home season for the men’s side on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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January 21-25: Nagpur<\/p>\n
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January 29-February 2: Chennai<\/p>\n
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February 11-15: Guwahati<\/p>\n
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February 19-23: Ranchi<\/p>\n
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February 27-March 3: Ahmedabad<\/p>\n
The January 21 start date gives Pat Cummins’ men just under a fortnight to rejuvenate after their last home Test against New Zealand in Sydney, which is scheduled for January 4-8.<\/p>\n
The side will be back on a plane shortly after the final match of the heavyweight away assignment to take on England in the 150th year anniversary Test at the MCG from March 11.<\/p>\n
It has been over two decades since Australia’s last BGT win on Indian shores in 2004-05, making it an unconquered territory for even the senior-most players in the current side.<\/p>\n
Australia had succumbed to an innings and 132-run defeat in the first game of their last tour of the subcontinent nation, played at Nagpur, which is also the venue for the upcoming series’ opener.<\/p>\n
That decimation by spin twins Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja was also their biggest loss of that 2023 trip.<\/p>\n
Ahmedabad, where the two sides had played out a draw three years ago, is the only other venue retained from that series, which was played over four matches.<\/p>\n
This will be the first time Australia will play a Test in the north-east Indian city of Guwahati, while the only game they played in Ranchi – in 2017 – had resulted in a draw.<\/p>\n
Chennai, the most familiar of the five venues with a history of seven Tests between the two sides, has only produced one win for the Aussies in contrast to three losses. It had also seen a rare tie being played out in 1986.<\/p>\n
While the recent history of the BGT has favoured India, Australia will be buoyed by their 3-1 win in the last meeting in the last home summer that saw the trophy return to these shores for the first time in a decade.<\/p>\n
India have also shed their dominant home record, having lost five of the nine home Tests since the start of the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia will tour India for a five-match Test series starting January 21 next year Australia will kick-start their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-565557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565557","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=565557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}