BCCI or Board of Control for Cricket in India announced the schedule for the Indian men’s team for the 2026-27 season. The home season will include 22 matches for the Men in Blue India across 17 venues. The home season is set to include 5 Tests, 9 ODIs and 8 T20Is with Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Guwahati, Ahmedabad and Ranchi being the only centres to host two games in the upcoming season.
India to kickstart series vs West Indies.
India’s home season will kickstart with a series against West Indies which includes 3 ODIS and 5 T20IS starting September 27th in Thiruvananthapuram. The series will run till October 17th. The Odis will be played in Thiruvananthapuram, Guwahati, and New Chandigarh, the T20I series will be hosted across Lucknow, Ranchi, Indore, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. The last international game hosted at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru was in October 2024.
India to host Sri Lanka for last part of 2026.
This will be followed by the series against neighbours Sri Lanka which will include 3 ODIS and 3 T20IS from December 13 to 27. The ODI leg will be in Delhi, Bengaluru and Ahmedabad, while Rajkot, Cuttack and Pune will host the T20Is.
India to host rare ODI series against Zimbabwe to welcome in New Year.
In the new year in January 2027, India will host Zimbabwe for three Odis and which will be played in Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Mumbai.
Big Border Gavaskar Trophy only Test matches in home season.
India will then finally don the whites and return to Test Cricket as their only assignment is the big five-Test match series up against Australia. It is for Border Gavaskar Trophy for which Australia are the current holders. The series is set to run from January 21 to March 7. The Test matches are set and scheduled to be played in Nagpur, Chennai, Guwahati, Ranchi and Ahmedabad.
Summary of the whole series
To sum it up, a blockbuster home season awaits us all at the end of September till March 2027. Before that of course we mustn’t forget that in June 2026 post Ipl we have Afghanistan visiting India for one-off Test and 3 Odis. Ofcourse playing in June could mean early monsoon and weather playing it’s part over here. So, a lot to look forward to.
India will go to England in July for limited overs series and then to Sri Lanka for 2 Tests and limited overs matches as well as requested by SLC board and then goes to New Zealand as well for full series. So, a packed schedule looms India.
But concentrating on the home series only, it will be exciting for India to host West Indies and our neighbours Sri Lanka for full fledged limited overs series. Then hosting Zimbabwe for 3-match odi series and making them play in Kolkata, Mumbai and Hyderabad is a step in the right direction.
The only Test matches India has at home is against Australia and that is the big one, the Border Gavaskar Trophy for 5 Test matches and that will be compelling viewing for all of us are involved. Only 5 Tests but it will be great viewing for one and all.
India will fancy winning against their opponents but more than winning it is about fine tuning and ironing out flaws as the next target for India should be the 2027 Odi world cup in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia. How the team prepares will depend on how they fare in these matches. Test matches are different ball game but Odis and T20I are inter-related we can say.
So, we shall see how things pan out when the bumper home season comes calling for us and see how men in blue performs at the highest level.
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