Sydney: Team India, led by Virat Kohli, will start its tour of Australia with the ODI series on November 27. The team will then play a series of three T20 matches. Then the Border Gavaskar Trophy of four Test matches will be played from December 17. The four-match Test series will be played under the World Test Championship. The tour will start with ODIs. All three ODIs will be played on December 27, 29 and 2. All the three T20 matches will be played on December 4, 6 and 8. The first Test will be played at Adelaide Day Night from December 17. In Melbourne, both the teams will play a Boxing Day Test match.
After playing a total of six matches with the white ball, a four-match Test series will begin between the two teams. The first Test will be played with a pink ball. The second Test will be played on December 26, the third on January 7 and the fourth on January 15.
Full schedule of India’s tour of Australia, time and place of matches
Match, date, place, time (Indian time)
First ODI, November 27, Sydney, at 9:10 p.m.
Second ODI, November 29, Sydney, at 9:10 p.m.
Third ODI, December 2, Canberra, at 9:10 p.m.
First T20, December 04, Canberra, 1:40 p.m.
Second T20, December 06, Sydney, 1:40 p.m.
3rd T20, December 08, Sydney, 1:40 p.m.
First Test, December 17-21, Adelaide, 9:30 p.m.
Second Test, December 26-30, Melbourne, 5 p.m.
Third Test, January 7-11, Sydney at 5 p.m.
Fourth Test, January 15-19, Brisbane at 5 p.m.
The Indian teams for the tour of Australia are as follows:
T20 International Team: Virat Kohli (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal, Lokesh Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Sanju Samson, Ravindra Jadeja, Washington Sundar, Yujvendra Chahal, Jaspreet Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar and T. Natarajan.
ODI team:
Virat Kohli (captain), Shikhar Dhawan, Shubhaman Gill, Lokesh Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya, Mayank Agarwal, Ravindra Jadeja, Yujvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jaspreet Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur And Sanju Samson.
Test team:
Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, Lokesh Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Hanuma Vihari, Shubhaman Gill, Riddhiman Saha, Rishabh Pant, Jaspreet Bumrah, Mohammad Shami, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini , Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin and Mohammad Siraj.
