Australia Cricket Team Schedule 2026-27: Dates & Times

The Australia men’s cricket team schedule for 2026-27 contains 34 officially confirmed internationals from 13 August 2026 to 2 August 2027. Two Bangladesh Tests are complete. The remaining 32 fixtures comprise 18 Tests, nine ODIs and five T20Is across Zimbabwe, South Africa, Australia, India and England.

This is one chronological calendar for home and away cricket. It does not treat a Future Tours Programme window, possible World Test Championship Final place or database estimate as a confirmed Australia match.

Australia’s completed January-February and May-June 2026 tours of Pakistan fall before this active schedule period. The Pakistan vs Australia hub retains all six official results and the updated format-by-format record.

Australia’s confirmed series at a glance

Series	Dates	Matches	Formats	Host
Bangladesh tour of Australia	13-26 August 2026	2	Test	Australia
Australia tour of Zimbabwe	15-20 September 2026	3	ODI	Zimbabwe
Australia tour of South Africa	24 September-31 October 2026	6	3 ODIs, 3 Tests	South Africa
England white-ball tour of Australia	13 November-2 December 2026	8	3 ODIs, 5 T20Is	Australia
New Zealand tour of Australia	9 December 2026-8 January 2027	4	Test	Australia
Australia tour of India	21 January-3 March 2027	5	Test	India
150th Anniversary Test	11-15 March 2027	1	Test	Australia
Australia tour of England	18 June-2 August 2027	5	Test	England

The match tables below are generated from 34 source-linked records. They use each Test’s scheduled end, not its opening day, so a multi-day match remains upcoming or live until it is actually over.

The Bangladesh series finished 1-1

Bangladesh won the first Test in Darwin by nine wickets. Australia responded with an innings-and-51-run win in Mackay, leaving the two-match series level.

The dates and results now feed both this page and the visitor’s Bangladesh cricket schedule from the same controlled records.

The next four months are mostly one-day cricket

Australia’s next match is the first of three ODIs against Zimbabwe in Harare on 15 September. The Zimbabwe cricket schedule places that tour after Zimbabwe’s Namibia tri-series and before its January visit to India. Three ODIs in South Africa follow before the three-Test series begins in Durban. England then visits Australia for three ODIs and five T20Is.

This ordering matters because a home-summer-only list hides six away ODIs and three South Africa Tests. It can also make the England white-ball visit look like part of the later Ashes, even though the five-Test Ashes series is in England in June and July 2027.

Ten Tests in a little over three months

From 9 December 2026 to 15 March 2027, Australia is scheduled to play 10 Tests: four at home against New Zealand, five away against India and the day-night 150th Anniversary Test against England at the MCG. There is no confirmed recovery gap or squad promise attached to those dates here; the point is simply that the official calendar is unusually tight.

The five-Test Ashes in England then starts on 18 June. A possible World Test Championship Final is not listed as an Australia fixture because the finalists have not been decided. The broader 2027 international cricket calendar tracks the final’s confirmed dates without assigning teams prematurely.

Which dates and times were corrected

Cricket Australia’s detailed home-summer fixture rows and its later summary block do not use the same venue order or time-zone labels everywhere. This page follows the detailed rows: the first England ODI is in Perth on 13 November, the second is in Adelaide on 15 November, and each local start is converted from the zone stated beside that fixture.

The later Cricket Australia tour update also shortened the second and third South Africa Tests to their current official date ranges: 18-22 October in Gqeberha and 27-31 October in Cape Town. Those replace the older provisional end dates rather than creating duplicate matches.

Times are shown in PKT

Confirmed starts are stored in Pakistan Standard Time. That makes the Perth ODI an 8:30 a.m. PKT start, the five England T20Is 1:15 p.m. PKT, and the day-night anniversary Test 8:00 a.m. PKT. The cricket abbreviations guide explains TBC and other schedule labels.

The 2027 Ashes announcement confirmed dates and grounds but did not provide start times, so those rows say Time unannounced. No standard UK start has been inserted as a guess.

Test, ODI and day-night context

Readers comparing the formats can use the guides to five-day Test cricket and 50-over ODI cricket. The anniversary match is a day-night Test and therefore uses a pink ball; the red, white and pink cricket-ball guide explains why that differs from a daytime Test.

What this page excludes

This schedule is for Australia’s senior men’s international team. The Australia Women’s cricket schedule has its own international calendar; Australia A, under-19 fixtures, Sheffield Shield, the Big Bash League and warm-ups remain separate too.

It also excludes expected but unconfirmed matches. A tournament slot, FTP expectation or fan calculation becomes a row only after the relevant board or organizer confirms enough detail to identify the fixture.

How the permanent URL stays current

The URL remains /australia-cricket-team-schedule/. When the visible calendar rolls into a new period, the title, H1 and metadata replace 2026-27 with the next useful period instead of accumulating old years.

Completed matches move from Upcoming to Recent results only after an official source confirms their status and result. Routine source checks can advance the verification time; dateModified changes only when the visible schedule or editorial text changes materially.