India Cricket Team Schedule 2026-27: Dates, Times & Venues

The India men’s cricket team schedule for 2026-27 currently has 39 verified matches: nine Tests, 14 ODIs and 16 T20Is. Two August Tests in Sri Lanka are complete, while 37 confirmed fixtures run from Afghanistan’s T20I series in Delhi on 13 September 2026 through the fifth Test against Australia, scheduled to finish in Ahmedabad on 3 March 2027.

Sri Lanka Cricket and the ICC supply the recent Test dates and results. The home and Afghanistan fixtures come from BCCI, while New Zealand Cricket supplies India’s 12-match away tour from October to December. Times are shown in Pakistan Standard Time (PKT). The Afghanistan series start times remain unannounced because the joint BCCI-ACB release supplied dates and a venue but no times.

India’s confirmed 2026-27 series

Series	Dates	India matches	Formats	Host
India tour of Sri Lanka	15-27 August 2026	2	Test	Sri Lanka; completed
Afghanistan v India	13-17 September 2026	3	T20I	Afghanistan, played in Delhi
West Indies tour of India	27 September-17 October 2026	8	3 ODIs, 5 T20Is	India
India tour of New Zealand	22 October-1 December 2026	12	5 T20Is, 5 ODIs, 2 Tests	New Zealand
Sri Lanka tour of India	13-27 December 2026	6	3 ODIs, 3 T20Is	India
Zimbabwe tour of India	3-9 January 2027	3	ODI	India
Australia tour of India	21 January-3 March 2027	5	Test	India

That is 30 limited-overs matches and nine Tests. The match tables below sort them automatically, using each match’s scheduled end rather than its start to keep a multi-day Test in the upcoming or live group while it is still being played.

India won the Sri Lanka Test series 1-0

India won the first Test in Galle by 165 runs before Sri Lanka secured a draw at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo on 27 August. The two completed records now appear under Recent results instead of being mixed into the upcoming calendar.

Sri Lanka’s permanent team schedule uses the same records and adds the host’s next England, Pakistan, India and New Zealand assignments.

India plays 12 matches in New Zealand

Five T20Is from 22 October to 1 November open India’s tour of New Zealand. Five ODIs follow from 4 to 15 November, then Tests at the Basin Reserve from 19 November and Hagley Oval from 27 November.

New Zealand Cricket calls this its largest inbound international tour by match count. The host’s New Zealand cricket schedule uses the same 12 controlled records, so both team pages show one verified set of dates, venues and PKT starts.

What is confirmed—and what is not

BCCI’s home-season announcement confirms all 22 home matches against West Indies, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Australia, including their dates, cities and local start times. The separate Afghanistan announcement confirms three T20Is in Delhi but does not state when play begins. New Zealand Cricket’s home schedule confirms the 12 away matches, their grounds and NZDT starts.

No exact senior men’s India fixtures after 3 March 2027 are added here yet. Third-party Future Tours Programme pages and fan discussions mention possible later series, but a window or expectation is not an official match. Those rows will appear only after BCCI, the opposing board or the tournament organizer publishes enough detail to verify them.

The same rule applies to the ODI World Cup. SportsMuntra’s 2027 Cricket World Cup hub tracks the confirmed tournament format, qualification and schedule status, but a possible India match is not a fixture until the field and official match calendar make it one.

Why Afghanistan is hosting India in Delhi

Afghanistan is the designated host for the September T20Is even though all three matches are at Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium in Delhi. Venue and host are separate facts in international cricket: a board can stage a home series at an adopted or neutral venue. The rows therefore say Afghanistan v India and retain Afghanistan as host instead of silently reversing the fixture.

How to read the times and status

Confirmed BCCI start times have been converted from IST to PKT by subtracting 30 minutes. A 2:00 p.m. IST ODI therefore appears as 1:30 p.m. PKT, while a 7:00 p.m. IST T20I appears as 6:30 p.m. PKT. The three Afghanistan matches say the start time is unannounced rather than using a database estimate.

The cricket abbreviations guide explains labels such as TBC and TBD. Readers comparing the formats can also use SportsMuntra’s guides to Test cricket and the 50-over ODI format.

Which India fixtures are excluded

This page covers the senior men’s international team. It does not mix in Ranji Trophy or other domestic fixtures, India Women’s schedule, India A, under-19 teams or an event-specific squad unless its match has senior international status. Those competitions can overlap on the calendar, but they are different teams and search intents.

For the broader team profile, current format captains, latest verified squad and title record, visit the India cricket team hub. The Pakistan vs India hub tracks that rivalry, but it does not claim a next meeting until an official competition schedule confirms one.

How this permanent schedule page stays current

The URL remains /india-cricket-team-schedule/. When the visible calendar rolls into a new period, the title and H1 replace 2026-27 with the next useful period; old years are not appended to the heading. A completed match moves from Upcoming to Recent results after its official status and result have been checked.

Routine fixture checks update the visible verification time. dateModified changes only when the editorial content or material schedule information changes, so a background status check does not pretend that the whole page was rewritten.