New Zealand Cricket Schedule 2026-27: Dates & Times

The New Zealand men’s cricket team schedule for 2026-27 contains 32 officially confirmed internationals from 22 October 2026 to 25 September 2027. The Black Caps are due to play eight Tests, 13 ODIs and 11 T20Is against India, Australia, Sri Lanka and England.

This is a home-and-away calendar, not a list of Future Tours Programme expectations. A reported Pakistan Test window and possible 2027 World Cup matches are discussed below, but neither becomes an exact row until the responsible board or tournament organizer publishes the missing details.

New Zealand’s confirmed series

Series	Dates	Matches	Formats	Host
India tour of New Zealand	22 October-1 December 2026	12	5 T20Is, 5 ODIs, 2 Tests	New Zealand
New Zealand tour of Australia	9 December 2026-8 January 2027	4	Test	Australia
Sri Lanka tour of New Zealand	16 January-16 February 2027	8	3 ODIs, 3 T20Is, 2 Tests	New Zealand
New Zealand tour of England	7-25 September 2027	8	3 T20Is, 5 ODIs	England

The chronological table below carries the date, verified PKT start, venue, format, status and direct source for every match. It uses a Test’s scheduled end date for lifecycle sorting, so a five-day game does not move to Recent results while it is still in progress.

New Zealand’s preceding Belfast Test ended on 29 May 2026 with an innings-and-79-run win. It sits on the Ireland cricket schedule because this page’s active 2026-27 window begins with the October tour by India.

India opens the home summer

India’s 12-match tour starts with five T20Is from 22 October to 1 November. 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 describes it as the largest inbound international tour in its history by number of matches. It is also the first India Test visit to New Zealand since 2019. The visitor’s India cricket schedule uses these same 12 controlled records, so the two team pages cannot drift onto different dates or venues.

Eight days separate India and Australia

The second India Test is scheduled to finish on 1 December. New Zealand’s first of four Tests in Australia begins in Perth on 9 December, leaving eight calendar days between the scheduled finish and the next start.

The series continues in Adelaide from 17 December, Melbourne from Boxing Day and Sydney from 4 January. Cricket Australia’s detailed home release supplies the dates and start times. The Australia schedule shows the host’s wider calendar around the same four matches.

Sri Lanka visits in all three formats

New Zealand returns home for eight matches against Sri Lanka. The ODIs are in Napier, Wellington and Dunedin from 16 to 22 January. T20Is follow in Christchurch and Nelson, before Tests at Bay Oval from 4 February and Seddon Park from 12 February.

That makes the home summer 20 senior men’s matches: 12 against India and eight against Sri Lanka. White Ferns fixtures are separate and are not folded into this total.

England is the last exact block before the World Cup

The Black Caps visit England for three T20Is and five ODIs from 7 to 25 September 2027. The eight matches use eight venues, beginning at Chester-le-Street and ending at Headingley.

New Zealand Cricket published the start times in NZT as well as the dates and grounds. Those have been converted to PKT in the table. The tour ends shortly before the announced window for the 2027 men’s Cricket World Cup, but no World Cup match is added until the ICC releases the official fixture list and participant assignments.

Pakistan Tests need exact details

Future Tours Programme summaries and public discussion point to a two-Test New Zealand tour of Pakistan in early 2027. The Pakistan schedule records the same series-level expectation.

The Pakistan vs New Zealand hub retains their latest official result and format-separated head-to-head records. It will show a next match only after an exact fixture is published.

At this data check, no current PCB or NZC fixture release supplied individual dates, venues and start times. Two expected Tests therefore remain a series window, not two invented match rows. They will be added as soon as an official release provides enough detail.

Times are shown in PKT

New Zealand’s October-to-February home matches are scheduled in New Zealand Daylight Time, eight hours ahead of Pakistan Standard Time. An 8 p.m. NZDT T20I appears as noon PKT, while an 11 a.m. NZDT Test appears as 3 a.m. PKT.

England’s September starts were published by NZC in New Zealand time and converted to their Pakistan dates and times. The cricket abbreviations guide explains how genuine TBC details are handled; none of the 32 published rows uses an estimated start.

Readers comparing the calendar can use the guides to five-day Test cricket, 50-over ODI cricket and innings across formats.

What this page excludes

This page covers the senior New Zealand men’s international team. The separate New Zealand Women’s schedule covers the White Ferns. New Zealand A, under-19 teams, domestic competitions, warm-ups and franchise cricket are also excluded because they serve different teams and reader intents.

It also excludes conditional tournament matches, a possible World Test Championship Final appearance and every World Cup matchup that has not been officially assigned.

How the permanent URL stays current

The URL remains /new-zealand-cricket-team-schedule/. When the useful calendar rolls forward, the active period in the title, H1, metadata and body is replaced rather than extended with a string of old years.

Official status controls the match lifecycle. A completed match moves from Upcoming to Recent results only after a board or tournament source confirms the result. Routine source checks update the visible verification time; dateModified changes only after a material editorial or fixture update.