Sri Lanka Cricket Schedule 2026-27: Dates & Times

The Sri Lanka men’s cricket team schedule for 2026-27 currently contains 31 verified internationals: six Tests, 13 ODIs and 12 T20Is. Two August Tests against India are complete, while 29 matches from 15 September 2026 to 16 February 2027 remain on the confirmed upcoming calendar.

This page combines official releases from Sri Lanka Cricket and the host boards. Times are shown in Pakistan Standard Time (PKT), and every row shares one controlled match record with the other team’s schedule where that page exists.

Sri Lanka’s confirmed 2026-27 series

Series	Dates	Matches	Formats	Status / host
India tour of Sri Lanka	15-27 August 2026	2	Test	Completed; Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka tour of England	15-27 September 2026	6	3 T20Is, 3 ODIs	Confirmed; England
Sri Lanka tour of Pakistan: T20Is	9-13 October 2026	3	T20I	Confirmed; Pakistan
Pakistan ODI tri-series league	18-29 October 2026	4 guaranteed	ODI	Confirmed; Pakistan
Sri Lanka tour of Pakistan: Tests	9-21 November 2026	2	Test	Confirmed; Pakistan
Sri Lanka tour of India	13-27 December 2026	6	3 ODIs, 3 T20Is	Confirmed; India
Sri Lanka tour of New Zealand	16 January-16 February 2027	8	3 ODIs, 3 T20Is, 2 Tests	Confirmed; New Zealand

The generated tables below sort matches by their real start and end timestamps. A multi-day Test remains upcoming or live until its scheduled end, while an official result overrides the clock.

India won the August Test series 1-0

India won the first Test in Galle by 165 runs. Sri Lanka then held on for a draw at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo on 27 August, leaving India with a 1-0 series victory.

Those matches remain in Recent results because they are still useful context for the current season. They also appear on the India cricket schedule through the same two match records, including the checked result text.

England hosts six white-ball matches

Sri Lanka’s next assignment is a three-match T20I series in Southampton, Bristol and Birmingham from 15 to 19 September. Three ODIs follow at Chester-le-Street, Leeds and The Oval from 22 to 27 September.

The England cricket schedule places these fixtures within the host’s wider season. Start times are converted from the official local schedule rather than guessed from a database default.

Pakistan stages three separate blocks

Sri Lanka first plays Pakistan in three T20Is in Rawalpindi on 9, 11 and 13 October. The Sri Lanka tour of Pakistan hub keeps those matches together with the two November Tests and tracks the unannounced start times, squads, tickets and viewing details.

The team then has four guaranteed league matches in the Pakistan ODI Tri-Series: against Pakistan in Rawalpindi on 18 October, England in Rawalpindi on 22 October, Pakistan in Lahore on 27 October and England in Lahore on 29 October. A fifth match is possible only if Sri Lanka qualifies for the final, so it is not counted as a confirmed Sri Lanka fixture.

Two World Test Championship matches against Pakistan follow in Rawalpindi from 9 November and Lahore from 17 November. The World Test Championship 2025-27 hub carries the current official standings and explains how those Test results affect PCT. The Pakistan cricket schedule uses the same nine guaranteed Sri Lanka records across the T20I, tri-series and Test blocks. The Pakistan vs Sri Lanka permanent hub narrows that calendar to their seven shared meetings and keeps the three format records separate.

India hosts six December internationals

Sri Lanka returns to India for three ODIs from 13 to 19 December and three T20Is from 22 to 27 December. The venues are Bengaluru, Pune, Raipur, Nagpur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram.

BCCI’s home-season release confirms the dates, grounds and local starts. The PKT table times are 30 minutes behind IST.

New Zealand hosts all three formats

The 2027 leg begins with ODIs in Napier, Wellington and Dunedin from 16 to 22 January. Three T20Is follow in Christchurch and Nelson, then Tests at Bay Oval from 4 February and Seddon Park from 12 February.

New Zealand Cricket’s official home-summer schedule supplies all eight dates, venues and starts. The host’s New Zealand cricket schedule presents the same records from the Black Caps’ side.

South Africa remains an expected window

Future Tours Programme summaries point to a South Africa Test tour of Sri Lanka in February and March 2027. At this check, no current SLC or CSA release provided exact match dates, venues and start times.

That expectation is not enough to create two plausible-looking rows. The series will be added after an official board release supplies publishable match details.

Times are shown in PKT

The table standardizes starts to Pakistan time while retaining each source on the underlying match record. England’s British Summer Time starts, India’s IST starts and New Zealand’s NZDT starts have all been converted to PKT with the date adjusted where necessary.

If an official source has not announced a start time, the page says so. The cricket abbreviations guide explains labels such as TBC and TBD. Readers comparing formats can also use the guides to Test cricket, 50-over ODI cricket and innings across formats.

What this page excludes

This schedule covers the senior Sri Lanka men’s international team. The Sri Lanka Women’s schedule separately tracks the Asia Cup, Asian Games and upcoming Champions Trophy; Sri Lanka A, under-19 teams, domestic competitions, warm-ups and franchise cricket also remain outside this page.

It also excludes the tri-series final unless qualification makes Sri Lanka a confirmed participant, expected FTP windows without exact official fixtures and tournament matches that have not been assigned to Sri Lanka.

How the permanent URL stays current

The URL remains /sri-lanka-cricket-team-schedule/. When the visible schedule rolls to a new useful period, the title, H1, metadata and body replace 2026-27; old years are not appended.

Completed matches move to Recent results after an official source confirms the outcome. Routine source checks update the verification time, while dateModified changes only after a material editorial or fixture update.