New Delhi. Guwahati's Barsapara Stadium will host one of the five Test matches of the Border Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia in 2027. BCCI released the calendar of the team's domestic season which includes five Tests, nine ODIs and eight T20 matches. Everyone's eyes will definitely be on the ODI matches because the legendary pair of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma is expected to play in all those matches. Both these star batsmen now play only in ODI format.
The series against Australia will be played in January, February and March 2027. It will start on 21st January in Nagpur. After this, the second Test match will be played in Chennai (29 January to 2 February) and after a gap of eight days, the third Test will be played in Guwahati from 11 to 15 February. The fourth Test in Ranchi will be played from 19 to 23 February, while the final Test in Ahmedabad will start from 27 February.
The teams of India and Australia will play a 5-match Test series in January-February next year.
Of the five venues, Nagpur (where the Test match was last held against Australia in 2023), Chennai (where the Test match was last held against Bangladesh in 2024), Ranchi (where the Test match was last held against England in 2024) and Ahmedabad (where the Test match was last held against Australia in 2023) have got hosting as per the rotation policy.
But it was not clear how Guwahati got the hosting rights again even though it had already organized a Test match against South Africa in November 2025. The thing to note is that Mumbai and Kolkata are not part of this important series. It was not known whether the Cricket Association of Bengal or the Mumbai Cricket Association had expressed their inability to host the Test match against Australia.
The five-Test series against Australia will be the main center of attraction in India's home season. Apart from this, India will also host West Indies, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe will play a bilateral series in India for the first time since 2002. When it last toured India for a bilateral series, the captain of the Indian team was Sourav Ganguly.
This season, 22 international matches will be played in 17 cities, in which the West Indies team will be the first to tour India. His India tour will start from 27th September this year. This tour will include three-match ODI followed by a five-match T20 International series.
ODI matches will be played in Thiruvananthapuram (27 September), Guwahati (30 September) and New Chandigarh (3 October). After this, T20 International matches will be played in Lucknow (06 October), Ranchi (09 October), Indore (11 October), Hyderabad (14 October) and Bengaluru (17 October). After this, India will host Sri Lanka in December, in which a series of three ODI and three T20 international matches will be played.
ODI matches will be played in Delhi (13 December), Bengaluru (16 December) and Ahmedabad (19 December) while T20 International matches will be played in Rajkot (22 December), Cuttack (24 December) and Pune (27 December). Zimbabwe will tour India for a three-match ODI series in January 2027. The matches of this series will be played in Kolkata (03 January), Hyderabad (06 January) and Mumbai (09 January).
