Mark Your Calendars! India vs Australia Series Set to Heat Up with Five Test Matches, Includes a Thrilling Day-Night Test

India vs Australia Test Series Schedule: Cricket lovers are currently crazy about the Indian Premier League. Everyone is enjoying IPL 2024. Meanwhile, the schedule of the five-match Test series to be played on India’s tour of Australia has been announced. The special thing is that this time Team India played a five-match Test series on the Australia tour. At the same time, there will also be a day-night test in this series. 

Team India will play a five match test series in Australia from November 22. A five match test series will be played between India and Australia after 32 years. The last time a five match test series was held between the two countries was in 1991-92. Since then, Team India has been playing only a four match test series on Australia tour. The Kangaroos also used to play only four tests in India. 

The Indian team will play a day-night test match at Adelaide Oval in Australia from 6 to 10 December. The day-night test is also called the pink ball test. Apart from the day-night test, the special thing about this series is that this time the first test match will be played in Perth. Australia has a strong record in this stadium. The Kangaroos have won four out of four tests in the new stadium of Perth. 

India-Australia Test Series Schedule

November 22-26 – 1st Test – Perth (Day Test)

December 6-10- 2nd Test- Adelaide Oval (Day-Night Test)

December 14-18- Gabba, Brisbane (Day Test)

December 26-30- MCG, Melbourne (Day Test)

January 3-7 – 5th ODI at SCG, Sydney (Day Test)

Performance of Indian team on last Australian tour

The Indian team last went on an Australian tour in 2020-2021. At that time, 4 Test matches were played between the two teams. In the first Test match, Australia won by 8 wickets. At the same time, the Indian team was victorious by 8 wickets in the second match. After this, the third Test match was a draw. The fourth Test match could have drawn the series, but thanks to Rishabh Pant’s historic innings, India won this match by 3 wickets. In this way, Team India won the series 2-1.