From T20 World Cup to the tour of Australia, here’s Indian team schedule in 2024

In 2023, the Indian men’s cricket team defeated all nine teams in the ODI World Cup to see them in the finals. In the finals, they fought against Australia at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad and saw a heartbreaking defeat.

2024 began with Rohit Sharma and Co registering a first-ever Test win at Newlands, Cape Town, which saw the two-match Test series in South Africa end 1-1. But there is a lot more to come in the year that’s all see India play as many as 15 Test matches and a T20 World Cup in the West Indies and the United States.

Here is the complete schedule of Team India.

Three T20Is vs Afghanistan: January 11 to 17

Afghanistan are touring India for a three-match T20I series in the first half of the month. The return of captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli to the T20 squad for the first time since the World Cup in 2022 raises the question of whether the two will be part of the T20 scheme going into the World Cup later this year.

While Hardik and Surya Kumar Yadav – both of whom have led the team in the shortest format in the meantime – recover from injuries.

• 1st T20: January 11, Mohali
• 2nd T20: January 14, Indore
• 3rd T20: January 17, Banglore

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Five Tests against England: January 25 to March 11

For the first time since 2016, England will play with India for as long as the Test match series. Their previous tour to India had been in 2021 when Kohli captained and claimed a 3-1 win across four Tests.

There has been a buzz of excitement to witness how England’s ultra-aggressive Bazball style fares against Indian spinners, they are one of the only two teams to have won a Test series in India since 2001, having done so back in 2012.

• 1st Test: January 25-29, Hyderabad
• 2nd Test: February 2-6, Visakhapatnam
• 3rd Test: February 15-19, Rajkot
• 4th Test: February 23-27, Ranchi
• 5th Test: March 7-11, Dharamsala

IPL 2024 Between March and May

While the BCCI and the IPL governing council are yet to release the final dates, the 17th edition of the IPL is likely to begin in March 2023 and is expected to continue until the end of May, right before the T20 World Cup. It’ll be a third straight season with 10 teams and one that is being seen as a dressed rehearsal for the World Cup.

T20 World Cup: June 1 to 29

The 9th edition of the T20 World Cup tournament will see India looking to end their ICC trophy drought since 2014. Led by Rohit Sharma in the previous edition in Australia a couple of years ago, India had been knocked out by the eventual champions, England in the semifinal, A whooping 10-wicket battering.

It will be the first instance of 20 teams participating in the competition – five each divided into 4 groups, The top two from each will progress to the super 8 which will then decide the 4 semifinalists.

Bilaterals yet to be dated

After the premium cricket tournament this year, there is more in the offering for the Indian men’s cricket team. While the final dates for the bilateral series are yet to be released, the composition of the games is unknown.

• Away series vs Sri Lanka: 3 ODIS and 3 T20Is
• Home series vs Bangladesh: 2 Tests and 3 T20Is
• Home series vs New Zealand: 3 Tests
• Away series vs Australia: 5 Tests

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