Indian cricket team in Australia in 2024–25

India A Tour of Australia 2024
India A Tour of Australia 2024
Part of India Tour of Australia 2024-25
Date	31 October 2024 - 17 November 2024
Location	<img alt="Australia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640"> Australia
<img alt="Australia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640"> Australia A
Teams
<img alt="Australia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Australia_%28converted%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="640"> Australia A	India A <img alt="India" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_India.svg/23px-Flag_of_India.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600">
Captains
Nathan McSweeney	TBA
Most runs
Most wickets
	← →

2024-25 India Tour of Australia
2024-25 India Tour of Australia
Date	31 October 2024 – 7 January 2025
Location	Australia
Australia
Teams
Australia	India
Captains
Pat Cummins	Jasprit Bumrah ; Rohit Sharma
Most runs
Most wickets
	← 2022–23 series TBD →

The India cricket team is scheduled to tour Australia from November 2024 to January 2025 to play the Australia cricket team.^[1] The tour will consist of five Test matches and three First-class warm-up matches.^[2] The Test matches will form part of the 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship.^[3]^[4] In March 2024, the Cricket Australia (CA) announced the venues for the Test series.^[5] It will be the first Test series between India and Australia comprising five matches since 1992.^[6] On 26 March 2024, the CA confirmed the full tour itinerary.^[7]

As of March 2023, India retained the Border–Gavaskar Trophy after defeating Australia 2–1 in the 2023 series.^[8]^[9]

Scheduling

Cricket Australia announced their summer cricket schedule in March 2024.^[10]

Squads

"A" Tour Matches
Australia A	India A
Captain
Nathan McSweeney
Batters
Ollie Davies Marcus Harris Sam Konstas
All-Rounders
Cooper Connolly Michael Neser Beau Webster
Wicket-Keepers
Cameron Bancroft Jimmy Peirson Josh Philippe
Bowlers
Scott Boland Jordan Buckingham Nathan McAndrew Todd Murphy Fergus O’Neill Corey Rocchiccioli Mark Steketee

The tour was kickstarted by India A touring Australia from 31st October to 17th November, ending just 5 days before the official test series started. Cricket Australia announced their Australia A squad in October 2024, naming Nathan McSweeney as their captain.^[11]

Tour matches

India's only warm-up game in Australia ahead of the five-Test series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy will be an internal contest, played against the touring India 'A' side. The India 'A' team will have arrived in Australia a few weeks earlier for a two-match series and they will stay on for the three-day tune-up game from November 15 to 17, at WACA, Perth. The first Test will be played at the new Perth Stadium from November 22. Before the warm-up match, will play two games against Australia 'A'. The first of those matches is scheduled to be played at the Great Barrier Reef Arena from October 31 to November 3 while the second will be played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground from November 7 to 10.

While announcing the international schedule, Peter Roach, CA's head of Cricket Operations and Scheduling, had said in May: "The 2024-25 summer is highlighted by the five-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, the first five-Test series between the two giants in more than 30 years. To have that running simultaneously with the women's ODIs and preceded by two significant Australia A v India A matches will be terrific for our fans.