Australia and England will play a one-off Check on the MCG in March 2027 to mark 150 years of the format. The affirmation of the anniversary fixture in Melbourne got here as Cricket Australia [CA] and state governments introduced that the MCG, SCG and Adelaide Oval had locked in seven-year staging agreements for his or her common Checks.
Though the present Future Excursions Programme (FTP) is just inked as much as early 2027, England and India have confirmed excursions within the 4 years after that.
In the meantime, Optus Stadium in Perth will host the opening Check of the season for the following three seasons. Mike Baird, the Cricket Australia chair, mentioned that it was the Western Australian authorities’s choice to not search an extended deal. Meaning subsequent 12 months’s Ashes will begin within the west slightly than the normal Gabba in Brisbane. They may then host New Zealand in the beginning of the 2026-27 season.
The way forward for Gabba has been left clouded amid uncertainty over the redevelopment plans for the stadium forward of the 2032 Olympics and solely the following two seasons – matches in opposition to India and England – have been confirmed with an opportunity the Gabba does not host a Check for a substantial time after that.
Adelaide is the normal residence of day-night Check cricket having hosted seven of the 12 matches held in Australia though the brand new settlement doesn’t assure that each one future Checks there shall be pink-ball encounters and the 2025-26 Ashes Check shall be a red-ball sport with Brisbane internet hosting the day-nighter. Adelaide Oval may even host a New 12 months’s Eve BBL sport for the following seven years.
England will tour for a five-match Ashes sequence in 2025-26 and New Zealand would be the guests in 2026-27. The latter sequence shall be prolonged to 4 Checks from the unique three on the FTP and be performed in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney. Australia are then as a result of tour India for 5 Checks in January and February 2027.
With the extra anniversary Check, there’s a potential squeeze on the calendar in March 2027 with Australia as a result of host Bangladesh in two matches that are a part of the World Check Championship.
Though rival states made makes an attempt to take the marquee Christmas and New 12 months Checks off Melbourne and Sydney it was at all times an unlikely consequence. Past 2026-27 there may very well be a chance for different venues to compete for a Check ought to the Gabba be unavailable which might deliver Hobart and Canberra into the combo. Tasmania has ambitions to host indoor Check cricket at their proposed new multipurpose stadium though that will not be accessible till at the very least 2028.
A future schedule for girls’s internationals shall be confirmed within the coming months when the following FTP is full however Adelaide has been assured an ODI or T20I each season.
