Australia confirm venues, dates for India series

India tour of Australia 2020 - 21

In what comes as a big relief for cricket fans, Cricket Australia have confirmed the itinerary for the upcoming India tour of Australia. As opposed to the prior agreed schedule, all the six limited-overs games will be played at the start of the tour followed by the four-match Test series. The tour starts with the first ODI at SCG on November 27 while it concludes with the prestigious Brisbane Test match!

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All the limited overs games will be played in Sydney and Canberra. The first and second ODI will be played at SCG on Nov 27 and Nov 29 respectively. The third ODI and first T20I will be played in Canberra on Dec 02 and Dec 04 respectively. Both teams will again move back to SCG to play the second and third T20Is on Dec 06 and Dec 08 respectively.

Coming to the Test series, the first Test is a day-night affair and will be played at Adelaide Oval beginning from Dec 17 while the second Test which starts on Boxing Day and will be hosted by MCG. With the third Test being on the New Year's eve, it will be hosted by Sydney. The fourth and final Test match of the series will be played in Brisbane. This time India and Australia won't play a Test match in Perth as part of this Border-Gavaskar Trophy series!

India tour of Australia 2020-21 schedule:

ODI #1: Nov 27, Australia vs India. Venue: Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
ODI #2: Nov 29, Australia vs India. Venue: Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
ODI #3: Dec 02, Australia vs India. Venue: Manuka Oval, Canberra

T20I #1: Dec 04, Australia vs India. Venue: Manuka Oval, Canberra
T20I #2: Dec 06, Australia vs India. Venue: Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
T20I #3: Dec 08, Australia vs India. Venue: Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney

Test #1: Dec 17 - 21, Australia vs India. Venue: Adelaide Oval, Adelaide
Test #2: Dec 26 - 30, Australia vs India. Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne
Test #3: Jan 07 - 11, Australia vs India. Venue: Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
Test #4: Jan 15 - 19, Australia vs India. Venue: The Gabba, Brisbane

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