India tour of Australia, 2020-2021 Schedule

Date	Match Details
Fri Nov 27 14:40 local | 03:40 GMT	Australia vs India, 1st ODI D/N Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Sydney
Sun Nov 29 14:40 local | 03:40 GMT	Australia vs India, 2nd ODI D/N Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Sydney
Wed Dec 2 14:40 local | 03:40 GMT	Australia vs India, 3rd ODI D/N Manuka Oval, Canberra Canberra
Fri Dec 4 19:10 local | 08:10 GMT	Australia vs India, 1st T20 D/N Manuka Oval, Canberra Canberra
Sun Dec 6 19:10 local | 08:10 GMT	Australia vs India, 2nd T20 D/N Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Sydney
Tue Dec 8 19:10 local | 08:10 GMT	Australia vs India, 3rd T20 D/N Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Sydney
Thu Dec 17 - Mon Dec 21 10:30 local | 23:30 GMT	Australia vs India, 1st Test Adelaide Oval, Adelaide Adelaide
Sat Dec 26 - Wed Dec 30 10:30 local | 23:30 GMT	Australia vs India, 2nd Test Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne Melbourne
Thu Jan 7 - Mon Jan 11 10:30 local | 23:30 GMT	Australia vs India, 3rd Test Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney Sydney
Fri Jan 15 - Tue Jan 19 10:30 local | 23:30 GMT	Australia vs India, 4th Test Brisbane Cricket Ground, Brisbane Brisbane

The India tour of Australia, 2020-2021 is an international Bilateral Series, also the part of Future Tour Programs (FTP) announced by International Cricket Council in 2009. Australia will host the Bilateral Series of India tour of Australia, 2020-2021, beginning on November 27, 2020. India's tour of Australia has started with the first ODI played on 27 November 2020 at Sydney Cricket Ground. After a long time, India is playing an international series in the pandemic era. The tour consists of three One day International matches series, followed by 3 T20 match series and finally the 4 Test matches series to be played. The tour is 2 months long from 27 November 2020 to January 19, 2021. 

All the 3 ODI, 3 T-20, and 4 Test matches series will be telecast live on the Sony Sports Network (Sony SIX, Sony TEN 1, and Sony TEN 2) in India. The Test series will be the opening match of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) and the ODI series is a part of ICC Cricket World Cup Super League

Virat Kohli is the Captain of the Indian Team for the ODI, T-20 & Test series and Aaron Finch will lead the Australian team for ODI & T-20 series. The captain of the Australian Team for the Test series will be Tim Paine. Rohit Sharma is not completely fit for the ODI and T-20 series. So he will be at rest and rejoin the squad in the Test series.

The Indian and Australian squad

Indian Team: Virat Kohli(Captain), K L Rahul(Vice-Captain & Wicket Keeper), Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteswar Pujara,  Mayank Agrawal, Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Hardik Pandya(All-rounder), Mayank Agarwal, Ravindra Jadeja, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Navdeep Saini, Shardul Thakur(All-rounder), Sanju Samson (wicket-keeper), T Natrajan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rohit Sharma, Mohd. Siraj, Hanuma Bihari

Australian Team: Aaron Finch(Captain), David Warner, Matthew Wade(WK), Sean Abbott, Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Swepson, Will Pucovski, James Pattinson, Michael Neser, Travis Head, Joe Burns,  Ashton Agar, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins (Vice-Captain), Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Moises Henriques, Marnus Labuschagne, Andrew Tye, Daniel Sams, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zamp

The 3 One Day International matches will be played between 27 November to 2 December 2020. The 3 T20 matches series will begin on Dec 4 2020 and end on Dec 8, 2020. Currently, the ODI ICC Ranking of India is 2 and Australia is at 4th position. ICC Test ranking of Australia is 1st and India is at 3rd position.

After the ODI and T-20, the 4 Test matches series (Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2020-21) will be played from 17 Dec 2020 to 19 Jan 2021. The first match of the Test series will be a Day/night match. The Indian team won the last Border-Gavaskar Trophy in 2018-19. The Indian Captain Virat Kohli will return to India after the first test match and Ajinkya Rahane will lead the team for the rest of the 3 Test matches. The two practice matches will also be played. The first practice match will be played between Australia A and India A on Dec 6. The second one will be played between Australia A and India on Dec 11 before the beginning of the Test matches series.