India Home Season 2026-27 Full Fixtures Tests ODIs T20Is

The India home international season 2026-27 stretches from Sri Lanka's arrival in early October to Australia's departure in mid-March, running across four tours and 23 international fixtures, in eleven different cities. For Indian fans planning travel, BCCI member-ballot timing, ticket-window targeting and broadcast pre-purchase, this is the season's working planner — every fixture, every venue, every IST start, every ticketing portal mapped to the BCCI domestic calendar.

The Full Season at a Glance

Window	Tour	Fixtures
Oct 2026	Sri Lanka tour India	3 T20I + 3 ODI
Oct-Nov 2026	West Indies tour India	2 Test + 3 ODI + 5 T20I
Nov-Dec 2026	South Africa tour India	2 Test + 3 ODI + 3 T20I
Feb-Mar 2027	Australia tour India (BGT)	5 Test

Each tour is sequenced on the BCCI's domestic-window logic — the Tests are clustered to give domestic Ranji a competitive break, the white-ball series fill the Diwali-Christmas window, and the BGT 2027 Tests close the season after a 6-week gap that overlaps with the Border-Gavaskar 2027 ticket and timings planner.

Sri Lanka Tour — October 2026

Fixture	Date	Venue	First Ball IST
1st T20I	Oct 5	Pune	7:30 PM
2nd T20I	Oct 8	Mohali	7:30 PM
3rd T20I	Oct 11	Kolkata	7:30 PM
1st ODI	Oct 14	Bengaluru	1:30 PM
2nd ODI	Oct 17	Chennai	1:30 PM
3rd ODI	Oct 20	Hyderabad	1:30 PM

The squad and tactical preview lives in our Sri Lanka tour India 2026 schedule piece.

West Indies Tour — October-November 2026

Fixture	Dates	Venue
1st Test	Oct 24-28	Ahmedabad
2nd Test	Nov 2-6	Delhi
1st ODI	Nov 11	Vadodara
2nd ODI	Nov 14	Rajkot
3rd ODI	Nov 17	Mumbai (Wankhede)
1st T20I	Nov 21	Lucknow
2nd T20I	Nov 23	Kanpur
3rd T20I	Nov 26	Indore
4th T20I	Nov 28	Visakhapatnam
5th T20I	Nov 30	Tiruvananthapuram

The full tour preview lives in our West Indies tour India 2026 schedule guide. Test starts are 9:30 AM IST, ODIs 1:30 PM IST, T20Is 7:30 PM IST.

South Africa Tour — November-December 2026

Fixture	Dates	Venue
1st Test	Dec 5-9	Bengaluru
2nd Test	Dec 14-18	Mumbai (Wankhede)
1st ODI	Dec 22	Guwahati
2nd ODI	Dec 25	Ranchi
3rd ODI	Dec 28	Kolkata
1st T20I	Jan 1	Cuttack
2nd T20I	Jan 3	Dharamsala
3rd T20I	Jan 5	Jaipur

The squad and tactical preview is in our India vs South Africa tour 2026-27 piece.

Australia Tour (BGT 2027) — February-March 2027

Test	Dates	Venue
1st	Feb 4-8	Nagpur (VCA Jamtha)
2nd	Feb 12-16	Pune (MCA Gahunje)
3rd	Feb 20-24	Mumbai (Wankhede)
4th	Feb 28-Mar 4	Delhi (Arun Jaitley)
5th	Mar 8-12	Ahmedabad (Narendra Modi)

Ticket Windows — Host Association Map

Tour	Ticket Portals	Likely Release
Sri Lanka	MCA Pune, PCA Mohali, CAB, KSCA, TNCA, HCA	Mid-Sep 2026
West Indies	GCA, DDCA, BCA, SCA Rajkot, MCA Mumbai, etc	Late Sep / Oct 2026
South Africa	KSCA, MCA Mumbai, ACA, JSCA, CAB, OCA, HPCA, RCA	Mid-Nov 2026
BGT 2027	VCA, MCA Pune, MCA Mumbai, DDCA, GCA	Late Dec 2026 / Jan 2027

BookMyShow is the secondary distributor for most associations. Member ballots open 5-7 days before public phase 1 in each window. Day-1 morning tickets sell out within 30 minutes for the marquee fixtures (BGT Tests, India vs SA Test 2, India vs WI Vadodara ODI).

Broadcast Layer

JioHotstar holds digital rights for all home internationals through the current cycle; Sony Sports has pay-TV. Free-to-air carries selected India-Pakistan-style fixtures only — there is no FTA carve-out for the SA tour or BGT 2027 outside of the Hindi feed.

The 2026-27 home season is the heaviest single Indian home schedule in five years, and the BGT 2027 Tests are the marquee. Pair this planner with our West Indies tour preview and South Africa tour preview for tactical context, and target the BCCI-portal release windows for the marquee Tests.