BGT schedule 2024-25: IND vs AUS test series, date, time, venues, teams and everything you need to know | Cricket news

NEW DELHI: India and Australia are all set to cross swords in the marquee Border Gavaskar Trophy with the first Test starting in Perth on November 22. The two teams clash in five Test matches contributing to the ICC World Test Championship 2023-25.
Team India would be eyeing their third consecutive Test series win on the trot in Australia and the Aussies would look to go all guns blazing to stop the Indians in their bid to regain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
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India need to win four Tests in Australia to qualify directly for the World Test Championships final scheduled to be held at Lord’s in June 2025.
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Australia have not defeated India in a home Test series since 2014–15 and have lost both the 2018–19 and 2020–21 series.
Australia defeated India in the World Test Championship final and in the 50-over World Cup final last year.
This will be the first five-Test series between the two sides in more than 30 years.
Here is the full schedule for the Test series:
1st try

Perth will host the first Test of the series from November 22.
The match is scheduled to start at 7:50 AM IST.
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2nd try
The second game of the series will take place as a day-night Test in Adelaide on December 6.
The match is scheduled to start at 9:30 AM IST.
3rd try
The third game takes place at the Gabba in Brisbane on December 14.
The match is scheduled to start at 5:50 AM IST.
4th try
The fourth match takes place in Melbourne on December 26 – traditionally known as the Boxing Day Test.
The match is scheduled to start at 5:00 AM IST.
5. sample
The series concludes with the customary New Year’s Test in Sydney starting on January 3.
The match is scheduled to start at 5:00 AM IST.
The unavailability of captain Rohit Sharma and no. 3 bat Shumban Gill (broken finger) from the first Test against Australia forced the BCCI on Sunday to ask top batsman Devdutt Padikkal, who was on tour with the India A squad, for two fours. -day matches, to stay back as a batting back-up.

Pace spearhead and vice-captain Jasprit Bumrah will captain India in the absence of Rohit, who informed the BCCI that he needed more time with his wife following the birth of their second child earlier this week.
Paddikal will be added to the 18-man squad in Rohit’s place for the first Test match at the Opus Stadium in Perth.
India Squad: Rohit Sharma (C), Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel (WK), R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj , Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar
Reserves: Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khaleel Ahmed (replaced by Yash Dayal)
Australia squad for 1st Test: Pat Cummins (Capt.), Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Nathan McSweeney, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc