Men’s FTP: India and Australia to play five-Test series in both 2023-25 and 2025-27 cycles

By Charlie On Aug 17, 2022

Despite the rapid increase in T20 leagues around the world, there is scheduled to be more international cricket in the new ICC men’s Future Tours Programme (FTP) for the next four years, including two Border-Gavaskar Test series between Australia and India, that will for the first time in over 30 years, be contested over five Tests.

The ICC released the 2023-27 FTP on Wednesday, in which the 12 Full Members play a total of 777 international matches – 173 Tests, 281 ODIs and 323 T20Is – compared to the 694 in the current cycle. That increase comes despite a T20 horizon with new and expanded leagues.

The first five-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy will take place during the 2023-25 World Test Championship cycle, when India tour Australia in the summer of 2024-25. Australia then tour India during the 2025-2027 World Test Championship cycle for five Tests in January-February 2027.

Tri-series between the Full Members are also set to make a comeback in the new FTP, with Pakistan hosting New Zealand and South Africa in an ODI tri-series in February 2025; Zimbabwe hosting New Zealand and South Africa for T20Is in July 2025; and Pakistan hosting England and Sri Lanka for an ODI tri-series in October and November 2026.

There is also an extended window for the IPL, during which very little international cricket has been scheduled, in April and May of every year in the 2023-27 FTP cycle.

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