Team India will return to Red-Ball Cricket on 9 February when they will be facing Australia in the 1st Test of the four-match series of the Border Gavaskar Trophy.
Complete Schedule:
India vs Australia 1st Test from February 9 to 13 at VCA Stadium, Nagpur
India vs Australia 2nd Test from February 17 to 21 at Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi
India vs Australia 3rd Test from March 1 to 5 at HPCA Stadium, Dharamshala
India vs Australia 4th Test from March 9 to 13 at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
Umpires & Match Officials
Nitin Menon will be the Indian umpire to be present in all four tests in the Border-Gavaskar trophy with Richard Illingworth, Micheal Gough, Joel Wilson and Richard Kettleborough accompanying him respectively in all four matches.
1st Test:
On-Field Umpires: Nitin Menon and Richard Illingworth
Match Referee: Andrew Pycroft
TV Umpire: Michael Gough
4th Umpire: KNA Padmanabhan
2nd Test:
On-Field Umpires: Nitin Menon and Michael Gough
Match Referee: Andrew Pycroft
TV Umpire: Richard Illingworth
4th Umpire: Anil Choudhary
3rd Test & 4th Test
On-Field Umpires: Nitin Menon and Richard Kettleborough
Match Referee: Chris Broad
TV Umpire: Joel Wilson
4th Umpire: Madangopal
Squads of India & Australia
India’s Test squad for the first two Tests against Australia: Rohit Sharma (Captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KS Bharat (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), R. Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohd. Shami, Mohd. Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat, Suryakumar Yadav.
Australia’s Test Squad: Pat Cummins (c), Steve Smith (vc), Ashton Agar, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Peter Handscomb, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Lance Morris, Todd Murphy, Matthew Renshaw, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, David Warner