The Indian cricket team is touring Australia from November 2024 to January 2025. They will play five Test matches and three warm-up matches. The Test series is part of the 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship. This will be the first five-match Test series between India and Australia since 1992.
Venues
In March 2024, Cricket Australia (CA) announced the venues for the series, which will be held in Australia’s five biggest cities. They also confirmed the full schedule on March 26. India had kept the Border–Gavaskar Trophy after winning the last series 2–1 in 2023.
Venues
| Australian Players | Indian Players |
|---|---|
| Pat Cummins (c) | Rohit Sharma (c) |
| Scott Boland | Jasprit Bumrah (vc) |
| Alex Carey (wk) | Ravichandran Ashwin |
| Josh Hazlewood | Akash Deep |
| Travis Head | Abhimanyu Easwaran |
| Josh Inglis (wk) | Shubman Gill |
| Usman Khawaja | Ravindra Jadeja |
| Marnus Labuschagne | Yashasvi Jaiswal |
| Nathan Lyon | Rishabh Pant (wk) |
| Mitchell Marsh | Sarfaraz Khan |
| Nathan McSweeney | Virat Kohli |
| Steve Smith | Prasidh Krishna |
| Mitchell Starc | Dhruv Jurel (wk) |
| Devdutt Padikkal | |
| KL Rahul (wk) | |
| Harshit Rana | |
| Nitish Kumar Reddy | |
| Mohammed Siraj | |
| Washington Sundar |
India named an 18-member squad for the Test series, with Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, and Khaleel Ahmed as reserve players. However, there have been some changes due to injuries:
- On November 17, Shubman Gill was ruled out of the first Test after fracturing his left thumb during a training match at the WACA.
- On November 20, Devdutt Padikkal, who was part of the India A team, was added to the main squad to cover for injuries. Yash Dayal also joined the reserves, replacing the injured Khaleel Ahmed.
This tour marks an exciting chapter in India-Australia cricket history!
Border-Gavaskar Trophy
1st Test
India vs Australia – 1st Test (22–25 November 2024)
Venue: Perth Stadium, Perth
PerthResult: India won by 295 runs
Player of the Match: Jasprit Bumrah (India)
Umpires: Chris Gaffaney (NZ) and Richard Kettleborough (Eng)
India vs Australia 1st Test 2024-25
India won by 295 runs
- India won the toss and chose to bat first.
- Three players made their Test debuts:
- Nathan McSweeney (Australia)
- Harshit Rana (India)
- Nitish Kumar Reddy (India)
- KL Rahul reached a milestone by scoring 3,000 runs in Test cricket.
- Virat Kohli broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record for the most Test centuries (7) by an Indian player in Australia.
- This was Australia’s first-ever Test loss at Perth Stadium.
- India became the first visiting team to win a Test match at this ground.
- It was also India’s biggest Test victory (in terms of runs) in Australia.
World Test Championship points:
- India: 12
Australia: 0
2st Test
3st Test
4st Test
5st Test
