All-format India series headlines New Zealand's blockbuster home summer schedule

Wellington [New Zealand], June 3 (ANI): New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has unveiled a blockbuster home summer schedule, with their men’s and women’s teams set to feature in an action-packed lineup of major international fixtures. The most notable feature of the schedule is India’s highly anticipated all-format tour of New Zealand. India and New Zealand will contest in five T20Is, five One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and two Test matches in a 12-game series that will become the most extensive international tour ever hosted by NZC in terms of matches played, according to the ICC website. The tour will also see India return to New Zealand for Test cricket for the first time since 2019. It will mark their first limited-overs tour of the country since 2022.

Following India’s tour, the men’s side will host Sri Lanka for an all-format series beginning on January 16. The tour will have three T20Is, three ODIs and two Test matches. The New Zealand Women, currently in England preparing to defend their ICC Women’s T20 World Cup crown, will host Bangladesh for a six-match limited-format series from December 10 to 23, comprising three T20Is and three ODIs. The Bangladesh series will be the White Ferns’ sole home assignment of the summer. The team had been scheduled to tour Australia in February-March 2027, but those plans have been pushed back following the rescheduling of the inaugural ICC Women’s Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka to February 2027. As a result, the trans-Tasman series will now take place at a later date. New Zealand’s home summer schedule New Zealand Men’s India tour of New Zealand 1st T20I – 22 October, Christchurch 2nd T20I – 24 October, Christchurch 3rd T20I – 27 October, Wellington 4th T20I – 30 October, Auckland 5th T20I – 1 November, Hamilton 1st ODI – 4 November, Auckland 2nd ODI – 7 November, Wellington 3rd ODI – 10 November, Hamilton 4th ODI – 13 November, Mount Maunganui 5th ODI – 15 November, Mount Maunganui 1st Test – 19-23 November, Wellington 2nd Test – 27 November-1 December 2026, Christchurch Sri Lanka Tour of New Zealand 1st ODI – 16 January, Napier 2nd ODI – 19 January, Wellington 3rd ODI – 22 January, Dunedin 1st T20I – 26 January, Christchurch 2nd T20I – 29 January, Nelson 3rd T20I – 31 January, Nelson 1st Test – 4-8 February, Mount Maunganui 2nd Test – 12-16 February, Hamilton New Zealand Women’s Bangladesh Tour of New Zealand 1st T20I – 10 December, Nelson 2nd T20I – 12 December, Nelson 3rd T20I – 15 December, Wellington 1st ODI – 18 December, Wellington 2nd ODI – 21 December, Mount Maunganui 3rd ODI – 23 December, Mount Maunganui. (ANI)