India Upcoming Cricket Matches 2026: Schedule, Squads & Full Fixtures

India’s upcoming 2026 cricket calendar is still packed. With the white-ball tour of England complete, India have already moved on to their next tasks. The rest of the year’s schedule is also locked in, with a busy schedule across various formats.

India will play all three formats before the year ends, with two overseas tours and two home series, with the Sri Lanka and New Zealand Tests being crucial for the World Test Championship, which will be held after a difficult 2025 in the longest format. Here’s everything scheduled between now and December 2026.

India Tour of Zimbabwe

(Remaining matches in the Ongoing India Tour of Zimbabwe)

The Indian cricket team is scheduled to play the remaining two T20Is against Zimbabwe out of the three T20Is. The second T20I is on July 25, while the third match will be played on July 26, both starting at 1:00 PM local time and 4:30 PM IST. Harare Sports Club is hosting all the T20Is in Zimbabwe’s 2026 tour of India.

Shreyas Iyer leads a team that includes Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Verma, Ishan Kishan, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dubey, Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi and several IPL-form players including Prabhasimran Singh, Yash Thakur and Ashok Sharma.

The Zimbabwe series was India’s immediate next task and there is a clear development brief in the team. Many of these players will be trying to secure a place ahead of the 2027 ODI World Cup.

Zimbabwe T20I Full Squad:

Sikandar Raza (c), Brian Bennett, Ryan Burl, Tanaka Chivanga, Ben Curran, Brad Evans, Innocent Kaia, Wessly Madhevere, Tadiwanashe Marumani, Wellington Masakadza, Blessing Muzarabani, Dion Myers, Richard Ngarava, Newman Nyamhuri, Tafadzwa Tsiga

India T20I Full Squad:

Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma (vc), Abhishek Sharma, Ashok Sharma, Shivam Dube, Harsh Dubey, Ishan Kishan (wk), Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Prince Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi, Rinku Singh, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Suryansh Shedge, Mayank Yadav, Yash Thakur

India Tour of Sri Lanka

The Galle International Cricket Stadium will host the first Test at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo from August 15 and the second Test in Colombo from August 23, both matches being part of the ICC World Test Championship 2025-27 cycle. India’s white-ball form has been excellent last year, but their performance with the red ball tells a different story.

The WTC cycle began with a 2-2 draw against England and was followed by a two-match home series defeat against South Africa. This will be India’s first Test series in Sri Lanka since 2017, when they won 3-0. The two-Test series at Galle and Colombo are among the most crucial matches remaining in India’s WTC qualification push and Shubman Gill will lead the team in his first full Test assignment as captain.

Full squad: Not yet announced

West Indies Tour of India

West Indies’ tour of India consists of a three-match ODI series followed by a five-match T20I series starting from September 27, 2026. The ODIs will be played in Thiruvananthapuram, Guwahati and New Chandigarh, while the T20Is will be played in Lucknow, Ranchi, Indore, Hyderabad and Bengaluru.

The full schedule runs from September 27 to October 17, with eight matches to be played in eight different Indian cities. India’s ODI calendar during this period feeds directly into the 2027 World Cup preparation cycle. The home series against West Indies on familiar pitches gives the selectors a chance to set their best white-ball combinations in both formats before the New Zealand tour arrives.

Full squad: Not yet announced

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India Tour of New Zealand

New Zealand Cricket has announced a full-format tour of five T20Is and five ODIs, with the first two T20Is to be played at Hagley Oval in Christchurch on October 22 and 24, followed by the remaining three matches in Wellington, Auckland and Hamilton. The ODI series will begin in Auckland on November 4, with Wellington, Hamilton and Mount Maunganui hosting the remaining matches until November 15.

Two Tests will be played as part of the WTC 2025-27 cycle. To qualify for their third WTC final, India will need to win at least seven of the remaining nine Tests, two of which will be played on New Zealand pitches. India have not won a Test series in New Zealand since 2009. That drought makes the tour one of the most significant tasks of Shubman Gill’s captaincy.

Full squad: Not yet announced

Sri Lanka Tour of India

Sri Lanka will tour India in December 2026 for three ODIs and three T20Is, which will run from December 13 to 27. The ODIs will be played in Delhi, Bengaluru and Ahmedabad, while the T20Is will be played in Rajkot, Cuttack and Pune. The final T20I in Pune on December 27 will conclude India’s 2026 international calendar.

Full squad: Not yet announced

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