2023 was a massive year for Australia’s Men’s and Women’s teams, defined by World Cups and Ashes glory, and there’s plenty on the line for 2024’s cricketing schedule too.
There is no rest for the wicked, or Australia’s elite cricketers. Just when it seemed the cricketing schedule couldn’t get any busier, it got busier. If that was even possible.
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Once viewed as strictly a summer sport, modern cricket requires year-round commitment from its star players, due in part to the sport’s enormous growth in recent years, particularly in its shorter formats, but also the greed of administrations.
Both Australia’s men’s and women’s cricket sides will be busy from pretty much the year’s beginning to end, with both sides set to contest a T20 World Cup amid all the chaos.
As fans, we’re not going to complain. One must feel for the players, who attempt to manage their personal lives with their national team duties, and any other domestic competitions like the Big Bash or the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Australia’s men’s side begins and ends the year on home soil, with a Test match against Pakistan in early January kicking off a busy schedule. A hotly anticipated Boxing Day Test against India will cap it all off; and a chance to rectify recent failed Border-Gavaskar trophy missions, including on home soil.
For Pat Cummins’s outfit, the year will see the dawn of a new era, as opener David Warner calls time on his Test career after the Pakistan series’ conclusion in January. How exactly Australia replaces the man known as the Bull will be the question burning everyone’s lips. Will they promote Mitch Marsh or Marnus Labuschange up the order, or hand the in-form Cameron Bancroft or Matt Renshaw a Test return?
For the women’s side, they begin their year touring India and end it on the road in New Zealand for a trio of ODI’s before the Ashes in early 2025. Can anyone knock them off their perch as women’s cricket’s most dominant force?
Both sides have been on an incredible trajectory in recent years and will be looking to continue their incredible domination of all three formats of the game over the year and cement themselves as truly all-time great sides.
We’ve run our eyes over both sides’ schedules and provided you with a complete rundown of every time you’ll be able to catch them throughout 2024.
A chronological look at every cricket series featuring Australia in 2024
Australian Men’s Team 2024 schedule
3-7 January – Australia v Pakistan, 3rd Test, The Sydney Cricket Ground
17-21 January – Australia v West Indies, 1st Test, Adelaide Oval
25-29 January – Australia v West Indies, 2nd Test, The Gabba, Brisbane
2 February – Australia v West Indies, 1st ODI, The Melbourne Cricket Ground
4 February – Australia v West Indies, 2nd ODI, The Sydney Cricket Ground
6 February – Australia v West Indies, 3rd ODI, Manuka Oval, Canberra
9 February – Australia v West Indies, 1st T20I, Blundstone Arena, Hobart
11 February – Australia v West Indies, 2nd T20I, Adelaide Oval
13 February – Australia v West Indies, 3rd T20I, Perth Stadium
21 February – Australia v New Zealand, 1st T20I, Wellington Rectangular Stadium
23 February – Australia v New Zealand, 2nd T20I, Eden Park, Auckland
25 February – Australia v New Zealand, 3rd T20I, Eden Park, Auckland
29 February-4 March – Australia v New Zealand, 1st Test, Basin Reserve, Wellington
8-12 March – Australia v New Zealand, 2nd Test, Hagley Oval, Christchurch
4-30 June – ICC Men’s T20I World Cup, West Indies & the USA
August-September – Tour of Ireland, three ODIs, one T20I (dates & venues TBA)
12 September – Australia v England, 1st T20I, The Ageas Bowl, Southampton
14 September – Australia v England, 2nd T20I, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
15 September – Australia v England, 3rd T20I,
19 September – Australia v England, 1st ODI
21 September – Australia v England, 2nd ODI
24 September – Australia v England, 3rd ODI
27 September – Australia v England, 4th ODI
29 September – Australia v England, 5th ODI
22-26 November – Australia v India, 1st Test
6-10 December – Australia v India, 2nd Test
14-18 December – Australia v India, 3rd Test
26-30 December – Australia v India, 4th Test
3-7 January 2025 – Australia v India, 5th Test
Australian Women’s Team 2024 schedule
2 January – Australia v India, 3rd ODI, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
6 January – Australia v India, 1st T20I, Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai
8 January – Australia v India, 2nd T20I, Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai
10 January – Australia v India, 3rd T20I, Dr DY Patil Sports Academy, Mumbai
27 January – Australia v South Africa, 1st T20I, Manuka Oval, Canberra
28 January – Australia v South Africa, 2nd T20I, Manuka Oval, Canberra
30 January – Australia v South Africa, 3rd T20I, Bellerive Oval, Hobart
3 February – Australia v South Africa, 1st ODI, Adelaide Oval
7 February – Australia v South Africa, 2nd ODI, North Sydney Oval
10 February – Australia v South Africa, 3rd ODI, North Sydney Oval
15-18 February – Australia v South Africa, 1st Test, WACA Ground, Perth
March – Tour of Bangladesh, three ODIs and three T20Is (dates & venues TBA)
September-October – ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, Bangladesh
December – Three ODIs v India (dates & venues TBA)
December – Tour of New Zealand, three ODIs (dates & venues TBA)
