Australia to host Sri Lanka, Pakistan and New Zealand in momentous home summer

Meanwhile, the women’s team will host Sri Lanka in late 2019, before India and England visit for a tri-nation series, in the build-up to the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 that takes place in February-March.

The fixtures constitute a big summer for Australian cricket, featuring the Women’s T20 World Cup – with the Men's T20 World Cup set to take place later in the year – as well as the men’s and women’s Big Bash League. The WBBL is set to be played in its own, independent window for the first time.

A notable feature of the schedule, however, is that Australia Day, 26 January, will not feature an international match for the first time since 1994.

The men’s home season begins in October 2019, shortly after the Ashes series concludes in England, when Sri Lanka visit for three Twenty20 Internationals. That will be followed by a series against Pakistan in November, featuring three T20Is and two Tests, the second of which, at the Adelaide Oval, is scheduled to be a day/night affair.

New Zealand will then visit at the end of the year, which will include the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The match preceding that, the series opener, is also set to be held under floodlights, at Perth’s new stadium.

While the women’s tri-series gets underway at the end of the January, men’s cricket at home will take a break as the BBL season takes over, until New Zealand return for three ODIs in March.

Australia Women will play the limited-overs series against Sri Lanka, featuring three T20Is and three ODIs, in September and October. That will be followed by the tri-series, before the Women’s T20 World Cup kicks off on 21 February. The final for that tournament will be held on 8 March, International Women’s Day, when a record crowd for a women’s sporting event is expected to turn up at the MCG.

The men’s event will take place later in the year, between 18 October and 15 November.

Full list of fixtures (all times local):

Women's T20s v Sri Lanka

29 September, North Sydney Oval, 2.30pm
30 September**,North Sydney Oval, 7pm
2 October,**North Sydney Oval, 2pm

Women's ODIs v Sri Lanka

5 October, Allan Border Field, Brisbane, 10am
7 October, Allan Border Field, 10am
9 October, Allan Border Field, 10am

Men's T20s v Sri Lanka

27 October, Adelaide Oval, 2pm
30 October, Gabba, 6.10pm
1 November, Melbourne Cricket Ground, 7.10pm

Men's T20s v Pakistan

3 November, Sydney Cricket Ground, 2.30pm
5 November, Manuka Oval, 7.10pm
8 November, Perth Stadium, 4.30pm

Men's Test series v Pakistan

21-25 November, Gabba, 10am
29 November-3 December, Adelaide Oval, 2pm (D/N)

Men's Test series v New Zealand

12-16 December, Perth Stadium, 1pm (D/N)
26-30 December, MCG, 10.30am
3-7 January, SCG, 10.30am

Women's T20 tri-series

31 January, India v England, Manuka Oval, 2.10pm
1 February, Australia v England, Manuka Oval, 2.10pm
2 February, Australia v India, Manuka Oval, 2.10pm
7 February, India v England, Junction Oval (Melbourne), 2.10pm
8 February, Australia v India, Junction Oval, 2.10pm
9 February, Australia v England, Junction Oval, 2.10pm
12 February, Tri-series Final, Junction Oval, 1.40pm

Women's T20 World Cup

21 February-8 March

Men's ODIs v New Zealand

13 March, SCG, 2.30pm (D/N)
15 March, SCG, 10.30am
20 March, Blundstone Arena (Hobart), 2.30pm (D/N)