Australia will face England in a day-night Take a look at on the Melbourne Cricket Floor early subsequent 12 months to cap off the multi-format Girls’s Ashes collection.
Cricket Australia (CA) confirmed the fixture because it locked on this summer season’s dates, which additionally features a five-Take a look at males’s collection in opposition to India, kicking off at Perth Stadium on November 22.
That shall be adopted by a day-nighter at Adelaide Oval (December 6-10), then the Gabba from December 14, earlier than a week-long break till the Boxing Day conflict on the MCG and the New Yr’s Take a look at in Sydney from January 3.
CA chief govt Nick Hockley mentioned it was “probably the most extremely anticipated summers of cricket in reminiscence”.
“Fittingly, the Border-Gavaskar Trophy has been placed on the identical footing as The Ashes with a five-Take a look at Sequence for the primary time since 1991-92 and we’re assured the schedule will maximise viewership and attendances and there shall be an amazing environment in stadiums throughout the nation,” Hockley mentioned in a CA assertion.
“The primary Girls’s Take a look at match on the MCG since 1949, and the primary day-night Take a look at at that historic floor, shall be a memorable event and one other essential milestone for girls’s cricket as we take extra video games to main stadiums together with the SCG and Adelaide Oval.”
Australia’s ladies’s staff has performed two day-night Checks — in opposition to England in 2017 and India in 2021 — each of which led to attracts.
The ladies will play three T20s and three ODIs in opposition to England from January 12–25, earlier than the one-off Take a look at on the MCG.
Regardless of enjoying a five-day recreation in opposition to England within the 2023 Ashes in England, the Take a look at has reverted to a four-day recreation for 2025.
CA additionally confirmed three ladies’s T20s in opposition to India in September, and three ODIs in December.
The lads will kick off their summer season with three ODIs and three T20s in opposition to Pakistan from November 4–18.
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