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Australia and India listed among teams in next year’s cricket schedule

Source: ABC News Australia · 01 Oct 2026, 20:42 UTC
Australia and India listed among teams in next year’s cricket schedule
Image: ABC News Australia · original report

The supplied fixture schedule includes Australia and India among teams due to play in a series of cricket matches next year. It lists Australia against South Africa and India against Australia, but does not provide a confirmed opening match, tournament format or venue details for a Cricket World Cup.

Australia and India are included in the cricket fixtures listed in the supplied schedule for next year, although the material does not provide enough information to confirm the opening match of a Cricket World Cup. The schedule contains a mixture of completed results, live scores and matches marked as not started. It includes fixtures involving Australian and Indian teams, but the abbreviations distinguish between several men’s and women’s sides and do not consistently identify a single tournament.

Among the listed future matches are Australia against South Africa, India against Australia and Australia’s women against New Zealand. The schedule also includes domestic Australian fixtures involving teams such as Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia. The Australian men’s team is listed to play South Africa on several dates, including 9 October, 18 October and 28 October.

Other entries show India’s men’s side, abbreviated as INA, facing Australia, abbreviated as AUA, in matches scheduled for 6 October, 9 October and 11 October. A separate set of fixtures lists Australia’s women, abbreviated as AUW, against New Zealand’s women on 18 October, 20 October and 22 October. Australia’s women are also listed to face Bangladesh’s women on several dates.

The material records completed matches involving Australia and South Africa, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, as well as numerous domestic fixtures. It does not state venues, competition groups, qualification arrangements or an official tournament start date. It also does not explain the headline’s reference to next year’s Cricket World Cup or establish that Australia and India will play the opening match.

Based on the supplied information, the confirmed detail is that both countries appear in the listed future cricket programme, alongside international and domestic fixtures involving other teams.

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