The last ball bowled between these two teams was a dot. Abhishek Sharma faced it at the Gabba on 8 November 2025, India were 52 without loss after 4.5 overs, and then the rain that had been circling Brisbane all evening arrived and did not stop. The umpires called it off. Nobody has bowled a ball in an India-Australia men’s international since.
That is the honest state of the australian men’s cricket team vs india national cricket team match scorecard right now, and it is not what most people expect to find. There is no live game. There is no series in progress. The two most-watched sides in the sport have not met in nine and a half months, and they will not meet again until 21 January 2027, when Australia walk out at Nagpur for the first Test of the next Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
One caveat for anyone who arrived here after seeing a recent India-Australia result: the women’s teams did meet in 2026. Australia beat India by six wickets at Lord’s on 28 June in the T20 World Cup group stage, and that is a separate fixture with a separate scorecard.
The gap is a scheduling artefact rather than a falling-out. The Future Tours Programme loaded everything the two boards had to give each other into a single five-Test tour of India in 2027, and left the intervening year empty. What it produces is an unusual situation for a rivalry this size: a complete, closed record with nothing being added to it.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Match in progress | None. No fixture is scheduled for the rest of 2026 |
| Last match played | 5th T20I, the Gabba, Brisbane, 8 November 2025. No result, rain |
| Last completed match | 4th T20I, Carrara Stadium, Gold Coast, 6 November 2025. India won by 48 runs |
| Days since the last ball | 289 |
| Next match | 1st Test, Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur, 21 January 2027 |
| Gap between the two | 439 days, about 14 and a half months |
| Last Test series | Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 in Australia. Australia won 3-1 |
| Last ODI series | Australia, October 2025. Australia won 2-1 |
| Last T20I series | Australia, October to November 2025. India won 2-1 |
| Last knockout meeting | Champions Trophy semi-final, Dubai, 4 March 2025. India won by 4 wickets |
| Holder of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy | Australia |
| The women’s sides are on a separate schedule and did meet in 2026, at Lord’s on 28 June. | |
The last tour, and how evenly it finished
India went to Australia in October 2025 for three one-day internationals and five Twenty20 internationals. They came home having lost one leg and won the other, which is a fair summary of where the two sides actually stand in white-ball cricket and a poor summary of how it felt at the time.
Australia took the ODIs 2-1. The opener at Perth on 19 October was a rain-shortened wreck for India, all out for 136 in a match cut to 26 overs, and Australia knocked off the target inside 22. Adelaide four days later was the one that hurt: India posted 264 for 9 and Australia got there with eight wickets down and 22 balls to spare. India won the dead rubber at the Sydney Cricket Ground by nine wickets, bowling Australia out for 236 and chasing it in 38.3 overs.
Rohit Sharma finished as the leading run-scorer on either side with 202 across the three matches, which is the kind of statistic that tells you almost nothing about who won and almost everything about how India lost.
| Match | Venue and date | Scores | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st ODI | Perth Stadium, 19 Oct | India 136 for 9 (26 ov); Australia 131 for 3 (21.1 ov) | Australia by 7 wickets (DLS) |
| 2nd ODI | Adelaide Oval, 23 Oct | India 264 for 9 (50 ov); Australia 265 for 8 (46.2 ov) | Australia by 2 wickets |
| 3rd ODI | Sydney Cricket Ground, 25 Oct | Australia 236 (46.4 ov); India 237 for 1 (38.3 ov) | India by 9 wickets |
| Leading run-scorer across the three matches: Rohit Sharma, 202. The first match was reduced to 26 overs a side by rain and decided on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method. | |||
The Twenty20 leg went the other way. Rain took two of the five outright, including the finale at the Gabba, so the series was settled by three completed matches and India took two of them. Australia won at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 31 October after bowling India out for 125, a total they passed in 13.2 overs. India answered at Hobart, chasing 187 with nine balls left, and then won by 48 runs at Carrara on the Gold Coast, where Australia were dismissed for 119.
Abhishek Sharma made 163 runs across the series. He was 25 years old and had been in the side for barely a year.
| Match | Venue and date | Scores | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st T20I | Manuka Oval, Canberra, 29 Oct | India 97 for 1 (9.4 ov) | No result, rain |
| 2nd T20I | Melbourne Cricket Ground, 31 Oct | India 125 (18.4 ov); Australia 126 for 6 (13.2 ov) | Australia by 4 wickets |
| 3rd T20I | Bellerive Oval, Hobart, 2 Nov | Australia 186 for 6 (20 ov); India 188 for 5 (18.3 ov) | India by 5 wickets |
| 4th T20I | Carrara Stadium, Gold Coast, 6 Nov | India 167 for 8 (20 ov); Australia 119 (18.2 ov) | India by 48 runs |
| 5th T20I | The Gabba, Brisbane, 8 Nov | India 52 for 0 (4.5 ov) | No result, rain |
| Leading run-scorer across the series: Abhishek Sharma, 163. Two of the five matches were abandoned without a result, so the series turned on three completed games. | |||
Dubai, and the biggest match they have played since 2024
The single largest fixture between them in the current cycle was not on either of those tours. It was the first semi-final of the Champions Trophy on 4 March 2025 at the Dubai International Stadium, and India won it by four wickets to reach a final they went on to win.
Australia made 264, which on that surface was defensible rather than comfortable. Steve Smith held the innings together with 73 from 96 balls. Mohammed Shami took 3 for 48 from his ten overs and was the reason the total was not larger.
Virat Kohli then produced the innings the match is remembered for, 84 from 98 balls, built after India lost Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill inside the first eight overs. He did not finish it. He holed out to Adam Zampa at long-on with 40 still needed from 45 balls, and it fell to Shreyas Iyer’s 45, KL Rahul’s unbeaten 42 from 34 and Hardik Pandya’s 28 to get India home with 11 balls unused.
What the australian men’s cricket team vs india national cricket team match scorecard says about the Test ledger
None of the above is the record most Australians would cite, and they would be right not to. The last time the two sides played Test cricket, Australia won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 3-1, taking it back for the first time in a decade after India had opened the series by winning at Perth by 295 runs. The full five-Test scorecard from that series is a separate document and a separate argument.
The tension in the combined record is real and it is worth stating plainly rather than averaging away. In the longest format Australia are comfortably ahead and have been since November 2024. In white-ball cricket over the same period the two sides have split almost everything they have played, and India have won the knockout match that mattered most. Both of those are true. Neither cancels the other, and which one you lead with is a choice about what you think the rivalry is for.
Next: five Tests in India, from January 2027
Australia return to India on 21 January 2027 for a five-match series confirmed by the BCCI in March 2026. It is a World Test Championship series, which means the 2025-27 cycle standings ride on it, and it takes in two venues that have never staged a Border-Gavaskar Test before.
| Test | Dates | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Test | 21 to 25 January 2027 | Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur |
| 2nd Test | 29 January to 2 February 2027 | M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai |
| 3rd Test | 11 to 15 February 2027 | Assam Cricket Association Stadium, Guwahati |
| 4th Test | 19 to 23 February 2027 | JSCA International Stadium, Ranchi |
| 5th Test | 27 February to 3 March 2027 | Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad |
| Five Tests across six weeks, confirmed by the BCCI in March 2026. The series counts towards the 2025-27 World Test Championship cycle. | ||
The scheduling is worth a second look. Guwahati hosts a Test between these teams for the first time, and the series closes at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, where India beat New Zealand in the T20 World Cup final eleven months earlier. Five Tests across six weeks is also the longest bilateral Test assignment either side has in the cycle.
What this scorecard does not settle
The obvious gap is that there is no white-ball series between now and the 2027 Tests, and no Champions Trophy or World Cup in that window either, so the only way these teams meet before January is if the ICC or the two boards add something that is not currently in the calendar. Neither board has indicated it will.
The less obvious gap is what the 2025 white-ball results actually measure. Australia rested and rotated through most of that October tour with a home Ashes summer in front of them; India were building toward a T20 World Cup they went on to win. Both sides were playing for something other than the series in front of them, and a scorecard cannot record intent. Anyone reading the 2-1 and 2-1 as a settled statement of strength is reading more into it than the numbers hold.
Australian men’s cricket team vs India national cricket team match scorecard: frequently asked questions
Are India and Australia playing right now?
No. There is no India-Australia men’s fixture in progress and none scheduled for the remainder of 2026. The next match between them is the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy at Nagpur on 21 January 2027.
When did India and Australia last play?
8 November 2025, the fifth Twenty20 international at the Gabba in Brisbane. Rain ended it after 4.5 overs with India 52 without loss and no result was recorded.
Who won the last India vs Australia ODI series?
Australia, 2-1, in October 2025. They won at Perth and Adelaide; India won the third match at the Sydney Cricket Ground by nine wickets.
Who won the last India vs Australia T20I series?
India, 2-1, across five scheduled matches in October and November 2025. Two were abandoned without a result.
What happened in the Champions Trophy 2025 semi-final?
India beat Australia by four wickets at Dubai on 4 March 2025. Australia made 264, Steve Smith top-scoring with 73; India reached 267 for 6 with 11 balls to spare, Virat Kohli making 84.
Who holds the Border-Gavaskar Trophy?
Australia. They won the 2024-25 series in Australia 3-1 and hold it until the 2027 series in India is decided.
When is the next Border-Gavaskar Trophy?
21 January to 3 March 2027, five Tests in India, at Nagpur, Chennai, Guwahati, Ranchi and Ahmedabad.
Where can I find the full India vs Australia Test scorecard?
The innings-by-innings record of the 2024-25 five-Test series, including Bumrah’s figures at Perth and the totals at each venue, is set out separately in our Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 scorecard.
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