Australia vs India: Start time, full schedule, prediction, TV and live stream for Border-Gavaskar Trophy

One of cricket’s astir aggravated rivalries resumes erstwhile Australia conscionable India successful the First Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy successful Perth this week.

The teams ranked No1 and No2 successful the satellite conscionable crossed 5 Tests betwixt present and aboriginal January, the archetypal bid of specified magnitude betwixt the nations successful much than 3 decades.

India presently clasp the Border-Gavaskar trophy - named aft erstwhile captains Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar - having won each of the past 4 editions. That tally includes celebrated back-to-back bid wins Down Under: their archetypal ever successful 2018/19 and past an epic fightback with a depleted squad 4 years ago.

However, Rohit Sharma’s broadside person conscionable been humbled 3-0 by New Zealand - their archetypal location Test bid decision successful much than a decennary - and present conscionable an Australian squad that bushed them successful some the World Test Championship and 50-over World Cup finals past year.

The First Test of this Australia vs India bid is scheduled to commencement astatine 2:20am GMT connected Friday, November 22, 2024.

The lucifer volition beryllium played astatine Optus Stadium successful Perth.

TV channel: The lucifer volition beryllium televised connected TNT Sports 1.

Live stream: TNT Sports subscribers volition beryllium capable to ticker the lucifer online via the website oregon discovery+ app.

First Test - November 22-26, Perth

Second Test - December 6-10, Adelaide

Third Test - December 14-18, Brisbane

Fourth Test - December 25-30, Melbourne

Fifth Test - January 2-7, Sydney

Australia are without all-rounder Cameron Green, who has been ruled retired for the full bid with a backmost injury. As a result, Steve Smith volition instrumentality to his preferred relation astatine No4, having moved up the bid to unfastened the batting past wintertime pursuing David Warner’s retirement.

Instead, 25-year-old Nathan McSweeney is acceptable to marque his Test debut arsenic spouse to Usman Khawaja, having beaten disconnected contention from Cameron Bancroft, Marcus Harris and Sam Konstas.

Australia squad: Pat Cummins (c), Scott Boland, Alex Carey (wk), Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitch Marsh, Nathan McSweeney, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc.

India volition beryllium without skipper Rohit Sharma for the series-opener pursuing the commencement of his 2nd child, with the batter expected to beryllium disposable for the Second Test successful Adelaide adjacent month.

Jasprit Bumrah volition pb the broadside successful his absence, portion KL Rahul is successful contention to open, but determination is nary Mohamed Shami, who lone made his instrumentality from astir a twelvemonth retired injured successful India’s home Ranji Trophy past week.

The tourists are expected to hold naming their broadside until the archetypal greeting of the crippled successful bid to springiness No3 Shubman Gill each accidental of being acceptable aft helium was struck connected the thumb successful practice.

India squad: Rohit Sharma (c), Jasprit Bumrah (vc), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar. Reserves: Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khaleel Ahmed

Australia triumphed by 8 wickets successful the opening Test of the bid 4 years ago, with India famously bowled retired for 36 successful their 2nd innings.

While things ought not to beryllium rather that melodramatic this time, the hosts look a beardown stake to get disconnected to a flying start, with India inactive reeling from that New Zealand defeat.

Odds via Betfair (subject to change).