The ICC’s 12 Full Members will play more international cricket across all three formats in the next Future Tours Program (FTP) cycle. The FTP summarises the international cricket calendar, which includes both ICC events and bilateral international series.
The 12 Members will play 777 international matches in the 2023-2027 FTP cycle – 173 Tests, 281 ODIs, and 323 T20Is – compared to 694 in the current one.
This includes the ICC Men’s World Test Championship’s next two cycles, a number of ICC events, and a slew of bilateral and tri-series matches.
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“I’d like to thank our Members for their efforts in developing this FTP for the next four years,” ICC General Manager of Cricket Wasim Khan said. We have three vibrant formats of the game, as well as an outstanding programme of ICC global events and strong bilateral and domestic cricket, and this FTP is designed to allow all forms of cricket to thrive.”
One of the FTP’s major highlights is the two sets of five-match Border-Gavaskar Test series in each of the upcoming cycles of the ICC World Test Championship.
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Australia is set to host India for a five-match series in the World Tennis Championships’ 2023-25 cycle, with a reciprocal tour scheduled for the 2025-27 cycle.
The two sides will meet for the first time in over 30 years in a five-match Test series, the last time being in 1992.
In the latest episode of The ICC Review, Ricky Ponting of Australia praised the decision to make the Border-Gavaskar Trophy a five-game series.
“I think spectators from Australia and India, and probably anyone who loves the game around the world, would have liked to see more Test matches between Australia and India, so absolutely I think it’s a fantastic initiative,” Ponting said on The ICC Review with host Sanjana Ganesan.
“The thing about the Australia-India series is that the conditions are so different.” The fast, bouncy wickets in Australia provide something for the seamers when India visits.
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