India cricket schedule in 2024: Full list of Tests, ODI and T20Is

After a gruelling 2023, an equally challenging 2024 awaits Rohit Sharma's India underlined by, Test series against England and Australia and a T20 World Cup in West Indies and USA.

2023 proved to be another year where the Indian men's cricket team continued to follow a trend that has been seen umpteen number of times now- maintain consistency in bilateral series, but not get the job done on the big final days.

The past 12 months would be remembered more for two big misses for Rohit Sharma's men-World Test Championships (WTC) final and ODI World Cup final-both of which saw Australia rise to the occasion and emerge triumphant than for any other win or loss.

2024 promises to be an equally challenging year for the Men in Blue, with bilateral series scheduled both home and away and a T20 World Cup set to take place in the middle of the year.

Here's the schedule for the Indian men's cricket team for 2024:

India will start the year, trying to level the Test series against South Africa with the New Year's Test match at Cape Town between January 3-7. A few days later, they will be in T20 action when they face Afghanistan in three internationals at home.

Those matches will be followed by arguably their biggest test at home, when they take on England in five matches in a crucial WTC tie.

The end of the Test series against England in March will be followed by a new season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), which would be succeeded by the T20 World Cup in West Indies and United States of America between June 4-30.

The second half of 2023 will see Rohit Sharma's men play more away series than home series. Post the T20 World Cup, the Men in Blue will travel to Sri Lanka for a three match T20I and ODI series.

Test cricket action will resume for the Men in Blue following a diet of white-ball cricket, with two matches scheduled against Bangladesh at home as part of the WTC cycle. New Zealand will then come calling for the Men in Blue to play a three-match Test series.

If India's year begins with a stern Test against England on home soil, it will end with playing Australia in their den in a five-match series, that will stretch into 2025.

Can India end the ICC tournament draught?: June will mark 11 years since India won a major ICC tournament and they will get another chance to end the draught at the T20 World Cup.

Will Gill go to the next level?: This could well be the year when Shubman Gill goes one step higher and his maiden captaincy stint with the Gujarat Titans in the IPL could prove to be pivotal in that process.

Will India witness a captaincy transition?: Mumbai Indians' decision to rope in Hardik Pandya and make him captain signalled the first signs of a transition from the Rohit Sharma-era for the franchise. It remains to be seen if the same captaincy transition happens in Indian cricket in 2024.

The return of Rishabh Pant: It has been more than a year since fans in India and around the world saw Rishabh Pant play a game of cricket. It is expected that the Delhi southpaw will return to action in the IPL and hopefully wear the India colours once again, after that.

Ashwin's quest for 100 and 500: Ravichandran Ashwin has been a colossus of Indian cricket for over a decade and 2024 will offer him a chance to reach two significant milestones in his Test career. The 37-year-old's Test numbers currently stands at 490 wickets in 95 matches at an average of 23.69 and if he manages to reach 100 Tests and 500 Test wickets milestones in the next 12 months, he will sleep well knowing that he will have a page all for himself in the history books of Indian cricket.