India Cricket Team: Latest News, Updates, Schedule & Results What’s Happening Right Now
If you’ve been away from the game for a few weeks, here’s the quick catch-up: Team India is currently on the road in Sri Lanka, deep into a two-match Test series that’s turning into one of the more absorbing contests of the year. After a comfortable win in the tour match at Colombo, India carried that momentum into the first Test at Galle, posting a big first-innings total and putting Sri Lanka under real pressure through the middle days of the match. It’s the kind of series that reminds you why Test cricket between these two sides, so close geographically but so different in conditions, always throws up a proper contest.
The Sri Lanka Test Series
The tour opened with a warm-up match against a Sri Lanka Cricket XI in Colombo, which India won comfortably by six wickets after both sides declared their innings to set up a chase. That gave the batting group valuable time in the middle before the real business began. The first Test in Galle has been a genuine arm-wrestle, with India building a substantial total in their first innings and Sri Lanka’s spinners working hard on a wearing surface. The second Test moves to Colombo, running from August 23 to 27, and it should decide who takes the series. For a team that has spent so much of the last year in the white-ball formats, this red-ball assignment is a useful test of squad depth, especially with a couple of new faces getting extended opportunities in the middle order.
Leadership and Squad Changes
One of the bigger storylines heading into this tour has been the captaincy setup. Shubman Gill leads the side in Tests and ODIs, having been recognised as one of the standout performers of the past year across the longer formats, while Shreyas Iyer has taken on the T20I captaincy. Gautam Gambhir continues as head coach, working alongside Morne Morkel on bowling, Sitanshu Kotak on batting, and Subhadeep Ghosh in the fielding unit. There’s also been some turnover behind the scenes, with part of the coaching staff parting ways just before the Sri Lanka series got underway, so it’s worth keeping an eye on how the support staff settles in over the coming months. On the squad side, a key all-rounder has returned to the Test fold for this tour, which gives the side more balance and options with both bat and ball.
What’s Coming Up on the Calendar
Once the Sri Lanka series wraps up in late August, the schedule barely slows down. India head to Bangladesh in early September for a white-ball assignment, playing three ODIs and three T20Is between September 1 and 13, including what will be the first-ever bilateral T20I series played on Bangladeshi soil. Almost immediately after that, Afghanistan arrive in India for a three-match T20I series in Delhi, running from September 13 to 17. The home season then really picks up pace, with the West Indies touring India from late September into mid-October for three ODIs and five T20Is, played across a long list of venues as part of a packed home international calendar. Later in the year, attention also turns to the Asian Games in Japan, where the Indian team will look to defend the gold medal it won previously, alongside India A fixtures against Australia A that double as useful preparation for future series.
Results and Form Heading In
India arrived in Sri Lanka on the back of a strong run through 2025, having claimed both the Champions Trophy and the Asia Cup, and that form carried into early 2026 as well. The white-ball side opened this year with a home series against New Zealand before hosting the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup on home soil in February and March, successfully defending the title the team had won two years earlier. The IPL then took over the calendar entirely through March, April and May, with no international cricket scheduled during that window, before the international season resumed with tours to England, Ireland and Zimbabwe over the middle of the year. That’s the backdrop the current Sri Lanka Test series sits against: a team that has been winning consistently across formats and is now trying to carry that same authority into the longer version of the game away from home.
The Bigger Picture for the Rest of the Year
Looking further ahead, 2026 is shaping up to be one of the busier years on record for Indian cricket. Beyond the bilateral series against Bangladesh, Afghanistan and the West Indies, the home season is expected to stretch across numerous cities and venues, giving fans around the country a chance to watch the team live. The women’s team also has a packed year, headlined by the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup in England and Wales and a historic first women’s Test at Lord’s. For the men’s side specifically, the rest of 2026 is really about building depth and form ahead of a heavier Test workload next year, with selectors clearly using white-ball assignments like the Zimbabwe and Ireland tours, and Test tours like this one in Sri Lanka, to widen the pool of players who can be trusted in different conditions.
Where to Follow Along
If you want to stay on top of things day to day, live scores and ball-by-ball commentary for the ongoing Sri Lanka series are easy to find through the major cricket score sites, and the BCCI’s own app is a solid option if you want official squad announcements, video content and match alerts in one place. For anyone planning around the calendar, it’s worth bookmarking the fixture list now, since the stretch from September through the West Indies series is going to come thick and fast, with barely a gap between assignments across formats. Whether you’re most interested in the Test result out of Colombo, the new-look T20I side under Shreyas Iyer, or simply want to know when India play next, the next couple of months should give you plenty to follow.
