Indian cricket team in Australia in 2024–25

The Indian cricket team toured Australia from November 2024 to January 2025 to play five Test matches and three first-class warm-up matches against the Australian cricket team. The Test matches formed part of the 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship. In March 2024, the Cricket Australia (CA) announced the venues for the Test series. It was the first Test series between India and Australia comprising five matches since 1992. On 26 March 2024, the CA confirmed the full tour itinerary.
India had retained the Border–Gavaskar Trophy after defeating Australia 2–1 in the previous series in 2023.
Cricket Australia announced their summer cricket schedule in March 2024. The series was played at the main cricket grounds in Australia's five largest cities. It was the first five-match test series to be played between the two nations since India's tour of Australia in 1991/92.
India named an 18-member squad for the test series along with Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini and Khaleel Ahmed as travelling reserves.
On 17 November, Shubman Gill was ruled out of the first Test with a fractured thumb of his left hand, during the intra-squad training match at the WACA. On 20 November, Devdutt Padikkal, who was a part of the India A squad and was asked to stay back as cover with a few injury scares due to several batsmen getting blows during the practice match with India A, was added to the main squad. Additionally, Yash Dayal was added to the list of travelling reserves as a replacement for the injured Khaleel Ahmed.
On 27 November, Beau Webster was added to the Australian squad as cover for the possible unavailability of Mitchell Marsh due to injury. On 30 November, Sean Abbott and Brendan Doggett were added into the Australian squad for the second Test as injury replacement for Josh Hazlewood who was ruled out due to side strain.
On 17 December, Josh Hazlewood was ruled out of the rest of the series after he suffered a calf strain on the fourth day of the 3rd Test.
On 18 December, following the 3rd Test, Ravichandran Ashwin announced his retirement from international cricket. On 23 December, Tanush Kotian was added into the squad.
On 20 December, Nathan McSweeney was dropped from the squad for the last two Tests with Jhye Richardson and Sam Konstas added to the squad.
On 29 December, Josh Inglis was ruled out from the squad for the last Test due to calf strain.
The tour was kickstarted by India A touring Australia from 31 October to 10 November, ending just 5 days before the official Test series starts. Cricket Australia announced their Australia A squad in early October 2024, naming Nathan McSweeney as their captain. Board of Control for Cricket in India announced India A cricket team's squad in October 2024, naming Ruturaj Gaikwad as the side's captain along with Abhimanyu Easwaran as the vice-captain.
India 'A' played two games against Australia 'A'. The first of those matches was played at the Great Barrier Reef Arena from 31 October to 3 November while the second was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground from 7 to 10 November. The first Test was played at the new Perth Stadium from 22 November.
While announcing the international schedule, Peter Roach, CA's head of Cricket Operations and Scheduling, had said in May: "The 2024–25 summer is highlighted by the five-Test Border–Gavaskar series, the first five-Test series between the two giants in more than 30 years. To have that running simultaneously with the women's ODIs and preceded by two significant Australia A v India A matches will be terrific for our fans."
Prior to the start of the series, Mark Steketee and his replacement Liam Hatcher were both ruled out due to injury and were replaced by Brendan Doggett. On 3 November 2024, KL Rahul and Dhruv Jurel were added to the squad for the second unofficial Test.
On the day 4 of the match, Indian wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan and the on-field umpire Shawn Craig could be heard on stump-mic arguing about the condition of the ball as the umpires thought that the ball has been scratched intentionally, putting allegations upon the Indian cricket team for ball tampering, to which the Indian cricket team including the captain Ruturaj Gaikwad and wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan opposed and argued over as they had been maintaining the ball to generate reverse swing in their attempt to make a comeback in the game.