Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2027

The Border-Gavaskar Trophy is the biggest rivalry in Test cricket outside the Ashes, and this edition runs across five Tests and five Indian cities over six weeks. This pack deliberately focuses on three of those five: Nagpur, where the series opens; Chennai, where it moves four days later; and Ahmedabad, where it closes after a nearly four-week gap. Guwahati and Ranchi, the series' other two Tests, aren't covered here.

The three grounds could hardly be more different. VCA Stadium is a modern, 2008-built ground on Nagpur's edge with no history to speak of and a pitch that provides the character instead. Chepauk has been Tamil Nadu's cricket ground since 1916, with the Bay of Bengal's sea breeze part of the experience. Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad is, at 132,000 seats, the largest cricket ground on earth — so large that reaching your block from the gate takes longer than you'd expect.

Everything you need to plan the trip: costs, tickets, where to stay, where to eat, and the detail that only matters once you're actually going — including the tiger safari, the lion safari, and the Gandhi memorial that make the gaps between Tests worth staying for.