Nagpur
Tiger country, and closer than people expect. Pench sits roughly two hours out, Tadoba a little beyond it. A morning drive returns in time for the evening session; the three days that follow are enough for two nights in the forest.
India · 2026–27 international season
Forty-two days in India.
Seventeen of them free.
A Test tour is not a holiday with cricket in it. It is six weeks in one country with long, published, immovable gaps in the middle — and almost nobody plans for them until they arrive.
We do. We are an Indian private travel company with our own vehicles, our own chauffeurs and guides we pay directly. That is what makes it possible to move at two days’ notice when a Test ends early.
See the gaps →Australia in India · 21 January – 3 March 2027
The gaps are already in the calendar
Five Tests, five cities, forty-two days. Between them sit seventeen days with no cricket at all — and each of the five Tests has five playing days when whoever is not at the ground has the daylight to themselves.
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1st TestNagpur21–25 Jan
Pench and Tadoba are about two hours away. A dawn drive and back for the evening session is a real day, not a compromise.
- 3 clear days · 26–28 January
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2nd TestChennai29 Jan – 2 Feb
Mahabalipuram and Pondicherry are inside an afternoon. Chettinad and Kerala are worth the longer window that follows.
- 8 clear days · 3–10 February — the one real journey of the tour
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3rd TestGuwahati11–15 Feb
Kaziranga, the Assam tea estates and Meghalaya. Better reached by arriving early than by leaving late.
- 3 clear days · 16–18 February
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4th TestRanchi19–23 Feb
Thin on its doorstep, and we will say so. Better to fly — Kolkata, Varanasi or Bodh Gaya are each close enough.
- 3 clear days · 24–26 February
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5th TestAhmedabad27 Feb – 3 Mar
Kutch is at its best in February, and Gir and the craft villages of Bhuj sit beyond it. The natural place to stay on after the last ball.
When a Test finishes early, the gap gets longer
A result inside three or four days turns three clear days into five or six, at two days’ notice. Fixed departures cannot absorb that. Our own fleet and drivers can, and holding that capacity is the point of the whole exercise.
Within reach
What is actually near each ground
Chennai
Shore temples at Mahabalipuram and the French quarter at Pondicherry are both short drives. The eight days afterwards are the tour’s one genuine window — Chettinad’s mansions, or Kerala’s backwaters and hills.
Guwahati
The north-east, which almost no touring party sees. Kaziranga’s rhinos, tea estates that still run on colonial bones, and the living root bridges of Meghalaya. Best taken by flying in early rather than staying late.
Ranchi
Honestly, not much on the doorstep. The three days around it are better spent in the air: Kolkata for its markets and Raj architecture, Varanasi for the ghats at dawn, or Bodh Gaya for the Bodhi tree.
Ahmedabad
Gujarat in its best month. The white salt desert of Kutch, the last Asiatic lions at Gir, and the embroidery and block-printing villages around Bhuj. Where most people will want to stay on.
The rest of the season
The same thinking applies to the shorter tours: the West Indies open in Trivandrum, with Kerala next door, and take in Lucknow, Indore, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Sri Lanka’s December T20I at Cuttack puts Puri and Konark within reach; Zimbabwe’s January ODIs sit in Kolkata, Hyderabad and Mumbai.
Three ways to use us
Built to the gap, not to a brochure
Between the Tests
Three to eight days, shaped to the exact window and ending where the next Test begins. Nobody misses the first morning.
While the cricket is on
A half or full day for whoever is not at the ground, back before the evening. Forts, markets, cooking, a forest drive — at the pace the day allows.
After the last ball
The extension. Six weeks in a country tends to leave people wanting a week of it on their own terms.
What we do not do
- Tickets. Match tickets are the boards’ business, not ours. We will not pretend otherwise.
- Access. No promises about players, dressing rooms or practice sessions.
- Affiliation. We are an independent Indian travel company. We are not connected to any board, team or competition, and we do not claim to be.
Fixtures above follow the published 2026–27 home season schedule, checked 24 September 2026. Schedules move — we will re-check before anything is confirmed.
Who this is for
Everyone who travels with the game
Players’ and support staff’ families. Broadcast crews with six weeks in the country and the same gaps in their schedule. Sponsors moving guests between cities. Media. And supporters who would rather see the country than the inside of five airport hotels.
If you handle logistics for a touring party, a crew or a hospitality programme, one conversation covers the whole tour rather than five separate ones.
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