Australian captain Pat Cummins has endorsed Adelaide Oval as the future home of pink-ball Tests after Cricket Australia unveiled its allocation of men’s international hosting rights over the next seven seasons.

On Sunday, Queensland Cricket confirmed the Gabba would not host a Test match during the 2026/27 summer amid ongoing speculation around the future of Brisbane stadiums.

The Gabba has traditionally hosted the opening Test of the Australian home summer, but the venue has fallen down the pecking order after Queensland Premier Steven Miles abandoned a $2.7 billion plan to rebuild it for the 2032 Olympics.

Australia did not lose a Test match at the Gabba between 1989 and 2020 but suffered shock defeats to India and the West Indies in 2021 and 2024 respectively. However, both matches were scheduled towards the end of the season in January.

“We love playing at the Gabba,” Cummins told reporters in Sydney on Monday while promoting CA’s Play Cricket Week launch.

“We’ve lost a couple of times there in last few years, but overall our record is great there.

“The Queensland crowds are also good, it’s always nice weather, so we really like playing up there. We’ll wait and see what happens.

“At least the next two years are still locked away the Gabba, so we’ll work it out after that.”

Meanwhile, Sydney has fended off rival cities to secure hosting rights for the New Year’s Test until 2030/31, while the Boxing Day Test will remain in Melbourne for the next seven summers.

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Adelaide Oval will host this summer’s pink-ball Test between Australia and India, while Queensland Cricket confirmed next year’s Ashes Test at the Gabba would also be a day-night contest.

When asked about day-night Tests in Australia, Cummins declared that Adelaide’s curators had created the best conditions for pink-ball contests over the past decade.

Australia has never lost a day-night Test in Adelaide, winning seven consecutive pink-ball matches in the South Australian capital since the historic contest against New Zealand in 2015.

“Adelaide do (pink-ball Tests) really well,” Cummins said.

“The main thing that you’ll hear from all the players, and it’s super consistent, is you’ve got to get the conditions right for a pink-ball Test.

“Pink-ball Test matches can be a wonderful balance between bat and ball, or if the conditions aren’t quite right, they can be quite boring Test matches.

“Adelaide has always done it really well, so if they move it away from Adelaide, whoever takes that up, as long as you get the conditions right, it shouldn’t be too different.

“If (the pink ball) gets too soft it’s like a one-day ball, it can get really benign.

“It just reacts a little bit different to a red ball.

“As I said, Adelaide every year have got it spot on.”

When asked whether the same venue should host pink-ball Tests each summer, Cummins continued: “Ideally having some uncertainty around the schedule does help with home advantage.

“Having some kind of consistency to help the groundstaff out, that probably would be beneficial.”

Earlier this year, Australian spinner Nathan Lyon agreed that Adelaide Oval was the nation’s premier day-night Test venue, arguing the Gabba deck used for January’s Test against the West Indies was too firm for the pink ball.

“The right venue for pink ball Tests is Adelaide Oval and that’s because (of) the contest between bat and ball and the grass left on the wicket,” Lyon said in January.