India, March 30 -- Sourav Ganguly has backed the BCCI's venue-rotation policy even after Eden Gardens was left out of India's five-Test Border-Gavaskar Trophy series against Australia in the 2026-27 home season, choosing to support the board's wider spread of matches rather than push only for Kolkata's case. The Australia series, scheduled from January 21 to February 25, 2027, will be played in Nagpur, Chennai, Guwahati, Ranchi and Ahmedabad, with Kolkata and Mumbai missing out despite their stature as two of India's most traditional Test centres.

Quoted by Sportstar, Ganguly said that while Eden Gardens would always be a preferred venue for a marquee Test, the logic of taking matches to other centres also had to be accepted in the curre...