Australia`s ICC World Cup 2023 champions have been denied a full-scale heroes` welcome home by a packed cricket schedule that sees them face India on Thursday at the start of a Twenty20 series, four days after meeting in the ODI final.

The stunning six-wicket victory on Sunday, against previously unbeaten India in front of nearly 100,000 partisan fans in Ahmedabad, saw Australia lift the ODI World Cup for the sixth time. But celebrations had to be scaled back by the demands of the international cricket calendar.