The long-awaited schedule for the biggest summer of cricket Australia has seen will be released on Monday with a major talking point destined to be the relocation of the traditional Australia Day fixture from Adelaide to Sydney.

The sheer volume of international cricket from early November to late March – which includes men’s Tests and ODIs against India as well as men’s and women’s limited-overs fixtures against South Africa, England, Pakistan and the West Indies as well as the ICC World Cup – has granted the schedule unprecedented complexity.

But the men’s and women’s international, Bupa Sheffield Shield and Ryobi Cup roster due to be announced on Monday will at last provide certainty and highlight the diversity of formats and venues in what is being billed as “a year’s worth of cricket in a single summer”.

While some elements of the schedule, such as Australia’s Carlton Mid ODI against South Africa at Canberra’s Manuka Oval on November 19, have already been confirmed or can be safely assumed (Boxing Day and New Year Tests), the Australia Day match looms as a point of contention.

It is understood that the January 26 fixture – between Australia and India on what is a day of national celebration for both countries – will be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground as part of a triangular ODI series that also includes England.

While Sydney has hosted the highly-prized Australia Day match on previous occasions, more recently the national day has traditionally been celebrated with cricket at Adelaide Oval where the much-lauded $535 million redevelopment was completed earlier this year.

There has been only two occasions this century when an Australia Day match was not staged in Adelaide – in 2013 when the ongoing redevelopment meant it offered reduced crowd capacity, and in 2003.

On the latter occasion, Adelaide was in line to host the third of the best-of-three one-day finals between Australia and England on January 27 if it was needed, but the home team wrapped up the series in straight sets.

The timing of three Twenty20 internationals against South Africa that kick off the international calendar –in the first two weeks of November – have already been alluded to with the announcement that New South Wales coach Trevor Bayliss will take over from Darren Lehmann for those matches.

It’s also been foreshadowed that Australia’s Test players won’t be available for the T20s because of the tight schedule.

Australia’s Test commitments against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates are not due to be completed until November 1, and Lehmann’s attention will immediately turn to the ODIs against South Africa that follow the T20s and the subsequent four-Test series against India.

Cricket Australia has already confirmed that those Tests will be played in Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney with Perth and Hobart missing out on a Test matches this summer.

The World Cup, to be hosted at venues in Australia and New Zealand, will begin on February 14 when Australia tackles England at the MCG, and the final is scheduled for the same venue on Sunday, March 29.