Australia's first red-ball tour to New Zealand in eight years has been locked in as a two-Test series, to the dismay of many including workhorse seamer Neil Wagner.
Pat Cummins' side will head to New Zealand in February for Tests at Wellington's Basin Reserve and Hagley Oval in Christchurch.
The long-delayed trans-Tasman contest will be a clash of the first two World Test Championship winners.
Despite the dominance of antipodean cricket and the traditional rivalry, which runs deep in New Zealand, the Test series will take 13 days at most.
Wagner told AAP the short tour was "a shame" but was realistic about the schedule demands in modern cricket.
"It comes down to money and it comes down to where we are in the world with viewership and timezones," he said.
"We're a small fish in the pond.
"If we can play more Tests, that'd be exciting. I'm extremely jealous of other teams who play three and four-Test match series. It's unheard of for us."
Wagner said players "100 per cent" wanted longer Test tours, which are now largely the province of the big three: Australia, England and India.
Last summer, Wellington played host to one of the all-time great matches when Wagner dismissed Jimmy Anderson to clinch a dramatic one-run victory in the second Test and draw the series with England.
"Playing a two-Test series and it finishing off with a 1-1 draw, it was just screaming out for another Test," Wagner said.
NZ Cricket executive Graham Parks said he'd had discussions with Australia about a longer schedule but it was impossible under the Future Tours Programme (FTP).
"You'd always like to play more games but the challenges we face within the FTP is availability," he told AAP at Tuesday's release of NZ Cricket's summer schedule.
New Zealand's most recent Test showing against Australia, when they were swept 3-0 in the 2019/20 summer on the road to becoming world test champions, still rankles.
Wagner, the second-ranked Test bowler in the world at the time, said the side were itching for another crack.
"(In 2019) we tried to throw a couple of punches and it just didn't work," he said.
"It's nice to play Australia in our conditions. They're a team on top of their game at the moment, rightfully No.1 in the world."
Australia will also play three T20 matches against New Zealand in February - one in Wellington and two at Auckland's Eden Park.
New Zealand last hosted Australia for Test cricket in 2016, at the same venues earmarked for the 2024 tour.
Australia crushed New Zealand by an innings at the Basin before suffering a seven-wicket loss at Hagley Oval, when a recalled Wagner took 6-106.
New Zealand have won a solitary Test against Australia in 30 years, a seven-run victory at Hobart’s Bellerive in 2011.
AUSTRALIAN MEN'S TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND
First T20 - February 21 (Sky Stadium, Wellington)
Second T20 - February 23 (Eden Park, Auckland)
Third T20 - February 25 (Eden Park, Auckland)
First Test - February 29 - March 4 (Basin Reserve, Wellington)
Second Test - March 8-12 (Hagley Oval, Christchurch)
