Cricket Australia released its domestic fixtures for the upcoming season on Monday, with three rounds of the shield season to be played before the first Test between Australia and England that begins in Brisbane on November 23.

One of the rounds will again be a day-night affair played with the pink ball, serving as preparation for the second Test of the Ashes series, a day-night Test in Adelaide.

CA also confirmed the back half of the season will again feature the Dukes balls used in England, serving to better prepare Australian players for away Ashes series.

The domestic one-day series will be sponsored by insurance firm JLT and will again be held as a standalone event at the start of the season, played between September 27 and October 21, with matches in Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and Hobart, where the final will be held.

A development Cricket Australia XI - featuring young players on the fringe of state selection - will again participate in the one-day tournament despite mixed views on its worth.

Players had sought a greater say in scheduling during the recently completed memorandum of understanding negotiations, with ACA chief Alistair Nicholson giving his approval to the fixture list.

"The Sheffield Shield has been proven as the best high-performance environment to prepare players for Test cricket," Nicholson said.

"The Ashes is an incredibly important Test fixture, so to get three competitive games in before the series will be of huge value.

"The selections in the national team of Peter Handscomb and Matthew Renshaw on the back of strong shield performances last year, paved the way for their strong start to their Test careers.

"The players value Sheffield Shield immensely, and are pleased that they have been given the best opportunity to succeed in the upcoming summer of cricket."

Cricket is also set to return to the newly redeveloped Junction Oval, with a shield match between Victoria - searching for their fourth-straight title - and New South Wales, marked down for early March. The match will be the first first-class match played at the St Kilda venue since the 2008-2009 shield final.

The ahield final begins on March 23.

CA's head of cricket operations Peter Roach explained the features of the schedule. "The way the schedule has been structured also reinforces the significant role our domestic competitions play in helping players prepare for cricket at international level. From the high-level of competition in the domestic one-day cup to start the summer, to day-night rounds in the Sheffield Shield, we want our players to have the skills to succeed not just domestically but at the highest level against international opponents," Roach said.

"After just two years, Australian cricket is starting to see significant benefits from exposing Australia's emerging talent at a higher level through the CA XI.

"From year one to year two we have seen massive advances in the performance of the squad.

"On Dukes balls, players welcomed this change positively and our analysis from the season just gone showed that the ball slightly favoured the bowlers over the batsman when compared to the red Kookaburra ball."