South Africa to host Sri Lanka and Pakistan’s males groups all through 2024-25 house summer season

South Africa will host Sri Lanka and Pakistan’s males groups and England’s girls group within the 2024-25 summer season for a complete of 17 global fixtures, together with 5 Assessments, between November and January. The lads’s Check collection shape a part of the Global Check Championship and shall be performed in Durban and Gqeberha (Sri Lanka), and Centurion and Cape The city (Pakistan), which leaves the rustic’s largest venue – the Wanderers in Johannesburg – with out a Check for the second one summer season in succession.

The Wanderers didn’t host both of the 2 Assessments towards India within the 2023-24 summer season and with South Africa now not because of host any Assessments within the 2025-26 summer season, the earliest the venue can hope for a Check fixture is 2026. Insiders advised ESPNcricinfo that officers got “no rationalization” for why the venue has been snubbed, regardless that it keeps the once a year Red Day fixture – an ODI fit to boost budget for breast most cancers remedy.

The ladies’s Check shall be performed in Bloemfontein, which remaining hosted a Check seven years in the past, when the lads performed Bangladesh in October 2017. Kingsmead and St George’s Park additionally remaining noticed Check motion towards Bangladesh, within the 2021-22 season, and would be the venues for the Sri Lanka collection. It was once at those similar two grounds that Sri Lanka gained their first Check collection towards South Africa in 2019. The Sri Lanka collection is red-ball most effective.

That shall be adopted by way of a complete excursion from Pakistan, who will play 3 T20Is and 3 ODIs ahead of the festive-season Assessments. The Boxing Day Check shall be held at SuperSport Park ahead of the New 12 months’s Check at Newlands, which ends up on January 7. The lads’s group will then don’t have any additional house global assignments, with the SA20 because of get started in a while afterwards and run into early February. The precise dates are but to be showed and there’s a attainable overlap with an ODI tri-series in Pakistan ahead of the Champions Trophy, pencilled in for mid-February.

The ladies’s group will host England for 3 T20Is, 3 ODIs, together with the Black Day ODI to boost consciousness about gender-based violence, and a Check. They’ve one fixture in each and every white-ball structure at a premier flooring: a T20I in Centurion and an ODI in Durban. The Check would be the first girls’s Check performed within the nation in 22 years, since South Africa performed India in Paarl in 2002.