Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced the schedule of South Africa tour.
During the tour of South Africa, Pakistan cricket team will play a series consisting of 2 Tests, 3 ODIs and 3 T20 matches.
Durban, Centurion and Johannesburg will host T20 international matches from December 10 to 14, ODI matches will be played in Cape Town and Johannesburg from December 17 to 22, while 2 Test matches of the ICC World Test Championship 2023-25 will be played at Centurion ( 26 to 30 December) and Cape Town (3 to 7 January).
The national team will leave for Durban on December 2 after returning from Australia on November 19. Pakistan team has to play 3 ODI and 3 T20 series in Australia from 4th to 18th November.
After completing their African tour on January 8, the national team will take on New Zealand and South Africa in a 3-nation ODI series at home, followed by the 8-team ICC Champions Trophy 2025 in Pakistan.
Before the Australia and South Africa tours, Pakistan will host 2 and 3 Test matches against Bangladesh and England respectively, meaning they will have 7 Tests, 10 ODIs and 6 ODIs in the 6-month period from August 2024 to January 2025. Will play T20 matches.
This will be Pakistan’s seventh Test tour to South Africa after 1994-95, when Pakistan won 2 Test matches there. He won the first Test in Durban in 1997-98 by 29 runs. The second Test was won in January 2007 at St. George’s Park, Port Elizabeth, in which Inzamam-ul-Haq was adjudged Man of the Match for scoring 92 not out in the first innings.
In ODIs, Pakistan have won 2 of the last 3 series in 2013-14 and 2020-21 while South Africa have won 2002-03 (4-1), 2006-07 (3-1), 2012-13 (3- 2) and won in 2018-19 (3-2).
Tour schedule.
December 10. First T20 International. Durban.
13 December – 2nd T20 International Centurion
December 14. 3rd T20 International. Johannesburg
December 17 – First One Day International. Parl
19 December – 2nd ODI. Cape Town
December 22. 3rd ODI. Johannesburg
26 to 30 December – First Test. Centurion
3rd to 7th January – Second Test. Cape Town