Fixture news – Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Australia are locked out of New Zealand’s home summer

Tours of Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Australia have been confirmed for New Zealand’s 2024-25 home season and the previously announced Test-Test series against England in the final stages of the men’s schedule featuring Pakistan likely to move on to IPL.

In total, the men’s team will play six ODIs and eight T20Is during the season while the women’s team will play six ODIs and six T20Is. The Tests against England will be the only one of the summer in New Zealand and will complete nine matches between September and December in which Afghanistan (one), Sri Lanka (two) and India (three) will be played. In the 2025-26 season, New Zealand is scheduled to play only two Tests at home against the West Indies.

Following the England series, the New Zealand boys will face Sri Lanka in T20Is and ODIs from late December to mid-January before heading to Pakistan for an ODI tri-series that serves as a warm-up Champions Trophy scheduled to start on February 19.

After that tournament they will host Pakistan in five T20Is and three ODIs at the end of the season in late March and early April, matches that are likely to match the IPL.

New Zealand Women will host Australia in three ODIs, all to be played at Basin Reserve, just before Christmas and their Trans-Tasman neighbors will return for three T20Is in late March. The Sri Lankan women will follow the visiting men on a six-match tour in March.

Five women’s T20Is (last two against Sri Lanka and three against Australia) will be played as a doubleheader with the men’s T20I series against Pakistan.

New Zealand fixtures for the 2024-25 home season

England Men

November 28-December 2: First Test, Christchurch
December 6-December 10: Test 2, Wellington
December 14-December 18: Test 3, Hamilton

Australian women

December 19: 1st ODI, Wellington (Basin Reserve)
December 21: 2nd ODI, Wellington (Basin Reserve)
December 23: 3rd ODI, Wellington (Basin Reserve)
March 21: 1st T20I, Auckland
March 23: 2nd T20I, Tauranga
March 26: 3rd T20I, Wellington (Sky Stadium)

Sri Lanka Men

December 28: 1st T20I, Tauranga
December 30: 2nd T20I, Tauranga
January 2: 3rd T20I, Nelson
January 5: 1st ODI, Wellington (Basin Reserve)
January 8: 2nd ODI, Hamilton
January 11: 3rd ODI, Auckland

Women of Sri Lanka

March 4: 1st ODI, Napier
March 7: 2nd ODI, Nelson
March 9: 3rd ODI, Nelson
March 14: 1st T20I, Christchurch
March 16: 2nd T20I, Christchurch
March 18: 3rd T20I, Dunedin

Pakistan Men

March 16: 1st T20I, Christchurch
March 18: 2nd T20I, Dunedin
March 21: 3rd T20I, Auckland
March 23: 4th T20I, Tauranga
March 26: 5th T20I, Wellington (Sky Stadium)
March 29: 1st ODI, Napier
April 2: 2nd ODI, Hamilton
April 5: 3rd ODI, Tauranga