South Africa home games 2024-25 – Men’s team to host Sri Lanka and Pakistan, women’s to host England

South Africa will host the Sri Lanka and Pakistan men’s teams and the England women’s team in the summer of 2024-25 in 17 international matches, including five Tests, between November and January. The men’s Test series is part of the World Test Championship and will be played in Durban and Gqeberha (Sri Lanka), and Centurion and Cape Town (Pakistan), leaving the biggest stadium – the Wanderers in Johannesburg – without a Test. second summer in a row.
The Wanderers did not host either of the two Tests against India in the 2023-24 summer and with South Africa ineligible to host the Tests in the 2025-26 summer, the first place they could hope for is a Test match in 2026. ESPNcricinfo says officials have not been given “explanations” as to why the venue has been overlooked, despite the annual Pink Day – an ODI match to raise money for breast cancer treatment – going ahead.
The women’s Test will be played in Bloemfontein, which last hosted a Test seven years ago, when the men played Bangladesh in October 2017. Kingsmead and St George’s Park also last played Test matches against Bangladesh, in the season of 2021-22, and they will play. places of Sri Lanka series. It is for these two reasons that Sri Lanka won their first Test series against South Africa in 2019. The Sri Lanka series is red ball only.
That will be followed by a full tour from Pakistan, who will play three T20Is and three ODIs before the holiday Tests. The Boxing Day Test will be held at SuperSport Park before the New Year’s Test at Newlands, which ends on January 7. The men’s team will have no other international activities, as the SA20 is due to start soon and starts in early February. The exact dates are yet to be confirmed and there is a potential overlap with an ODI series in Pakistan ahead of the Champions Trophy, which is slated for mid-February.
The women’s team will host England in three T20Is, three ODIs, including a Black Day ODI to raise awareness of gender-based violence, and a Test. They have one match in each white-ball format at the first pitch: the T20I at Centurion and the ODI at Durban. This Test will be the first for women to be played in the country in 22 years, since the country played against India in Paarl in 2002.
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