

South Africa to Host Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and England in 2024-25 Home Summer
South Africa will host Sri Lanka and Pakistan men’s cricket teams and England’s cricket women team for the summer of 2024-2025, announced by the South African Cricket Board.
The announcement comes with the revelation of a total of 17 international matches, including five Tests with the three sides from November to January.
Of the five Test matches, two will be played between South Africa and Sri Lanka in Durban and Ggeberha and two will be played between Pakistan and South Africa in Centurion and Cape Town.
As for the remaining Test, it will be played between South Africa’s and England’s women’s cricket teams in Bloemfontein. The venue hosted its last Test match seven years ago when Bangladesh men visited South Africa on a tour. Not only Bloemfontein, South Africa’s biggest cricket ground in Johannesburg has not hosted a Test match for two years in a row.
Kingsmead and St Georges’s Park also witnessed their last Test match in 2021-2022 against Bangladesh.
The Sri Lankan team is only touring South Africa for two red ball games.
After the South African team is done playing with Sri Lanka, they will play three T20Is, and three ODIs, before playing the two Tests.
The boxing day test will end on January 7th and then the hosting team will not have any international hosting commitments.
Soon after the Test, the SA20 will begin though there is a high chance that it will overlap with the tri-series Pakistan is hosting before the Champions Trophy 2025 begins. The Champions Trophy 2025 is currently expected to begin in February.
As for the Women’s team, it will host England for three T20Is and ODIs, including the Black Day ODI, and then a Test.
The Test will be the first women’s Test played in South Africa in the last 22 years. The last time a women’s team played a Test on South African soil was back in 2002 against India in Paarl.