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In the summer of 2024–25, South Africa will play host to the men’s teams of Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and England, as well as the women’s squad. There will be a total of 17 international matches, including five Tests, held between November and January. The largest stadium in the nation, the Wanderers in Johannesburg, will not host a Test match for the second summer in a row due to the men’s Test series, which is a component of the World Test Championship and will be contested at Durban and Gqeberha (Sri Lanka), and Centurion and Cape Town (Pakistan).
The earliest the venue may hope for a Test fixture is 2026, as the Wanderers did not host either of the two Tests against India in the summer of 2023–2024, and South Africa is not scheduled to play any Tests in the summer of 2025–2026. Authorities received “no explanation” for the venue’s rejection; however, the ODI match to benefit breast cancer research will continue to take place on Pink Day each year.
Bloemfontein, which last hosted a Test match seven years ago when the men faced Bangladesh in October 2017, will host the women’s match. The Sri Lanka series will be held at Kingsmead and St. George’s Park, which also hosted Test matches against Bangladesh in the 2021–2022 season. In 2019, Sri Lanka triumphed in their inaugural Test series against South Africa on these identical grounds. Red-ball only applies to the Sri Lankan series.
Before the Tests during the holiday season, Pakistan will go on a complete tour, playing three Twenty20 Internationals and three One-Day Internationals. Before the New Year’s Test at Newlands, which concludes on January 7, the Boxing Day Test will take place at SuperSport Park. After that, the men’s squad won’t play any more home international matches because the SA20 is scheduled to begin soon and last through early February. The precise dates are still under confirmation, and there may be a conflict with the ODI tri-series in Pakistan prior to the mid-February Champions Trophy.
The women’s side will play three Twenty20 internationals, three One-Day Internationals (ODIs), one Test match, and the Black Day ODI to promote awareness of gender-based violence. They have one match in each white-ball type at a first-rate venue: an ODI in Durban and a T20I in Centurion. Since South Africa’s match against India in Paarl in 2002, this will be the first women’s Test played in the nation in 22 years.