PCB postpone West Indies Series; Adds more T20Is in build-up to World Cup 2024
Pakistan was supposed to play a series comprising two Tests and three T20Is against West Indies in January- February 2024
Pakistan will travel to New Zealand to play a five-match T20I series against the Kiwis in January 2024. The tour will replace Pakistan’s originally scheduled home series against West Indies which comprised of two tests and three T20Is has been postponed to January 2025. Furthermore, another series in New Zealand comprising three ODIs and five T20Is has been rescheduled to April 2025. With the addition of the five-match T20I series against New Zealand Pakistan will now play 19 T20Is till the 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup in West Indies and USA in June 2024. 10 of those T20Is will be played against New Zealand three against Netherlands two against Ireland and four against England.
The Plan
According to reports since the PSL is slotted to take place in March- April the PCB wanted to reduce the burden and that is why the home series against West Indies has been pushed to 2025. As per the tweak in schedule, Pakistan will fly directly to Auckland after playing the test series in Australia in December 2023 and January 2024 to play the five-match T20I series against New Zealand which will be followed by the PSL and a T20I tri-series involving New Zealand
Pakistan men’s revised FTP for 2023-2025: All Tests count towards the World Test Championship 2023-2025
The 2023-24 season
July: Pakistan in Sri Lanka (two Tests)
August: Pakistan in Afghanistan (three ODIs)
September: ODI Asia Cup in Pakistan and Sri Lanka
October-November: ODI World Cup in India
December-January: Pakistan in Australia (three Tests)
January: Pakistan in New Zealand (five T20Is)
April: New Zealand in Pakistan (five T20Is)
May: Pakistan in the Netherlands (three T20Is), in Ireland (two T20Is), and in England (four T20Is)
June: T20 World Cup in the USA and the West Indies
The 2024-25 season
August: Bangladesh in Pakistan (two Tests)
October: England in Pakistan (three Tests)
November: Pakistan in Australia (three ODIs and three T20Is)
November-December: Pakistan in Zimbabwe (three ODIs and three T20Is)
December-January: Pakistan in South Africa (two Tests, three ODIs, three T20Is)
January: West Indies in Pakistan (two Tests)
February: New Zealand and South Africa in Pakistan (ODI tri-series)
February-March: Champions Trophy in Pakistan
April: Pakistan in New Zealand (three ODIs and five T20Is)
May: Bangladesh in Pakistan (three ODIs and three T20Is)
