PCB postpones West Indies sequence, provides T20Is vs New Zealand in build-up to T20 World Cup
Pakistan’s house sequence of two Test matches and three T20Is in opposition to West Indies has been pushed again from January-February 2024 to January 2025, and has been changed by an away sequence of 5 T20Is in opposition to New Zealand.
With the tweak within the Future Tours Programme, Pakistan will likely be enjoying 19 T20Is between now and the 2024 Men’s T20 World Cup, to be held within the West Indies and the USA in June 2024, ten of them in opposition to New Zealand alone – 5 away and 5 at house – and the remaining in opposition to Netherlands (three), Ireland (two) and England (4).
A separate sequence in New Zealand, of three ODIs and 5 T20Is, has been pushed again from January 2025 to April 2025.
This was on the playing cards, as reported last month by ESPNcricinfo, because the PSL is slotted for February and March. As issues stand, Pakistan will play three Test matches in Australia between December 2023 and January 2024, and the litter in early 2024 has been diminished considerably with the five-match T20I sequence in New Zealand to be held in January. After finishing the Tests in Australia, Pakistan will fly on to Auckland to play the T20Is. In April, after the PSL, the groups will play a reciprocal five-T20I sequence in Pakistan.
The PSL now runs for 34 days. And due to the holy month of Ramadan, the accessible window is barely from February 12 to March 10.
The PCB has additionally requested the Emirates Cricket Board to tug again their ILT20 by ten days to keep away from overlapping with the PSL. It is probably going that the PCB is not going to object to its gamers signing contracts with ILT20 groups, which it had executed in 2023, the inaugural version of the match.
The discussions between the PCB and the Emirates Cricket Board had been performed throughout Najam Sethi’s tenure as PCB chairman, however is anticipated to face regardless of the change of guard on the PCB.
Pakistan males’s revised FTP for 2023-2025
All Tests rely in direction of 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 (5 T20Is)
April: New Zealand in Pakistan (5 T20Is)
May: Pakistan within the Netherlands (three T20Is), in Ireland (two T20Is), and in England (4 T20Is)
June: T20 World Cup within 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 5 T20Is)
May: Bangladesh in Pakistan (three ODIs and three T20Is)