Late begin to England’s 2024 summer time Tests with no girls’s red-ball cricket
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ngland’s males is not going to begin their Test summer time till mid-July subsequent yr as Jos Buttler’s white-ball aspect head off to the USA and West Indies to defend the T20 World Cup.
The schedule for the 2024 worldwide summer time has been unveiled this morning, with England’s girls set to be with no residence Test match for the primary time since 2020’s Covid-disrupted season.
Both males’s and ladies’s sides will play concurrent T20 collection towards Pakistan in May to start out the summer time, earlier than Heather Knight’s workforce additionally play three ODIs towards the identical opponent after which additional collection in each white-ball codecs towards New Zealand.
The males, in the meantime, will journey throughout the Atlantic after 4 T20s versus Pakistan, earlier than returning to play three-match Test collection towards the West Indies, beginning July 10, and Sri Lanka, starting in late August.
The males’s summer time concludes with three T20Is and 5 ODIs towards Australia.
London will host three of the six Test matches – two at Lord’s and one at Kia Oval – with each grounds additionally resulting from host white-ball matches for each women and men.
England’s girls are resulting from play a Test away in India later within the yr, however neither New Zealand or Pakistan will play red-ball matches throughout their excursions, neither aspect having performed a Test since 2004.