South Africa women team’s first-ever tour of Pakistan confirmed

LAHORE: South Africa women’s cricket team will undertake their first-ever tour to Pakistan in August/September which will kick-start a busy 2023/24 international cricket season for the Pakistan women’s cricket team, said the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday. South Africa will play three T20Is and three ICC Women’s Championship 2022-25 ODIs in Karachi from September 1-14. Pakistan is presently sitting second on the points table with five wins in nine ODIs (three series), while South Africa has played only one series of three ODIs and has six points.

“I am extremely excited to be back to play a bilateral series in Pakistan. Having visited Pakistan earlier this year for the women’s league exhibition matches, I was truly impressed by the warm hospitality and the passionate cricket fans.”

“The players were very friendly, it was really great to be there and experience the country. Pakistan is always a very competitive and dangerous side in their own backyard, so I feel it’s going to be a good series. The ODIs being a part of the ICC Women’s Championship is very important for women’s cricket, and we all are looking forward to it,” said South Africa skipper Sune Luus.

It will be South Africa’s first international assignment since their remarkable runners-up finish in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup on home soil in February. South Africa will be the fourth high-profile national women’s side to tour Pakistan in recent times, after West Indies, Sri Lanka and Ireland made trips to the country in the last few years. IANS

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