Lahore: The South African team has given great relief to the Pakistan Cricket Board, which has been waiting for international cricket for more than a decade. The African team has agreed to go to Pakistan and play cricket. At the beginning of the new year, in January-February, the African team will visit Pakistan for a series of two Tests and three T20 matches.
South Africa last visited Pakistan in 2007. After the terrorist attack in Pakistan on the Sri Lankan team in the year 2009, all the big countries playing cricket refused to go to Pakistan.
According to the report of the website Cricbuzz, South Africa will reach Karachi on 16 January and will be quarantined before the first Test match to be played at the National Stadium from 26 January.
The Test series will be part of the ICC Test Championship, whose second Test will begin in Rawalpindi from February 4. After this, the T20 series will begin. All the three matches of this series will be played at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. The series of three T20 matches will be played on 11, 13 and 14 February.
Director of Cricket South Africa Graeme Smith said, “It is satisfying to see that many countries are returning to Pakistan.” Cricket South Africa is happy to be counted in those countries. I have visited Pakistan more than once and I can tell from my experience how passionate the people of Pakistan are about cricket. “
Regarding this series, Pakistan Cricket Board Director Zakir Khan said, “The series with South Africa will complete the complete resumption of cricket in Pakistan which started from 2015. The process, however, found its way right into the 2019-20 season when Pakistan hosted Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
