Garrin Lambley
Cricket South Africa (CSA) has announced a busy international programme of home international fixtures for the 2020/21 season against England, Sri Lanka, Australia and Pakistan – all for crucial points in either the ICC Cricket World Cup Super League (CWCSL) or the ICC World Test Championship (WTC).
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The international season begins with a three-match, T20 International series and three-match, One-Day International (ODI) series against England in Cape Town and Paarl.
Sri Lanka follows with a two-match Test series in Centurion and Johannesburg. The fixtures will fall into the traditional Boxing Day and New Year’s Test match windows.
Australia arrive in February 2021 for a three-match Test series ending in March, with Pakistan rounding off the South African summer of cricket with a three-match ODI series and a three-match T20 International series in April 2021.
Complete fixtures for these tours will be announced in due course.
CSA has also confirmed the appointment of a delegation that will perform a security assessment on the feasibility of the Proteas embarking on their first tour to Pakistan since 2007. The delegates are earmarked to depart this weekend and will report back on their findings for the tour which is scheduled for early 2021.
“We are delighted to announce the schedule of men’s international cricket for the home season,” commented CSA Acting CEO, Kugandrie Govender.
England tour to South Africa:
Friday, November 27 – 18:00
1st T20I, South Africa v England, Newlands, Cape Town
Sunday, November 29 – 14:30
2nd T20I, South Africa v England, Boland Park, Paarl
Tuesday, December 1 – 18:00
3rd T20I, South Africa v England, Newlands, Cape Town
Friday, December 4 – 13:00
1st ODI, South Africa v England, Newlands, Cape Town
Sunday, December 6 – 10:00
2nd ODI, South Africa v England, Boland Park, Paarl
Wednesday, December 9 – 13:00
3rd ODI, South Africa v England, Newlands, Cape Town
Sri Lanka tour to South Africa:
December 26-300 – 10:00
1st Test, South Africa v Sri Lanka, SuperSport Park, Centurion
January 3-7, 2021 – 10:00
2nd Test, South Africa vs Sri Lanka, Wanderers, Johannesburg
As a spectator, the venue doesn’t really matter if we aren’t allowed to watch live. I will be sitting on the same couch whether the New Year’s test is in Cape Town or Wanderers.
Joburg can have this one, as long as it is back in Cape Town the following year…
does it really matter..no one can watch in any case….will the tests go ahead…there is no one in charge