![]() With Pakistan scheduled to tour during the December-January period, and given the delayed start to the men's Test summer due to proximity of the 50-over World Cup in India, Cricket Australia's conundrum was which venue of Perth and Adelaide hosted the West Indies twice in succession for Tests. Pakistan's teenage tearaway fires in Perthĭue to a quirk of the ICC's latest Future Tours Program – the recently released matrix that dictates each team's home and away opponents across all formats for the next four years – Australia host the West Indies men's team for the second time in as many summers. Pakistan’s only previous first-class outing at Perth Stadium saw then 16-year-old quick Naseem Shah unleash a brutal spell against Australia A in 2019, after fellow quick Imran Khan had scythed through the home team’s top order to capture 5-32. ![]() It will be the latest start to a men's Test summer of five or more matches since the 1924-25 Ashes battle that kicked off at the SCG on December 19, 1924.Īfter Australia and Pakistan fought out a gruelling three-Test battle on flat pitches in Pakistan last year, where Cummins' team emerged triumphant 1-0, both sides' renowned pace attacks will doubtless relish the chance to unleash on the traditionally pacy Perth track. Immediately after the ICC World Cup, Australia's men's team will remain in India for a bilateral white-ball series before returning home to begin their NRMA Insurance Test campaign (against Pakistan in Perth) from December 14, ensuring a different look to the Test schedule. The summer of cricket for the Australian women's side will also feature a highly-anticipated multi-format tour of India over December and January that follows that ninth season of the WBBL.Īustralia's all-conquering women will return to North Sydney Oval // Getty ![]() The CommBank multi-format series against South Africa begins late January with T20 and ODI matches in Canberra, Hobart, Adelaide and Sydney before culminating in the historic inaugural Test meeting between the teams in Perth. Meg Lanning's line-up will also have the international stage to themselves for the first 10 weeks of the home summer, with Pat Cummins' team in India for the ICC ODI World Cup that is scheduled to finish on November 19.Īustralia women's team begin with a three-match CommBank T20I series against West Indies at North Sydney Oval and Brisbane, before a further three CommBank ODIs against the same opponent at Allan Border Field and in Melbourne.Reigning ODI and T20 Women's World Cup champions Australia to feature in a multi-format series against South Africa having defeated the Proteas in the 20-over Cup final at Cape Town earlier this year.Perth to also stage the opening match of the men's summer when Pakistan make their first Test appearance in the Western Australian capital since 2004, and their maiden five-day outing at Perth Stadium. ![]() The inaugural Test between Australia and South Africa's women's teams, with the historic encounter to be held at the WACA Ground in Perth which last hosted a women's Test in 2014.First home matches of the new World Test Championship cycle for Australia men's team, with Tests against Pakistan (three) and West Indies (two) all staged within the December-January school holidays.The schedule stretches from October 1, when Australia's all-conquering women's outfit kick off the season with an afternoon T20 clash against 2016 World Cup champions West Indies at North Sydney Oval, to the final men's ODI (also against West Indies in Perth) on February 13.Īmong the noteworthy elements within those four and a half months are: ![]()
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