Proteas Ladies Set to Go Down Beneath for Multi-Format Tour in 2024

Cricket South Africa is happy to substantiate an in depth tour to Australia for the Proteas Ladies, the place the 2 groups will face off in a bilateral multi-format collection from 27 January – 18 February 2024.

Following a blockbuster match-up between South Africa and Australia throughout the 2023 ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup last in Cape City, the 2 giants of the ladies’s sport will go head-to-head as soon as once more, this time in two three-match T20 Worldwide (T20I) and One-Day Worldwide (ODI) collection earlier than a primary ever four-day Check match between the 2 nations.

The tour will start with the T20I format, with the primary two matches held on the Manuka Oval in Canberra on 27 and 28 January earlier than the third conflict is performed on the Bellerive Oval within the metropolis of Hobart on 30 January. These matches will assist the Proteas and the reigning T20 World Cup champions put together for the 2024 ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup in Bangladesh.

The ODI collection carries extra significance for each side as they search to earn essential factors within the ongoing ICC Ladies’s Championship marketing campaign (2022-25) which varieties a part of the qualification pathway for the 2025 ICC Ladies’s Cricket World Cup in India.

The trio of 50-over matches can be shared by the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on 03 February in addition to the North Sydney Oval in Sydney on 07 and 10 February.

The tour will conclude with the historic once-off Check match on the WACA Floor in Perth between 15- 18 February, which would be the Proteas’ seventh Check since readmission and second in two years following the drawn tie in opposition to England in 2022.

CSA Chief Govt, Pholetsi Moseki commented: “The affirmation of this vastly vital tour for the Proteas Ladies in Australia is welcomed information. I wish to thank Cricket Australia for his or her collaboration in serving to make this substantial tour a actuality.

“The journey ‘Down Beneath’, which is included within the first girls’s cricket Future Excursions Programme (FTP), will current the Proteas with elite competitors throughout a pivotal part forward of the 2024 ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in September, because the staff proceed their storied journey close to the highest of the ladies’s sport.

“Following the success of the latest Ladies’s T20 World Cup held on dwelling soil, it’s for sure that the South African public and the worldwide cricket fan at giant is eagerly awaiting the following alternative to witness world class girls’s cricket and this tour goes a great distance in delivering that,” Moseki added.