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What the ICC has in store for Proteas
The International Cricket Council's programme features a World Test Championship and a ODI League for the first time
Nineteen Tests against the big three are SA’s prime engagements on the 2018-23 International Cricket Council (ICC) programme‚ which was announced on Wednesday. The schedule features a World Test Championship (WTC) and a ODI League (ODIL) for the first time, along with the 2020 and 2021 editions of the World T20 and the 2023 World Cup. The Champions Trophy has been scrapped. South Africans’ interest will be drawn to the fact that their team is due to be in Australia in December 2022. That should mean a resumption of SA’s involvement in cricket’s most iconic match outside of the Ashes: the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne‚ which they last featured in in December 2008. The practice was halted because Cricket SA wanted to re-establish its own Boxing Day tradition‚ which started in Durban in 1913.
SA’s post-2019 World Cup schedule starts next October with three Tests in India. They will play another three Tests‚ this time at home‚ against the Indians in December 2021. Their other serie...
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