South Africa Announce 2016-17 Home Schedule

Cape Town: South Africa have announced a busy programme of incoming tours for the 2016-17 international season that includes series against Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.

The Proteas will start their home test season early in a two-match Test series against New Zealand in August 2016 to be played in Durban and Pretoria.

It will be the first time test matches will be staged in South Africa in August, still officially winter, and follows the successful hosting of New Zealand for one-day internationals and Twenty20 matches in the same month this year.

The tests will be followed by a five-match ODI series against Australia from September 30 to October 12, before Sri Lanka arrive for the longest tour of the summer in December that includes three tests, five ODIs and three Twenty20 internationals.

The first five-day match (Dec. 15-19) will be played in Johannesburg, with Port Elizabeth being awarded the Boxing Day test (Dec. 26-30) ahead of Durban and Cape Town keeping its traditional New Year's encounter (Jan. 2-6, 2017).

Ireland will also make a brief appearance on the calendar when they play a single ODI against South Africa and Australia each between Sept. 25-27.

In between the visits by Australia and Sri Lanka, the Proteas will tour Australia for a test series and also visit New Zealand in February and March, 2017.

The specifics of those two tours are yet to be announced.

New Zealand Tour 2016 itinerary:

Aug 19-23: 1st Sunfoil Test match, Durban
Aug 27-31: 2nd Sunfoil Test match, Centurion

Ireland Tour 2016 itinerary:

Sept 25: Momentum ODI South Africa vs Ireland, Benoni
Sept 27: Only ODI Australia vs Ireland, Benoni

Australia Tour 2016 itinerary:

Sept 30: 1st Momentum ODI, Centurion (D/N)
Oct 2: 2nd Momentum ODI, Johannesburg
Oct 5: 3rd Momentum ODI, Durban (D/N)
Oct 9: 4th Momentum ODI, Port Elizabeth
Oct 12: 5th Momentum ODI, Cape Town (D/N)

Sri Lanka Tour 2016-17 itinerary:

Dec 8-10: Three-Day Tour match Sri Lanka XI vs SA Invitation XI, Potchefstroom
Dec 15-19: 1st Sunfoil Test match, Johannesburg
Dec 26-30: 2nd Sunfoil Test match, Port Elizabeth
Jan 2-6: 3rd Sunfoil Test match, Cape Town
Jan 10: 1st KFC T20 International, Cape Town (D/N)
Jan 13: 2nd KFC T20 International, Centurion (D/N)
Jan 15: 3rd KFC T20 International, Johannesburg
Jan 20: 1st Momentum ODI, Durban (D/N)
Jan 22: 2nd Momentum ODI, Port Elizabeth
Jan 27: 3rd Momentum ODI, Cape Town (D/N)
Jan 29: 4th Momentum ODI, Johannesburg
Feb 03: 5th Momentum ODI, Centurion (D/N)

Scores	Upcoming	Results
West Indies vs Bangladesh - 3rd T20I 3rd ODI - Zimbabwe v Afghanistan - December 21, 07:30 GMT 3rd ODI - South Africa v Pakistan - December 22, 12:00 GMT 2nd ODI - South Africa v Pakistan at Cape Town Pakistan won by 81 runs 2nd ODI - Zimbabwe v Afghanistan at Harare Afghanistan won by 232 runs

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