South Africa-Australia Postponed Tests Replaced By White-ball Matches In 2023
Published - 11 May 2022, 12:47 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 12:06 AM
South Africa will have Australia for five ODIs and three T20Is in August 2023 instead of the three Tests that were booked for March 2021 yet must be delayed in light of Covid-19.
The Tests, which were important for the 2019-2021 World Test Championship cycle, are presently set to be rejected totally and be supplanted by these eight white-ball games, to a great extent in anticipation of the 2023 ODI World Cup.
No Loss In Revenue For Cricket South Africa
ESPNcricinfo has discovered that Cricket South Africa isn’t supposed to lose any cash because of the change. However, seven fewer days of cricket will be played now, the white-ball matches will make an equivalent measure of income for CSA as the three Tests would have, which is the reason it has consented to the change.
South Africa will likewise make a trip to Australia in late 2022 for their first Test series since around 2008, with three matches scheduled to be played in Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney. They will likewise have three ODIs as part of the World Cup Super League.
Those matches are supposed to happen after the Test, in January 2023, however, CSA is worried that it will conflict with its new franchise T20 league and is in exchange to have the matches played before, potentially before the Tests.
South Africa And Australia To Play Test Match After 4 Years
South Africa and Australia have not played against one another in Tests since the Sandpapergate series in South Africa in 2018. They have since met in three ODIs in South Africa in March 2020, with the host nation winning 3-0, and at the 2021 T20 World Cup, which Australia won, however, were set to feature the 2021 summer with three Tests.
Plans were in progress for the series to occur, and CSA had made broad courses of action to oblige Australia, however, they pulled out of the visit referring to worries over the pandemic, leaving CSA “disheartened and baffled”.
Cricket Australia had at first said it was taking a gander at August 2023 as a window to reschedule the Tests, but since these matches are not a piece of the ongoing WTC cycle, there would have been no points to fight for.
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