New Zealand to tour Pak twice next season

The New Zealand cricket team will tour Pakistan twice next season, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and New Zealand Cricket (NZC) said on Monday.

The second tour has been arranged as a replacement for the matches lost after New Zealand abandoned its tour of Pakistan hours before the opening match in Rawalpindi in October, following a New Zealand government security alert.

Following successful meetings between the two administrations in Dubai last month, it was agreed the BLACKCAPS would tour Pakistan in December 2022-January 2023 to play two WTC Tests and three ICC Super League ODIs — before returning in April for five ODIs and five T20s, said an NZC statement on Monday.

The first visit will be a part of the Future Tours Programme (FTP).

NZC added that the second tour will comprise two extra ODIs, over and above those initially scheduled, and will take place in April as it needs to be played during the current FTP cycle, which ends in May 2023.

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