South Africa Set To Replace Sri Lanka With India For Home Series Later this Year

Jan 6, 2017 at 2:43 PM

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South Africa Set To Replace Sri Lanka With India For Home Series Later this Year

Pakistan’s tour to India in late 2017/18 has been kept under scrutiny after South Africa proposed India to tour them for four Tests, five ODI and three T20I during the same time, as confirmed by CSA chief executive Haroon Lorgat.

According to ICC’s schedule, as agreed to by the boards in 2014, Sri Lanka was set to tour South Africa for the second straight summer in 2017/18 for three Test matches while Pakistan-India ties were penned down to revive with three Tests in India.

However, the plan has now been changed. Lorgat recently said he had conveyed to Sri Lankan Cricket Board about their inconvenience to host them again, and would rather opt for India to play a long home summer instead.

“I’ve given an indication to Sri Lanka that that tour is unlikely. We’ve got a packed season coming up, starting with Bangladesh in the early season. We’ve got India touring for four Test matches plus five ODIs and three T20s, and then we follow with Australia for four Test matches. It’s very unlikely, and I’ve already given the indication to Sri Lanka that they should avail themselves to someone else.”

With the tour likely to get underway, India’s home series against Pakistan is all set to get scrapped for the second time after 2015, when the series was cancelled due to political tension between the two nations.

Lorgat said BCCI is yet to confirm the tour, given the turmoil in administration with Supreme Court of India sacking ex-president Anurag Thakur and honorary secretary Ajay Shirke from their respective post. Led by interim president Rahul Johri in the meantime, BCCI has given the surety of signing the deal in coming days.

“About the tour schedule with India: I’m not reading anything untoward. They’ve got a difficult period that they’re going through currently. You would have read the president has been removed and the secretary has been removed. They are in a state of turmoil. I’ve been assured by them that in the next few weeks they will try and confirm that, but they’ve got a history of not confirming until a few months or a few weeks before.”

India last toured South Africa in 2013/14, where the visitors lost two Test series 1-0.

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