WI to tour Pakistan in January

Pakistan will host seven Tests between August 2024 to February 2025, which includes two matches against West Indies. They are also set to play against Bangladesh, England, and New Zealand.

It will be the first time in close to two decades that West Indies will be playing Tests there and the Pakistan Cricket Board recently announced that its men’s national team will play in three Test series and participate in the first One-day International tri-series in 21 years in the lead up to the eight-team ICC Champions Trophy 2025.

West Indies are scheduled to play the Pakistanis in two Tests on Jan. 16 in Karachi and Jan. 24 in Multan.

“Whilst we have toured Pakistan many times in recent years, it will have been almost two decades since we last played Test cricket there,” Cricket West Indies Chief Executive Officer, Johnny Grave said.

“The 2006 series also had Tests in both Karachi and Multan, and we look forward to returning for a competitive series against another proud Test cricketing nation,” said Grave.

The two Test series will also be the final for West Indies in the current cycle of the ICC World Test Championship.

Each of the top nine Test-playing nations are scheduled to play six series (three home and three away) in the ICC World Test Championship 2023-25 cycle.

So far, West Indies have played four matches in two series at home against India in July last year and away against Australia in January this year, winning one, losing two, and drawing one.

This has put them in sixth position on the points table with 16 points. India leads the table with 74 points, followed by Australia with 90 points, New Zealand with 36 points, Sri Lanka with 24 points, and Pakistan with 22 points.