Overview

• South Africa’s all-format tour runs Oct 12–Nov 8: Tests in Lahore (Oct 12–16) and Rawalpindi (Oct 20–24), T20Is on Oct 28 (Rawalpindi), Oct 31 and Nov 1 (Lahore), and ODIs in Faisalabad on Nov 4, 6 and 8.
• Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad will stage its first ODI cricket in 17 years, while Lahore hosts its first Test since March 2022.
• The two Tests launch Pakistan’s 2025–27 World Test Championship campaign against the reigning champions, with South Africa’s first red-ball matches in Pakistan since 2021.
• Pakistan will host a T20I tri-series with Afghanistan and Sri Lanka from Nov 17–29, opening in Rawalpindi before shifting to Lahore, where the final is set for Nov 29.
• Afghanistan will play T20 internationals in Pakistan for the first time, with the PCB billing the tri-series as preparation for the 2026 T20 World Cup.