The Proteas Men’s home international season has been reduced to just three matches for the entire 2025/26 campaign.
Shukri Conrad’s World Test Championship-winning team will have no home Test matches or ODIs, with only a five-match T20I series against the West Indies originally pencilled in for the summer.
However, that has now been trimmed to three matches following the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) confirmation of the commencement date for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026. The tournament support period is scheduled to begin on January 31.
The Proteas will face the Windies in the T20I series from 27th.
Boland Park in Paarl will host the opening match on Tuesday, before the teams move to the Highveld for the second encounter at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Thursday.
The third and final match of the season will take place at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday, January 31.
It will also double as “Pink Day”, replacing the traditional ODI staged to raise funds and awareness in the fight against breast cancer.
Newlands in Cape Town and Buffalo Park in East London, which were part of the original five-match schedule, will now no longer host any men’s international cricket this season.
Both venues will, however, feature during the Proteas Women’s series against Ireland — with Newlands hosting the opening T20I on December 5 and Buffalo Park staging the first ODI on December 13.
South Africa’s premier domestic T20 competition, the Betway SA20, will provide the main course of the summer. The tournament gets under way on Boxing Day at Newlands, where defending champions MI Cape Town will host Aiden Markram’s Durban’s Super Giants in the opening game.
