LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday announced that their U19 side will tour South Africa for seven 50-over matches as part of their ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2020 preparations.
The World Cup will be staged in South Africa from 17 January to 9 February 2020.
The U19 series against South Africa U19 will be played in Pietermaritzburg, capital of KwaZulu-Natal, and Durban, the province’s largest city, from 19 June to 7 July.
This will be the U19’s second important tour this year and is aligned to the PCB’s strategy of reviving and investing on pathway cricket.
Apart from the U19 tours, aU16 side was in the United Arab Emirates earlier this year for a series against Australia, while they will be embarking on a tour to Bangladesh on Thursday.
PCB Director – International Cricket, Zakir Khan here said: “This tour will be one of the cornerstones of our preparations for next year’s ICC U19 Cricket World Cup, which will also be held in South Africa. I have no doubts that the next generation of cricketers will benefit immensely from the seven 50-over matches from experience and exposure perspectives,” he said.
“Apart from gaining cricketing knowledge, the Pakistani lads will also get the opportunity to build relationships with their South African counterparts as well as learning and understanding local culture, which are very crucial in terms of players’ development when we look into the future,” he said.
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