ISLAMABAD – Pakistan will feature in the marquee Boxing Day and New Yeartests as they tour South Africa for the first time since 2013.

The first test will be played in Pretoria from Dec. 26-30, before matchesin Cape Town (Jan. 3-7) and Johannesburg (Jan. 11-15).

The sides will also clash in five ODIs and three Twenty20 Internationalsthat will follow the test series.

There will be a just a week’s break before the end of Pakistan’s tour andthe arrival of Sri Lanka for tests in Durban (Feb. 13-17) and PortElizabeth (Feb 21-25).

The sides will also be involved in a series of five ODIs and three Twenty20fixtures that will finish on Mar. 24.

South Africa’s summer will get underway with a limited overs tour byZimbabwe that will include three ODIs and three Twenty20 fixtures betweenSept. 30 and Oct. 14.

South Africa are ranked second in the world in tests and ODIs, but onlysixth in Twenty20 Internationals. Their next assignment is a tour of SriLanka that has matches in all three formats and starts in mid-July.