The South African women's cricket team will embark on its first-ever tour of Pakistan between August and September this year, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed on Friday.

The Pakistan women's team hosts South Africa for the first time in a limited series in September.

South Africa will contest three T20Is, followed by three ODIs in Pakistan, with games scheduled to take place from September 1-14. The South African team will arrive in Pakistan on August 27 and all matches will be played at the National Stadium in Karachi.

At the inaugural ICC Women's Championship in 2014–16, Pakistan hosted South Africa in Sharjah, with the African side winning the series 2-1. In the 2017–20 edition, Pakistan toured South Africa with the series ending in a 1-1 draw after the third ODI in Benoni ended in a thrilling tie.

South Africa will join the list of high profille women's national teams touring Pakistan as the fourth team of its kind. Previously, women from West Indies visited Karachi in January 2019 for three T20Is, followed by Sri Lanka and Ireland playing ODIs and T20Is in Karachi and Lahore in May and November 2022 respectively.

The home series against South Africa will be one of the five ICC Women's Championship series that Pakistan will participate in in the 2023/24 season. In October, Pakistan will travel to Bangladesh, followed by tours to New Zealand in November and England in May 2024. Before their tour to England, Pakistan will host the West Indies in April 2024.

This means that Pakistan's women cricketers will compete in 15 ODIs and 17 T20Is of the ICC Women's Championship over the next 12 months. The number of T20Is is likely to increase as the team is also expected to compete in the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China in September. The Pakistan women's team had won gold in Guangzhou (2010) and Incheon (2014) when women's cricket was included in the Asian Games.

The Pakistan women's cricket team is ranked second on the 10-team points table while the South African women's cricket team is sixth. The Indian women's team tops the table with six wins from six games, while Pakistan have five wins from nine games.

“The next 12 months will be incredibly busy for the Pakistan women's cricket team and I look forward to the tasks ahead with excitement and anticipation. "These games will greatly contribute to our efforts to gain experience and exposure and close the gap to the leaders," said Pakistan captain Nida Dar.

South Africa's captain Sune Luus was also delighted with the tour of Pakistan and said: "I am very happy to be able to play a bilateral series in Pakistan again. Pakistan are always a very competitive and dangerous side at home so I believe that will be a good series.

"The participation of the ODIs in the ICC Women's Championship is very important for women's cricket and we are all looking forward to it."

Schedule

• 27 Aug – South Africa team arrival
• 1 Sep – First T20I v South Africa
• 3 Sep – Second T20I v South Africa
• 5 Sep – Third T20I v South Africa
• 8 Sep – First ODI v South Africa
• 11 Sep – Second ODI v South Africa
• 14 Sep – Third ODI v South Africa