The England cricket team toured Pakistan in October 2024 to play three Test matches against Pakistan cricket team. The Test series formed part of the 2023–2025 ICC World Test Championship. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) finalized the bilateral series as a part of the 2023–2027 ICC Future Tours Programme. In July 2024, the PCB confirmed the fixtures for the tour, as a part of the 2024–25 home international season.
On 20 September 2024, the PCB announced that the second Test would be held in Multan, due to ongoing renovation work at the National Stadium, Karachi in preparation for the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy. The option of moving one or more matches to the United Arab Emirates or Sri Lanka had been considered.
Worldwide broadcasting rights were awarded to a consortium led by TransGroup and ARY. In the United Kingdom, Sky Sports secured a late deal to broadcast the series live on television, whilst the BBC obtained the rights to provide radio coverage on Test Match Special.
In December 2022, during their previous tour of Pakistan, England won all three Test matches played. Only eight players from that tour were included in the 17-man squad for this series.
Squads
Shan Masood (c) Saud Shakeel (vc) Abrar Ahmed Noman Ali Mohammad Ali Salman Ali Agha Saim Ayub Kamran Ghulam Mir Hamza Mohammad Huraira Aamir Jamal Haseebullah Khan (wk) Sajid Khan Zahid Mahmood Mehran Mumtaz Mohammad Rizwan (wk) Abdullah Shafique Ben Stokes (c) Ollie Pope (vc) Rehan Ahmed Gus Atkinson Shoaib Bashir Harry Brook Brydon Carse Jordan Cox (wk) Zak Crawley Ben Duckett Josh Hull Jack Leach Matthew Potts Joe Root Jamie Smith (wk) Olly Stone Chris Woakes
On 26 September 2024, Josh Hull was ruled out of the series with a quad injury. On the same day, the PCB announced that Zahid Mahmood would join the Pakistan squad in training, but that it would be reduced in size to 15 players before the first Test. On 5 October, Ben Stokes was ruled out of the first Test due to the hamstring injury which had prevented him taking part in England's previous Test series against Sri Lanka. After taking charge of the side during that series, Ollie Pope was appointed captain for the fourth consecutive game. (Online article, published a day earlier, has a different title). Olly Stone was unavailable for the first Test, having planned to return to the United Kingdom three days prior to his wedding on 12 October.
Shaheen Afridi, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Babar Azam and Naseem Shah were dropped by Pakistan prior to the second and third Tests, for which Abrar Ahmed was unavailable for selection as he was recovering from Dengue fever.
Test series
The team of match officials for the series, headed by Richie Richardson as referee, was announced by the PCB on 3 October 2024.
1st Test
2nd Test
3rd Test
Notes
References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo