Pakistan cricket team got a five-month break from international cricket due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

However, the challenges for the Men in Green are set to get tougher as they will compete in various ICC tournaments and the inaugural ICC Test championship during the next three years, under the ICC Future Tours Programme (FTP).

Following are the scheduled series for Pakistan cricket team under the ICC FTP until the 2023 ICC World Cup:

2021

September-October: Home series vs New Zealand - Three ODIs and five T20Is

October: Home series vs England - Two T20Is

October-November: 2021 ICC T20 World Cup in India

November-December: Away series vs Bangladesh - Two Tests and three T20Is

December: Home series vs West Indies - Three ODIs and three T20Is

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2022

February-March: Home series vs Australia - Two Tests, three ODIs and three T20Is

July-August: Away series vs Sri Lanka - Two Tests and three ODIs

October: Home series vs England - Five ODIs

October-November: Home series vs New Zealand - Two Tests and three ODIs

October-November: 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia

December: Home series vs England - Three Tests

2023

October-November: 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup in India

Note: The author is a journalist at Cricket Pakistan and tweets at @zaidhassan89