Sri Lanka's South Africa tour schedule amended

Omnisports 06:04 - 22 February 2016

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Cricket: The third and final Test between Sri Lanka and South Africa will now take place next January rather than in December this year.

Sri Lanka will start their tour of South Africa 10 days later than originally planned to enable Proteas players to take part in the Ram Slam.

Cricket South Africa (CSA) requested the amendment to the schedule and their Sri Lankan counterparts approved a new itinerary, which will see the third Test at the Wanderers start on January 12 next year rather than mid-December 2016.

Sri Lanka will start their tour – which includes three Tests, a five-match one-day international series and three Twenty20 matches – with a three-day tour match against a South African Invitation XI in Potchefstroom which starts on December 18.

CSA chief executive Haroon Lorgat said: "The changes resulted from market research indicating that a Test match would work a lot better in Johannesburg during January plus our desire to keep the first half of December free for the Ram Slam T20 Challenge so that all our Proteas can participate in the tournament.

"In future years we will design our schedules accordingly."