In the latest Men’s Future Tours Programme (FTP) for the 2023-27 cycle, tri-series is all set to make a comeback in the calendar, with Pakistan hosting New Zealand and South Africa for an ODI tri-series in February 2025 and then playing hosts to England and Sri Lanka for another tri-series in October-November 2026.
In T20Is, Zimbabwe are slated to host New Zealand and South Africa for a tri-series in July 2025.Asked if reviving the tri-series and quadrangular series would save the future of bilateral ODI cricket, Stokes was undecided and stressed on the current cricketing schedule being unsustainable, mainly for all-format players.
“I got no idea. The thing people who organise things need to look at is what’s the best way to get the best product out there and have the best product to get best players from every country play as many games as possible whatever the format is. But at the moment, it just doesn’t seem to be the way. There seems to be series after series, series overlapping.”