The one-off Test is scheduled to be played in Hobart from November 27, Afghanistan’s Cricket Board confirmed on Wednesday, adding the Afghan national team has got approval from officials to play the match.
The Test match will be the first that Afghanistan is set to play since the Taliban’s takeover.
A spokesman for the Cricket Australia said that planning for the historic match was “well underway.”
“There is goodwill between CA and the Afghanistan Cricket Board to make the match happen, which immediately follows the ICC T20 World Cup in the UAE in which the Afghanistan team is due to play,” the spokesperson added.
Last week, Afghanistan’s proposed series against Pakistan in Sri Lanka was postponed due to travel complications, with no commercial flights currently coming in or out of Kabul’s international airport.
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