Cricket: Black Caps make split tour of South Africa

New Zealand's cricketers will undertake a split tour of South Africa this season, with one-day internationals in October and tests in April.

Cricket South Africa confirmed it and New Zealand Cricket had agreed to the itinerary after difficulties fitting the full tour into a packed international schedule.

New Zealand will play five one-dayers and a Twenty20 match between October 14 and November 6, before returning home for the Chappell Hadlee Trophy one-dayers against Australia in early December.

They will return to South Africa for three tests in Centurion near Pretoria, Cape Town and Johannesburg in April and early May.

The schedules were complicated by the Super Series matches between Australia and the World 11 in October, and South Africa's requirement to play five one-day internationals in India in November.

New Zealand's itinerary:-

October 14 v South Africa A, Benoni

Oct 16 v South Africa A, Potchefstroom

Oct 21 v South Africa, Twenty20, Johannesburg

Oct 23 v South Africa, first ODI, Bloemfontein

Oct 28 v South Africa, second ODI, Cape Town

Oct 30 v South Africa, third ODI, Port Elizabeth

November 4 v South Africa, fourth ODI, Durban

Nov 6 v South Africa, fifth ODI, Centurion

April 7-10 v Rest of South Africa, Benoni

Apr 15-19 v South Africa, first test, Centurion

Apr 27-May 1 v South Africa, second test, Cape Town

May 5-9 v South Africa, third test, Johannesburg

- NZPA