Queenstown will be near cricket overload this summer as it hosts both Pakistan and four teams in the under-19 world cup.
Pakistan will play a New Zealand XI at the Queenstown Events Centre from November 18 to 20, and will host six under-19 games in January.
Those events will form part of an unprecedented summer of international cricket in Otago and Southland.
Dunedin's University Oval is hosting a test (against Pakistan) and a one-day international (against Bangladesh), and women's one-day internationals (New Zealand v Australia) are being played in both Queenstown and Invercargill in March.
Pakistan's opposition in Queenstown will be an XI made up of Black Caps test players - like Tim McIntosh and Daniel Flynn - who are not in the limited-overs squads, as well as fringe internationals.
The tourists will then move to Dunedin for the first test at the University Oval, starting on November 24.
Pakistan played in Queenstown in January 2004, when it beat New Zealand by six wickets in a one-day international.
The under-19 world cup was last held in New Zealand in 2002, when Carisbrook hosted a pool that featured two massive mismatches.
Australia (480 for six) beat Kenya (50) by 430 runs, and the West Indies (402 for three) beat Scotland (101) by 301 runs.
Future internationals on show included Australians Cameron White, Shaun Marsh, Beau Casson and Mark Cosgrove, and West Indians Dwayne Bravo, Donovan Pagon, Lendl Simmons and Narsingh Deonarine.
Australia returns to Otago for the 2010 under-19 world cup, joined in Queenstown in Group B by South Africa, Ireland and the United States.
Five games will be played in five days, starting on Friday, January 15.
Other pools are in Christchurch (two) and Napier-New Plymouth, with the top eight teams playing off in Christchurch.
New Zealand, in Group C with Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Canada, has been seeded third for the tournament, India is the No 1 seed and South Africa is No 2.
