New Zealand achieved a big victory against South Africa..!!

India team achieved a brilliant victory against australia in the first semi-final match of the Champions Trophy 2025 series. Following this, south africa and new zealand teams faced each other in the second semi-final match. In the match that started in Lahore, the new zealand team won the toss and chose to bat first.

New Zealand innings:
In the new zealand team that batted first, Rachin ravindra 108 (101), and Kane Williamson 102 (94) continued to play brilliantly. This partnership was amazing accumulating 164 (154) runs. Following this, Daryl Mitchell and Glenn Phillips both missed half-centuries in one ball. Mitchell scored 49 (37) and Phillips 49 (27). new zealand batsmen put up a strong performance as they posted 362/6 in 50 overs. Lungi Ngidi took 3 wickets for 72 in 10 overs. Rabada took 2 wickets for 70 in 10 overs.
South African innings:
Chasing the mega target, south africa was only able to score half-centuries from captain Temba Bavuma (56) (71) and Van der Dussen (69) (66). Aiden Markram got off to a good start with 31 (29) but failed to capitalize on it. Hendrik Klaasen also fell miserably with 3 (7). In the final stages, David Miller was left to fight alone. As the need to score more than 40 runs per over began to arise after 45 overs, the new zealand bowlers started bowling aggressively. In this situation, Miller coped with it well and scored a century in 67 balls. The South African team scored 312/9 runs in 50 overs and lost by a margin of 50 runs.

Mitchell Santner took 3 wickets in 10 overs. Glenn Phillips and Matt Hendry took 2 wickets each. In this match, the new zealand spinners bowled well even though the pitch was not conducive to spin. Having corrected the mistakes they made in the last league match against india and performed superbly, it is expected that they will definitely make a big impact in the final match to be held on Sunday.
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Sowmiya Sriram

05/03/2025 10:37 PM