{"id":103018,"date":"2026-03-04T21:31:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=103018"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:31:01","slug":"sa-vs-nz-black-caps-overpower-proteas-to-book-world-cup-final-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/sa-vs-nz-black-caps-overpower-proteas-to-book-world-cup-final-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"SA vs NZ: Black Caps overpower Proteas to book World Cup final spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: In the first semi-final of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/haris-rauf-might-be-excluded-from-team-for-icc-mens-t20-world-cup\/\">ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup<\/a>, New Zealand thrashed South Africa by 9 wickets to reach the Final.<\/p>\n<p>Finn Allen&#8217;s outstanding century on 33 balls helped New Zealand seal their spot in the Final.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, South Africa set a target of 170 runs for New Zealand to win.<\/p>\n<p>In the match being played in Kolkata, New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner won the toss and invited South Africa to bat first.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa scored 169 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Marco Janssen remained unbeaten on 55 runs.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Aiden Markram was dismissed for 18, de Kock for 10, Dewald Brewers for 34, David Miller for 6, and Stubbs for 29 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Henry, McConkie, and Richin Ravindra took 2 wickets each for New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The second semi-final of the T20 World Cup will be played between India and England in Mumbai tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: In the first semi-final of the ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup, New Zealand thrashed South Africa by 9 wickets to reach the Final. Finn Allen&#8217;s outstanding century on 33 balls helped New Zealand seal their spot in the Final. Earlier, South Africa set a target of 170 runs for New Zealand to win. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":67242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37102],"class_list":["post-103018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sa-vs-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103019,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103018\/revisions\/103019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}