{"id":518936,"date":"2026-03-04T21:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518936\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T21:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T21:51:08","slug":"new-zealand-posts-nine-wicket-win-over-south-africa-to-reach-mens-t20-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518936\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand posts nine-wicket win over South Africa to reach men’s T20 World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa coach Shukri Conrad has described his side’s nine-wicket defeat to New Zealand in the men’s T20 World Cup semifinals as a “bloody walloping”.<\/p>\n

The Proteas went into the match at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens as the only unbeaten team in the tournament.<\/p>\n

Their winning run included a seven-wicket thrashing of New Zealand in a group match.<\/p>\n

The Black Caps spectacularly turned the tables, however, with opener Finn Allen smashing an \u200cunbeaten 33-ball century to secure victory with more than seven overs to spare.<\/p>\n

“Tonight was not \u200ca choke. I thought it was a bloody walloping,” Conrad told reporters after the match.<\/p>\n

“In order for you to choke, you must have had \u200ca sniff in the game. We didn’t have a sniff.”<\/p>\n

Conrad said the Black Caps put themselves in the \u2060box seat when they restricted the Proteas’ explosive batting \u200cline-up to a modest 8-169.<\/p>\n

“They \u200cgave us absolutely nothing, and they really squeezed particularly well,” Conrad said.<\/p>\n

“Their spinners were exceptional in those conditions.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, it would \u200chave been a nice toss to win, but that’s no excuse. We didn’t post anything close to what would have been competitive.”<\/p>\n

Head says Australia ‘fully committed’ to T20 World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n

Travis Head hits back at the public narrative that has followed Australia’s surprise early exit from the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n

Player-of-the-match Allen said New Zealand’s bowlers set \u200cup the win.<\/p>\n

He heaped praise \u2060on his opening partner Tim Seifert (58), with the pair compiling a decisive first-wicket stand of 117.<\/p>\n

“Timmy started off really strongly, and he looked to get on top of their bowlers early, which then made it easy for me to settle into my innings,” Allen \u2060said.<\/p>\n

“For me, I just looked to play almost a support role to Tim.<\/p>\n

“If it were in my area, I’d try and hit \u200cit for four \u200cor six, and if it wasn’t, just get a single and get him on strike.”<\/p>\n

India and England meet in the second semifinal at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium on Friday morning AEDT.<\/p>\n

The final will be played on Monday morning AEDT at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa coach Shukri Conrad has described his side’s nine-wicket defeat to New Zealand in the men’s T20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,111197,740,1208,2649,195833,1209,1736,87875,25906,1183,85,48682],"class_list":{"0":"post-518936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-black-caps","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-final","14":"tag-finn-allen","15":"tag-india","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-proteas","18":"tag-semifinal","19":"tag-south-africa","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-t20-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}