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Who will win the 2nd T20 Cricket match between New Zealand and South Africa?<\/p>\n
With the 1st T20 Cricket<\/a> match of this five-match series in the rearview, the second New Zealand vs South Africa men\u2019s clash is on the horizon.<\/p>\n Given the low-scoring affair of the first go-around<\/a>, the second match is promising to deliver much more in the way of run support. In the first match, neither team was able to eclipse 100 runs. That is an incredibly strange occurrence, but it should not happen again, especially at the venue for this match.<\/p>\n Here are match predictions, the starting XI for both squads, and where you can watch the action.<\/p>\n New Zealand vs South Africa 2nd T20 Cricket Match Predictions<\/p>\n The second match of this 2026 T20 cricket series will move venues, from Mount Maunganui to Seddon Park, Hamilton. Because of this venue change, it is believed the second match of this series will be a much higher-scoring affair.<\/p>\n ESPNcricinfo reports that team scores of at least 180 runs are commonplace for the Hamilton venue.<\/p>\n \u201cTuesday\u2019s game will be the 14th T20I at Seddon Park, and eight of those games had first-innings scores of 180 and more,\u201d the outlet wrote.<\/a> \u201cBoth\u00a0New Zealand\u00a0and\u00a0South Africa\u00a0might enjoy the change of scenery on Tuesday when the series shifts to Hamilton, which yielded a first innings total of 240 in its\u00a0most recent T20 game.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n CricketAddictor believes South Africa has the advantage heading into Tuesday\u2019s match.<\/p>\n \u201cSouth Africa has the upper hand against New Zealand in the T20I format,\u201d wrote the outlet prior to the second match<\/a>. \u201cThey have won four games in the five outings in the T20 World Cups, with one match they lost was in the recently concluded ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026. Both sides have come into this T20I series with a mixture of experienced and inexperienced players.\u201d<\/p>\n As far as Google\u2019s win probability is concerned, the odds favor New Zealand. Google has a 61 percent win probability for New Zealand and 39 percent for South Africa.<\/p>\n Starting XIs for New Zealand vs South Africa<\/p>\n Here are the predicted starting XIs for the second T20 cricket match of the New Zealand vs South Africa series. *Note: The XIs will be updated when the captains confirm following the coin toss.<\/p>\n New Zealand Predicted Starting XI Most countries will be able to stream the match on either Fubo<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Willow<\/a>. In New Zealand, cricket fans can enjoy the matches on TVNZ+, TVNZ 1, and Sport Nation.<\/p>\n Cricket fans in the United Kingdom can watch the matches on TNT Sports. In India, the SonyLIV website<\/a> and app are available for viewers, as well as the Sony Sports Network. The match is scheduled for Tuesday, March 17th, 2026, at 11:45 AM IST, 12:15 AM Mountain Time (MT), and 8:15 PM NZDT.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tCaleb Kerney<\/a> Caleb covers the NHL for Heavy.com. He has covered professional hockey since 2022, including bylines at Dobber Prospects, The Hockey Writers, and The Hockey News. More about Caleb Kerney<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Cricket\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Who will win the 2nd T20 Cricket match between New Zealand and South Africa? With the 1st…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-544104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544104","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=544104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDevon Conway (Wicketkeeper)
\nTom Latham
\nTim Robinson
\nNick Kelly
\nJosh Clarkson
\nMitchell Santner (Captain)
\nJames Neesham
\nCole McConchie
\nZak Foulkes
\nKyle Jamieson
\nLockie Ferguson
\nSouth Africa Predicted Starting XI
\nTony de Zorzi
\nWiaan Mulder\/Jordan Hermann
\nConnor Esterhuizen
\nRubin Hermann
\nJason Smith<\/a>
\nDian Forrester
\nGeorge Linde
\nGerald Coetzee
\nKeshav Maharaj (Captain)
\nNqobani Mokoena
\nOttneil Baartman
\nWhere to Watch New Zealand vs South Africa 2nd T20 Cricket Match<\/p>\n