{"id":312617,"date":"2026-03-04T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312617\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:30:07","slug":"live-new-zealand-put-south-africa-into-bat-in-semi-final-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/312617\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: New Zealand put South Africa into bat in semi-final | ICC Men&#8217;s T20 World Cup, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa will look to continue their perfect run as they take on New Zealand in the first semi-final of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/mens-t20-world-cup-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026<\/a> in Kolkata on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>2024 finalists South Africa have a perfect seven out of seven record this time, and have won 15 of their last 16 matches at the tournament. New Zealand have also completed in a T20 World final once before this, in 2021 when they lost to Australia in the summit clash.<\/p>\n<p>The Proteas scored a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/mens-t20-world-cup-2026\/matches\/268127\/south-africa-vs-new-zealand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">seven-wicket victory over New Zealand<\/a> in their group stage clash when the two sides met in Ahmedabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa will look to continue their perfect run as they take on New Zealand in the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41840,41838,41836,41855,122208,41860,41841,41835,41859,122206,41842,41837,122211,111,43,139,69,122207,122209,41839,122210],"class_list":{"0":"post-312617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-cricket-breaking-news","9":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","10":"tag-cricket-news","11":"tag-cricket-series-updates","12":"tag-cricket-world-cup-headlines","13":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","14":"tag-cricket-world-news","15":"tag-icc","16":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","17":"tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-news","18":"tag-international-cricket-news","19":"tag-latest-cricket-news","20":"tag-latest-icc-announcements","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-t20-world-cup-news-updates","26":"tag-today-cricket-match-news","27":"tag-today-cricket-news-update","28":"tag-world-cup-cricket-articles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}