{"id":452127,"date":"2026-03-01T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452127\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:52:09","slug":"t20-world-cup-2026-results-south-africa-beat-zimbabwe-to-set-up-new-zealand-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/452127\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup 2026 results: South Africa beat Zimbabwe to set up New Zealand semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa produced an unconvincing performance with the bat but beat Zimbabwe by five wickets to set up a semi-final against New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An 18-ball 42 from Dewald Brevis at number four proved crucial as wickets tumbled in South Africa&#8217;s chase of 154 before George Linde (30 off 21) and Tristan Stubbs (21 off 24) saw them over the line with 13 balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa, who have won all seven of their matches in this tournament, are searching for a maiden T20 World Cup title having previously reached the final in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The result also confirms England, who finished top of Group 2 in the Super 8s, will face either India or West Indies in the last four as neither side will be able to match South Africa&#8217;s haul of six points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They meet in the final Super 8 game at 13:30 GMT, with the winner progressing to the semi-finals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;South Africa are going to be hard to stop. They have ticked every box in this tournament,&#8221; said former Australia wicketkeeper Ryan Campbell on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They have a massive belief around the group and are starting to bask in the glory of their younger players who have developed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Today was about getting sometime under the belts of the back-ups in case some players need a rest.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa produced an unconvincing performance with the bat but beat Zimbabwe by five wickets to set up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-452127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}