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The 2nd Semi-Final Match of the ICC Champions Trophy, 2025 was played today between South Africa and New Zealand, at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. In which New Zealand wins over South Africa by 50 runs.
TOSS- New Zealand won the toss and opted to bat.
New Zealand inning- New Zealand batted first after winning the toss, started the inning very strongly, Will Young and Rachin Ravindra came to start the inning and gave a strong start, the first wicket was dismissed for 48 runs in 7.5 overs, Will Young dismissed for 21 runs in 23 balls, next batsman Kane Williamson came to bat handled the inning and played a very brilliant a century and a half-century partnership of 164 runs with Rachin Ravindra for the second wicket, the second wicket was dismissed for 212 runs in 33.3 over, Rachin Ravindra dismissed after playing a very brilliant powerful century inning of 108 runs with the help of 1 six and 13 boundaries in jut 101 balls, followed by Daryl Mitchell came to bat and handled the inning with Kane Williamson, the third wicket was dismissed for 251 runs in 39.5 over, Kane Williamson was dismissed after playing a very brilliant powerful century inning of 102 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 10 boundaries in just 94 balls, next batsman Tom Latham came to bat and he was dismissed very quickly just for 4 runs in 5 balls as fourth wicket in first ball of the 42nd over, the team score was 257 runs, followed by Glenn Phillips came to bat handled the inning and played a very brilliant half-century partnership of 58 runs with Daryl Mitchell, the fifth wicket was dismissed for 314 runs in first ball of the 47th over, Daryl Mitchell was dismissed after playing a very brilliant inning of 49 runs with the help of 1 six and 4 boundaries in just 37 balls, next batsman Michael Bracewell came to bat and he good strike rotate with Glenn Phillips, the sixth wicket was dismissed for 360 runs in fifth ball of the final over, Michael Bracewell was dismissed after scoring 16 runs in 12 balls, followed by Mitchell Santner came to bat and he was remains unbeaten for 2 runs in 1 ball with Glenn Phillips, and Glenn Phillips played an unbeaten brilliant quick inning of 49 runs with the help of 1 six and 6 boundaries in just 27 balls. In this way, New Zealand scored 362 runs for losing just 6 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs and set a target of 363 runs for South Africa.
South African bowler- Lungi Ngidi took 3 wickets for 72 runs in his spell, Kagiso Rabada 2 wickets for 70 runs in his spell, Wiaan Mulder 1 wicket for 48 runs in 6 overs, Keshav Maharaj was wicketless for 65 runs in his spell, Marco Jansen was wicketless for 79 runs in his pell, and Aiden Markram also wicketless for 23 runs in his spell.
South African inning- South Africa chasing 363 runs in the second inning could manage just 312 runs. South Africa started the inning very well but the ending was very poor, David Miller played a very brilliant unbeaten century inning of 100 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 10 boundaries in just 67 balls, Rassie van der Dussen played very brilliant half-century inning of 69 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 4 boundaries in 66 balls, Temba Bavuma also played a brilliant half-century inning of 56 runs with the help of 1 six and 4 boundaries in 71 balls, Aiden Markram scored 31 runs in 29 balls, apart from this, Ryan Rickelton dismissed just for 17 runs in 12 balls, Heinrich Klaasen 3 runs in 7 balls, Wiaan Mulder 8 runs in 13 balls, Marco Jansen 3 runs in 7 balls, Keshav Maharaj 1 run in 4 balls, Kagiso Rabada 16 runs in 22 balls, and Kagiso Rabada was remains unbeaten for 1 run in 2 balls. In this way, South Africa could manage just 312 runs in the stipulated 50 overs and lost the match by a big margin of 50 runs.
New Zealand bowler- Mitchell Santner took 3 wickets just for 43 runs in his spell, Matt Henry 2 wickets for 43 runs in 7 overs, Glenn Phillips 2 wickets for 27 runs in 3 overs, Michael Bracewell 1 wicket for 53 runs in his spell, Rachin Ravindra 1 wicket for 20 runs in 5 overs, William ORourke was wicketless for 69 runs in 8 overs, and Kyle Jamieson also wicketless for 57 runs in 7 overs.
PLAYER OF THE MATCH- New Zealand's Rachin all-rounder Rachin Ravindra was selected as the player of the match, he performed very brilliant batting as well as also in bowling, played a very brilliant powerful century inning of 108 runs with the help of 1 six and 13 boundaries in jut 101 balls, and also got 1 wicket just for 20 runs in 5 overs.
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