Champions Trophy 2025 2nd Semifinal Live Updates : New Zealand in Control after scoring 178 runs at loss of 1 wicket against South Africa

The ongoing Champions Trophy 2025, will be played between New Zealand and South Africa will be played in Lahore today at 2.30 PM IST.

Here in this article we will not only reveal their Head to Head records, Players to watch out for, venue and favorites to face India in the final to be shared in the below format:

Overall Record between New Zealand vs South Africa to be shared in the below format:

Total Matches Played: 70

New Zealand Won: 26

South Africa won: 42

No Result: 4

Result of these two matches held at Lahore for New Zealand and South Africa to be shared in the below format:

New Zealand: 4 out of 5 wins so far in Lahore

South Africa: 6 out of 10 wins in Lahore

Weather Conditions:

When you closely observe the venue and pitch conditions in Lahore it’s going to be extremely hot weather with temperature in 20 degrees and it will get cooler with passage of time.

The batting lineup of both side looks pretty well balanced in all three departments which include- Batting, Bowling and All Rounder.

Talk about Today’s Event so far: 

When you look at Today’s match between South Africa vs New Zealand , Black Caps won the toss and elected to bat first.

Mitchell Santner stated after winning the toss ” We would look to bat first after winning the toss as its a pressure game so we want to put pressure on the opposition by scoring runs upfront”.

Tembe Bavuma stated that “I am not worried for the toss and wanted to bat first but now we would be looking to bowl well and restrict them under the score where we can momentarly have an upper edge over opposition”.

New Zealand so far had scored 127 runs at the loss of 1 wicket where Rachin Ravindra scored 69 unbeaten runs from 71 balls complemented by Kane Williamson who scored unbeaten 37 runs from 50 balls where the only wicket came from Lungi Ngidi the only bowler from Proteas who clinched wicket for them.

The match is held in Lahore, which is an absolute batting track, so anything close 360-370 runs will be good score to defend for Black Caps.

Today’s semifinal will decide the 2nd semifinalist and it would be imperatively important to understand, how will face India among these two .

Considering flat Lahore Pitch it is pretty evident and score close to 370 runs will be good total for them to defend.

You can watch these games live on Star Sports Channel and the same will be streamed on Jiohotstar app.

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