T20 World Cup: New Zealand got the ticket to the final by defeating New Zealand badly in the semi-finals of T20 World Cup 2026. New Zealand defeated South Africa by 9 wickets. In this way the New Zealand team managed to reach the final of the T20 World Cup for the second time. Earlier, the Kiwi team had reached the title match of T20 World Cup in 2021. However, then the team had to face defeat against Australia. Now the Kiwi team has a great chance to win the title.
Finn Allen played a historic innings
Opener Finn Allen played an important role in getting New Zealand a ticket to the final. Allen scored a stormy century. He scored a century in just 33 balls and led his team to victory in just 12.5 overs. Finn Allen hit 10 fours and 8 skyscraper sixes in his record century innings. At the same time, opener Tim Seaford played an inning of 58 runs.
Earlier, South Africa batted first and scored 169 runs. In this match played at the historic Eden Garden in Kolkata, the innings of the African team was full of ups and downs, but in the end the score was successful in reaching beyond 150 due to the explosive batting of Marco Yenson. New Zealand won the toss and chose to bowl first and initially its decision proved correct. South Africa lost the wickets of Quinton de Kock and Ryan Rickelton for just 12 runs. The team came under pressure due to the initial setbacks.
Captain Aiden Markram and Dewald Brewis tried to get the innings back on track by adding 43 runs for the third wicket. However, at the score of 55, Markram was out after scoring 18 runs. Soon after this, David Miller and Brewis also returned to the pavilion and the team’s five wickets had fallen till 77 runs. At that time it seemed that it would be difficult to reach the score of 130.
Yenson scored a half century
In this difficult time, Tristan Stubbs and Marco Yenson took charge. Both of them gave new life to the innings by adding 73 runs for the sixth wicket and took the score close to 150. Lockie Ferguson broke this partnership by dismissing Stubbs. Stubbs scored 29 runs. Despite the continuous falling of wickets, Marco Jenson stood firm at one end. He scored unbeaten 55 runs in just 30 balls with the help of 2 fours and 5 sixes. Due to his aggressive innings, South Africa was successful in scoring 169 runs for 8 wickets.
For the Kiwi team, Rachin Ravindra took 2 wickets for 29 runs in 4 overs. Matt Henry took 2 wickets for 34 runs in 4 overs. Cole McConkey took 2 wickets for 9 runs in 1 over, while Lockie Ferguson and Jimmy Neesham got 1 wicket each.
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