South Africa will tackle New Zealand in match quantity 32 of the 2023 World Cup on the Maharashtra Cricket Affiliation Stadium in Pune on Wednesday. This would be the seventh match for each groups within the event. Whereas the Proteas are in second place within the factors desk with 10 factors, the Kiwis are third with eight factors.
South Africa started their 2023 World Cup journey in record-breaking trend, smashing 428/5 in opposition to Sri Lanka in Delhi – the highest-ever whole within the males’s ODI World Cup. They went on to beat Australia by 134 runs earlier than struggling a shock 38-run defeat by the hands of the Netherlands.
The Proteas have been unbeaten of their final three matches, although, hammering England by 229 runs and Bangladesh by 149 runs earlier than sneaking house by one wicket in opposition to Pakistan.
New Zealand, in the meantime, bought off to a sensational begin within the World Cup, profitable their first 4 matches in a row. They hammered England by 9 wickets, the Netherlands by 99 runs, Bangladesh by eight wickets, and Afghanistan by 149 runs.
Of their final two video games, although, the Kiwis have gone all the way down to India and Australia by 4 wickets and 5 runs, respectively.
New Zealand’s dominance over South Africa within the Males’s ODI World Cup
Whereas South Africa take pleasure in a major 41-25 lead over New Zealand within the head-to-head battle within the ODIs, the story is totally completely different in relation to the ODI World Cup. The Kiwis have gained six out of the eight matches performed between the 2 groups within the ICC event. In actual fact, New Zealand have crushed South Africa in each ODI World Cup encounter between the 2 groups, beginning in 2003.
South Africa’s final win over New Zealand within the ODI World Cup got here method again through the 1999 version. The Proteas registered a 74-run win in Birmingham. Jacques Kallis starred with 53* and a couple of/15 as South Africa posted 287/5 batting first earlier than proscribing the opponents to 213/8.
The Kiwis beat the Proteas by 9 wickets [DLS method] in a league match in Johannesburg through the 2003 version. In 2007, New Zealand registered a five-wicket within the Tremendous Eights spherical in St George’s. New Zealand knocked South Africa out of the 2011 World Cup by registering a 49-run win within the third quarter-final in Mirpur.
The Kiwis triggered the Proteas one other heartbreak profitable the 2015 semi-final in Auckland by 4 wickets as Grant Elliott hit a well-known six off the penultimate ball of the match.
Through the earlier ODI World Cup in 2019, Kane Williamson scored an unbeaten hundred in Birmingham as New Zealand chased 242 with 4 wickets in hand in a league fixture.
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Edited by Renin Wilben Albert