🏏ICC Champions Trophy 2025: SA vs NZ: 2nd Semi Final: 5 March 2025🏏 - Page 49

The Kiwis have posted a mammoth total on the board after opting to bat. They played with a solid gameplan and most of their batters flourished on a flat batting surface. Young got off to a start but couldn't convert it into something substantial as he fell to Ngidi. Rachin looked in good flow from the word-go and kept manipulating the field with his strokeplay. Williamson was jittery to begin with but once he settled down, he came into his own usual self. The duo mixed caution with aggression to perfection and ensured that the runs kept coming at a good clip. Both not only raised their respective fifties but ensured that they converted them into centuries. Both fell against the run of play but ensured that they did a fine job.

17:48 Local Time, 12:48 GMT, 18:18 IST: The Kiwis have posted a mammoth total on the board after opting to bat. They played with a solid gameplan and most of their batters flourished on a flat batting surface. Young got off to a start but couldn't convert it into something substantial as he fell to Ngidi. Rachin looked in good flow from the word-go and kept manipulating the field with his strokeplay. Williamson was jittery to begin with but once he settled down, he came into his own usual self. The duo mixed caution with aggression to perfection and ensured that the runs kept coming at a good clip. Both not only raised their respective fifties but ensured that they converted them into centuries.

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Ananth: "The most famous of those 7 out of 40 300 chases is probably one of the best 300 chase ever though - for any country."

Rachin Ravindra - I guess it was the partnerships, Young and Kane helped me get through the ebbs and flows, at times my timing isn't so great, but KW helped me get through that phase. At times, the ball held a bit and the bowlers also bowled good lines and lengths. Hopefully, the ball will continue to hold onto the surface a bit more under lights. He's a classy player (on Kane Williamson), fun to watch him bat from the other end. The pitch held up at times, looked a bit crumbly, so the key will be to bowl into the surface, use the cutters and variations (on the bowling plans).

Only twice has a higher target been chased in ODIs - both by South Africa against Australia - 435 at the Wanderers, Johannesburg in 2006 and 372 at Kingsmead, Durban in 2016.

Multiple individual hundreds in an innings in CT

2 - Virender Sehwag & Sourav Ganguly (IND) vs ENG, Colombo RPS, 2002

2 - Chris Gayle & Dwayne Bravo (WI) vs ENG, Ahmedabad, 2006

2 - Ricky Ponting & Shane Watson (AUS) vs ENG, Centurion, 2009 SF

2 - Shakib Al Hasan & Mahmudullah (BAN) vs NZ, Cardiff, 2017

2 - Will Young & Tom Latham (NZ) vs PAK, Karachi, 2025

2 - Rachin Ravindra & Kane Williamson (NZ) vs SA, Lahore, 2025 SF

This is just the second instance of New Zealand scoring 300-plus against South Africa in an ODI, after they had gunned down the 305-run target at the same venue during the tri-series last month

Rachin Ravindra - I guess it was the partnerships, Young and Kane helped me get through the ebbs and flows, at times my timing isn't so great, but KW helped me get through that phase. At times, the ball held a bit and the bowlers also bowled good lines and lengths. Hopefully, the ball will continue to hold onto the surface a bit more under lights. He's a classy player (on Kane Williamson), fun to watch him bat from the other end. The pitch held up at times, looked a bit crumbly, so the key will be to bowl into the surface, use the cutters and variations (on the bowling plans).