New Zealand emerged as snug winners over South Africa within the second sport of the Tri Nation Collection 2025. They managed to chase down the 305-run goal with relative ease, profitable the sport by six wickets and eight deliveries to spare. This was New Zealand’s second consecutive win on the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore within the ongoing tri-series.
Being put in to bat first, South Africa acquired off to a comparatively respectable begin. Skipper, Temba Bavuma was the primary to depart. Matthew Breetzke and Jason Smith appeared fairly snug within the center. Smith appeared all set to get to his second ODI half-century in as many matches, solely to get run-out via an excellent piece of labor from Mitchell Santner. Kyle Verreynne fell shortly after. Wiaan Mulder joined Breetzke within the center. Breetzke went on to get to his maiden ODI ton within the forty first over.
Ben Sears was on the receiving finish of a relentless 20-run blitz from Breetzke, who, in the identical over, grew to become the primary batter to get to the 150-run mark. He couldn’t stick with it additional, because the swashbuckling opener miscued his shot to mid-off within the very subsequent over. From thereon, Mulder dealt just a few blows with the bat. South Africa ended up scoring 304/6 on the finish of fifty overs. Michael Bracewell was the most-economical bowler for the Kiwis, conceding solely 43 runs in his allotted quota.
Coming to the run-chase, the Black Caps made a promising begin to their powerplay. The dismissal of Will Younger introduced Kane Williamson to the center. The 2 of them progressed fairly easily into the innings. They rotated the strike fairly nicely along with dispatching the unfastened balls effectively. On the finish of 30 overs, New Zealand have been positioned comfortably at 198/1. Devon Conway, coming in as a substitute for Rachin Ravindra, agonisingly fell in need of his ton by three runs after Williamson introduced up his first ton in ODIs since June 2019.
A double-wicket maiden by batting all-rounder, Senuran Muthusamy, appeared as if the brakes could be utilized to the innings of New Zealand. Glenn Phillips joined arms with Williamson to information the Black Caps via to a six-wicket victory. Regardless of the pretty slender margin of victory when it comes to the balls remaining, New Zealand have been in management all alongside. The 612-run mixture was the very best cumulative rating in any of the 73 ODIs performed between the 2 sides.
Take a look at how X reacted to Match 2 of the Tri Nation Collection between NZ and SA
“New Zealand 🇳🇿 clinch a 6-wicket win over South Africa 🇿🇦 in Lahore! Kane Williamson’s masterful 133* seals the chase of 305 with 8 balls to spare. #NZvsSA #Cricket”
#NZvSA pic.twitter.com/wQeOsiLAm5
— Waleed Malik 🏏🇵🇰 (@WaleedMalik_210) February 10, 2025
DYK: That is the very best profitable chase for New Zealand towards South Africa in ODIs.#3Nations1Trophy #NZvSA #NZvsSA
— Vishwesh Gaur (@iumvishwesh) February 10, 2025
Kane williamson is in Pink scorching type. The batting prowess of NZ is on subsequent degree #NzvsSa #NZvSA
— John Wick (@invincible005) February 10, 2025
Very respectable crowd for a impartial sport on a Monday morning which have caught round all day.
If Pakistan wish to host extra tri-series, worries about low attendances for non-home match is probably not an enormous situation, particularly on the Gaddafi. #NZvsSA
— Danyal Rasool (@Danny61000) February 10, 2025
Comes after virtually 15 months in ODI format and scored 50 within the first match and now 100 within the second match.. Kanos all the time delivers 😍 #kanewilliamson #NZvsSA #triseries
— Shamal Shingte (@ShamalShingte) February 10, 2025
Most 100s amongst lively gamers in Worldwide Cricket:
81 – Virat Kohli
52 – Joe Root
49 – Rohit Sharma*
48 – Steven Smith
47 – Kane Williamson*#INDvENG #INDvsENG #NZvsSA #NZvSA https://t.co/Cn4csR2n0b— sudharshan sridharan (@sudharshansrid1) February 10, 2025
World class batsman stays all the time world classsssss
What n inning Kane Williamson ❤️🔥🥰#KaneWilliamson #NZvsSA pic.twitter.com/K5E9HTpt7M
— Qadir Khawaja (@iamqadirkhawaja) February 10, 2025
That is turning out to be a superb run chase. Kiwis want 42 of 51 balls to chase down Proteas rating of 304. Kane Williamson remains to be on the market batting at 111.
P.S. It is the identical rating India chased down yesterday with Indian captain Rohit Sharma scoring a century.#NZvsSA…— SaRoKoLe (@krikat4444) February 10, 2025
Kane Williamson in ODIs
100 in New Zealand
100 in India
100 in England
100 in South Africa
100 in Pakistan
100 in Bangladesh
100 in UAE
100 in Zimbabwe#NZvsSA#SAvsNZ pic.twitter.com/3HCLpxnROq— Arnav Singh (@Arnavv43) February 10, 2025
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