SA vs NZ LIVE Score, Champions Trophy 2025 Semi Final: South Africa’s bid for final fading away as wickets tumble

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: South Africa’s run rate had got to 6.27 at the end of that over from O’Rourke. But Santner’s ploy to take pace off at one end seems to have worked. Bracewell has completed two overs and SA’s run rate at the end of the 14th has dropped to 5.64.

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: That’s more like it! Will O’Rourke replaces Henry in the 11th over and Van der Dussen welcomes him with a four past cover first ball. Three singles after that and then Bavuma gets an edge on the fifth ball. No slips though and the ball races away to the boundary. Two runs off the last ball and Bavuma moves to 32 off 36, Van der Dussen on 20 off 18.

SA 69/1 in 11 overs

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Henry returns for his fifth over in the ninth, Rassie van der Dussen gets off strike second ball and then Bavuma launches the third ball over mid-off for four. Single fifth ball and Van der Dussen punches Henry off a length for another four. Bavuma on 15 off 27, van der Dussen on 14 off 15.

South Africa 46/1 in 9 overs

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: The South African captain is going nowhere at the moment. Henry just bowled his fourth over, Jamieson to now bowl his fifth and Bavuma is in a rut. Just three runs off that seventh over and Bavuma is on eight off 23 balls. Bavuma has played a few shots, the only problem is that they have either gone straight to a fielder or else not quite but the Kiwis are so good they stop that anyhow.

SA 33/1 in 7 overs

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Rickleton was the man who was getting the boundaries, with Bavuma in a hole at the other end. And it is Rickleton who falls. Length ball from Henry on fifth stump, Rickleton shapes up to punch it but it flies off the outer half of the bat, Bracewell takes a low catch at cover.

Rickelton c Bracewell b Henry 17 (12b)

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Well that is NOT something you want when chasing 363. He keeps switching between length and full and the bounce he is generating thanks to his extraordinary height has kept the vertically challenged Bavuma pinned. South Africa’s required rate already creeping towards 4.50.

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Well if you are to chase down 363, that is exactly what South Africa need. Henry’s second delivery moves into Rickleton a bit, the batter was leg side of the ball and he gets a thick edge which took the ball over leg stump and to the boundary. Henry then overpitches the fifth ball, Rickleton punches it down the ground for another four. Now Temba Bavuma to face Kyle Jamieson from the other end.

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: The players take the field and we are ready for the chase to begin! South African captain Temba Bavuma opens the batting alongside Ryan Rickelton

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: South Africa will have to do what Australia did a few days ago, when they chased down England’s 352-run target in their Champions Trophy opener. It won’t be easy, but with a formidable batting lineup, the Proteas have the firepower to pull it off. Is this the night they rise to the occasion?

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Here is a gist of what New Zealand’s little GOATling said: 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).

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: South Africa need to chase down a cool 363 runs to make it to the final of the 2025 Champions Trophy. Only thrice in the history of ODI cricket has a score higher than this been chased down successfully. Encouragingly for South Africa, they have been on the winning side two of those times. In the second of those matches, David Miller had smashed an unbeaten 118 in 79 balls. He and Kagiso Rabada are the only two players in this team who had played in that match. Can South Africa do the improbable again? It is Lahore after all, and Australia have shown that a score like this can be chased down.

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Phillips smashes the first ball down the ground for six. The next ball is wide down the leg side and then two runs taken. Then Phillips hits the third ball through extra cover for four. A single next ball and then the fifth ball goes off Michael Bracewell’s thigh pads for four leg byes! A single after that.

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Mitchell is caught at deep midwicket first ball of the 47th by Ngidi. A welcome reprieve for South Africa, New Zealand are looking well set for 350 the way they are going at the moment.

Mitchell c Rabada b Ngidi 49 (37)

New Zealand 314/4 in 46 overs

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Wowza! Singles for Phillips and Mitchell off the first two balls of the 46th by Marco Jansen. Then Phillips works the third ball down the leg side for a four. Then he smashes the next one into the fine leg area for a one-bounce four. The fifth ball is driven down the ground with disdain to make it a hat-trick of fours. The last ball is sent between deep square and deep midwicket for yet another boundary.

Phillips on 26 off 17, Mitchell on 49 off 36.

New Zealand 314/4 in 46 overs

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: There are the big hits!

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Or rather a late squeeze from Rabada. Mitchell manages to hit Jansen for two fours in the 43rd over and that makes it 13 runs off that over. But then just five runs come off the 44th over by Rabada. That was his ninth and South Africa would know that they need to be picking wickets. The players out there are Daryl Mitchell and Glenn Phillips and they can take off at any point.

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Rabada cleans him up! Latham looking to ramp the first ball of that over behind him for four. He misses it entirely and his middle stump is smashed.

Lathan b Rabada 4 (5)

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: New Zealand decide to stick to their regular batting order instead of sending Glenn Phillips ahead of Tom Latham. He and Mitchell take five singles in that 41st over by Jansen. Now Rabada returns for the 42nd. He has three overs left…

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: He shapes up for another ramp, this time Mulder sees it, goes for a wide yorker. Williamson ends up putting it into the hands of short fine leg just four balls after scoring his century.

Williamson c Ngidi b Mulder 102 (94)

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: 15th ODI century for the New Zealand legend. He ramps the first ball of the 40th from Mulder over the wicketkeeper to get to 101 in just 91 balls. He took 61 balls to go past fifty, remember. Incredible acceleration here from Williamson.

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Mitchell is doing the sensible thing here. What New Zealand need at the moment is some big runs to capitalise on the platform that they have got thanks to that incredible knock by Ravindra. He hasn’t quite connected the way he would like but has moved to 13 in 14 balls, which is not bad at all. Williamson at the other end is looking a million dollars. Maharaj’s last ball of the 37th over is a tempter, tossed up nice and full. Williamson takes it with both hands, tonks it over deep midwicket for a four. He moves to 89 off 84.

New Zealand 234/2 in 37 overs

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Edge and that’s that! The partnership between Ravindra and Williamson ends on 164 off 154 balls. It was a delivery that went across him, Ravindra seemed to be trying to go over cover. Gets only an edge on it and Klaasen finally takes the catch. The partnership between Ravindra and Williamson ends on 164 off 154 balls.

Ravindra goes off to a standing ovation. New Zealand have got an incredible platform to take off from.

Ravindra c Klaasen b Rabada 108 (101)

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: There are still 17 overs left in this innings but South Africa are in a world of trouble at the moment. He ends that over from Rabada in which Ravindra got his century with back to back fours. Maharaj bowls the next over, singles off the first five balls and then Williamson sweeps the last one over wide long on for a six. His strike rate has gone above 100 now, he is on 80 off 77, Ravindra on 108 off 98.

New Zealand 212/1 in 33 overs

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: He just pushes the first ball of the 32nd over by Ravindra leg side and takes an easy two to get there. Rachin Ravindra you superstar!

New Zealand 186/1 in 31.1 overs

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Ravindra is on 95 off 88, Williamson now on 62 off 69. Klaasen put down a difficult chance off Williamson while he was on 56. Before that, he got to his fifty itself with a miscued shot that landed just short of mid-on. Luck just not going SA’s way in these middle overs.

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Ravindra brought up the 100-run partnership between himself and Williamson with a four off the first ball of the 27th by Maharaj. He gets off strike next ball and Maharaj then follows Williamson as he made some room. Dot ball. Williamson responds by coming down the track next ball and depositing the length ball over midwicket for his first six of the innings. He takes a single next ball and moves to 47 off 58, Ravindra on 88 off 80.

New Zealand 159/1 in 27 overs

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Aiden Markram has been brought into the attack, gave just three runs in his first over in the 24th. Maharaj continues for his fifth over after that in the 25th. Williamson off strike first ball, dot for Ravindra next ball. Then Ravindra toe ends a slap shot third ball but it goes past long-on for a four. Maharaj smiles, knowing that there is some other universe where that ball has gone down the throat of that fielder there. Next ball, Ravindra goes big again but this time in full control, it goes flat over long on for a six. Two singles after that and Ravindra is on 80 off 75. Williamson 39 off 52.

New Zealand 143/1 in 25 overs

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Jansen brought back for the 20th over and he continues in the 22nd. Just five runs in it but South Africa desperately need a wicket here. Both Williamson and Ravindra have settled in nicely which is ever good news for any bowling side in any format.

Ravindra on 67 off 65, Williamson on 31 off 44.

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Ravindra is just purring along now. Two singles after Ravindra hit that first boundary and then he pulls the fourth ball flat over midwicket, it lands just inches before the boundary for four. Mulder follows up with a length ball on off, Ravindra brings out just the most sumptuous on drive for a second consecutive four. A leg bye to end that over which is the most expensive of the innings so far.

Ravindra on 59 off 51, Williamson on 26 off 34.

New Zealand 109/1 in 18 overs

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: A fine pull shot there from Ravindra and that takes him to exactly 50 in just 47 balls. Not the best of deliveries from Mulder, short and down leg, rising to Ravindra’s hip. He sends it fine with a pull shot for four.

New Zealand 98/1 in 17.1 overs

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: And Keshav Maharaj will now bowl the first over of spin in the 17th over. Ravindra is on strike. He has got to 44 in 43 balls, this has been a very, very good innings thus far. Williamson is slowly catching up on his strike rate as well, he is on 24 off 30 balls. This partnership has produced 43 off 49 balls now and Ravindra especially seems to be seeing it as big as a football at the moment.

New Zealand 91/1 in 16 overs

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Fourth ball of the 14th by Mulder is short and Ravindra gets on top of the bounce and slaps it through midwicket for the first boundary in three overs. This is a brilliant contest at the moment. South Africa doing everything they can to keep the pressure up but they are dealing with two highly accomplished technicians here in Ravindra and Williamson.

Ravindra on 40 off 38 at the end of that over, Williamson on 14 off 23.

New Zealand 77/1 in 14 overs

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: No boundaries in the 12th over by Wiaan Mulder, his first of the match, and then a maiden by Rabada in his third over in the 13th.

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Ngidi with four consecutive dots last over of the first powerplay. Then Williamson opens the face of the bat last ball of the over and somehow sends the ball between cover point and point. That was a ridiculous shot from the New Zealand great. He is on five off eight balls. Ravindra on 29 off as many.

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Oh he skies a big one and there is the breakthrough for Ngidi and South Africa. Slow ball fifth ball of the eighth, Young was a bit too quick with his shot. He knew he is gone the moment it left his bat, Markram makes no mistake with the catch.

SA vs NZ Live Score, South Africa vs New Zealand Semi Final Champions Trophy 2025 Live Cricket Score: Two things on display here. First, a combination of the absolute higway that is this pitch in Lahore and the lightning fast outfield. And then the brilliance of Ravindra. Third ball of that over from Jansen that sits up nicely for Ravindra, he stands tall and drives it through cover for four. The fourth is a dot, punched to the covers. Then he plays a checked drive through midwicket, timed to perfection and it goes past the fielder there for another four. Then he gets on top of the bounce last ball and sends it through the covers for four more.

Ravindra has raced to 25 off 23 balls, Young on 18 off 19 balls.

New Zealand 44/0 in 7 overs

NZ vs SA LIVE Score, Champions Trophy 2025 Semi Final: Well this is now a very good start for New Zealand. Ravindra ends the third over from Jansen with a shot through midwicket for four. Ngidi’s first ball next over is is square driven for four by Young. He gets off strike third ball and then Ravindra clips the last through midwicket for four more.

Ravindra has gone to 10 off 13 balls, Young on 10 off 11 balls.

New Zealand 21/0 in 4 overs

NZ vs SA LIVE Score, Champions Trophy 2025 Semi Final: Fourth ball of the second over is at a length, a little wide outside off. Young has a go, it takes a top edge and flies over Jansen at first slip to the boundary. He is on five off seven balls at the end of that over, Ravindra yet to get off the mark after facingg five balls.

NZ vs SA LIVE Score, Champions Trophy 2025 Semi Final: Young gets off the mark first ball with a single. Wide down the leg side fifth ball for the second run in that over. No movement so far for Jansen, despite bowling into the breeze. Lungi Ngidi from the other end now.

NZ vs SA LIVE Score, Champions Trophy 2025 Semi Final: Will Young facing up to Marco Jansen first ball of the match with Rachin Ravoindra at the other end. A slight delay in proceedings though, with the black sheets behind the sightscreens not being secured and flapping away in the wind, revealing the white advertising boards beneath. Quite surprising the umpires didn’t think of sorting that out earlier considering they were literally facing that side during the national anthems. It is Glenn Phillips who comes across and spreads out the blacks to hide the white and here we go!