Players of South Africa cricket team
South Africa cricket team: The South African team lost by 50 runs against New Zealand in the semi -finals of the Champions Trophy 2025. With this, his dream of going to the final of the Champions Trophy once again broke. The bowlers of the African team could not do well in the semi -finals and Kiwi batsmen scored 362 runs while batting first. After this, captain Temba Bavuma and David Miller played good innings for Africa, but these players could not win African.
South African team lost 9th semi -final in ICC ODI tournament
The South African team has played a total of 11 semi -finals in the ICC ODI tournament so far, out of which they have lost 9. Has won only one. While a match was tied. A semi -finals in which South Africa won. That match was also against Sri Lanka in 1998. Since then, the African team has been craving to win in the semi -finals of the ICC ODI tournament.
Team reached number one in losing semi -finals
South Africa is the first team to lose 9 semi -finals of the ICC ODI tournament. Before that, no team in the world had lost so many semi -finals of the ICC ODI tournament. The previous record was New Zealand’s name. New Zealand lost a total of 8 semi -finals in the ICC ODI tournament. Now, the South African team has reached number one in the semi -finals in the ICC ODI tournament, following New Zealand.
New Zealand is overwhelming
In the knock out matches of the ICC ODI tournament, New Zealand team has always been overwhelming from South Africa. This was the third match between the two teams, in which the Kiwi team has won. Earlier, New Zealand defeated South Africa by 49 runs in the quarter -finals of the ODI World Cup 2011. Then defeated the ODI World Cup by four wickets in the 2015 semi -finals. Now New Zealand has won the match by 50 runs in the semi -finals of the Champions Trophy 2025. That is, in the knock out matches of the ICC ODI tournament, New Zealand team always proved to be better than South Africa.
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