Scorecard:

South Africa: 128 for 7 (20 overs)

(Smith 33 off 35 balls, Duminy 29 off 23 balls, Butler 2 for 13)

New Zealand 127 for 5 (20 overs)

(McCullum 57 off 54 balls, Oram 24 off 18 balls, Van der Merve 2 for 14)

South Africa had a big partnership right at the start, though they still could manage just 128, the lowest target set in the tournament by a team batting the full 20 overs. With the big matches coming on, now holding the nerves are slowly getting to be important.

New Zealand started slowly assuming this to be a small target. South Africa got 2 quick wickets to slow them down further. McCullum played a big innings and it was almost sure that with wickets in hand any target is possible in T20. However, today we saw a match where a team who had 5 wickets remaining couldn’t achieve a target of just over 6 runs per over.

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