South Africa team came out again in the final. (Photo- Matthew Lewis-Bicc/ICC Via Getty Images)
Harare saw an exciting match in the final of the Zimbabwe T20 tri -series, where New Zealand defeated South Africa by 3 runs and won the trophy. South Africa was moving towards victory very easily in this match, but the last balls saw a strong comeback from New Zealand which surprised everyone. The South African team is known as Chokar’s name, because it loses the contest under pressure and something similar was seen here.
New Zealand’s strong batting
South Africa won the toss in this match and decided to bowl first. But there was amazing batting from New Zealand. Tim CIFT gave the team a good start by scoring 30 runs off 28 balls. Then Devon Conway and Rachin Ravindra strengthened the team by scoring 47-47 runs, due to which New Zealand scored 180 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. Deril Mitchell also contributed 16 runs and Michael Bracewell contributed 15 runs.
Match lost in the last overs
Chasing the target of 181 runs, South Africa started very strong. Luan Pritorius and Risa Hendrix added 92 runs for the first wicket. Pritorius scored 51 runs and Risa Hendrix scored 37 runs. Apart from these, Dewald Bravis also played an explosive innings of 31 runs off 16 balls. Due to which South Africa scored 151 runs in 15 overs at the loss of 3 wickets. But after this, a lot of tight bowling was seen towards New Zealand.
South Africa had to score 7 runs off the last 7 balls to win the match. After this, he also needed 7 runs on the last 6 balls. But Matt Henry bowled amazing under pressure and spent just 3 runs and took 2 wickets. Due to which the New Zealand team won this match by 3 runs. New Zealand had won four out of four matches in the league stage while being invincible in the tournament, and she managed to win in the final as well.
