NZ vs SA LIVE Score Updates T20 World Cup: Follow New Zealand vs South Africa match Live from Ahmedabad. New Zealand vs South Africa T20 World Cup 2026 Live Cricket Score Updates: Aiden Markram’s classy 86 helped South Africa chase down 176 in just 17.1 overs against New Zealand in the T20 World Cup 2026 Group D fixture at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Saturday.
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Both Mitchell Santner’s New Zealand and the previous edition’s finalist Aiden Markram’s South Africa were unbeaten in the tournament, having won their first two group games. The Kiwis handed Afghanistan a five-wicket loss before demolishing the United Arab Emirates with a 10-wicket win, chasing down 174 in just 15.2 overs with all 10 wickets remaining. The 175-run opening stand between Finn Allen and Tim Siefert was also the highest partnership by any team for any wicket in the T20 World Cups.
The Proteas, on the other hand, were clinical against Canada before engaging in arguably one of the greatest T20 games against Afghanistan, where the contest saw two thrilling Super Overs in which the South Africans eventually came out as winners.
New Zealand: Tim Seifert (w), Finn Allen, Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner (c), James Neesham, Matt Henry, Lockie Ferguson, Jacob Duffy, Ish Sodhi, Kyle Jamieson, Devon Conway, Cole McConchie.
South Africa: Aiden Markram (c), Quinton de Kock (w), Ryan Rickelton, Dewald Brevis, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Jansen, George Linde, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Corbin Bosch, Jason Smith, Anrich Nortje, Kwena Maphaka.
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Lockie Ferguson to bowl his final over. This could be the final over of the innings as well, with just four needed now. SIX! Miller finishes things off in style! A comprehensive 7-wicket win for South Africa in Ahmedabad! They have thumped the Blackcaps fair and square.
South Africa: 178/3 in 17.1 overs; Beat New Zealand by 7 wickets
Matt Henry to bowl his final over. FIVE RUNS! Oh god, this is the last thing New Zealand would have wanted. Poor from New Zealand on the field as they give four freebies to Markram and South Africa. Five singles make it a 10-run over. Just four runs are needed now.
South Africa: 172/3 in 15 overs; Need 4 runs from 18 balls
Jacob Duffy into the attack. Finally, some urgency shown by the batters in the middle. Aiden Markram and then David Miller hit a boundary each off Duffy, making it a 14-run over.
South Africa: 162/3 in 14 overs; Need 14 runs from 24 balls
Santner to finish off his quota. All the batters are focusing on rotating the strike and keeping things simple. Singles and doubles are fine for them. Six runs from this over.
South Africa: 148/3 in 14 overs; Need 28 runs from 30 balls
Lockie Ferguson with his third over. New Zealand continue to put up a fight with dot balls, but the damage is already done in the PowerPlay. Three singles and a wide from this over.
South Africa: 142/3 in 14 overs; Need 34 runs from 36 balls
Mitch Santner with his third over. He gives five singles and a wide from his over. The asking rate is still under 6 at the moment.
South Africa: 138/3 in 13 overs
Rachin Ravindra came into the attack for the first time. SIX! First boundary for South Africa in four overs. A flat hit over wide of long-on. OUT! Rachin gets a breakthrough! Is it too late, too little though? Will have to see that. David Miller is the new man in. Nine and a wicket from this over.
Dewald Brevis c Daryl Mitchell b Rachin Ravindra 21(17)
South Africa: 132/3 in 12 overs
New Zealand have done well to deny the batters any boundaries in the last three overs. Matt Henry gives two singles and a two for a total of four runs from his third over.
South Africa: 123/3 in 11 overs
James Neesham continues. Good over from him as he gives just five singles.
South Africa: 119/2 in 10 overs
Mitchell Santner continues. A couple of twos, a wide and three singles make it an 8-run over.
New Zealand: 114/2 in 9 overs
James Neesham into the attack for the first time tonight. Rickelton starts with a single at long-on. FOUR! Length ball, outside off, Markram waits for the ball to come and carves it at third man for a boundary. OUT! Pace off from Neesham, Rickelton hits it at long-on with the toe-end of his bat, Daryl Mitchell completes a wonderful catch at deep while lobbing the ball in the air before jumping from outside the fence to get NZ their second wicket. Dewald Brevis is in at No. 4. FOUR! CHANCE FOR A FLYING GLENN PHILLIPS! He doesn't miss these. He is way inside the fence at cow corner. 10 and a wicket off this over.
Ryan Rickelton c Daryl Mitchell b James Neesham 21(11)
South Africa: 106/2 in 8 overs
Skipper Mitch Santner comes into the attack. He limits the batters to three singles and two doubles before Markram slams a straight SIX to complete his half-century in 19 balls.
South Africa: 96/1 in 7 overs
Jacob Duffy to bowl the last over of the PowerPlay. Ryan Rickelton is set from the dug-out. Pulls a short ball to hit a 103m SIX before slamming two BACK-TO-BACK FOURS, making it a 16-run over.
South Africa: 83/1 in 6 overs
Change of ends for Lockie Ferguson as well. He uses his pace off deliveries to stop the flow of runs. Three dots to start the over. OUT! Slower one does the trick for Ferguson! First wicket and a much-needed one for New Zealand. He bowls a full-length leg-cutter, deceiving QDK to shatter his stumps. Ryan Rickelton joins Markram. RUN OUT CHANCE! A DIRECT HIT would have sent Ryan Rickelton packing. Risky single for him. FOUR! Makram just does not want to stop today. Drives through extra cover to end the over with a boundary.
Quinton de Kock b Lockie Ferguson 20(14)
South Africa: 67/1 in 5 overs
Change of ends instantly for Matt Henry. Quinton de Kock continues the onslaught, slamming Henry for a FOUR and a SIX, taking 11 off the over.
South Africa: 62/0 in 4 overs
Jacob Duffy is in the attack, replacing Matt Henry. SIX! Who will stop Aiden Markram tonight? No one, it seems, as the South Africa skipper is looking in great touch. Too full from Duffy and Markam goes straight over the bowler's head for a clean, straight-as-an-arrow six. SIX! And again. Runs continue to flow for the last time's finalist. Short in the middle, Markram stands tall and smokes it over long-on this time. FOUR! This time beats the fielder at short third. FOUR! Fourth boundary of this over and South Africa get to 50 in just three overs. They are onto something. What a start this has been from Markam and QDK.
South Africa: 51/0 in 3 overs
Lockie Ferguson into the attack. SIX! Welcome, Mr Ferguson, says this lofted drive over extra cover from Aiden Markam. Full, outside off, Markam is down on knees and lofts it over extra covers for a great looking six. FOUR! More runs. It's flowing for South Africa at the moment. Edge races away to third man this time. FOUR! WOW! Quinton de Kock with a gorgeous cover drive. South Africa are off to a flying start in Ahmedabad. 18 off this over.
South Africa: 31/0 in 2 overs
Matt Henry starts. A point, a backward point and a slip in place for Aiden Markram. FOUR! It takes just two deliveries for Makram to get off the mark with a boundary. Length delivery outside off and drills the drive through the covers. Top shot this to start the proceedings in the chase. FOUR! Full-length delivery from Henry, but Markam leans forward and crunches it once again through extra cover. A single puts Quinton de Kock in the strike, and he gets off the mark with a FOUR as well! This also makes him the 13th batter to get to 3000 runs in T20 Internationals. Great start, 13 off the first over.
South Africa: 13/0 in 1 over
Welcome back to our live coverage, where we will have South Africa in the pursuit of 176 against New Zealand. Skiper Aiden Markram and his opening partner Quinton de Kock walk out in the middle. Matt Henry to operate with the new ball.
Corbin Bosch to bowl the final over of the innings. He cramps Neesham for room to start with a couple of dots. FOUR! After a couple of singles, Neesham hoics Bosch's low full toss for a boundary behind square. FOUR! A boundary to end the over and the innings. New Zealand would have fancied much more of these, but they have to make peace with what they have on the board and fight it out there with the ball against might South Africans in the presence of dew.
New Zealand: 175/7 in 20 overs
Marco Jansen, who has picked a wicket in each of his over tonight, comes back into the attack for his last over. Three singles and a two fetch New Zealand five from the first four deliveries before James Neesham shuffles across to lap the short ball fine to hit a much-needed FOUR! 10 from this over.
New Zealand: 165/7 in 19 overs
Kagiso Rabada to bowl his last over. Neesham starts the over with a couple before a single puts Matt Henry into the strike, which also brings up 150 for the Blackcaps. FOUR! Edged, but New Zealand would not mind these runs. Flies away to the third man as eight comes from this over.
New Zealand: 155/7 in 18 overs
Corbin Bosch is back. WICKET! Oh dear, this is New Zealand's worst fear turning out to be true. Wicket after wicket and the Kiwis are not able to minimise the damage. Skipper Santner now holes out to Rickelton at the backward point. Just four runs from this over. Nine runs have come in the last three overs.
Mitchell Santner c Ryan Rickelton b Corbin Bosch 4(10)
New Zealand: 147/7 in 17 overs
Lungi Ngidi returns to the attack now. After playing several dots in the previous over, Santner hits and misses to start this over with a dot as well. A single brings Daryl on strike. OUT! Certainly, the pressure of dot deliveries plays into the minds of batters, and Darly goes for a big shot, but finds Tristan Stubbs at long-on. New Zealand's innings are falling apart really quickly. James Neesham joins Santner. Just three from this over.
Daryl Mitchell c Tristan Stubbs b Lungi Ngidi 32(24)
New Zealand: 143/6 in 16 overs
New Zealand skipper Mitchell Santner joins set-batter Daryl Mitchell. Keshav Maharaj comes to bowl his third over. He bowls a terrific over, giving just two runs from it.
New Zealand: 140/5 in 15 overs
The wicket-taker Marco Janse is back into the attack. FOUR! After Mitchell gets a single off the first delivery, Chapman carves the short ball behind backward point for a boundary. Two singles in the next three deliveries to follow. OUT! Chapman falls just two short of his fifty. Marco Jansen picks his fourth! Pace delivery does the trick for Jansen. Length ball outside off and Chapman is way too early in his shot-making as a leading edge carries to Rickelton at backward point.
Mark Chapman c Ryan Rickelton b Marco Jansen 48(26)
New Zealand: 138/5 in 14 overs
Kagiso Rabada returns. A dot and a single to start the over as Chapman gives the strike to Mitchell. The right-hander then finds a single for himself. FOUR! Short ball, on leg, and Chapman stays put, pulls away in style for a boundary at wide of deep square leg. FOUR! Even better this time. Fuller, Chapman walks down the track and slams it over Rabada, targetting straght boundary. 10 off the over.
New Zealand: 131/4 in 13 overs
South Africa skipper Aiden Markram comes into the attack. Chapman plays a dot before finding himself a single. SIX! Wonderful shot. Full delivery, in the slot for Mitchell, who goes for a big shot, swings it hard and deposits it at wide on long-on. SIX! This time it's Chapman. Dances down the track, yorks the full-length delivery and slams it over long-on for a second maximum of this over. Good over for New Zealand, 15 off it.
New Zealand: 121/4 in 12 overs
Change of ends for Corbin Bosch now. He replaces Keshav Maharaj. Mitchell begins the over with a single. FOUR! Quick from Bosch, length delivery outside off. Chapman leans into the line, carves it behind point, beats the fielder and gets a boundary. Chapman with a single, and then Mitchell gets a two to bring up 100 for New Zealand in the 11th over. FOUR! Lofts it over mid-off extra cover region, and the boundary rider tries hard but fails to keep it inside. Two off the last delivery as 14 come from this over.
New Zealand: 106/4 in 11 overs
Lungi Ngidi returns to the attack with his third over. He limits Chapman and Mitchell to singles and doubles, giving just six from his over.
New Zealand: 93/4 in 10 overs
Keshav Maharaj continues. Chapman finds a gap at cover to get a two off the first delivery. Two singles to follow in the next two deliveries. FOUR! CHANCE FOR DEWALD BREVIS! What an effort from the young man. Chapman pulls it at deep mid-wicket, where Brevis first covers a lot of ground and then goes for a diving attempt to complete the catch, but the ball pops out to find the fence. Nine off Maharaj's second over.
New Zealand: 86/4 in 9 overs
Corbin Bosch, who replaces George Linde in the Playing XI, comes into the attack now. Daryl Mitchell starts with a three dots before slamming one FOUR over mid-off to get a much-needed boundary for himself. Just six from this over.
New Zealand: 77/4 in 8 overs
Spin for the first time tonight. In comes Keshav Maharaj in place of Kagiso Rabada. Phillips starts the over with a single. FOUR! Tossed up delivery on off, Chapman goes down on knees and sweeps it towards deep mid-wicket for a four. A single brings Phillips back into the strike. OUT! Maharaj gets a wicket in his first over! Tossed up again, flighted delivery beats Phillips, who goes for a drive but has been cleaned up by Maharaj this time. Daryl Mitchell walks out in the middle. SIX! Chapman pulls over deep mid-wicket to end the over with a maximum.
Glenn Phillips b Keshav Maharaj 1(3)
New Zealand: 71/4 in 7 overs
Marco Jansen continues. SIX! Length ball, angling across for the left-hander, Rachin Ravindra shuffles across and scoops it over fine leg for a maximum to start the over. WICKET! Six and out for the second time in a row for Jansen! A good length delivery outside off and Ranchin looks to play through the covers, but an edge flies straight to short third where David Miller completes a lovely diving catch. Glenn Phillips is the new batter in the middle to join Allen. He gets going with a single. OUT! Second wicket of this over, third for Jansen and what a turnaround this has been. Allen goes for a drive, could not keep it on the ground and hits straight to Aiden Markram at mid-off. Mark Chapman joins Phillips to make it two new batters in the middle. Just 7 runs and two wickets off this over. South Africa are ahead after the end of PowerPlay.
Rachin Ravindra c David Miller b Marco Jansen 13(8); Finn Allen c Aiden Markram b Marco Jansen 31(17)
New Zealand: 58/3 in 6 overs
Change of ends for Kagiso Rabada, who replaces Lungi Ngidi. Rachin starts with a single before Allen gets one single too. CHANCE? Ravindra mistimes his pull, and it goes in the air before Rabada falls while running to mid-on for the catch. FOUR! Good looking shot. Length ball outside off, Ravindra carves it over backward point for a boundary, which also brings up fifty for the Kiwis. A single to end the over.
New Zealand: 51/1 in 5 overs
First change in the bowling attack as the tall left-armer Marco Jansen replaces Kagiso Rabada. SIX! Seifert welcomes Jansen with a maximum. Pace off delivery outside off, Seifert lofts with a big swing across to hit it over long-on. OUT! And a wicket off the next delivery! What a response by Jansen! He darts one short, bouncer, over the shoulder and Seifert shuffles across, kind of premeditates it and looks to play it on offside, but he nicks it behind to Quinton de Kock, and South Africa gets their first. Rachin Ravindra is the new man in at No. 3. He is off the mark with a single. FOUR! Edge and it races away at third man for a boundary. SIX! Short ball again, hooks it over Stubbs deep at long leg. 17 runs and a wicket from this over.
Tim Seifert c Quinton de Kock b Marco Jansen 13(9)
New Zealand: 44/1 in 4 overs
Lungi Ngidi continues from one end. FOUR! Allen breaks the shackles. Full and wide outside off, a lot of width on offer for the batter and Allen slices this over the backward point for a boundary to start the over. FOUR! This time it's short, but the same result for New Zealand. Again, width on offer for Allen and he is not stopping from freeing his arms. Places it at deep point for a second boundary in a row. SIX! First maximum of this innings. Crunched over long-on. A menacing hit from the powerful Allen who picks the length early and deposits for half-a-dozen runs. FOUR! Superb timing. Length ball, dangling in the middle and leg, just guides it to deep square leg to end the over the way he started. 18 runs from this over.
New Zealand: 27/0 in 3 overs
Kagiso Rabada is into the attack from the other end. A back-of-the-length delivery on middle, Seifert defends to start the over with a single. Seiferts finds a single off the next delivery, but Finn Allen plays the rest of the over, finding just one off the last delivery. A brilliant first over from Rabada, who gives just two singles.
New Zealand: 9/0 in 2 overs
Lungi Ngidi starts over the wicket. A slip in place for Tim Seifert. FOUR! Ngidi starts with a full delivery outside off, and Seifer throws the kitchen sink at it, getting an outside edge which flies over lanky Marco Jansen at first slip as it runs past the square third fielder. EDGE AGAIN! This time a length delivery by Ngidi, on a similar line and Seifert edges while looking to press on frontfoot and it carries past Jansen again. Finn Allen gets off the mark with a single off the first delivery he faced. Seifert to keep the strike with a single off the last ball. Seven off the first over.
New Zealand: 7/0 in 1 over
All righto, we are all set for the live action in Ahmedabad. Lungi Ngidi has the new ball for South Africa. In-form batters, Tim Seifert and Finn Allen open for New Zealand.
Out walk the players from both sides. It's time for the National Anthems before we head on to the live action.
Aiden Markram: "We will bowl first. Played one night game here, thought the wicket got better through the game. Hopefully, Hopefully the boys can bowl well up front and give us something that we can chase a bit later. It can be a bit hit and miss at times (on the dew), so there was a little bit of dew that night. If there's more tonight, I mean, we won't complain about it, but either way, we just felt like under the lights, slightly later, it came out a bit better.. That was tough. It was a bit emotional. I think the boys took a bit of a hit, but I mean, it's good to have those close games early on in the comp. It tells the character dressing room quite a bit of food if you get over the line. So we were grateful for that, but yeah, it's about us having regrouped over the past couple of days and ready to put our best foot forward - one change, Corbin Bosch is back in place of George Linde."
Mitchell Santner: "Looks like a good wicket, runs on the board and hopefully not a lot of dew. No easy games in this tournament and it's the same tonight as well. We know how good SA are and they've shown it, they're a quality side. Small improvements from game 1 onwards and we want to take it ahead. Same team."
New Zealand: Finn Allen, Tim Seifert(w), Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner (c), James Neesham, Matt Henry, Lockie Ferguson, Jacob Duffy.
South Africa: Aiden Markram(c), Quinton de Kock(w), Ryan Rickelton, Dewald Brevis, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Jansen, Corbin Bosch (comes in for George Linde), Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi.
Aiden Markram gets the right call as South Africa decide to bowl first vs New Zealand.
It's time for the all-important coin flip at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Mitch Santner and Aiden Markram are in the middle, and we will have the toss in a few minutes.
South Africa have won all their four ICC Men’s T20 World Cup matches against New Zealand; only Australia vs Bangladesh (W6), Pakistan vs Bangladesh (W6) and India vs Bangladesh (W5) have played more games against an opposition in the history of the tournament without losing.
(Stats via Opta)
Be it India's bowl-out win vs Pakistan in 2007, Carlos Brathwaite's four sixes off Ben Stokes in the 2016 T20 WC final at Eden Gardens or Rahmanullah Gurbaz vs Keshav Maharaj's three back-to-back sixes before falling off the last ball of the second Super Over, these moments make the World Cup a spectacle that it is.
South Africa defeated Afghanistan in their previous T20 World Cup 2026 group fixture after playing a game which will be remembered for ages and was perhaps one of the greatest ever T20 games played.
Relive that game once again.
New Zealand have won four of their last five men’s T20Is against South Africa (L1), including each of their last three; this is the only time the Black Caps have recorded consecutive wins against the Proteas in the history of the format.
(Stats via Opta)
Aiden Markram (c), Quinton de Kock (wk), Ryan Rickelton, Dewald Brevis, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Jansen, George Linde, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi.
Tim Seifert (wk), Finn Allen, Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner (c), James Neesham, Matt Henry, Lockie Ferguson, Jacob Duffy.
New Zealand: Tim Seifert (w), Finn Allen, Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner (c), James Neesham, Matt Henry, Lockie Ferguson, Jacob Duffy, Ish Sodhi, Kyle Jamieson, Devon Conway, Cole McConchie.
South Africa: Aiden Markram (c), Quinton de Kock (w), Ryan Rickelton, Dewald Brevis, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Jansen, George Linde, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Corbin Bosch, Jason Smith, Anrich Nortje, Kwena Maphaka.
Hello and welcome to our continued live coverage of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026 happening in India and Sri Lanka. The triple header on Saturday will conclude with two heavyweights -- New Zealand and South Africa -- taking on each other in the Group D game at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
The winner will consolidate their position at the top of the points table and will -- more or less -- confirm their Super 8 qualification as well.
Stay tuned as we bring you all the live action straight from Ahmedabad.
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