{"id":12948,"date":"2025-03-06T06:40:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12948"},"modified":"2025-03-06T06:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:40:48","slug":"ravindra-williamson-power-black-caps-into-champions-trophy-final-with-win-over-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12948","title":{"rendered":"Ravindra, Williamson power Black Caps into Champions Trophy final with win over South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centuries by Rachin Ravindra and Kane Williamson along with an impressive bowling spell from captain Mitchell Santner guided the Black Caps to a big win over South Africa in their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/543867\/icc-champions-trophy-live-updates-black-caps-through-to-final\">Champions League semi-final in Lahore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Caps won by 50 runs.<\/p>\n<p>After deciding to bat first New Zealand scored 362 for six with Ravindra making 108 and Williamson 102.<\/p>\n<p>Daryl Mitchell and Glenn Phillips both scored 49.<\/p>\n<p>The Proteas made a solid start before captain Mtchell Santner grabbed three wickets to slow their run chase.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--MY7JZIy2--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1741194279\/4KAZF8E_AFP__20250305__36ZE7WK__v1__HighRes__CricketCt2025NzlRsa_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"New Zealand's captain Mitchell Santner (C) and his teammates gesture after winning the ICC Champions Trophy one-day international (ODI) semi-final cricket match between New Zealand and South Africa at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on March 5, 2025. New Zealand qualified for the Champions Trophy final with a clinical 50-run win against South Africa in the second semi-final in Lahore on March 5. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI \/ AFP)\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0AFP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>South Africa finished on 312 for nine with David Miller scoring an unbeaten century.<\/p>\n<p>Santner took three wickets for 43 runs from his ten overs. Glenn Phillips took two while fellow spinners Michael Bracewell and Ravindra took one each.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand will travel to Dubai to play India in Sunday&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand won this tournament in 2000 when it was known as the ICC Knock Out.<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centuries by Rachin Ravindra and Kane Williamson along with an impressive bowling spell from captain Mitchell Santner guided the Black Caps to a big win over South Africa in their\u00a0Champions League semi-final in Lahore. The Black Caps won by 50 runs. After deciding to bat first New Zealand scored 362 for six with Ravindra making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12949,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948\/revisions\/12949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}