New Zealand vs South Africa - Semi-final 1, Auckland Prediction
New Zealand and South Africa meet in the semifinals of the Cricket World Cup on Tuesday.Brendon McCullum against AB de Villiers.It's Potential versus performance. Hope against hope. Nerves against the
nervous. Neither country has ever won a World Cup semi-final. One of them will go to the summit for the first time. Who will clinch a place in the showdown in Melbourne next Sunday when they clash in their semifinal at Eden Park tomorrow ?
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New Zealand looks the strongest side with the following facts that are in favour of the Kiwis.
- Black Caps won the last World Cup encounter against South Africa - a quarter-final in 2011.
- New Zealand won a warm-up game against South Africa before the World Cup in Christchurch.
- The Black Caps made 331 for eight and bowled the Proteas out for 197 with Trent Bout taking 5-51.
- New Zealand have beaten South Africa four times in their six World Cup meetings.
- New Zealand have the highest wicket taker at the Cricket World Cup - Trent Boult with 19 wickets. He has taken four wickets in two matches against South Africa at an average of 27.50.
- Of the four previous players to reach 200 in an ODI - Rohit Sharma did it twice - only once did a player make double figures in their next innings. Not good news for Guptill.
- These two have played six times against each other at World Cups. New Zealand is ahead of the Proteas in terms of records. It won four times so far while South Africa won twice.
PREDICTION OF ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2015 SEMI FINAL MATCH-1
South Africa will win the toss and elect to bat first.Boult will be the leading wicket taker from the Kiwis side and Tahir would lead from the Proteas side.New Zealand loose wickets at their early stage and would lead the score from the front end.Check out our match winner below.
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