New Zealand v South Africa trivia preview
0- South Africa have won one and lost seven of the nine semi-finals they have played in all One Day International tournaments. The other was a tie, against Australia at the 1999 World Cup – a result that saw them eliminated on lower Super Six table placing.
- Farhaan Behardien has scored 74 runs off the 36 balls he has faced in the tournament; he has the lowest dot ball percentage of any player (11.1%).
- Kane Williamson has scored 53 runs from 51 balls bowled by Morne Morkel in ODIs, never having been dismissed by the South African seamer.
The previous knock-out match
- This will be the 7th Cricket World Cup meeting between these sides with the Black Caps having won four of the previous six encounters. The only one of these that was a knockout match however was New Zealand’s win at the quarter-final stage in 2011.
- Daniel Vettori needs one more wicket to become New Zealand’s leading wicket taker in Cricket World Cup history; he is currently tied with Jacob Oram on 36.
- South Africa have won three of their last four completed ODIs against New Zealand at Eden Park.
- The Black Caps have lost the toss in the last 12 ODIs they have played at Eden Park and have been put into bat on nine of these occasions, winning just one of these nine (L5, T1, 2x N/R).
- Seven players have hit three consecutive ODI centuries before, if Martin Guptill hits a ton in this match he will be the second Black Caps player to do so (Ross Taylor – 2014).
- Two more runs will see Martin Guptill become the first Kiwi to score 500+ runs in a single World Cup, Scott Styris hit 499 in 2007. He would become the 8th player from any nation to achieve the feat.
- Brendon McCullum has the highest boundaries per ball faced rate (34%) of any player to face 25+ deliveries at this tournament.
- Imran Tahir has bowled more balls (404) than any other player at this tournament; he and Vettori are the joint top wicket taking spinners (both 15).
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