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Devon Conway topped each scorers with 60 arsenic New Zealand bushed South Africa by 68 runs successful the 2nd Twenty20 to level their five-match bid astatine 1-1 connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026).
New Zealand made 175-6 aft being sent successful connected a transportation which became trickier arsenic the evening wore on.
South Africa was bowled retired for 107 successful 15.3 overs arsenic pacers Ben Sears and Lockie Ferguson shared six wickets. Batters struggled for timing connected a transportation which provided adaptable gait and bounce and each 10 South Africa wickets fell to catches.
South Africa mislaid its past six wickets for 40 runs and lone George Linde stood against the collapse, scoring 33 from 12 balls with 3 fours and 3 sixes.
Sears was New Zealand's traveling reserve astatine the caller T20 World Cup and took 3-14. Ferguson took 3-16, dismissing Linde to extremity the innings.
"I thought we bowled truly good up to a constituent and past mislaid our mode with the bat,” South Africa skipper Keshav Maharaj said. "We thought the dew was going to play a ample origin successful presumption of changing the wicket.
“There was dew successful the outfield but the wicket got a small spot worse and I'll instrumentality it connected my chin. We cognize dew is simply a origin backmost location which makes the wicket amended but I deliberation the mode New Zealand bowled truly stifled america up beforehand and forced america to marque a play connected a precise tricky wicket.” New Zealand began its inning powerfully with Conway scoring quadrate of the wicket and Tom Latham utilizing ramp shots for a six and a 4 implicit good leg.
They were 43-0 aft the powerplay and 81-2 aft 10 overs, including Latham (11) picking retired Ottneil Baartman astatine 3rd antheral with a reverse sweep.
But New Zealand wasn't capable to accelerate aboriginal successful the 2nd portion of its innings arsenic the dew settled and the transportation astatine Seddon Park became much two-paced.
Nick Kelly had 21 from 12 balls past played and missed astatine a shot from Wiaan Mulder and was bowled, and Mitchell Santner made 20 from 14 earlier being beaten by a shot from Baartman which chopped backmost betwixt bat and pad.
They were 123-4 aft 15 and soon aft mislaid Conway, who had held up 1 extremity for 3 quarters of the innings. He top-edged a propulsion changeable to wicketkeeper Connor Esterhuizen.
“It's been a beauteous quiescent mates of months for me, going implicit to India and not playing and not featuring astatine the World Cup,” Conway said. "It was a bully accidental for maine to person my feet up and ticker the boys bash their thing. Getting the accidental to play, it's been bully to beryllium capable to lend and beryllium with the boys.” Josh Clarkson cameoed with 26 from 9 balls and helium and Cole McConchie helped themselves to 24 runs from the past implicit bowled by Maharaj.
The 3rd planetary volition beryllium successful Auckland connected Friday.
