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Tom Latham carried his bat for 63 and enactment connected 96 for the archetypal wicket with Devon Conway to acceptable up New Zealand's eight-wicket triumph implicit South Africa successful their 3rd Twenty20 connected Friday (March 20, 2026).
Conway made 39 and Latham reached his 4th T20 half-century, helping New Zealand's cricketers walk South Africa's 136-9 with 22 balls remaining to instrumentality a 2-1 pb successful the five-match series.
Batting conditions person been tricky and matches successful the bid person been low-scoring. South Africa won the archetypal by 7 wickets, chasing down New Zealand's 91, and the Black Caps won the 2nd by 68 runs, bowling retired the absorption for 107.
South Africa batted retired 20 overs for the archetypal clip connected Friday (March 20), helped by a lively unbeaten 26 from 20 balls by Nqobani Mokoena successful his archetypal planetary innings.
Latham and Conway began their tally pursuit quietly, taking 5 runs from the archetypal 2 overs and 12 from the archetypal three. They past took 14 from the 4th over, bowled by Mokoena, and 21 from the 5th by Lutho Sipamla to acceptable New Zealand connected the mode to a comfy win.
Conway fell successful the 11th over, caught successful the heavy by Rubin Hermann disconnected Keshav Maharaj and Tim Robinson was retired for 17 successful the 17th implicit erstwhile the scores were tied. Nick Kelly came retired and deed a azygous for the winning tally from the adjacent ball.
“You look astatine the extent we've got astatine the moment...with a fewer guys away,” said New Zealand skipper Mitchell Santner, who won the flip and sent South Africa successful to bat.
“It was a elemental blueprint tonight. The transportation looked similar it was doing a small spot early. It looked tricky and it was bully the mode the 2 boys (Conway and Latham) could soak that up. You spell excessively hard and you suffer a mates of wickets, which makes the pursuit a small spot challenging.” The transportation astatine Eden Park typically is speedy and bouncy and it provided that again but besides held up astatine times. New Zealand utilized six bowlers and each six took wickets, including the spinners who helped their squad marque inroads successful the South Africa apical order.
Pace bowler Lockie Ferguson took 1-9 from 4 overs.
Santner recovered crook and, aft coming connected successful the 5th over, dismissed Jason Smith (10) and Connor Esterhuizen (15).
Smith tried to chopped a shot and mistimed his changeable erstwhile the shot turned backmost from extracurricular off. Esterhuizen scored each his runs successful the 3rd implicit earlier trying to deed Santner to the short, consecutive bound but uncovering Kelly astatine mid-on.
Earlier, South Africa was 41-3 astatine the extremity of the powerplay and 61-5 astatine the midpoint of its innings.
George Linde and Gerald Coetzee enactment connected 34 for the seventh wicket with Linde scoring 23 from 19 balls and Coetzee 16 from 8 deliveries.
When Coetzee was out, South Africa was 103-8 successful the 15th implicit and successful information again of being bowled retired wrong 20 overs. But Mokoena enactment connected an unbroken concern of 24 with Lutho Sipamla for the 10th wicket, South Africa's highest for that wicket successful T20s.
The 4th lucifer is successful Wellington connected Sunday (March 22, 2026).
