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New Zealand vs South Africa Live Score, World Cup 2023: South Africa on cusp of knockouts while Pakan on brink of exit after World Cup thriller for ages
New Zealand vs South Africa Live Score, World Cup 2023: South Africa’s batter Keshav Maharaj and Tabraiz Shamsi celebrate after winning the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 match.
New Zealand vs South Africa Live Score, World Cup 2023: Right through Friday, hope kept flickering for Pakan. They would self-implode repeatedly and then produce a moment of magic that ushered in a fresh ray of hope. Playing along, South Africa too found ways to make it harder for themselves with the bat.
For nine-and-a-half hours, the 29,900 that turned up at Chepauk, went on a roller-coaster ride, giving the World Cup the thriller it so badly needed. For a while in the end, as Pakan seized control out of nowhere, a South Africa choke looked high. Off-colour so far in their campaign, everything seemed to be falling in place for Pakan — who fielded like there was no tomorrow, even though they were still far from their best, and they bowled their hearts out – but only to suffer a soul-crushing defeat. So hard a defeat that their players sank to their feet. Their World Cup future now hangs the barest of bare margins. (Read more from Venkata Krishna B)

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