New Zealand has won the first semi-final of the 2026 T20 World Cup. Finn Allen has given a record win to New Zealand by scoring a historic century. With this defeat, South Africa’s dream of winning the T20 World Cup was once again shattered. In the first semi-final of the 2026 T20 World Cup, South Africa had scored 169 runs after playing first. In reply, New Zealand won the match by scoring 173 runs in 12.5 overs. For New Zealand, Phil Allen played a match-winning inning of 100 unbeaten runs in 33 balls. 10 fours and 8 sixes came from his bat. New Zealand has reached the final of the T20 World Cup for the second time.

Apart from Allen, Team Seifert, who opened with him for the Kiwi team, also played a brilliant innings. Seifert scored 58 runs in 33 balls with the help of 7 fours and 2 sixes. Both of them made a partnership of 117 runs in 55 balls for the first wicket. After this, Rachin Ravindra and Finn Allen made a partnership of 56* runs in 22 balls for the second wicket and gave the team victory 43 balls earlier.

Fastest century of T20 World Cup

Let us tell you that Finn Allen completed the fastest century in the history of T20 World Cup. Earlier, the record of scoring the fastest century in the T20 World Cup was held in the name of Chris Gayle of West Indies. Gayle completed his century in 47 balls in the 2016 T20 tournament.

South Africa completely flopped in the bowling department.

Africa, who came to bat first in the match, scored 169/8 runs in 20 overs. The team made this total after 5 wickets fell for 77 runs. After this total, it seemed that the Proteas team would give a tough fight in the match, but New Zealand did not let this happen.

All the bowlers of Africa looked flop in front of New Zealand who came for run chase. The Kiwi team lost only one wicket. Marco Janson proved to be the most expensive for Africa, who gave away 53 runs in 2.5 overs at an economy of 18.70. Apart from this, Corbin Bosch spent 35 runs in 2 overs. Apart from this, Keshav Maharaj spent 33 runs in 3 overs, Lungi Andigi spent 22 runs in 2 overs and Kagiso Rabada spent 28 runs in 3 overs.

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