New Zealand defeated South Africa by 21 runs in the second match of T20 TRI-Series 2025 in Zimbabwe. Young batsman Tim Robinson, who was the hero of this victory, played an unbeaten and match -winning innings of 75 runs in the hour of crisis. At one time, the New Zealand team had lost 5 wickets for just 70 runs, but Robinson’s restrained and aggressive batting changed the picture of the match.

Tim Robinson played the biggest innings of career
New Zealand won the toss and scored 173 runs at the loss of 5 wickets in the prescribed 20 overs. The beginning was very bad, when openers Tim CIFart (22) and Devon Conway (9) were dismissed early. After this Derryl Mitchell (5), James Neesham (0) and Mitchell He (2) could not do anything special.

The team was in crisis, but Tim Robinson held one end and scored an unbeaten 75 runs in 57 balls with the help of 6 fours and 3 sixes. This is the best performance of his international T20 career so far. There was not only class in this innings but also there was aggression according to the need.

Strong partnership with Bevan Jacobs
Robinson joined Bevan Jacobs until the end, who played an unbeaten innings of 44 runs. Together, both of them shared an unreasonable partnership of 103 runs for the sixth wicket, which brought New Zealand not respectable but to the match winning score.

Bowlers also played an important role
Chasing the target, the South African team appeared under pressure in the entire match and was piled up for 152 runs in 19.4 overs. Dewald Bravis scored the highest 35 runs for him, while George Linde added 30 runs. For New Zealand, Matt Henry and Jacob Dafi took 3-3 wickets while bowling deadly, while Ish Sodhi also got 2 wickets.