Summary

  • New Zealand reach first World Cup final

  • Grant Elliott 84 not out - wins it with a six

  • NZ 299-6 from 42.5 overs (D/L adjusted)

  • SA 281-5: Du Plessis 82, De Villiers 65*

  • Rain reduced match to 43 overs per side

  • Winners to play Australia or India

  1. Postpublished at 06:14 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

    "It was a very good cameo for Miller. Nine times, half the balls he faced, he was good enough to hit it to the boundary and it was just what South Africa needed."

  2. SA 281-5 (De Villiers 65*, Duminy 6*)published at 06:13 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Anderson strays with a wide - that's an extra delivery. Duminy skies the ball over Nathan McCullum and they run a two to deep extra cover. Last ball... Duminy bashes a two towards cow corner and South Africa finish on 281-5.

    We await an adjusted Duckworth-Lewis target for New Zealand to chase.

  3. Dropped catchpublished at 06:11 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Left-hander JP Duminy hooks and misses. Dot. He's then dropped as the ball sails through the fingertips of the leaping substitute fielder Nathan McCullum at cover, and away for four.

  4. WICKETpublished at 06:09 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    No - Miller is caught behind one short of his half-century. Even better for New Zealand, it's a dot ball.

    Scorecard

  5. Sixpublished at 06:08 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Corey Anderson to bowl the last over, Miller clears his front leg to lash the ball over long-on for six. 49 from 17 balls, can he equal McCullum?

  6. Postpublished at 06:08 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

    "You take seven runs off an over when the bat is being swatted around."

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  7. SA 266-4 (De Villiers 65*, Miller 43*)published at 06:07 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Yorkers are underrated in modern cricket, it's as much as De Villiers can do to drag it out of the blockhole down to long-off for a single. Miller swings and misses and they run a bye, he now has 43 from 16. Last ball of the penultimate over, De Villiers fences at a short ball, misses and so it's seven off the over.

  8. SA 264-4published at 06:04 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    A single means Miller won't threaten De Villiers' ODI record of a 16-ball fifty - but he could still overtake Brendon McCullum's World Cup record of 18 balls. De Villiers pulls and misses at a lifter.

  9. Postpublished at 06:04 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

    "Miller has 42 off 14. He is hitting every ball. Eight times he has scored a boundary in 14 balls."

  10. SA 263-4published at 06:03 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Miller clubs Southee back past the stumps for four - he has 42 from 14 balls. And to think New Zealand were worried about De Villiers...

  11. Join the debate at #bbccricketpublished at 06:03 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Shak: This is totally disadvantaging one team. I do not know any other sport where this would occur. Major game just play it out. Cricket still in the dark ages.

  12. Sixpublished at 06:02 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    De Villiers can only rotate the strike, but Miller keeps blasting away, with a flat six over the bowler's head and then an enormous one into the second tier of the stand behind mid-wicket. A single mean it's 20 off the over.

    Don't forget, at the end of this innings in two overs' time, we'll get a Duckworth-Lewis-adjusted target.

  13. Email tms@bbc.co.ukpublished at 06:02 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Raj: I always wonder when it comes to South Africa's knockout games the rain gods are always key players!

    Fans under rain macs at the cricketImage source, Reuters
  14. SA 245-4published at 06:00 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Miller continues to pepper the Eden Park boundary ropes, swiping Anderson for four over third man, while the left-armer is charged with an aerial wide when he tries a bouncer. A single brings De Villiers back on strike for the first time in an over and a half.

  15. Postpublished at 06:00 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

    "It is looking like they will get about 280 here."

  16. SA 239-4published at 05:57 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    After Miller can't connect with a bouncer, he whacks his third four of the over through long-off, and incredibly finds the boundary for the fourth time with some good placement, just wide of the diving McCullum at mid-off. The last ball is swung through mid-wicket for a single - Miller took 17 from the over, but handily for New Zealand, De Villiers has been kept off strike.

  17. Postpublished at 05:57 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

    "You don't have any time to get warmed up in this situation. You have to get your line and length right straight away, but Southee was unable to do that."

  18. SA 230-4published at 05:54 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Tim Southee, we think, will bowl the two remaining overs from the other end - if you've just joined us, this is now a 43-over match because of rain. Southee goes round the wicket to the left-hander, Miller blasts an attempted yorker back past the bowler's right hand for four. Southee goes back over the wickets, and Miller fences at a wide delivery - that disappears for four through third man.

  19. Join the debate at #bbccricketpublished at 05:54 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    Liam Poss: This isn't how a semi-final should be decided, especially with a reserve day in place. New Zealand have to be favourites now.

  20. SA 222-4 (De Villiers 63*, Miller 3*)published at 05:52 Greenwich Mean Time 24 March 2015

    David Miller is off the mark straight away, clubbing his first ball for two. A single brings AB de Villiers back on strike - he swats one over the covers, where the sweeper Grant Elliott cuts off the boundary and they run two. Six runs and a wicket off the over - better than New Zealand may have hoped for?