New Zealand beat South Africa by 50 runs to reach ICC Champions Trophy final – as it happened

Centuries from Rachin Ravindra and Kane Williamson set up an ultimately comfortable win for New Zealand, whose captain, Mitchell Santner, bowled superbly
One of my favourite writers, Andrew Fidel Fernando of Cricinfo fame, has this to say on X:
I hope, today, NZ and South Africa put on a semi final for the ages in Lahore. I hope it is a match the city will revel in. The cricket world is increasingly unkind, held to ransom by the lowest impulses of South Asian geopolitics, and now a near-slavish worship of commerce.
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