Finn Allen' s innings of a lifetime powers New Zealand to the final| NZ v SA | T20 World Cup
The Grade Cricketer
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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The Skellies are through to the T20 World Cup Final after Finn Allen and Tim Steifert do it off their d*cks.
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| 0:00.0 | Sweet Mother of Mercy, Finn Allen, what have you gone and done? |
| 0:05.1 | A century from 33 balls, total obliteration of South Africa. |
| 0:10.2 | One of the great innings in New Zealand cricket history, |
| 0:13.2 | one of the great innings in World Cup history, |
| 0:15.3 | and one of New Zealand cricket's greatest nights. |
| 0:17.8 | They proceed to the final, |
| 0:19.5 | prepared to bathe in synonyms for carnage, destruction, annihilation, pummeling for New Zealand, |
| 0:26.1 | for South Africa, for you, for me and fingers lovingly crossed for higgos. |
| 0:31.6 | This calls for a bud. Look, I know what you're thinking. |
| 0:44.6 | I know what you're thinking. |
| 0:47.3 | What does this mean for the archetype of South African performances in finals? |
| 0:53.4 | Now, I did catch this. Chuck, I think we've got it here. We've got a |
| 0:56.9 | thumbnail. I'm not going to name the media outlet because they've been fantastic for TGC covering |
| 1:04.7 | South Africa. They've got, they've got something here. Yeah, there's a picture of Aden Markham, and it says the baggage of the sea word. Now, I think that's a tough response to South Africa's performance overnight. I wouldn't be going that far. They're good blokes, these guys. No, I adjust. I know that's not your question. Your question is where, as he goes, let's do it quickly. If it's even possible, let's just say as we go to where he's somewhere far more important than here and out of respect for his privacy. I'll put it this way. Matt Henry temporarily left the World Cup for the same reason and to the great men. To both great men, we say, Godspeed and hopefully cracking one or many of these shortly. Um, now look, if you've enjoyed our coverage before we get onto the semifinals, um, shoot us a lot, shoot us to subscribe. There's a ton of more T20 cricket coverage coming up on the channel over the next few months. I'll let you guess what that is. Um, we love bring it to you. We love soaking up the destruction. Um, And let's just say it's a great day for KKR. |
| 2:02.7 | Now, Chucky, New Zealand, South Africa. |
| 2:04.6 | Let's bring up the scores of this game. |
| 2:06.5 | If you're not aware, if you're learning for the first time, |
| 2:09.9 | what happened in this semi-final. |
| 2:13.0 | This was one of the greatest, most enormous hammerings of a side, |
| 2:20.5 | dished out by anybody in world cricket, let alone New Zealand to South Africa. |
| 2:25.4 | South Africa make 169 from there, a lot of 20 overs, eight down. |
| 2:29.7 | Now, New Zealand have won the toss, and Mitch Santner has correctly called there. |
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