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ICC Champions Trophy Pakistan vs New Zealand 2nd Semi Final

2nd Semi Final Match will be take place at Johannesburg.

PAK vs NZ (2nd Semi Final) Match will start at 3 October

Match Start Time 14:30 Local Time (12:30 GMT)

This is huge battle between Pakistan vs New Zealand.Last time this two nation played in the ICC T20 Semi Final which Pakistan won , so the momentum will be in Pakistan Side.On paper the Pakistani team is favorite Pakistan also won their SemiFinal clash with the black cap in the 1992 and 1999 World Cup Semi Final.The Paki side is strong like 1992 World Cup winning team.

New Zealand : The New Zealand team just came up with a good victory over England Side who was in full of confident going into that match but New Zealandout classed them in that match.They have to come up with all gun blazing with the inform Younis Khan’s Men Pakistan.New Zealand team will love to end Semi Final losing match against Pakistani New Zealand have lost 1992 and 1999 Semi Final and 2007 and 2009 ICC T20 Cricket Semis against the same opponent Pakistan.

Pakistan :Pakistani team will be full in confidence with their performance in this tournament history also favors Pakistan Team in the Semi Stages against NZ.Pakistan’s main problem could be the equally unpredictable Wanderers pitch where the Kiwis have notched up two impressive wins and Pakistan yet to win a match in this pitch.

Pakistan: (probable): 1 Imran Nazer, 2 KN Akmal, 3 Younes Khan (capt), 4 Shoaib Malik, 5 Mohd. Yousuf, 6 UM Akmal, 7 Shahid Afridi, 8 Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, 9 Mohammad Aamir, 10 SD Ajmal, 11 UM Gul.

New Zealand (probable): 1 BN McCullum (wk), 2 AR Redmond, 3 MN Guptill, 4 Rose Taylor, 5 NL Broom, 6 GT Elliot/SC Styris, 7 JM Franklin, 8 DL Vettori (capt), 9 KL Mills, 10 SE Bond, 11 IN Butler.