Put into bat, SA put 128 on the board. Captain Smith top scored with 33. Duminy scored 29, while AB de Villiers scored 15. Gibbs managed to get only 3 and Merwe was bowled for a duck.
Chasing 129, skipper McCullum scored 57 but got out at the crucial stage in the 17th over. NZ needed 36 in the last 3 overs.
9 runs were scored in the 18th over bowled by Parnell. Last 2 overs needed 27. The over from Steyn added 12 runs to the total including 4 crucial byes. Boucher was not able to manage the awkward bounce which beat him and went to boundary.
15 required of last over. First ball was a single. Oram scored 3 continuous two runs and then hit a four in the 5th ball. 11 came in 5 balls, with the last ball requiring4 runs. The drive to long on off a straight full delivery fetched two runs. Parnell did not collect the ball cleanly and Styris went for the third. Smith picked the ball from covers and knocked the stumps. Oram ran out in the last ball and New Zealand fell short by just one run.
SA remained unbeaten in the group with 4 points while New Zealand ended with just 2 points.
Scoreboard:
Match # 10, Group D
Date: Tuesday June 9, 2009
Teams: South Africa v. New Zealand
Captains: G Smith and B McCullum
Toss: New Zealand, decided to field
Venue: Lord's, London
Result: South Africa won by 1 run
Points: South Africa 2; New Zealand 0
Man of the Match: Merwe off South Africa
South Africa Innings:
| Batsman | How Out | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| Kallis | run out (B McCullum) | 24 | 23 | 2 | 1 |
| G Smith | b Butler | 33 | 35 | 4 | 0 |
| Gibbs | c & b Styris | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Merwe | b N McCullum | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Duminy | c Broom b Mills | 29 | 23 | 1 | 2 |
| AB de Villiers | run out (Guptill) | 15 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
| Boucher | c B McCullum b Butler | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| A Morkel | not out | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| J Botha | not out | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | (lb 4, w 2) | 6 | - | - | - |
| Total | for 7 wkts in 20 overs | 128 | - | - | - |
Fall of Wickets: 1-49 (Kallis, 7.1 ov), 2-63 (Gibbs, 10.3 ov), 3-63 (Smith, 11.2 ov), 4-65 (van der Merwe, 12.4 ov), 5-85 (de Villiers, 14.5 ov), 6-107 (Boucher, 17.2 ov), 7-121 (Duminy, 18.5 ov)
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| Mills | 4 | 0 | 34 | 1 |
| Oram | 4 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| Butler | 4 | 0 | 13 | 2 |
| Diamanti | 2 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| N McCullum | 4 | 0 | 18 | 1 |
| Styris | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
New Zealand Innings: (129 to win in 20 overs)
| Batsman | How Out | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| B McCullum | st Boucher b Merwe | 57 | 54 | 6 | 0 |
| Guptill | c Merwe b Steyn | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Broom | c & b Kallis | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Ross Taylor | b Merwe | 22 | 31 | 2 | 0 |
| Oram | run out (G Smith) | 24 | 18 | 2 | 1 |
| Styris | not out | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 1, w 5) | 10 | - | - | - |
| Total | for 5 wkts in 20 overs | 127 | - | - | - |
Fall of Wickets: 1-19 (Guptill, 2.1 ov), 2-26 (Broom, 3.3 ov), 3-82 (Taylor, 14.3 ov), 4-93 (BB McCullum, 16.6 ov), 5-127 (Oram, 19.6 ov)
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| Steyn | 4 | 0 | 22 | 1 |
| Parnell | 4 | 0 | 38 | 0 |
| Kallis | 3 | 0 | 17 | 1 |
| J Botha | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| A Morkel | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| Merwe | 4 | 0 | 14 | 2 |
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