Hashtag #Chokers trending on Twitter after NZ defeat SA in s/f
The hashtag #NZvSA is also a top trending topic on the micro-blogging site.
A mighty sixer by Grant Elliott in the penultimate ball broke the semi-final jinx for New Zealand and took the team to their first ever final of the ICC World Cup tournament defeating a voodooed South Africa by four wickets via Duckworth-Lewis in a cliff hanger here on Tuesday.
The Kiwis went into the last over of a rain-curtailed match needing 12 runs to reach its target of 298 from 43 overs, and Elliot, who scored an unbeaten 84 held nerve to make the task easy with one ball to spare.
For South Africa, who failed to ditch the 'chokers' tag, it was again an agonising last-gasp defeat. The Proteas dropped a catch in the penultimate over when Farhaan Behardien appeared set to take a skier in the deep to dismiss Grant Elliott only for JP Duminy, also going for the catch, to dive in front of him.
Also the final overs caused too costly for their bowlers.
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