PUNE: South Africa and New Zealand have a short but exciting rivalry in ODI World Cup history. And both have not won the trophy despite playing in numerous knockout games.
Their pivotal face-off came in the 2011 World Cup quarterfinals at Mirpur when India co-hosted the event with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. For, it was the game when either New Zealand or South Africa were almost assured (barring a washout) to break their 100% failure rate in the knockout phase of the World Cups.
