How to watch South Africa vs New Zealand: Free Streams, TV Channels

Wednesday’s South Africa vs New Zealand live stream in the 2026 T20 World Cup semi-final sees the tournament’s most dominant team come up against a Kiwi side that it has already beaten convincingly during the group stage. Can the Proteas be stopped?

Captain Aiden Markram and the South Africans must see this as their golden opportunity to finally get the white-ball monkey off their backs. After blowing chance after chance to win a first men’s trophy since 1998, they may never get a better one than this. The skipper has been superb with the bat throughout, while Lungi Ngidi, Marco Jansen and Corbin Bosch have all taken over 10 wickets each in this tournament – it’s a team on top form in every area of the park.

New Zealand, on the other hand, have been patchy since they arrived on the sub-continent and only just squeaked through the Super 8s after an even flakier Pakistan failed to beat Sri Lanka quickly enough. There have been sparks of brilliance from this side – Tim Seifert’s explosive batting at the top of the order and seamer Matt Henry with the ball – but every Black Cap will need to stand up and be counted if they’re to make Sunday’s final.

T20 World Cup 2026 free streams online.

ICC.tv in multiple countries (find the full list right here) and on Tamasha in Pakistan.

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Sky Sports is showing South Africa vs New Zealand in the UK.

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Remember, you’ll need to download a good streaming VPN if you’re outside the UK right now.

SuperSport in South Africa.

To watch online, you’ll need to get a DStv Premium package to tune in, with prices starting at R699 a month for the full array of sports.

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Sky Sport is the place to watch South Africa vs New Zealand, along with the entire T20 World Cup, in New Zealand. Subscribers can tune in online using the Sky Go service.

If you don’t have Sky Sport already, you can also watch the T20 action with a Sky Sport Now pass, which costs, NZ$29.99 for a day, NZ$54.99 a month or NZ$549.99 a year.

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Tamasha in Pakistan.

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Prime Video is streaming South Africa vs New Zealand to cricket fans in Australia.

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South Africa vs New Zealand T20 World Cup 2026 Q+A

When and where is the South Africa vs New Zealand semi-final match?

This T20 World Cup 2026 semi-final between South Africa and New Zealand will start at 7pm local time in India on Wednesday, March 4. That’s 8.30am ET / 5.30am PT in the US and 1.30pm GMT in the UK.

It takes place at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, India.

South Africa vs New Zealand T20 World Cup 2026 squads

South Africa: Aiden Markram (c), Corbin Bosch, Dewald Brevis, Quinton de Kock, Marco Jansen, George Linde, Keshav Maharaj, David Miller, Kwena Maphaka, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje, Kagiso Rabada, Ryan Rickelton, Jason Smith, Tristan Stubbs

New Zealand: Mitchell Santner (c), Finn Allen, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Jacob Duffy, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Cole McConchie, Daryl Mitchell, James Neesham, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Ben Sears, Tim Seifert, Ish Sodhi

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