29 Sep 2009

Black Caps eye semi finals

9:45 am on 29 September 2009

The New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has a Champions Trophy semi-finals place in his sights after chalking up their first win of the tournament over Sri Lanka.

Their final group match is tonight against England who've already qualified for the semis, while a win for the Black Caps would guarantee them a top four play off berth also, and they could also top the group.

The match will be played at the Wanderers where New Zealand beat Sri Lanka and Vettori's indicated they're comfortable with the environment there.

The Black Caps could also go through even if they narrowly lost a low-scoring match which could see them squeeze through on net run rate ahead of Sri Lanka.