Skipper Mitchell Santner said New Zealand have endured some “tough travel” but insisted they are raring to go for their Champions Trophy semi-final against South Africa on Wednesday in Lahore.

New Zealand convincingly won their first two games of the ODI tournament in Pakistan, then lost to India in Dubai on Sunday, and have now flown back to Pakistan again for the encounter at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium. “It was actually more of a daytime sleep,” Santner said on Tuesday on the eve of the semi-final. “I think it was a tough travel but it’s nice to get it done, get here and kind of a reset and get ready for today [training] and tomorrow’s game.”