Australia and South Africa have been forced to travel to Dubai from Pakistan, the International Cricket Council confirmed Sunday, due to a tangled schedule at the Champions Trophy.
India and New Zealand played the final group match Sunday in Dubai and the result of the game decided the semi-final line-up.
Australia are in Dubai and trained in the afternoon, when South Africa flew in from Karachi where they hammered England to get top spot in Group B.
India, winner of the clash against New Zealand, will play Australia, who finished second to South Africa in their group.
India will play the first semi-final in Dubai Tuesday after they refused to travel to hosts Pakistan for political reasons.
That will leave New Zealand and South Africa, hours after landing in Dubai, to head back to Pakistan for the second semi-final scheduled for Wednesday in Lahore.
Pundits and ex-cricketers had called out the one-venue "farce" at the 50-over tournament after India were allowed to play all their matches at Dubai International Stadium.
The rest of the seven teams in the eight-nation competition had to shuttle between three Pakistan venues - Karachi, Rawalpindi and Lahore - and the United Arab Emirates.
New Zealand all-rounder Glenn Phillips said his team were not thinking about India staying at one venue for the course of the tournament.
"No, for us there's no focus on anything like that," he said Saturday.
"We have a 'no-excuses' mindset."
The final on March 9 will be in Dubai if India go the distance.
Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium will be the venue if India miss out.
