Messi swept in a 57th-minute spot-kick at Belo Horizonte's Mineirao Stadium to cancel out a first-half opener from Paraguay's Richard Sanchez.
The tournament organisers confirmed Rafa Nadal will participate in two exhibition matches next Wednesday and Friday.
The CAF exes took a decision to cede control of the running of the organisation and have Fifa general secretary Fatma Samoura as 'Fifa High Commissioner for Africa', sources said.
Emiliano Sala, 28, died when a plane carrying him and pilot David Ibbotson came down in the Channel on 21 January, just days after he had joined Cardiff City from Nantes.
After a soggy outfield delayed the start at Edgbaston and reduced the match to 49 overs per side, Black Caps captain Kane Williamson won the toss and chose to field, hoping to take advantage of bowler-friendly conditions.
The national women’s football team has returned to South Africa after playing in their first World Cup ever, having failed to make it out of the group stages.
Hashim Amla also registered a milestone, scoring a pedestrian 55 off 83 and became the fourth South African to register 8,000 ODI runs after Jacques Kallis, Herschelle Gibbs and AB de Villiers before him.
The Southern Kings franchise and head coach Deon Davids have mutually agreed to part ways.
The New Zealand skipper played a masterfully paced innings that included nine fours and one six as he dragged his team beyond the Proteas score of 241/6.
Defeats to England, Bangladesh and India have left South Africa wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton De Kock billing the New Zealand match as a "quarter-final".
