south africa vs australia wtc final 2025 : South Africa defeated Australia by 5 wickets in the final match of the ICC World Test Championship. In this match, all the players from South Africa played a key role in their team’s victory by performing strongly. South Africa has won the ICC tournament after 27 years. Earlier, he won the ICC Champions Trophy 1998. The team has registered a historic victory under the captaincy of Temba Bavuma. Along with this, South Africa defeated Australia for the first time in the knockout of any ICC tournament.
Temba Bavuma created history
The historic victory of South Africa ended his 27 -year -old trophy. But this victory was even more special for South Africa because he defeated the Australian team which broke his heart many times. This time captain Temba Bavuma overturned history and won this final and gave a special gift to his fans. Before this, South Africa did not win a match against Australia in the knockout of any tournament, whether it is ODI Cup or T20 World Cup or Champions Trophy. But now there was a break on this connection of defeat.
Australian trio record also broken
Temba Bavuma and his South Africa broke the Gurur of the entire Australian team, but they also shattered the records of three players of the team. These three players are Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins. Before this final, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc were not defeated in the finals of any tournament (international or domestic) as a player. At the same time, Pat Cummins had never lost the ICC final as the captain of Australia team. He won the previous WTC Final and World Cup 2023 title.
But Temba Bavuma broke the records of these three players and won the final match of the ICC World Test Championship 2025. Not only this, in the ICC World Test Championship 2023-25, Temba Bavuma won South Africa captaincy in eight matches, out of which 7 teams won while there was a draw. He was the only captain to lose no Test match in this cycle.
South Africa won the final
Talking about the match, Australia batted first and scored 212 runs losing all wickets in their first innings. Steven Smith scored 66 runs in the first innings from the team while Bau Webster contributed 72 runs. Kagiso Rabada took 5 wickets. In response, South Africa collapsed for 138 runs in the first innings. In the first innings, David Bedingham scored 45 runs for South Africa. Temba Bavuma contributed 36 runs. This time Australian captain Pat Cummins took 6 wickets.
In the second innings, Australia was all out for 207 runs. For the team, Mitchell Starc scored 58* runs while Alex Kerry scored 43 runs. Rabada again took 4 wickets. South Africa achieved the target against Australia with five wickets. Aidan Markram played a match -winning innings of 136 runs from the team. He hit 14 fours during his innings. In the second innings, captain Temba Bavuma left his mark and contributed 66 runs.