South Africa win World Test Championship 2025 : South Africa has created history under the captaincy of Temba Bavuma. In the final of the World Test Championship 2025 played at Lord’s, he dusted the defending champion Australia by 5 wickets within four days. In doing so, South Africa also ended its wait for a World Cup for 33 years and for the first time, he won the honor of becoming a world champion in senior cricket. Fast bowler Kagiso Rabada and opener Aidan Markram, the star of this victory of South Africa. Rabada took 9 wickets in the match and Markram scored a brilliant 136 runs in the fourth innings. At the same time, captain Temba Bavuma also scored an excellent 66 runs, battling Hamstring injury.
On the fourth day of the match, as soon as Kyle Veriana’s bat came to an end, South African player and support staff in Lord’s dressing room as well as every South African fan and common cricket fans present in the stadium also jumped with joy. After all, after the heart -breaking defeat for many years, this country got success in cricket. South Africa won the last ICC title 27 years ago in 1998 as the Champions Trophy.
All ‘agar-magar’ hide
Australia had set a target of 282 runs to win in front of South Africa. In the fourth innings at Lord’s, only 4 times the total chase of 200 plus runs was done, seeing that the victory for South Africa seemed a bit difficult. The problem was also that South Africa had chased 250 plus runs in the total test only 5 times before this. He also did this for the last time in the year 2008. However, after the manner in which Aidan Markram and Temba Bavuma batting, nothing was like Agn-Magar for South Africa and the path of victory became easier. The result was that South Africa created history.
Bavuma scored 66 runs, add 147 runs with Markram
Chasing 282 runs, South Africa had scored 213 runs for 2 wickets on the third day, with the century partnership between Temba Bavuma and Aidan Markram for the third wicket. However, there was no significant increase in that partnership when the fourth day game started. Temba Bavuma, who is unbeaten on the third day on the third day, could add only one run in his score on the fourth day. He was dismissed by Pat Cummins. Bavuma and Markram had a total partnership of 147 runs for the third wicket.
Markram scored a century and played the victory over Australia
Temba Bavuma and Aidan Markram’s partnership may have broken. However, both of them had done their work before breaking up. He had taken his team to the point from where it was possible to play the victory and capture the WTC title. The good thing is that after the dismissal of Bavuma, Markram stood in one end and took the team closer to victory. Every South African fan would be expecting to see the winning run with his bat but this could not happen because the winning innings of Markram was over 7 runs before the victory, but by then the work was completed. Markram scored 136 runs, which will be remembered forever.