Wtc final sa vs aus: The final match of the World Test Championship 2025 was played between Australia and South Africa at Lord’s ground. In that match, South Africa defeated Australia by 5 wickets. The defeat missed Australia winning the World Test Championship title for the second consecutive time. South Africa removed the tag of Chockers on them with the help of veteran batsman Aiden Markram’s century innings. South Africa has won an ICC Trophy for the first time since 1998.
Tenba Bavuma decided to bowl
South Africa captain Tamba Bavuma won the toss and decided to bowl first which proved to be a right decision for him in the match. In the first innings, Australia scored 212 runs with the help of Steve Smith and Webster’s innings. During this time, Smith scored a total of 66 and Webster scored 72 runs. Kagiso Rabada took a total of 5 wickets while bowling brilliantly in the first innings against Australia. He dismissed Khwaja, Cameron, Webster, Cummins and Stark.
Australia scored 207 runs in second innings
South Africa’s batting was bad in the first innings. His innings was reduced to 138 runs. In it, Bendingham scored the highest innings of 45 runs. In the second innings for Australia, Pat Cummins took a total of 6 wickets while bowling brilliantly. Apart from this, Mitchell Starc took two and Jose Hazlewood took one wicket. Thus the South African team lagged 74 runs behind. Australia’s team set a target of 207 runs in the second innings. South Africa gave a target of 282 runs for victory.
Africa won by 5 wickets on the fourth day
In this innings, only Mitchell Starc score more than 50 runs for Australia. Rabada took 4 wickets for South Africa and 3 wickets. South Africa won the fourth day chasing a target of 282 runs. Africa easily achieved the target with the brilliant batting of Eden Markram (136) and Tamba Bavuma (66). Thirty days South Africa needed 69 runs to win. The team won by 5 wickets only 2 hours after the fourth day’s play began.