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WTC 2025 Final: South Africa won an ICC event after 27 years by winning the world test championship 2025 against Australia at Lords

ByDurgesh Tiwary

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WTC 2025 Final: South Africa won an ICC event after 27 years by winning the world test championship 2025 against Australia at Lords. They won the final by 5 wickets.

WTC Final 2025 (South Africa Vs Australia)
Game Date: 11th June – 15th June 2025
Game Result: South Africa won by 5 wickets
Man Of the Match: Aiden Markram

Now I am going to share day-to-day activity of this test match with all the details, records and milestones in my way.

Day 1
South Africa captain Temba Bavuma won the toss in the world test championship final against Australia and decided to bowl first at Lords.

Australia bowled out for 212 in their 1st innings. Having won the toss, the Proteas started with three maidens, putting the pressure on the Aussie openers. Rabada struck twice in an over, getting rid of Khawaja and Green. Labuschagne was looking solid, but he poked at a wide delivery, and then Travis Head was strangled down the leg side. Australia recovered in the second session with Smith and Webster buiding a partnership. The former looked busy, shuffling across the crease to make it difficult for the bowlers as he got to a fifty before losing out against the part-time spin of Markram. Webster, who survived an LBW shout early when SA didn’t review, started scoring more freely to get a fifty off his own. Carey fell cheaply trying to reverse sweep Maharaj, and then the bowlers were bundled out by Rabada and Jansen, with the former picking up a fifer. A lively pitch here for the WTC final, let’s see how South Africa responds with the bat. Beau Webster scored 72 runs and Steve Smith Scored 66 runs. For South Africa, Kagiso Rabada picked a fifer.

South Africa scored 43/4 on Day 1 stumps. A fascinating day of Test cricket here at Lord’s as two top quality bowling attacks have really shown their prowess. Starc knocked over Markram in the very first over. Rickelton scored a couple of boundaries, but he was out poking at a wide one. Mulder was attritional, until a Pat Cummins delivery knocked him over, and then Stubbs fell victim to a peach from Hazlewood. South Africa’s skipper Bavuma is looking determined, alongside Bedingham who got two boundaries off the last two deliveries.

AUS: 212 all out
SA: 43/4 on Day 1 stumps

Stats
– South Africa are on a seven-match winning streak, their second-longest in Test cricket. They had a nine-game winning run between March 2002 and May 2003.

– Australia have lost just two (2009 and 2013) out of the 23 Tests they have played at Lord’s post World War II. They’ve won 12 while nine ended in draws.

– Since the start of English summer 2022, Lord’s has had an average runs/wicket ratio of 28.72 in six Tests, the lowest among the six England venues.

– Kagiso Rabada vs Australia
Tests: 11
Wickets: 51
Avg: 22.27
SR: 38.8
Of the 64 bowlers to have bagged at least 50 Test wickets against Australia, only two have a sub-40 strike-rate: Rabada and Jasprit Bumrah (64 wickets at 39.9)

– Visiting batters with most 50-plus scores in England
18 – Steven Smith
17 – Allan Border
17 – Sir Vivian Richards
14 – Sir Don Bradman
14 – Sir Garfield Sobers

– Most runs by a visiting batter at Lord’s
578 – Steven Smith
575 – Warren Bardsley
571 – Sir Garfield Sobers
551 – Sir Don Bradman
512 – Shivnarine Chanderpaul
508 – Dilip Vengsarkar
503 – Allan Border
This is Smith’s fifth 50-plus score at Lord’s in Tests, the joint-most by a visiting batter alongside Shivnarine Chanderpaul.

– Most Test wickets for SA
439 – Dale Steyn
421 – Shaun Pollock
390 – Makhaya Ntini
332 – Kagiso Rabada
330 – Allan Donald

Day 2
South Africa bowled out for just 138 runs in their 1st innings. Australia with a lead of 74 and that’s a significant one in the context of the game. Will be a low-scoring game by the looks of it, with the way the pitch was playing. Bedingham and Verreynne came out after lunch, but it was all Cummins after that. He bowled beautifully and took the four out of the five wickets to fall. That ball to Bedingham was an absolute beauty. South Africa had no answers to captain Cummins. A run-out of Maharaj did not help things either. The ball is still moving around, and South Africa will be hopeful of making some inroads with the new ball. A fascinating hour beckons. David Bedingham scored 45 runs and skipper Temba Bavuma scored 36 runs. For Australia, skipper Pat Cummins picked 6 wickets.

Australia scored 144/4 in their 2nd innings. They have led of 218 runs with 2 wickets in hand. What a day of Test match cricket. This game is right in the balance. Another 14-wicket day – like the opening day. Again, the bowlers who have hogged the headlines today. It was Cummins early in the day who helped bowl South Africa out for 138, helping his side gain an invaluable lead of 74. South Africa though came out storming with the ball despite a wicketless 10.1 overs as Khawaja and Marnus added 28. Rabada broke that stand and followed it up with Green’s wicket in the same over. Then Ngidi who was below-par in the first innings came to life with the big wicket of Smith and then got Webster and Cummins. From 28/0, Australia slipped to 73/7. South Africa was on fire then, but Carey and Mitchell Starc stitched a fine partnership of 61 which pushed Australia over the 200-run mark in terms of the overall lead.

AUS: 212 & 144/8 On day 2 stumps
SA: 138

Stats
– Captains with Test 5-fers at Lord’s
5/35 & 5/43 – Gubby Allen vs India, 1936
6/101 – Bob Willis vs India, 1982
5/69 – Daniel Vettori vs England, 2008
5/28 – Pat Cummins vs South Africa, 2025

– Most Test 5-fers as captain
12 – Imran Khan
9 – Richie Benaud
9 – Pat Cummins
8 – Bishan Singh Bedi
7 – Courtney Walsh
7 – Jason Holder

– Best SR in Tests (min 300 wickets)
39.1 – Kagiso Rabada
42.3 – Dale Steyn
43.4 – Waqar Younis
45.7 – Pat Cummins
46.7 – Malcolm Marshall

Day 3
Australia bowled out for 207 in their 2nd innings and set the target of 282 for South Africa to win the WTC 25. An extremely frustrating partnership for South Africa, one just as fruitful for Australia. A match-defining 59-run stand between Starc and Hazlewood has revived Australia after a disastrous start in their second innings. From being down 134/8, they’ve managed 207 to add to their 74-run first innings lead. So far, Day 3 has been vastly different to the first two days here though. Conditions have changed drastically, the sun has been out and it looks like it’s an excellent time to bat. That Australia’s last pair batted out 22.2 overs says a lot. 282 is undoubtedly a big fourth innings target but South Africa will be the beneficiaries of the best batting conditions we’ve seen so far. Their challenge will lie against the new ball. If they manage to survive against the swinging ball, they would’ve gone a long way in winning this game. Mitchell Starc scored unbeaten 58 runs and Alex Carey scored 43 runs. For South Africa, Kagiso Rabada picked 4 wickets.

South Africa scored 213/2 in their 2nd innings on day 3 stumps and need just 69 runs to become champions of WTC with 8 wickets in hand. What started as a day of great frustration has ended as a day of great fulfillment for South Africa. 69 runs away, South Africa are on the cusp of a historic win here at Lord’s. 14 wickets fell on both days 1 and 2, just four wickets today on Day 3 – that’s testament to how much easier batting was today. The day started with a rigid 59-run stand between Starc and Hazlewood which helped Australia set what looked like a daunting 282-run target. Australia batted the entirety of the first session much to South Africa’s agitation as their hopes of rolling Australia over cheaply didn’t come to fruition. That emotion, however, was quickly washed away by what transpired in the next two sessions as South Africa, in the best batting conditions seen in this Test so far, batted with confidence, authority and poise. Led by a fantastic century from Aiden Markram, they polished off 213 inside 56 overs. With 8 wickets still in hand, they head into Day 4 as uncontested favorites.

AUS: 212 & 207
SA: 138 & 213/2 On day 3 stumps

Stats
– Most 50-plus scores from No.9 or below in Tests
8 – Mitchell Starc
6 – Stuart Broad
6 – Daniel Vettori
5 – Michael Holding
5 – Kiran More
5 – Tim Southee
5 – Graeme Swann
Only two batters have five 50-plus scores from No.9 or lower in Tests in a single country – Stuart Broad and Mitchell Starc – both in England.

– Highest partnerships by visiting 10th wicket pairs at Lord’s
69 – Harry Boyle, Tup Scott (AUS) vs ENG, 1884
69 – Dennis Lillee, Ashley Mallett (AUS) vs ENG, 1975
64 – Graeme Labrooy, Ravi Ratnayeke (SL) vs ENG, 1988
63 – Ajit Agarkar, Ashish Nehra (IND) vs ENG, 2002
59 – Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc (AUS) vs SA, 2025

– 200-plus totals after being 7 down for < 75 in Tests
53/7 to 255 – PAK vs ENG, The Oval, 1967
67/7 to 200 – ENG vs WI, Queen’s Park (Grenada), 2022
73/7 to 207 – AUS vs SA, Lord’s, 2025

– Only two pairs have three 50-plus stands for the 10th wicket in Test cricket history: Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc for Australia and BJ Watling and Trent Boult for New Zealand.

– Only two successful chases of 280-plus at Lord’s till date: 342 by West Indies in 1984 and 282 by ENG vs NZ in 2004. The first was a nine-wicket win led by Gordon Greenidge’s 214*, the only wicket of the innings coming via a runout. The second was a seven-wicket win for the hosts, led by Nasser Hussain’s 103* in his farewell Test.

– South Africa have successfully chased down 250-plus five times in Tests till date, three of them coming against Australia, the last of which was 414 at the WACA, Perth in 2008.

– Openers with most 100s in 4th innings in Tests
4 – Sunil Gavaskar
4 – Graeme Smith
3 – Herbert Sutcliffe
3 – Geoffrey Boycott
3 – Gordon Greenidge
3 – Graham Gooch
3 – Aiden Markram

– Visiting batters with 4th innings hundreds at Lord’s
214* – Gordon Greenidge (WI) vs ENG, 1984
138 – Roy Fredericks (WI) vs ENG, 1976
136 – Michael Clarke (AUS) vs ENG, 2009
109* – Ajit Agarkar (IND) vs ENG, 2002
102* – Sir Don Bradman (AUS) vs ENG, 1938
102* – Aiden Markram (SA) vs AUS, 2025

– SA players with hundred and wicket(s) in the same Test in England
Bruce Mitchell, The Oval, 1935
Graeme Pollock, Trent Bridge, 1965
Jacques Kallis, Old Trafford, 1998
Jacques Kallis, The Oval, 2012
Aiden Markram. Lord’s, 2025
The last visiting player to achieve this double at Lord’s was Michael Clarke in 2009.

Day 4
South Africa scored 282/5 and won the WTC 2025. They have broken the 27-year jinx of not winning an ICC Trophy. In all those years, no country has endured such massive disappointments and heartbreaks that would numb any ardent supporter of theirs. This side of warriors, led by that absolute warrior Temba Bavuma, will go down in history as the one who finally broke that dreaded ICC curse. They will be feted as heroes on their return back home. And they have done it deservingly too, winning 8 Tests in a row to claim the title. A country which has gone so much both politically and socially finally gets the much-needed ICC win they have been craving for. What better venue than at the Home of Cricket to do it at – under pristine conditions for cricket with the sun out in all its glory. Aiden Markram scored 136 runs and skipper Temba Bavuma scored 66 runs. For Australia, Mitchell Starc picked 3 wickets.

AUS: 212 & 207
SA: 138 & 282/5

Stats
– Visiting pairs with highest 4th inns partnerships at Lord’s
287* – Larry Gomes, Gordon Greenidge (WI), 1984
185 – Michael Clarke, Brad Haddin (AUS), 2009
147 – Temba Bavuma, Aiden Markram (SA), 2025
126 – Ajit Agarkar, VVS Laxman (IND), 2002
119 – Ian Chappell, Rick McCosker (AUS), 1975

– Captain dismissing captain twice in a Lord’s Test
Monty Noble (AUS) – Archie MacLaren (ENG) – 1909
Arthur Gilligan (ENG) – Herbie Taylor (SA) – 1924
Walter Robins (ENG) – Curly Page (NZ) – 1937
Andrew Flintoff (ENG) – Mahela Jayawardene (SL) – 2006
Pat Cummins (AUS) – Temba Bavuma (SA) – 2025

– Highest 4th innings individual scores for SA in Tests
189* – Bruce Mitchell vs ENG, The Oval, 1947
154* – Graeme Smith vs ENG, Edgbaston, 2008
143 – Aiden Markram vs AUS, Durban, 2018
136 – Dean Elgar vs ENG, The Oval, 2017
136 – Aiden Markram vs AUS, Lord’s 2025

– Highest successful run-chases at Lord’s
342 – WI vs ENG, 1984
282 – SA vs AUS, 2025
282 – ENG vs NZ, 2004
277 – ENG vs NZ, 2022
216 – ENG vs NZ, 1965
This is the sixth time SA have successfully chased down a 250-plus target in Tests, their fourth against Australia.

– Australia’s defeats in ICC Men’s tournament finals
vs WI, CWC 1975, Lord’s
vs SL, CWC 1996, Lahore
vs ENG, T20 WC 2010, Barbados
vs SA, ICC WTC 2025, Lord’s

– SA in senior ICC tournament finals
Champions Trophy 1998 – Won vs West Indies
Women’s T20 WC 2023 – Lost to Australia
Men’s T20 WC 2024 – Lost to India
Women’s T20 WC 2024 – Lost to New Zealand
ICC World Test Championship 2025 – Won vs Australia
*they were batting second in each of them

– Most consecutive Test wins for SA
9 – March 2002 – May 2003
8* – August 2024 – present
6 – November 2012 – February 2013

– Most wins in first 10 Tests as captain
9 – Percy Chapman (ENG), Temba Bavuma (SA)
8 – Douglas Jardine (ENG), Warwick Armstrong (AUS), Lindsay Hassett (AUS), Waqar Younis (PAK), Ricky Ponting (AUS), Ben Stokes (ENG)

That’s all from the WTC Final 2025. I hope you will like this information. For more updates visit my page on Facebook Durgesh Tiwary’s View and website Cricket Movie Website

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