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WTC Final South Africa Beat Australia: South Africa has defeated Australia in the final of the World Test Championship. After 27 years, South Africa captured the ICC Trophy. Aden Marrank …Read more
South Africa won the WTC Final defeating Australia.
Highlights
- South Africa defeated Australia in the WTC final.
- After 27 years, South Africa won the ICC Trophy.
- South Africa achieved a target of 282 runs with a death century.
New Delhi. Australia and South Africa (Australia vs South Africa) played the World Test Championships played between the 2025 final (WTC Final 2025), Australia lost by 5 wickets. In this way, Australia missed out on capturing this title for the second consecutive time. South Africa also ended the Choks tag on its top with the help of Aiden Marakram century. South Africa captured the ICC Trophy for the first time since 1998. After 27 years, he won the ICC Trophy.
6 wickets of Pat Cummins
Now it came to enter the second innings of Australia. When Australia’s team landed in the second innings, they scored 207 runs and set a target of 282 runs in front of South Africa. In this innings, only Mitchell Starc could score more than 50 runs for Australia. Apart from this, all the batting was also bad. Steve Smith scored 13, Travis Head 9, Alax Carrie scored 43 runs. For South Africa, Rabada took 4 wickets, at the same time, Angidi took 3 wickets.
Chasing a target of 282 runs, South Africa won the fourth day. South Africa easily achieved this score with the brilliant batting of Eden Markram and Tamba Bavuma. By the end of the third day’s play, South Africa needed 69 runs to win. The team won 2 hours after the fourth day’s game started. Marakram played a century of 136 runs in 207 balls, while Bavuma scored 66 runs.
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