South Africa has created history by defeating Australia in the final of the World Test Championship 2025 at Lord’s historic ground. This victory was special in many ways, as the African team has won an ICC title after 27 years. The last time South Africa won the ICC KNOCKOUT Trophy (now Champions Trophy) in 1998. After this historic victory, all the veterans of the cricket world congratulated the African team and reacted fiercely on social media.

Veterans congratulated the South Africa victory:

South Africa won the match by 5 wickets:

In the final match of the World Test Championship 2025, South Africa made history by defeating Australia by 5 wickets. Batting first, Australia’s team was reduced to 212 runs in the first innings. In response, South Africa started very poorly and the entire team could only score 138 runs. In this way, Australia got a lead of 74 runs on the first innings basis.

In the second innings, Australia scored 207 runs with the contribution of lower order batsmen despite losing the top -order wickets and set a big target of 282 runs in front of Africa. In response, South Africa showed tremendous passion. Opener Aidan Markram scored a brilliant 136 runs, while captain Temba Bavuma also played a struggling innings. Thanks to these two, Africa achieved this target by losing 5 wickets.

Rabada and Markram for South Africa are hero:

In this historic victory, there were two heroes of South Africa – Kagiso Rabada in Genndavaji and Aden Markram in batting. Rabada took a total of 9 wickets in both innings and broke the back of the Australian batsmen. At the same time, in the fourth innings, the historic century innings of Aidan Markram completely overturned the attitude of the match. His 136 -run innings will be remembered for a long time in cricket history.

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