The South Africa team has created history by defeating Australia in the final match of the World Test Championship (WTC 2025) at the historic Lord’s ground in England. With this victory, South Africa, captained by Temba Bavuma, has won the ICC title after 27 years. Earlier in 1998, South Africa won the Vills International Cup (now Champions Trophy). After this, many occasions came when South Africa had a chance to win the ICC title. But again and again, South Africa’s hand left a chance. Due to this, Chokrs also got up in front of this team. But after 27 years, this team has also ended the drought of the ICC title by making the kingdom of the Test match.

This is how the final match of WTC was

Batting first after losing the toss, the Australian team scored 212 runs in their first innings. Bu Webster scored the highest innings of 72 runs, including 11 fours. At the same time, 66 runs came out of the bat of former captain Steve Smith. Smith hit 10 fours in his innings. For South Africa, fast bowler Kagiso Rabada took the maximum five wickets, while Khabbu Pesar Marco Jansen got three successes. Spin bowlers Keshav Maharaj and Eden Markram also took one wicket each.

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South Africa looked battered in the first innings

The performance of South African batsmen in the first innings was also disappointing. As a result, the entire team of South Africa was reduced to 138 runs. David Bedingham scored the highest 45 runs for the South African team, including six fours. At the same time, captain Temba Bavuma scored 36 runs off 84 balls with the help of four fours and one six .. Australian captain Pat Cummins took six wickets, while Mitchell Starc had two successes.

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This was the thrill of the second innings

Talking about Australia’s second innings, the score of the Kangaroo team was at one time for 73 runs for seven wickets. Australia could reach the score of 207 runs due to the great batting of wicketkeeper batsman Alex Carrie and Mitchell Starc from here. Stark scored 58* runs off 136 balls, including five fours. Wahi Alex Carrie scored 43 runs off 50 balls with the help of 5 fours. For South Africa, Kagiso Rabada took four wickets while bowling well in the second innings. While Lungi Angidi achieved three successes. But due to this, South Africa had a target of 282 runs.

South Africa created history by chasing 282

When the South African team entered the field to chase the total chase of 282, it seemed that this match would be easily won. The start of South Africa was also not good. South Africa got the first blow on the score of 9 when Ryan Ricelton was dismissed. But after this there was a good partnership between Mulder and Marakram. Then Mulder’s wicket fell on a score of 70. But the marks remained at one end. After this, captain Temba Bavuma came to the crease. There was a historic partnership of 147 runs between Marakram and Bavuma. Bavuma scored 66 runs. When Bawuma was out on the score of 217, this match was in the fist of South Africa. But the marks remained at one end even then. He also scored a century. Eventually South Africa won the match by 5 wickets. Marakram scored 136 runs in this WTC final.

Australia’s dream of winning the title for the second consecutive time

Last year, Australia defeated India and won the Test Championship title. At that time, the team was in the hands of Pat Cummins. In such a situation, this was the second consecutive chance when Cummins would make Australia a Test champion under his captaincy. But South Africa dashed his expectations.

Why South Africa was called Chockers

The African team was called Chockers in world cricket due to missing in a big match. The South African team won the ICC tournament for the last time by the African team (1998) African team. The African team was confused on many occasions in world cricket. In South Africa’s ICC tournaments, the hallmark of disappointing past is something like this ….

1992 ODI World Cup semi -final against Australia

South Africa, who returned to international cricket after suffering 21 years of expulsion due to apartheid, had a great fast bowler and tight fielder. But it rained in the semi -finals and instead of 22 runs from 7 balls, he now got a ‘impossible’ revised target of scoring 22 runs in 1 ball. And thus he lost.

1996 World Cup quarter final against West Indies

After winning all the group matches, the team of Hansi Cronia’s team was considered heavy, but after Bryan Lara’s great batting, Roger Harper and Jimmy Adams’s trap got trapped in South African batsmen and lost the match by 19 runs.

1999 World Cup semi -final against Australia

The most disappointing match in South Africa’s cricket history was probably in this match. Lance Clusner, who was the best player of the tournament, made the ‘Tragedy King’. Chasing the target of 214 runs to win, South Africa had to score 9 runs in the last over. The last pair was at the crease. Clusner hit a four off the first two balls, but Alan Donald was run out on the next ball and the match was tied. Australia reached the finals due to winning the super six phase.

2007 World Cup semi -final against Australia

South Africa’s decision of batting first proved to be wrong. Graeme Smith, Herschelle Gibs, Jacques Kallis, AB de Villiers and Mark Boucher were dismissed on a score of 149. Australia won the match with 20 overs left.

2009 T20 World Cup semi -final against Pakistan

South Africa defeated New Zealand, England, West Indies, India and made it to the last four. But in front of Shahid Afridi’s brilliant spin bowling, the team could not even achieve the target of 150 runs.

2011 ODI World Cup quarter final against New Zealand

Legendary like AB de Villiers, Faf du Plessi, Graeme Smith, Jacks Kallis and JP Duminy could not achieve the target of 222 runs against New Zealand. At one time, after scoring 108 runs for 8 wickets in 25 overs, the next seven wickets were lost for 64 runs.

2013 Champions Trophy semi -final against England
South Africa’s score was 80 for 8 wickets, after which David Miller and Rory Kleenwell took it to 175 runs. With the help of Jonathan Trot’s unbeaten 82 runs, England won 12 overs and seven wickets remaining.

2014 T20 World Cup semi -final against India
The Indian team defeated South Africa by performing brilliantly.

2015 ODI World Cup semi -final against New Zealand
Golden generation of South African cricketers. Every department has tremendous, but again lost the semi -finals. New Zealand defeated South Africa and broke the heart of South Africa.

2022 T20 World Cup Super 12 against Netherlands
A winning one win from the semi -finals, the South African team was defeated by the Netherlands by 13 runs.

2023 ODI World Cup semi -finals against Australia
After performing brilliantly in the league stage, South Africa team proved to be ‘Chokar’ once again in the important match of the last four

Why was South Africa cut off from world cricket ..?

The South Africa government had made some rules which made the ICC confused. According to the government rules, their country’s team was allowed to play against white countries (England, Australia and New Zealand). The condition was also that only white players would play in the opposition team.

The ICC suspended South Africa, threatening the future of African players. The career of many cricketers there ended in the wait, when will the South African team return to international cricket. Finally, after 21 years (in 1991) the day came when South Africa changed and the policy of apartheid was abolished there.