South Africa made history at the Lord’s grounds of England and won the World Test Championship (WTC 2025). South Africa has won the ICC title after 27 years by defeating Australia by 5 wickets. At the same time, Australia has finally suffered a defeat in an International Cricket Council (ICC) final after 15 years. In terms of data, Australia is considered the most successful team in cricket, which has won 10 big titles under ICC so far. Which includes 6 ODIs, 2 Champions Trophy, 1 T20 World Cup and 1 Test Championship title.

But this time luck was not with ‘Bagi Green’. The South African team, captained by Temba Bavuma, won the title by registering their biggest win in the history of Test cricket. It is a big title in South Africa’s first Test format.

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Australia has lost only 4 ICC final in 14

Australia has so far participated in the final of ICC tournaments 14 times and has lost only 4 times.

The first time in the 1975 ODI World Cup final, where West Indies defeated him by 17 runs (Lords)

Second defeat against Sri Lanka in the final of 1996 (Lahore), where Sri Lanka won 7 wickets and 22 balls remaining

The third defeat against England in the 2010 T20 World Cup finals (Bridgetown, Barbados), where England defeated by 7 wickets. And now the fourth defeat 2025 against South Africa in the WTC final.

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This necklace was also a different experience for Pat Cummins. After becoming the captain, he gave the title of WTC against India in 2023 and then the ODI Cup in the same year. Now it will be interesting to see if Australia changes its combination after this defeat or moves forward with this core team.