South Africa has become champions of Choks, WTC has won history by winning the final, ICC trophy after years

Cricket News Desk. The final of the World Test Championships created a new history in 2025. South Africa defeated Australia by 5 wickets at Lord’s to name the World Test Championships 2023-25. In this way, South Africa became the third team to win the WTC title. Earlier, New Zealand (2021) and Australia (2025) won the title. South Africa, which was only 138 runs in the first inning, made a brilliant return in the second innings and reached the target of 282 runs given by Australia on the fourth day. In this historic victory of South Africa, opener Aiden Markram played an important role in a brilliant century. Markram received full support from Captain Temba Bavuma. However, Bavuma returned to the pavilion after scoring 66 runs, but by that time the match went in favor of South Africa. This is the second ICC title of South Africa in the form of WTC that was won in the ICC final after 27 years. With this, Temba Bavuma’s team finally ended the 27 -year -old drought. The South African team won the ICC Champions trophy for the first time in 1998. It was the first ICC trophy in South Africa. After this, the Africa team took a long time of 27 years to win their second ICC title. You will be surprised to know that this is the longest gap between 2 ICC titles. Earlier, this achievement was the name of the West Indies. The ICC trophy was captured by the West Indies 25 years later. The longest gap between two ICC title South Africa – 27 years (CT 1998 – WTC 2025) Western – India – 25 years (ODI WC 1979 – CT 2004) New Zealand – 21 years (CT 2000 – WTC 2021) Batting, Australia’s first innings ends for 212 runs. In response, the South Africa team was rejected in the first inning for only 138 runs. Australia scored 207 runs in the second innings and gave South Africa a target of 282 runs. South Africa has reached this target by losing 5 wickets on the fourth day. Eden Markram played a brilliant innings of 136 runs. Temba Bavuma scored 66 runs. Share this story -tags