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South Africa vs Australia, WTC Final 2025: South Africa is now the new champion of the ICC World Test Championship. South Africa defeated Australia by 5 wickets in the 2025 WTC final. South Africa has won the WTC title for the first time. Aden Markram was the hero of South Africa’s historic victory in the final. Chasing a target of 282 runs, Markram scored a match winning century. After 27 years, South Africa has won an ICC Trophy. Earlier, South Africa won the ICC Champions Trophy in 1998.
In the 2025 WTC final, Australia gave South Africa a target of 282 runs, which was easily achieved by Tamba Bavuma’s team by losing just 5 wickets. For South Africa, Aidan Markram played a match -winning innings of 136 off 207 balls. Apart from this, captain Tamba Bavuma scored 66 runs in 134 balls.
South Africa started to start chasing a target of 282 runs in the title match. Opener Ryan Riclton was dismissed for just 06 runs. After this, Vian Mulder also returned to the pavilion with the help of 5 fours in 50 balls. After falling two wickets for 70 runs, Aidan Markram and Tamba became Bavuma rock. Both shared a 147 -run partnership for the third wicket. Bavuma was dismissed for 66 runs in 134 balls with the help of 5 fours. But Markram stayed. The Australian bowlers did not break any of Markram.
Markram was dismissed by ensuring his team’s victory. He played a match winning innings of 136 runs off 2027 balls. During this time 14 fours came out of his bat. When Markram was out, South Africa needed only six runs to win.
WTC final account
Talking about the entire match, Australia scored 212 runs in their first innings after playing first. For Kangaroos, Steve Smith scored the highest 66 runs in the first innings, while Kagiso Rabada took 5 wickets for South Africa. After this, the South African team collapsed for just 138 runs in their first innings. This time Pat Cummins took 6 wickets. In this way, Australia took a lead of 74 runs in the first innings, but in the second innings the Kangaroo batsmen were piled up. Australia scored 207 runs this time and gave South Africa a target of 282 runs. This time for South Africa, Aidan Markram played a match -winning innings of 136 runs and won the ICC title after 27 years. South Africa easily achieved the target from Australia by losing just 5 wickets.