Reasons Australia Lost Wtc Final: South Africa defeated Australia by 5 wickets to win the World Test Championship 2025 title. This is the second time in cricket history that South Africa has won an ICC Trophy. In the final match, South Africa had a target of 282 runs, which it has achieved on the fourth day of the Test. Australia was playing the final match as a defending champion, but failed to save his title. After all, which were the 3 reasons, due to which Australia has not won the WTC Trophy for the second consecutive time.

1. Batting collapsed in second innings

Australia scored 212 runs in the first innings in this final match played at Lord’s ground. At the same time, the bowlers took the lead of 74 runs by covering South Africa’s first innings for 138 runs. The match was left for 3 days in the match, Australia had a chance to keep a targe of at least 350 in front of South Africa by batting. But in the second innings, the Australian batting flop was flopped, as a result 7 wickets fell on 73 runs. She is good to be Alex Carrie (43 runs) and Mitchell Starc (58 runs), due to which the team was able to score 207 runs. If other batsmen, including Steve Smith, Marnas Labushen, could have scored a lot of runs, Australia could also keep a target of 400 runs in front of South Africa.

2. Nathan Lyon gave small spells

The fast bowlers dominated the final match, but by the third day the ball was very spin. For South Africa, on the third day, Aden Markram and Tamba Bawuma were set, while Nathan Lyon’s ball was moving several degrees. Despite this, the Australian captain gave Lion small spells. Especially in the last over of the third day, Markram and Bawuma were playing in a very slow style, in such a situation, if the tight fielding was set on the balls of Nathan Lion, then the Australian team could have put pressure on the wicket.

3. Selection of wrong playing XI

The Australian team included Cameron Green as a batsman at the playing XI, due to which they batted on number-3. For this reason, Marnas Labushen was launched in the opening. As a result, Labushen could score only 39 runs in both innings, while Green was able to score only four runs in 2 innings. The selection of better playing XI could have been that Labushen would be allowed to bat on number-3 as usual, while the opening was entrusted to Sam Contas. Contas had earlier come up with effective demonstrations against India in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

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Highest score chased at lords: The final of the World Test Championship 2023-25 ​​is being played at Lord’s ground. The final match of Australia and South Africa has come to the decisive turn. By the end of the second day’s play, Australia had scored 144 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in the second innings and its total lead has been 218 runs. Chaseing a big score in the fourth innings on Lord’s ground, it seems more difficult than conquering Mount Everest. Looking at the data of Lord’s ground here, know how big the South African team will be able to chase in the final.

South Africa will be able to chase how much target will be able to chase

The biggest score in the history so far at Lord’s ground is 344 runs, which he achieved against England in 1984. The West Indies is the only team that has chased more than 300 score at Lord’s ground. Even the host England has not been able to chase more than 300 runs at Lord’s ground.

The condition of foreign teams playing in the fourth innings after 1984 has been very bad. After 1984, the biggest score chase at Lord’s ground is Pakistan, who chased 141 runs against England in 1992. For the last 41 years, no external team has been able to achieve the target of 150 at Lord’s ground.

Now Australia’s total lead has also crossed 250 runs and the South African team will need a miracle to achieve this goal. It would not be easy for the army of Tamba Bawuma to achieve this goal in front of the trio of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood.

5 biggest scores chase at Lord’s ground

• West Indies -344 runs (vs England)
• England – 282 runs (vs New Zealand)
• England – 279 runs (vs New Zealand)
• England – 218 runs (vs New Zealand)
• England – 193 runs (vs West Indies)

Foreign teams chase 5 biggest scores at Lord’s ground

• West Indies -344 runs (vs England)
• Pakistan – 141 runs (vs England)
• India – 136 runs (vs England)
• Australia – 131 runs (vs England)
• Australia – 127 runs (vs England)

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