World Test Championship 2025-27: Just a few days ago, South Africa won the World Test Championship 2025 title. He registered a historic victory over Australia by 5 wickets in the final. South Africa won an ICC Trophy after nearly 27 years. Legendary players like Graeme Smith, Sean Pollock and AB de Villiers also witnessed this special moment and historic victory. Now veteran player de Villiers has given an important advice to the ICC, he believes that the World Test Championship Finals should be held every 4 years.

Discussing a podcast, AB de Villiers said that the World Test Championship schedule by the ICC needs improvement. He believes that if the final of WTC is every 4 years, everyone can benefit. De Villiers believes that all Test playing countries should get equal opportunity.

WTC final in 4 years

AB de Villiers said, “You should have the feeling as if you have reached the finals after performing well against all the countries. Perhaps the WTC cycle should be four years old. We have done so in ODI cricket before, then why not in Test format? This format will be appropriate and organizers will get more time to prepare a balanced and fair system.”

Test cricket is also struggling with a big trouble, because many countries are not getting the host of Test matches. Talking about South Africa, he has not hosted any Test series till October 2026.

When did WTC start

The World Test Championship was started in the year 2019, in which the format to play the final match was prepared every 2 years. Such a format was prepared that in this interval of 2 years, a team has to play 6 Test series, including three domestic series and three foreign tours.

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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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