Pat Cummins on Australia Loss WTC Final: South Africa has won an ICC Trophy after 27 years. He has created history by defeating Australia by 5 wickets. The credit for this victory also goes to captain Tamba Bawuma, under whose captaincy South Africa has not lost any Test match. On the other hand, under the captaincy of Pat Cummins, Australia also won 2023 WTC and 2023 ODI World Cup, but this time they could not give their team the title with their strategies.

Pat Cummins reacted to Australia’s defeat in the World Test Championship final, saying that the circumstances change quickly, but this time the victory remained far away from them. He praised Aidan Markram’s century innings, who played a match -winning innings of 136 runs in the final. Cummins admitted that South Africa deserves champions.

Pat Cummins told the reason for defeat

In the post match presentation, Australian captain Pat Cummins said, “We had a good lead in the first innings, after which he tried to cover them but failed. The last 2 years have been excellent for us, but this time it did not play united. It seemed as if the pitch would be flat, but it did not happen.”

South Africa entitled to trophy

Pat Cummins admitted that the balls of Nathan Lyon looked fatal, but he could not take wickets. He said, “Aidan played a very brilliant innings and is entitled to become the South Africa champion as he kept himself in the match from the beginning and caught him with both hands as soon as he got a chance. I love Test cricket.”

South Africa won the first ICC Trophy in cricket history in 1998, when it won the ICC Nockout Trophy. At the same time, under the captaincy of Tamba Bawuma, he has created history by winning another ICC Trophy.

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3 major reasons for Australia’s defeat in the final of the World Test Championship, know why Kangaroo could not win the title

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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