WTC 2025 Final: Temba Bavuma Mimics 'Machine Gun Celebration' With ICC Test Championship Mace After SA Beat AUS; Video South Africa finally broke their 27-year drought of not winning an ICC trophy as they beat reigning champions Australia at the Lord's ...

South Africa ended their 27-year-long wait for an ICC title as they got their hands on the World Test Championship mace after beating Australia in the 2025 final. The Proteas chased down the second-highest target at Lord's and the highest in an ICC final as they hunted down 282 in the fourth innings with five wickets in hand.

Day two of the ICC World Test Championship Final at Lord’s saw Australia seize the upper hand, thanks to fast bowling by captain Pat Cummins. Cummins became just the eighth Australian to reach 300 Test wickets.

Australia took the upper hand in the World Test Championship final against South Africa at Lord’s, ending day two on 144-8 in their second innings with a lead of 218 runs after wickets tumbled freely again on Thursday.

Smith went straight to hospital after leaving the field and had the wound cleaned, stitched and the finger placed in a splint in a race to be fit to face the West Indies

The 2025 ICC WTC Final between South Africa and Australia took place at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, from June 11 to June 14, and it took only four days for South Africa to end Australia’s reign as Test champions and secure their first ICC trophy since winning the ICC KnockOut Trophy (now Champions Trophy) in 1998.