Marking a golden milestone in the history of world Test cricket, the South African team won the Test Cricket World Cup this year (2023-2025) today (14).
Defeating the Australian team by 5 wickets in the final match held at the historic Lord’s Stadium.
With this victory, Bawuma’s leadership was able to end the ‘Cricket World Cup curse’ of the South Africans.
South Africa managed to surpass the target of 282 runs set by the Australian team with the loss of only 5 wickets.
When the match started on the 4th day of the match today, they were 213 runs for the loss of 2 wickets, 69 runs behind victory.
Aiden Markram, who batted with great patience, was the captain of South Africa’s victory when he was dismissed with a score of 136 runs off 207 balls.
His valuable partnership of 147 runs for the third wicket with Temba Bawuma was the decisive factor in South Africa’s victory.
Bawuma, who played an innings as captain, was dismissed after scoring 66 runs.
Australia, who batted first at the invitation of the South African team, who won the toss, scored 212 runs in their first innings, while South Africa could only score 138 runs in reply.
However, Australia, who started the second innings with a lead of 74 runs, were all out for 207 runs.
Accordingly, South Africa was given a target of 282 runs to win.
They achieved that target with about a day and a half left to play and won the World Test Championship.
With this victory, South Africa was able to claim the prize money of US $ 3.6 million (approximately Sri Lankan Rupees 108 crores) offered to the champions.
South Africa, the third oldest cricket team in the world with a history of Test cricket spanning 136 years, entered the record books today as the first and only time in its cricket history to win a World Cup in any format.
They won the inaugural Champions Trophy in 1998, which was also the only ICC title they had won in 27 years.
They are also a team that has reached the semi-finals on five occasions in the history of the Champions Trophy.
South Africa, known as a team that has come close to the World Cup and unfortunately been eliminated at the last moment, last lost in the final of the T20 World Cup in 2024.
They have also reached the semi-finals on two occasions in the history of the T20 World Cup.
South Africa is an unfortunate team that has reached the semi-finals in all five ODI World Cups and lost the final.
Accordingly, until South Africa won this World Cup today, they had played a total of one World Cup final, 12 semi-finals and two quarter-finals in all three formats of cricket.
