{"id":77376,"date":"2025-06-14T18:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=77376"},"modified":"2025-06-14T18:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T13:29:10","slug":"south-africa-secures-world-test-championship-title-with-landmark-victory-over-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/south-africa-secures-world-test-championship-title-with-landmark-victory-over-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa secures World Test Championship title with landmark victory over Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"95\" data-end=\"279\">LONDON: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/south-african-batter-heinrich-klaasen-bid-farewell-to-international-cricket\/\">South Africa<\/a> once again made their name in cricket history, defeating Australia by five wickets to win the ICC World Test Championship final at Lord&#8217;s Cricket Ground.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a competitive target of 282 runs, the Proteas showed great grit and determination to secure victory, chasing it down to 282 for 5. Leading from the front, opener Aiden Markram anchored the chase with skill and determination, playing a brilliant, match-winning innings of 136 runs. His century proved to be the cornerstone of South Africa&#8217;s successful chase.<\/p>\n<p>Skipper Temba Bavuma added valuable contributions with 66, while all-rounder Wien Mulder scored 27 crucial runs to stabilise the innings at crucial moments.<\/p>\n<p>The victory is South Africa&#8217;s second major ICC title. Their first came in 1998 when they won the ICC Knockout Trophy (now known as the Champions Trophy). With this victory, South Africa now joins an elite group of nations that have won the prestigious World Test Championship title.<\/p>\n<p>The match was a close contest between two top-ranked Test teams, with Australia posting a huge first-innings total and keeping the pressure on. However, the resilience of the South African batting line-up in the final innings ultimately turned the tide in their favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: South Africa once again made their name in cricket history, defeating Australia by five wickets to win the ICC World Test Championship final at Lord&#8217;s Cricket Ground. Chasing a competitive target of 282 runs, the Proteas showed great grit and determination to secure victory, chasing it down to 282 for 5. Leading from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":77379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3088,2599],"class_list":["post-77376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-icc-world-test-championship","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77378,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77376\/revisions\/77378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}