Delhi: The World Test Championship Final 2025 (WTC 2025) is seen in different ways throughout the cricket world. In this, the issue of the future of Test cricket is also associated with the desire of both teams to win the trophy. In the midst of all this, every eye to end the curse of the ICC Trophy in South Africa, captain Temba Bavuma, has no answer. Australia is again standing in their way and in such a situation, he must be remembering the heart breaking in Birmingham.
Will Bavuma be able to fix this record?
The semi -finals of the 1999 World Cup and South Africa needed 1 run off 4 balls to win. He did not even score a run and since that day in Protiaz, Birmingham, not a single ICC trophy has been won. South Africa has got another chance to fix the same record. Will Temba Bavuma be able to fix this record?
Bavuma’s team will have to do something special
Everyone knows that Australia know the art of winning big matches and also reached the finals with impressive performance in the current round of WTC. South Africa knows this and that is why Bavuma’s team will have to do something special.
Remove the tag of ‘Chokars’
Now for the first time, along with achieving the title, you have to remove the tag of ‘Chokers’ associated with your name. This is the biggest stake in the last three decades of installing this tag. Will Bavuma be able to fix records this time in Lord’s? Noted South Africa, even though the media report is ‘Underdog’, the number 1 team in the 2023-25 World Test Championship Round was 69.44 percent point in 12 Tests while Australia at number two with 67.54 percent point in 19 Tests. In the last two years, no Tests have been played with each other, but this time South Africa can surprise them.
Qualified for the final by defeating Sri Lanka
It has been more than four months since Australia qualified for the final by defeating Sri Lanka in two Tests, while South Africa has qualified for about 6 months. South Africa, playing the lowest Test in the two -year round, defeated the four teams below and made it to the finals and is hoping that the same good luck will support them in Lord’s.
Trump card for Bavuma
In this effort, the trump card for Bavuma is counting Rabada. If they continued to win without making a single big score in this championship round, then the biggest contribution to it was the bowlers. South Africa had earlier played a Test series in England in 2022 and then won at Lord’s. Now out of that winning team, he has only two batsman Eden Markram and Kiel Varin left.
Did not play Test matches at Lord’s
This time there are 8 players in the team who have not played Test matches in Lord’s yet. Even more truth is that most did not play Tests against Australia. Since the ‘Sandpapergate’ scandal of 2018, both of them have played only one series of 3 Tests in 7 years, so South Africa showed wisely and added Stuart Broad to his camp because they will not only tell about Australia’s batsmen, they will also tell about playing in Lord’s.
49 Australian wickets at 23.08 average
Rabada has taken 49 Australian wickets at 23.08 average in 10 Tests and took 23 in the 2018 series. The record in Lord’s is also amazing and has taken 13 wickets in 2 Tests at 19.38 average. In this championship round, there are 47 wickets in 10 Tests in 10 Tests and not only the number 2 bowlers in the ICC rankings, above Cummins and Hazelwood.
Jenson can also create difficulties
Khabu Marco Jenson can also create difficulties. 25 years old and in Test bowling rankings in the top 10. He is also going to scare the Australian batsmen with his speed and bounce. All -rounder Vian Mulder fast bowler and useful batsman below. Lungi angidi is also not less, which is visible in the Test record of 55 wickets at their 23.14 average. Even then, this discussion is hot in the media that this final test will end in 3 days. This Australian ego can be overwhelming on Australia.
Global test cricket will be good
It is also important for South Africa to win because this will benefit the global test cricket. Do you know that it is the last chance to win this biggest reward of Test cricket for any team other than Australia, India or England? The captains of these three biggest and rich board teams have won 71 percent ICC title since 2006 and Bawuma has a good chance to stop Pat Cummins from improving further.
Life line to Test cricket
In order to give a lifeline to Test cricket in South Africa, it is necessary for his team to win, otherwise there are signs of what is going to be the condition of Test cricket there. Right now there is a discussion that they only reached this final with the victory against the teams below, the bigger bomb is that in the coming cricket season, South Africa is not conducting a single Test on its pitches.
To upgrade stadium
This has been happening for the first time since his return to international cricket in 1992. The argument is to upgrade the stadium for the 50 over World Cup of 2027. And other countries have also been organizing the World Cup but did not stop playing Tests. Therefore, everyone is eyeing the victory of Bavuma’s team in Lord’s and it will be a victory of cricket.
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