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World Test Championship Final Highlights South Africa VS. Australia, Lord's
Congratulations to South Africa on winning the World Test Championship mace for the 2023-2025 cycle.
Below are some highlights of the final against Australia at Lord's.
- The match is the eighth, and third at Lord's, held in England not to involve England. Of these eight matches, it is the fourth occasion where Australia and South Africa have played together in England, in a triangular series in 1912 which featured England, South Africa and Australia - the only three Test-playing countries at the time - with the latter teams playing each other three times.
- Aiden Markram became the first player in a Test final to score a duck and century in the same Test. He is, outside of finals, the ninth player to achieve the feat at Lord's.
- Pat Cummins became the eighth Australian player to take 300 Test wickets. His feat is fifth quickest in terms of balls bowled (13,725) with the top being Kagiso Rabada (11,854).
- Cummins's 6 for 28 in South Africa's first innings is the best bowling by a captain at Lord's surpassing Bob Willis's 6 for 101 for England against India in 1982.
- Cummins finished the Test with 137 wickets as captain, just one behind the Australian record of 138 by Richie Benaud.
- The 22 single-figure scores in the Test is the most in a match in England not involving England. The previous highest (20) took place in 2010 between Pakistan and Australia, also at Lord's.
- Australia's first innings 212 is the eighth-lowest, completed total at Lord's where there have been two individual fifties. The lowest such score is New Zealand's 175 against England in 1965.
- Kagiso Rabada's match analysis of 9 for 110 is the third best at Lord's for South Africa behind only Makhaya Ntini's 10 for 220 (vs. England in 2003) and Xenophon Balaskas (9 for 103 vs. England in 1935).
- Rabada's analysis is also the best in a Test final surpassing Kyle Jamieson's 7 for 61 for New Zealand against India at Southampton in 2021. Pat Cummins's 7 for 87 in the recently-concluded match is third best.
- The Australian second innings saw only the third occasion at Lord's of a side having partnerships of 50 (or more) for the eighth and ten wickets. The other occasions were for Australia against England in 1975 and for England against India in 1982.
- This same innings is the fourth lowest, completed total (207) at Lord's to include two fifty partnerships. The lowest is 172 by West Indies against England in 1933.
- Mitchell Starc's unbeaten 58 in Australia's second innings is the highest score by a number 9 in a Test in England not involving England. The previous best was 31 by Rolland Beaumont for South Africa against Australia in 1912 at Manchester.
- Maybe surprisingly, the 147-run stand behind Markram and Temba Bavuma in South Africa's second innings is not the highest third-wicket stand at Lord's in matches not involving England. This remains at 242 between Charlie Kelleway and Warren Bardsley for Australia against South Africa in 1912.
- Marnus Labuschagne became the first player to be dismissed by the same combination in the same manner in a Test final.
- For the first time in his Test career, Aiden Markram took a wicket in each innings of the same Test.
- The ten dismissals bowled in the match is the most in a final surpassing the eight between Australia and India at The Oval in 2023.
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