south africa has won an ICC trophy after 27 years. It has created history by defeating australia by 5 wickets. The credit for this victory also goes to captain Temba Bavuma, under whose captaincy south africa has not lost any Test match so far. On the other hand, australia also won the 2023 WTC and 2023 ODI world cup under the captaincy of Pat Cummins, but this time he could not get the title for his team with his strategies.
Pat Cummins reacted to Australia's defeat in the World Test championship final and said that circumstances keep changing quickly, but this time victory remained far away from them. He praised the century of Aiden Markram, who played a match-winning innings of 136 runs in the final. Cummins admitted that south africa deserves to be the champion.
Pat Cummins told the reason for the defeat
In the post-match presentation, Australian captain Pat Cummins said, "We got a good lead in the first innings, after which we tried to wrap them up but failed. The last 2 years have been great for us, but this time we could not play together. It seemed as if the pitch would become flat, but it did not happen."
south africa deserves the trophy
Pat Cummins admitted that Nathan Lyon's spin balls looked deadly, but he could not take wickets. He said, "Aiden played a very brilliant innings and south africa deserves to be the champion because they kept themselves in the match from the beginning and grabbed the opportunity with both hands as soon as they got it. I love Test cricket very much." south africa won the first ICC trophy in cricket history in 1998, when it won the ICC Knockout Trophy. At the same time, under the captaincy of Temba Bavuma, it has created history by winning the second ICC trophy.
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