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Bavuma battles hamstring to Deliver in WTC Final Watching curiously, South African batters Temba Bavuma and Aiden Markram saw the umpires change the ball after persistent pleas from the Australian fielders. For the defending champions, clinging precariously to their title, this ball change was a desperate last hope. A new ball often brings a shift in momentum on these pitches, but not this time. Bavuma and Markram held firm, guiding their team to 213 for 2 at stumps, needing just 69 more runs to achieve their nation's most celebrated cricket victory. Source link

WTC Final 2025 Day 3, SA vs AUS Live Cricket Score Updates: With the sun hitting down hard on Friday, will the South Africans finally have their dance in the spotlight on the third and potentially decisive day of the ICC World Test Championship final against Australia at Lord’s Temba Bavuma and Co. will rue the bad bit of batting in the lower-order. Or perhaps it was the sheer class of Pat Cummins who stomped them from reducing the first-innings deficit beyond 74 runs. Cummins’ 300th Test wicket and six-wicket haul meant that Australia had cushion for a potential collapse induced by the Proteas attack to build themselves a lead that has crossed the 200-run mark. Only four times have a 200-plus total score been chased down at the home of cricket in the fourth innings. The task has been cut...

Australia's Mitchell Starc celebrates the dismissal of South Africa's Aiden Markram during the World Test Championship final between South Africa and Australia at Lord's cricket ground in London, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) WTC Final, Day 1: After Kagiso Radada’s elite bowling and Steve Smith’s gritty batting, Aussie quicks put South Africa on the backfoot Under crisp sunshine, South Africa captain Temba Bavuma and his partner David Bedingham retreated with relieved smiles to the pavilion. They would reflect on a day that was as satisfying as it was harrowing. If bowling out Australia for 212 was worthy of contentment, the score of 43/4 at stumps, and the shocking ineptitude of their top-order, would spook them. An Australian backlash was imminent. The deck sti...