South Africa has suffered a crushing defeat in the second semi-final of the Champions Trophy 2025. Like every time, this time too the entire team choked in this knockout match against New Zealand on March 5 in Lahore. From bowlers to batsmen, everyone flopped badly in this crucial match. The result was that the team lost by 50 runs. With this, its dream of lifting the trophy in this tournament was also shattered. Despite this, it is going to play an ICC final. We are talking about the World Test Championship 2025.

There will be a clash with Australia.

The cycle of World Test Championship 2023-25 ​​has been completed. In this cycle, the South African team performed strongly and entered the finals. Apart from that, the Australian team has also qualified for the finals. Now both the teams will clash for the title match at the historic Lord's Ground in London. After about 4 months, the only Test match will be played between 11 and 15 June. The winning team of this match will become the king of Test cricket.

The South African team played 12 matches in the WTC 2023-25 ​​cycle, winning 8 of them. During this, it had to face defeat in only 3 matches. At the same time, one match was a draw. In this way, it was at number-1 in the points table with 69.44 percentage points. At the same time, the Australian team won 13 out of 19 matches, while it faced defeat in 4 and 2 matches were drawn. In this way, it remained at second place with 67.54 percentage points and qualified for the final.

Performance in ICC Tournaments

The South African team is often known to flop in important matches of ICC tournaments. Last year itself, it had to face defeat in the final of the T20 World Cup. Before that, it was also knocked out of the tournament after losing to Australia in the 2023 ODI World Cup semi-final. Now in the semi-final of the Champions Trophy, it has been knocked out of the tournament by New Zealand. With this, it has become the team that has lost the most semi-final matches in ICC tournaments. So far, it has lost 9 out of 11 semi-finals. Now it has to be seen how it performs against Australia in the final of the World Test Championship.