WTC Final 2025: The final match of the World Test Championship (WTC Final 2025) will be played between South Africa and Australia from June 11, 2025 at Lord’s ground in London. The Australian team captained by Pat Cummins won this trophy by defeating India last time, while South Africa under the captaincy of Temba Bavuma will try to win this title for the first time. Here in this article, we will let you know everything about the WTC Final 2025 played between South Africa and Australia.
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WTC Final 2025: Know Full Details Here
When will the WTC Final 2025 match be played?
The WTC 2025 Final (ICC World Test Championship Final) match between South Africa and Australia will be played from June 11 to June 15. While June 16 has been kept for reserve day.
At what time will the WTC Final 2025 start?
The WTC Final 2025 match will be played between South Africa and Australia in London from 10:30 am, while the match will start at 1:30 pm UAE time.
When did the WTC start?
The ICC World Test Championship is also known as the Test World Cup. It is a league competition for Test cricket run by the ICC, which started on 1 August 2019. Like the ODI and T20 World Cup, the ICC started a global tournament for the Test format, named the World Test Championship.
This championship was first proposed in 1996 by former cricketer and then West Indies manager Clive Lloyd. Let us tell you that till now a total of two WTC final matches have been played, in which New Zealand won once and Australia won once.
How much will be the WTC Final 2025 prize money?
The ICC has already announced the prize money for the team winning the 2023-25 World Test Championship. The winning team will get a prize of 3.6 million US dollars, which is approximately AED 1,32,22,080.00 according to UAE currency, while the runner-up team will get 2.16 million US dollars, i.e., according to UAE currency, about 79,33,249.06.
South Africa Road to WTC Final 2025
| Matches Played | 12 |
| Matches Won | 8 |
| Matches Lost | 3 |
| Matches Drawn | 1 |
| PCT | 69.44% |
Talking about the performance of South Africa’s team in the 2023-2025 World Test Championship, first of all they drew the Test series 1-1 against India at home. Then the Proteas team won the series against West Indies, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. They lost the series to New Zealand. Their defining moment came at Centurion, where South Africa edged past Pakistan in a thrilling two-wicket victory. That win not only secured the series 2-0 but also marked their seventh consecutive Test victory in the WTC cycle — sealing their place in the final as table-toppers.
Australia Road to WTC Final 2025
| Matches Played | 19 |
| Matches Won | 13 |
| Matches Lost | 4 |
| Matches Drawn | 2 |
| PCT | 67.54% |
ICC’s number 1 Test team Australia started their World Test Championship 2023-2025 cycle with the Ashes series and won the first two matches. Apart from this, they swept Pakistan in the three-match Test series, while playing draws against England and West Indies. By defeating the Indian team 2-1 in BGT, the Kangaroo team confirmed their claim to reach the WTC final. After this, Australia played their last two Tests of the World Test Championship 2023-25 cycle against Sri Lanka, where they defeated Sri Lanka 2-0. With the win in this series, Australia secured second place in the points table.
South Africa and Australia Teams
South Africa: Temba Bavuma (captain), Tony de Zorzi, Ryan Rickelton, Aiden Markram, David Bedingham, Tristan Stubbs, Kyle Verreynne, Wiaan Mulder, Marco Jensen, Corbin Bosch, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Dan Paterson, Keshav Maharaj, Senuran Muthusamy
Australia: Pat Cummins (captain), Usman Khawaja, Sam Constas, Marnus Labuschagne, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Alex Carey, Josh Inglis, Cameron Green, Beau Webster, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Scott Boland, Nathan Lyon, Matt Kuhnemann. Travel Reserve: Brendan Doggett
What is the rule of reserve day?
The answer is very simple – no. In this final, the match will not last for a full 6 days to get a result. This match is to be played from 11 to 15 June and 16 June has been kept as a reserve day. But it will be used only in a situation when the game is not completed in the first 5 days due to weather or any other reason. If one day is washed out due to rain or many overs are wasted on all five days and the result is not out, then only in that situation the sixth day i.e. reserve day will be used. That is, it is clear – the match is only for 5 days and an attempt will be made to decide the champion in that. The sixth day will be used only if needed.
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Who will be the champion if the match is drawn?
As per the rules of the tournament, if the WTC 2025 final is drawn or tied or the match is cancelled, then Australia and South Africa will have to share the WTC trophy. However, a reserve day has been kept in the match to reduce the possibility of a draw. But the reserve day will be used only if time is lost in five days due to bad weather and they have not been able to make up for it in those five days and there is no result by the end of the fifth day.