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Cricket News Desk. The final match of the third edition of the World Test Championship is being played between South Africa and Australia at Lord’s, in which the African team’s grip has become very strong when the third day’s play is over. Chasing a target of 282 runs in the fourth innings, South Africa has scored 213 runs at the loss of 2 wickets till the end of the third day’s play, in which he had to score only 69 runs to win. At the same time, with the commencement of the fourth day’s game, South Africa lost their third wicket as captain Temba Bavuma at a score of 217 runs, which Australian captain Pat Cummins sent the pavilion, with which he also became part of a special list. This happened after 19 years on Lord’s ground

Temba Bawuma’s bat saw an important innings of 66 runs in which he shared a 147 -run partnership with Aiden Markram for the third wicket, at that time the Australian team had a chance to dominate the match. On the fourth day of the match, when Bavuma was dismissed by Pat Cummins, he became the fifth captain to take the wicket of the opposing captain in both innings of the Test match at Lord’s. Prior to Cummins, Andrew Flintoff did this for the last time at Lord’s, when he took the wicket of Mahela Jayawardene in the Test match against Sri Lanka in 2006.

Captain who dismissed the opposing captain in both innings of the Test match at Lord’s

Monty Noble (Australia) – Archie McLaren (England, 1909)

Arthur Giligan (England) – Herbi Taylor (South Africa, 1924)

Walter Robins (England) – Curly Page (New Zealand, 1937)

Andrew Flintoff (England) – Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka, 2006)

Pat Cummins (Australia) – Temba Bavuma (South Africa, 2025)

Third largest partnership in fourth innings as visiting team at Lord’s

Aden Markram and Temba Bavuma added 147 runs in the third innings. The fourth innings partnership in the final match played at Lord’s is the third largest partnership for any wicket in the fourth innings by any visiting team at this ground. The list first has a 284 -run partnership between Laurie Gomes and Gordon Greenies in 1984.