South Africa Cricket Team: The South African team could have won the ICC trophy several times after 1998. Although she could not do this. Due to which this team choked on many big occasions. In the year 2025, the African team removed this tag and won the ICC trophy. He even traveled from chokers to champion. How this journey by the African team changed the story of decades was one of the biggest things of the year 2025.

This is how the chokers were tagged

The South African team has played 5 semi-finals of the ICC Champions Trophy. Which includes the years 2000, 2002, 2006, 2013 and 2025. Apart from this, in these 27 years the team has also played semi-finals of 3 ODI World Cups. In which the years have been 2007, 2015 and 2023. Apart from this, he had also lost the final of T20 World Cup 2024. The African team has always had big superstars and match-winning players, but even then the team used to perform poorly in the knockout matches. This tag was removed from the African team after reaching the final of ICC World Test Championship 2025.

How did the story of South Africa change?

In the ICC World Test Championship 2023-25, the South African team looked far away from the final after the first 3 series. After which the New Zealand team defeated Team India 3-0 in the home series. After which India also had to face defeat in Australia. The South African team gained momentum after that and won its last 3 series and made it to the finals. Australia also reached the final by defeating India. There was a clash between Australia and South Africa in the final match. Where Africa finally won.

Temba Bavuma and Aiden Markram did wonders

In the final match, the Australian team scored only 212 runs in the first innings. Kagiso Rabada took 5 wickets. In reply, the South African team was limited to only 128 runs in the first innings. Pat Cummins took 6 wickets for Australia. In the second innings, the Australian team scored only 207 runs. Rabada again took 4 wickets. In reply, the South African team scored 282 runs after losing 5 wickets and won the final. Aiden Markram played an inning of 136 runs. Captain Temba Bavuma scored 66 runs. David Bedingham played short but important innings in both the innings.

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