The entire world cricket fraternity—including losers Australia—needs to embrace South Africa’s victory in the World Test Championship (WTC) final at Lord’s on Saturday. It was South Africa’s first ICC title since the late Hansie Cronje led them to victory in the inaugural Champions Trophy (then called the Wills International Cup) in Dhaka in 1998. It was also the first world title for the Proteas.

It should be noted that South Africa won the ICC mace as the world’s number one Test-playing nation three times, but that was based on cumulative points accrued over a two-year period and before the one-off WTC final, which was first staged in 2021.

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