Despite coming close to success in the big tournaments of world cricket, South Africa has finally won the title of the World Test Championship on Saturday. South Africa defeated Australia by five wickets on the fourth day of the final at Lord's.

  South Africa, who got a target of 282 runs for

victory, followed it by losing five wickets with more than a day's play left. The hero of South Africa's win was opener Adam Markram . He played a century innings of 136 runs.

He faced 207 balls and hit 14 fours . Among the not out batters, David Bedingham scored 21 runs. Similarly, captain Temba Bavuma contributed 66 runs. The first time South Africa won an official tournament organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC) was in 1998.

After Australia scored 207 runs in their second innings, South Africa got a challenging target. Before that, in the first innings, Australia scored 212 runs and South Africa added 138 runs in response.