Two titans of the Cricket world will collide tomorrow for the commencement of the World Test Championship.
Our Australian Men have arrived at Lord’s to face off in the World Test Championship against the powerful South African side, where the two sides will play off from June 11 to June 16. This will mark the third World Test Championship since the inception of the competition, and Australia are the defending champions after winning the 2023 World Test Championship. If Australia succeed in defending their title they will be the first side to win the World Test Championship twice.
The World Test Championship airs on Wednesday, the 11th of June to Sunday, the 16th of June. With the first ball being bowled at 7:30pm, AEST. You can watch the whole game as it will be streamed exclusively on Amazon’s Prime Video as they have the exclusive rights for all ICC events until 2027. ABC Sport however will be covering the entire game with their live blog, commentating ball to ball on live radio as well.
Both sides have been selected for the upcoming test, catch the World Test Championship playing sides below!
South Africa
Temba Bavuma (C)
David Bedingham
Corbin Bosch
Tony De Zorsi
Marco Jansen
Keshav Maharaj
Aiden Markram
Wiaan Mulder
Senuran Muthusamy
Lungi Ngidi
Dane Paterson
Kagiso Rabada
Ryan Rickelton
Tristan Stubbs
Kyle Verreynne
Australia
Pat Cummins (C)
Scott Boland
Alex Carey
Cameron Green
Josh Hazlewood
Travis Head
Josh Inglis
Usman Khawaja
Sam Konstas
Matt Kuhnemann
Marnus Labuschagne
Nathan Lyon
Steve Smith
Mitchell Starc
Beau Webster
Brendan Doggett
Since the last World Test Championship, Australia faced off against the English on their in the UK with an Ashes victory of 2-2. After their ashes tour the next time they’d see a defeat was against the West Indies at the Gabba early in 2024, they then saw a loss in the first test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series over the summer just gone. These are the four loses are the only defeats they have seen since the last World Test Championship, having played a total go 19 games with only 4 losses. Australia currently are on a winning streak going into this test match, after beating India on our home soil the last two test matches of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, then won a 2-0 victory against Sri Lanka shortly after.
South Africa finished on the top of the table at the end of the scoring season. Having played 12 games, the side only saw 3 defeats since the last World Test Championship, one against India and two against New Zealand. The side however shot to the top of the table with seven consecutive victory’s.
You can catch the World Test Championship when it streams live on Amazon’s Prime Video from 7:30pm AEST tomorrow.
