Australia’s first innings were bundled out for 212 runs.
WTC Final 2025, AUS vs SA: The final match of the World Test Championship has started today, Wednesday, June 11, between Australia and South Africa at Lord’s Cricket Ground. At the end of the first day, South Africa is still trailing Australia by 169 runs.
South Africa had bowled out Australia for a total of 212 runs in the first innings. At the stumps of the first day, South Africa captain Temba Bavuma is at 3* and David Bedingham is at 8* at the crease.
Steve Smith and Beau Webster scored half centuries for Australia
So, if we give you information about the first day of the match, then South Africa won the toss and decided to bowl, and the African bowlers proved the team’s decision right. The entire Australian team was reduced to just 212 runs in 56.4 overs.
Australia suffered the first two blows in the 7th over, when Kagiso Rabada got Usman Khawaja (0) and Cameron Green (4) caught out in this over. However, in the middle order, experienced Steve Smith (66) and View Webster (72) played excellent half-century innings for the team, and the team’s score crossed 200.
But Marnus Labuschagne (17) got a good start for the team, but he could not score big. Also, dangerous Travis Head contributed 11 runs, while Alex Carey scored 23 runs.
On the other hand, experienced Kagiso Rabada took the maximum 5 wickets in bowling for South Africa. Apart from this, Marco Jansen got 3 and Keshav Maharaj and Aiden Markram got 1-1 success.
After this, at the end of the day, South Africa lost a total of 4 wickets for 43 runs after 22 overs in the first innings. Aiden Markram (0), Ryan Rickelton (16), Wiaan Mulder (6) and Tristan Stubbs (2) are out. For Australia, Mitchell Starc took 2 wickets and Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins took 1 wicket each.
