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When Oscar Piastri invited a handful of Australian cricketers to tour the McLaren factory outside London last week, insiders at the leading F1 team were in a spot of bother.

Australian wicketkeeper Alex Carey has added another chapter to his fabled history at the home of cricket, producing regrettable moments with the bat and in the field on day one of the World Test Championship final against South Africa at Lord’s.

Amid the crisis that befell Australia on the opening morning of the World Test Championship Final at Lord’s, Steve Smith stood out as a beacon of surety set to sail to the rescue again.

South African superstar Kagiso Rabada’s heart sunk when he first learned of the blunder that could cost South Africa the World Test Championship.

The World Test Championship decider between Australia and South Africa is shaping as a compelling affair after a bowler-dominated opening day at Lord’s, with the final in the balance after the Aussies launched a final session counter-attack.

Kagiso Rabada added his name to the Lord’s Honours Board for a second time before Australia’s world-class pace attack dismantled the South African top order as Pat Cummins’ men seized control of the World Test Championship final.

On the eve of the World Test Championship final between Australia and South Africa, both teams trained under overcast skies at Lord’s on Tuesday before the weather started to clear.

Australia has retained the Urn, triumphed over India on home shores and beaten almost everyone else to qualify for the World Test Championship Final beginning at Lord’s on Wednesday night, AEST.

Australian white-ball veteran Moises Henriques sees Pat Cummins’ side as “hot favourites” to retain the 2025 World Test Championship (WTC) Final against South Africa, starting Wednesday at Lord’s.

It may be a strange time of year for an Australian, and a strange tournament structure, but the decider is vindicated further each time it is played

In Australia it is winter, and it is footy season. AFL, NRL, the works. The autumn was passing strange, with unnervingly high temperatures and the Gold Coast Suns in the top four. But now it is June, and feeling more as it should, with nights in the southern half of the continent dipping deep into single degrees. The Raiders must be breathing out steam on Canberra mornings, half remembering dreams of ending a premiership wait. And strangely positioned among all this, the Australia Test team is getting ready to play cricket.

Australian winter tours happen, but outside the occasional Asian or Caribbean jaunt this century, they’re confined to quadrennial visits to England. Two years ago, the first time Australia qualified for a World Test Championship final, that match came directly before an Ashes series. As well as turning the supposed culmination into an incongruous appetizer, it also made the WTC final melt into the Ashes summer.

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Australian captain Pat Cummins has backed Marnus Labuschagne to repay the faith of selectors in the World Test Championship final against South Africa beginning at Lord’s on Wednesday.

Usman Khawaja once joked that Marnus Labuschagne had “opening-itis” but suggested that his Queensland teammate may have to suck it up and get over it ahead of the World Test Championship final against South Africa at Lords starting Wednesday.

India’s Mahendra Singh Dhoni and South Africa’s Hashim Amla and Graeme Smith were among seven new inductees into the International Cricket Council Hall of Fame announced Monday.

As an English arch-enemy offered tips to South Africa on how to dethrone Australia in the World Test Championship decider, Steve Smith declared he had no concerns about whether the Aussies will cop the wrath of MCC members at Lord’s.