South Africa’s ICC World Test Championship (WTC) winning skipper Temba Bavuma spoke on winning the title for his side and battling through a hamstring injury to play a match-winning knock of 66 runs and striking a partnership with centurion Aiden Markram.

Bavuma’s men scripted history in June this year at Lord’s as Markram’s stroke-filled 207-ball 136 and skipper’s resillient, gutsy 66 despite an injury took South Africa to their first major world title in any format of cricket, chasing down 282 runs against defending champions Australia.

The trophy did not come easily to them, as right from their re-admission to cricket in 1992, South Africa faced numerous heartbreaks at ICC events. Sometimes, as was the case in the 1992 WC semifinal against England, it was the rain; sometimes, it was t

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