ICC WTC 2025 Final: Australia and South Africa squads revealed

Both Australia and South Africa announced their squads for the World Test Championship 2025 final, scheduled to take place from June 11 at the home of cricket, Lord’s Cricket Ground in England.

While the South African team recalled the pacer Lungi Ngidi, Australia would witness the returns of captain Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, and Cameron Green. Notably, Green is expected to make his first Test appearance in more than 12 months after recovering from back surgery.

Interestingly, Green might not roll his arm in the much-anticipated WTC Final. Other all-rounder Beau Webster continues to be a part of the squad after making an excellent start to his career. On the other hand, it’s a big question of who opens the batting with Usman Khawaja.

To make things more interesting, Travis Head was the one who opened the batting with Khawaja during the Sri Lanka tour recently. However, he is expected to return to his preferred batting position of No. 5 in the WTC Final.

On the other hand, young top-order batter Sam Konstas, who was impressive with his batting skills against India in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, makes it to the squad for the grand finale, but it would be interesting to watch if he gets a chance in the XI.

Also, Marnus Labuschagne is likely to move up from No.3 to the opening slot at the Lord’s as this move could provide the Australian side with the expected stability at the top and middle order.

South Africa squad: Temba Bavuma (c), Tony de Zorzi, Aiden Markram, Wiaan Mulder, Marco Jansen, Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Lungi Ngidi, Corbin Bosch, Kyle Verreynne, David Bedingham, Tristan Stubbs, Ryan Rickelton, Senuran Muthusamy, Dane Paterson

Australia squad: 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 (vc), Mitchell Starc, Beau Webster. Travelling reserve: Brendan Doggett

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