South Africa has won the World Test Championship against titleholder Australia by five wickets after knocking off the last 69 runs required on the fourth morning of the final in London.

Aiden Markram’s magnificent unbeaten 102 helped South Africa edge closer to World Test Championship final triumph

In the 33 years since readmission to global cricket, South Africa have generally been among the three best teams in the world. And yet, for all the great players that the country has produced – Allan Donald, Shaun Pollock, AB de Villiers and Jacques Kallis, just to start – South Africa have lacked a defining triumph on the international stage.