WTC 2025 Final: What Milestone Cummins and Khawaja Can Achieve in this match?
WTC 2025 Final: What Milestone Cummins and Khawaja Can Achieve in this match
After the intense competition in the last 2 years, we have reached the ultimate battle of the World Test Championship 2023-25 season. This third WTC final will be played between South Africa and the defending champion Australia at the home of cricket, Lord’s cricket ground in London, from 11th June to 15th June. The match is expected to be very exciting giv,en the impressive performance from both teams in the cycle. Besides that, two Australian players are on the verge of achieving a special milestone. In this article, we will discuss the milestones that can be achieved by Australian Captain Pat Cummins and Batter Usman Khawaja in this match.
Pat Cummins
Pat Cummins, who has been on an impressive journey for Australia in the last few years, making the team champion in the World Test Championship 2023 and the Cricket World Cup, will lead the Australian team in this WTC Final too. But, as a bowler, he is also on the verge of completing 300 test wickets in his test career so far. Cummins has taken 294 wickets so far and is just six wickets away from achieving this great milestone. If he completes this milestone in the upcoming match, he will become the eighth Australian bowler and 6 Australian pacer to achieve this, in just 68 matches.
Usman Khwaja
On the other hand, top-order batter Usman Khawaja is also on the brink of a significant milestone in his test career. The 38-year-old Australian top-order batter has been phenomenal for Australia in this WTC cycle. Khwaja has scored 5930 runs so far in the test format, and he is just 70 runs away from this historic milestone of reaching 6000 runs. In his test career spanning over 80 matches, he has scored runs with an average of 45.61, scoring 16 centuries and 27 half-centuries. In the current cycle, he has performed phenomenally for the team, becoming the highest run scorer. His performance in the World Test Championship can be attributed as one of the big reasons why the team has performed so well in the this cycle. Overall, if Khwaja completes the historic milestone at a historic ground in a match like the WTC final, it will increase the value of this milestone manifold for Khwaja.
Apart from Pat Cummins and Usman Khawaja’s personal milestones, Australia is also on the brink of creating history by becoming the first team ever to win back-to-back WTC titles. Given the recent form of both Australia and South Africa, the match is expected to be very exciting. We will continue to follow up on both players' progress in the upcoming match.