Across four days at Lord's, Temba Bavuma's team shows history, both distant and recent, can be overcome by a group brimming with talent and resilience.

Aiden Markram has been dropped twice by South Africa in his test career. It’s his own fault. Markram set such a superlative standard out of the gate — three centuries and two 90s in his first six months — that when the runs stopped raining,

Star Australia pacers Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc impressed with the bat in the World Test Championship final, and broke the 50-year-old record of the highest 10th wicket partnership in an ICC final.