Temba Bavuma collects the mace from ICC head honcho Jay Shah and lifts it above his head to huge cheers and gusts of flames.What a moment, all those painful memories of tournament’s lost and squandered over the past 30 years vanquished.Congratulations South Africa and what a fantastic and riveting game of Test cricket befitting the occasion.The South African players mill about on the Lord’s outfield with their families, a few of them bounce their bairns on their knee and others pass the mace between themselves for a hold, a lift and a smooch.Lovely scenes at Lord’s and Ali Martin’s report has landed.

That’s my cue to head out into the sunshine too.Thanks for joining us these last four days and we’ll be back to bring you the first of England v India from Headingley next week.Until then, goodbye.Aiden Markram has just downed a pint handed to him by a fan on the boundary edge! If ever a man has deserved a drink… imagine how good that tastes.Unless it’s Fosters.

Stuart Broad’s commitment to the bit is admirable.He’s just posted on the socials:South Africa! Congratulations.Very happy for you all”Presumably he’ll be updating his single day’s worth of coaching invoice to include a win bonus?“Three miracles!” Writes Gary Naylor.“I like these South Africans.I like these Australians.

I like this World Test Championship.It’ll never last...”Temba Bavuma collects the mace from ICC head honcho Jay Shah and lifts it above his head to huge cheers and gusts of flames.

What a moment, all those painful memories of tournament’s lost and squandered over the past 30 years vanquished,Congratulations South Africa and what a fantastic and riveting game of Test cricket befitting the occasion,Here’s South Africa’s captain Temba Bavuma, voice hoarse with emotion, moments before lifting the ICC mace,This is what we wanted to do, we planned for it, prepped for it and put in the work,We’re happy we could take it away.

I hope our performance gives credit to why we were in the final.I went against the advice of the coaches [to keep batting], they thought the wiser decision was to let someone else in who could run properly.But I thought it was important I stayed out here, me and Aiden went out there and put up a total.It could’ve gone the other way and I could’ve been criticised but we’re here now.Look at the crowd, it feels like a home game.

Past guys, they had the opportunities but didn’t have the chance to do what we did.We hope we can inspire other guys to go and collect some silverware.Whilst we were batting, we could hear the Aussies using that dreaded word, choke.It’s been years since we’ve overcome a final, we’ve been etched in history, we’re part of something that has never been done.It’s special in a lot of ways.

Also, it’s a chance for South Africa to be united,We’ve got a cause where we can put aside out differences and enjoy,We just have to embrace it,”Here’s Pat Cummins, gracious as ever, not that he’s particularly used to having to be gracious in defeat,Things can change quickly, but it was a bridge too far.

There were a few things we didn’t do right, we didn’t bat the opposition out of the game after a decent first-innings lead.“South Africa didn’t give us a chance in the fourth innings.There are some concerns in the top-seven (in the batting line up), guys have performed well in the last two years.Bowlers did well in the first two days.We gave everything a chance, Lyon bowled particularly well but didn’t get a wicket.

“Aiden and Temba didn’t give us a chance,South Africa showed why they’re here and are deserved winners, they kept themselves in the game throughout,“It’s the pinnacle, I love Test cricket,It’s a huge achievement to make the final, the one-game shootout is a spectacle, we didn’t end up on the right side but it’s been a great week,”The Australian players are called up for their runners up medals.

We’ll hear from their captain Pat Cummins very shortly,Player of the Match Aiden Markram has been speaking to the BBC,He’s cool as a cucumber but clearly absolutely elated,It is emotional, it’s been a very long time coming,We’ve got close in the past couple of years and not got over the line.

The first one is always going to be the toughest.The guys have been working really hard but it never really feels like it until you’ve won it, so the guys are emotional.Australia are quite a tough team, we fell behind and were put under a lot of pressure but we were able to adapt and finish the game.It’s very special, growing up Lords was the one venue I wanted to play at.To do it at a final and win is something really special.

It will rank up there as number one, my Test career has been hard going, very stop start.To get a hundred has been great to help the team.”Thanks Geoff and hello everyone.Emotional scenes at Lord’s as South Africa’s male cricketers finally shrug off the curse that has lain heavy across generations.Here’s South Africa’s lissom limbed seamer Marco Jansen speaking to Sky:I don’t know what to say.

I was sitting there praying and luckily we got the job done!In the changing rooms there were a lot of nerves, a lot of guys quiet.To hear the fans cheer every ball, every run, you can’t ask for anything more.I think that’s what dreams are made of.Dreams are meant to be achieved.We’re going to celebrate really well now.

”Aiden Markram is receiving the player of the match trophy, and I’ll hand over to James Wallace while Markram speaks to the crowd.Here’s Maharaj on BBC.“We want to be a good team of good people, because good things happen to good people.We were just so entwined in concentrating on the run chase.25 years of pain, I’ve been involved in 10… Diversity is our strength, and to see it come to fruition over a number of years is much more meaningful.

You see our crowd, we are a rainbow nation,”A very emotional Keshav Maharaj is breaking down on television, speaking about how much this means, and what it might mean for the future,Aiden Markram is calmer speaking to Jonathan Agnew on Test Match Special,“It didn’t feel like [we beat them easily],” he says,“It was going to be extra difficult in a final, but the guys fronted up for that.

”“It’s very special.Growing up, Lord’s was the one venue that I wanted to play just one game at.To do it in a final, and most importantly to be on the right side… It’ll rank up there as number one, no doubt.”The significance of Temba Bavuma leading this side, a Black African captain in a team that so often had so few players of that background.Just as Siya Kolisi did for the Springboks in the Rugby World Cup, so this has happened here.

Here’s an email from Phil Withall.“Being an Englishman that has lived in Australia for nearly 30 years, I may well be accused of a certain amount of bias.Having endured so many summers of patronising derision from my new compatriots, I could well be allowed a small bit of pleasure from the current state of play, and will happily take that, but the determination of Temba Bavuma has made all my pettiness pointless.A match winning contribution under such circumstances is worthy of a Championship reward.”An astonishing result.

In the long term, a cricket country that has gone through such pain in so many ways, from the pain of apartheid inflicted by its own people, on its own people, to the hurt of the years since readmission when South African teams have been so good, so competitive, while never winning the big titles,In the medium term, as a fading cricket economy on the outer of the Test world, barely playing at times, with so few opportunities to play the longest, oldest, most difficult format,And in the short term, as a team shot out for 138 in the first innings, looking done and dusted,They have put all of that behind them, at the home of the game, against the reigning champions and the strongest Test machine in the world, and beaten them at their own game,Showed their quality with the ball, then produced with the bat when it mattered most.

This is a brilliant day, a historic day, and a day that will be a salve for those who love that county and that team, whatever the future holds.84th over: South Africa 282-5 (Bedingham 21, Verreyne 4) Kyle Verreyne tries to finish it with a ramp! That would have been a good highlight reel moment.Carey appeals for a nick behind.Not given.He hit it too, but no reviews left.

Carey was convinced, nobody else was interested,Verreyne gets tangled up trying to whip Starc to leg,But third time lucky, he does it! Drives it square, laces it between point and cover, and while the ball reaches the boundary he’ll only be credited with the first run that they complete as quickly as possible just to be sure,Two fists in the air from Verreyne as he runs through!83rd over: South Africa 281-5 (Bedingham 21, Verreyne 3) They’re not racing to the finish line, South Africa, they’re enjoying the stroll,Cheers and sunshine greeting them every step of the way, so why not? A single here, a single there, from Hazlewood.

Verreyne flays one into the covers, but it’s stopped, and he races one during the sprawl,Scores are level!82nd over: South Africa 278-5 (Bedingham 20, Verreyne 1) Extended session because the end is so close, umpires have that discretion,So now somebody else gets the chance to hit the winning runs, with Starc changing ends from earlier to bowl with the Pav at his back,Bedingham does nothing extravagant, takes a single,Verreyne, with a very open stance against Starc coming over the wicket, drives flashily, to deep point, for one.

81st over: South Africa 276-5 (Bedingham 19) What a strange over that was.New ball taken immediately.Josh Hazlewood bowling from the Nursery End which he hasn’t done much this Test, if at all.But he’s still and sore, and bowled slot on leg stump, which Markram banged through long on for four, then three.Bedingham wanted to finish things off, aimed a big square flash, missed it.

Settled for a single with one ball to go, and six to win, and Markram was out to that ball.Oh, and it’s over for Markram! With six to win, he aims a big shot through the leg side, and Travis Head at midwicket dives away to hold on to a catch, falling to ground.What an innings it has been, the century that has sealed South Africa’s first major global cricket title, and Markram will have that forever.He won’t walk off at the end, but he gets his own walk, and his own ovation, now.80th over: South Africa 268-4 (Markram 129, Bedingham 18) A big sweep from Markram, only gets a single with the fielder back