Their win-loss ratio of 5.0 was the best by any team at home in this cycle, with Australia's 3.5 (seven wins in ten home Tests) second.Outside of home, South Africa won two of their three series, including beating Bangladesh to register their first Test series in Asia after a decade.

Aiden Markram and Temba Bavuma didn't have the pleasure of finishing off what they started. No problem. South Africa won the World Test Championship and that's all that mattered to them. It was fitting that Markram and Bavuma led the comeback with the bat as South Africa beat Australia by five wickets by completing a run chase of 282 at Lord's on the fourth day Saturday.

South Africa’s batting hero Aiden Markram has taken longer than expected to deliver on his promise, but a match-winning century against Australia in the World Test Championship final is being hailed as the biggest in the country’s cricketing history.