CAPE TOWN, Aug. 14 -- Pat Cummins left Lord's in June 2025 without a World Test Championship mace. The defeat to South Africa, who chased 282 in London to claim their first ICC title in 27 years, was the kind of loss that lodges in a team's memory long after the statistics are filed. Now Australia are coming to South Africa, and the September-October 2026 bilateral tour is their first opportunity to answer Lord's on South African soil.

The three-Test series that begins October 9 at Kingsmead in Durban, with Tests to follow at St George's Park in Gqeberha and Newlands in Cape Town, forms part of both sides' 2025-27 WTC cycle. Australia arrive as points leaders at approximately 85 per cent of available points. South Africa are second, at 7...