DURBAN, Aug. 22 -- The last time South Africa and Australia stood on the same cricket field, Australia made 431 for 2 and won by 276 runs. That was 24 August 2025, at Mackay. In the year since, the two sides sitting first and second in the World Test Championship have not played each other once.

They meet again on 24 September at Kingsmead in Durban, and what follows over the five weeks after it is the most consequential cricket either side will play in this WTC cycle. Which makes the ledger between them worth reading properly, because the whole of it fits inside eleven weeks of 2025.

The full South Africa national cricket team vs Australian men's cricket team match scorecard for the current era runs to seven fixtures, all of them betwe...