New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- When Australia touched down in South Africa for the first time since 2018, their kit bags carried something heavier than cricket equipment. Fourteen months after Aiden Markram played what many were calling the most complete Test innings seen at Lord's in a decade, Pat Cummins's side returns to South African soil carrying a deficit that no amount of bilateral cricket can fully erase: the World Test Championship title that slipped away in five days of controlled, unhurried batting.

World Sports Betting Newlands Cricket Ground in Cape Town. The ICC's official schedule announcement confirmed all six fixtures in February 2026.

Peter Roach, Cricket Australia's head of operations, put the stakes plainly in Cricket Austral...