Aiden Markram, the T20 captain for South Africa, ensured that the Proteas weren't letting another chance of finally ending the trophy drought slip as the table-toppers beat Australia in the final to win their maiden World Test Championship mace.

Aiden Markram has been dropped twice by South Africa in his test career. It’s his own fault. Markram set such a superlative standard out of the gate — three centuries and two 90s in his first six months — that when the runs stopped raining,

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.