London, June 14 -- South Africa captured their first-ever world title across all forms of international cricket, beating Australia in the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) final at Lord's, with several stars stepping up for the rainbow nation throughout the cycle.

Be it experienced campaigners like skipper Temba Bavuma, Aiden Markram or Kagiso Rabada or the generation next of Proteas cricket, Ryan Rickelton, Tristan Stubbs and Marco Jansen, several players made notable contributions for Proteas throughout the two years of this cycle. Let us look at several stars from the team throughout the competition:

-Temba Bavuma

The skipper led from the front, topping the run-charts for his country. In eight matches, he made 711 runs in 13 innings...