London, June 13 -- South African batter Aiden Markram joined a plethora of legends following his historic century during the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) at Lord's against Australia on Friday.

During a run-chase of 282 in what had been an absolutely hellish match for batters so far, Markram put on an unbeaten century partnership with skipper Temba Bavuma, ending the day with 102* in 159 balls, with 11 fours. Thanks to the efforts of these two, Proteas is just a few more runs away from their maiden ICC world title glory.

This is the first-ever century by a South African batter in an ICC tournament final.

With this hundred, his eighth in the longest format of the game, Markram joined Gordon Greenidge (against England, 1984), Roy Fre...