Pat Cummins stuns Lord’s with a 6-wicket haul in WTC Final 2025 and becomes the first foreign captain to take 6 wickets in an innings at Lord’s in 148 years.

A Spell to Remember at the Home of Cricket

Lord’s — the mecca of cricket — saw a dramatic event as Pat Cummins, Australia’s charismatic captain, tore through South Africa’s batting on Day 2 of WTC Final 2025. Cummins to the fore Led by a Farrell-like display of brutality and efficiency that yielded 6 for 28 runs, South Africa was out for just 138. But this wasn’t any other fine day in the office — Cummins etched his name in a golden font in the history of the Test game.

South Africa Stunned as Cummins Strikes Like Thunder

South Africa had begun Day 2 with a glimmer of hope after restricting Australia to 212 on Day 1. They had already fallen four wickets down but were rebuilding, through a captain’s innings from Temba Bavuma and David Bedingham. At the junction when sanity appeared in sight, Cummins set about causing a lunatic collapse. He bagged Bavuma in his very first over. He then, almost cruelly in the second session, took out Kyle Verreynne and Marco Jansen in the same over, and with that, everything changed.

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Milestone Moment: 300 Test Wickets Sealed in Style

And when Kagiso Rabada nicked one to the slips, Cummins not only brought the South African innings to an end — but he also reached 300 Test wickets. Done so in only 68 matches and 126 innings, he got included in the elite list of all-time great bowlers. It was a crossover moment of personal triumph and national pride, and it played out in front of a raucous Lord’s crowd that knew it was watching greatness.

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First Foreign Captain to Achieve This Feat at Lord’s

And what made the day iconic was the record Cummins dented; in 148 years of Test cricket at Lord’s, he had become the first overseas captain to have taken six wickets in the same innings. The best effort by a visiting skipper for the moment was New Zealand’s Daniel Vettori’s 5 for 69. Not even legends, such as Bob Willis, had achieved it as a captain on this ground. Cummins didn’t rediscover records — he built them.

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