The playing squad and coaching team will be smiling all the way to the bank.
The World Test Championship-winning Proteas squad haven’t only become the best Test team on the planet and written their names in the history books, they’ve also bagged a pot of gold, after beating Australia in the final at Lord’s on Saturday.
Temba Bavuma and his Proteas squad beat the Australian side of Pat Cummins by five wickets in the Test final, following a thrilling four days of cricket in London.
While Bavuma and Co’s names will go down in history as the first senior Proteas team to win a major ICC trophy of significance, and since the victory in the Champions Trophy in 1998, they will also bank large cheques from the International Cricket Council in the coming days.
Winners’ purse
The ICC announced before the final at Lord’s that the winners of the match would take home a purse of $3.6 million. In Rand terms that is a little less than R65 million.
It is more than double ($1.6 million) what New Zealand (2021) and Australia (2023) earned after winning the previous two Test finals.
Australia, as runners-up will bank $2.1 million, which is R38 million. This is also significantly more than what the previous runners-up took home, namely $800,000.
The playing squads and coaching staffs are expected to split the winnings between them.
Aiden Markram of the Proteas was named man of the match for his excellent score of 136 in the second innings, which helped South Africa reach their target of 282. He was ably supported in the run chase by Bavuma, who hit an excellent 66.
Fast bowler Kagiso Rabada also starred for the Proteas, taking nine wickets in the match.
Prize money:
First/winners: South Africa $3.6 million
Second/runners up: Australia $2.16 million
Third: India $1.44 million
Fourth: New Zealand $1.2 million
Fifth: England $960,000
Sixth: Sri Lanka $840,000
Seventh: Bangladesh $720,000
Eighth: West Indies $600,000
Ninth: Pakistan $480,000
