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Sports Mole provides all the information you need to know ahead of the World Test Championship fina 2025 at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, including a look at the squads and when the match will take place.

The 2025 ICC World Test Championship (WTC) Final is now within touching distance, with South Africa and Australia set to face off at the iconic Lordâ€s Cricket Ground in London. The Proteas will be making their debut in a WTC final this year, while the Baggy Greens are the defending champions, having beaten India in the final in 2023.Â

Here, Sports Mole will provide a breakdown of all the key information you will need ahead of the final, which will run from June 11 to 15, with a reserve day set aside on June 16.

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WTC 2025 Final Match Details:

Fixture: South Africa vs Australia

Dates: June 11–15, 2025 (Reserve Day: June 16)

Venue: Lordâ€s Cricket Ground, London

Start Time: 10:30 BST

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How South Africa and Australia reached the Final:

South Africa:

South Africa began their road to the final with a commanding innings victory over India at Centurion in December 2023. The Proteas suffered a setback thereafter, losing 2-0 to New Zealand, but bounced back with a series win over the West Indies and a 2-0 sweep in Bangladesh.Â

Captain Temba Bavuma led from the front in a home series win against Sri Lanka, and a 2-0 victory over Pakistan, highlighted by Ryan Rickelton’s double century, secured their spot in the final. They topped the WTC standings with a points percentage of 69.44%.

Australia:Â

Meanwhile, Australiaâ€s WTC title defence began with their 2-2 draw in the Ashes against old foes England before they clean-swept Pakistan 3-0, drew 1-1 against the West Indies Down Under, and beat New Zealand 2-0 to keep their final hopes alive.Â

Facing India in a five-Test series, the Aussies overcame an opening match loss to win the series 3-1, with Scott Boland‘s exceptional performance in the final Test at the SCG proving crucial. They concluded their campaign with a 2-0 victory over Sri Lanka, finishing second in the standings with a points percentage of 67.54%.

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WTC 2025 Final Squads

South Africa:

Temba Bavuma (c), Tony de Zorzi, Ryan Rickelton, Aiden Markram, David Bedingham, Tristan Stubbs, Kyle Verreynne, Wiaan Mulder, Marco Jansen, Corbin Bosch, Kagiso Rabada, Lungi Ngidi, Dane Paterson, Keshav Maharaj, Senuran Muthusamy

Australia:

Pat Cummins (c), Usman Khawaja, Sam Konstas, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Alex Carey, Josh Inglis, Cameron Green, Beau Webster, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Scott Boland, Nathan Lyon, Matt Kuhnemann

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Prize money and trophy

The ICC has significantly increased the prize money for the 2025 WTC Final, with the winning team now set to receive $3.6m, more than double the $1.6m awarded to the 2023 champions, while the runners-up will earn $2.1m.

In addition to the monetary reward, the champions will be presented with the ICC Test Championship Mace, symbolising their status as the world’s premier Test team.

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How to Watch the WTC Final 2025

Fans around the world can catch the action live through various broadcasters:

United Kingdom: Sky Sports Cricket and Sky Go

South Africa: SuperSport (TV and DSTV App)

Australia: Channel 7 and 7Plus

India: Star Sports (TV) and Disney+ Hotstar (Streaming)

United States & Canada: Willow TV

New Zealand: Sky Sport and Sky Go

Other Regions: ICC.tv

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The Paris Olympics are, by far, the biggest and most-watched competition in competitive table tennis. In fact, itâ€s probably the only time you can watch table tennis on live television in most countries.

Watching table tennis on live TV just feels different. Once every four years, the main sports channels of every country show our beloved sport for everyone to see.

This does wonders for the table tennis community, with table tennis†popularity as a sport reaching highs that couldnâ€t be achieved in any other circumstance.

Depending on where you live, youâ€ll need to tune in to different channels to watch matches live or on demand. Weâ€ve tried to cover as many locations as possible in this guide.

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Where to watch for:

North America

United States

NBC and Telemundo will broadcast the Olympics from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET daily.

In addition, NBC Sports Digital will stream the Olympics on its TV Everywhere platforms. You can watch them on NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com, the NBC Sports App, the NBC App, and all of the other NBC apps.

You can watch the Olympics on mobile devices, tablets, and connected TVs.

Canada

CBC holds the rights to broadcast the Olympics in Canada.

Viewers from Canada will be able to watch the Olympics on the CBC channel and partner networks TSN and Sportsnet.

In addition, you will be able to watch live events on the free CBC Gem streaming service, CBCâ€s Paris 2024 website, and the CBC Paris 2024 app.

South America

Argentina

TyC Sports holds the rights to broadcast the Olympics on TV in Argentina.

Youâ€ll be able to watch the event live on the TyC Sports channel and its streaming platform, TyC Sports Play.

In addition, youâ€ll be able to follow the Olympics through the Claro Sports Olympics channel on YouTube.

Brazil

TV Globo and SporTV will be the channels to broadcast the Paris 2024 Olympics in Brazil. Theyâ€ll provide comprehensive coverage every day of the competition.

Europe

France

Youâ€ll be able to watch the Olympics on France 2, France 3, France 4, and France 5 and France Télévisions app.

UK

The BBC holds the rights to broadcast the Olympics in the UK.

There will be live TV coverage across BBC One, BBC Two, and BBC iPlayer, providing access to all 32 events at Paris 2024.

In addition, a nightly highlights programme will recap all the best bits.

Spain

You will be able to follow the Olympics via the RTVE channel and its affiliates. In addition, youâ€ll also be able to watch the Olympics live on the RTVE Play app.

RTVE will broadcast 400 hours of every sport on La 1, Teledeporte, and La 2.4.

Sweden

Warner Bros. Discovery has the exclusive rights to the live broadcasts from Paris in 2024.

In addition, Swedenâ€s national public TV broadcaster Sverige Television will feature a programme every evening including the best of the action from the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Denmark

You will be able to watch the Olympics on TV 2â€s channels. They may be followed on TV 2â€s channels and TV 2 PLAY.

Asia

China

CMG, the state-owned China Media Group, will broadcast the Olympics. This means youâ€ll be able to follow them on the CCTV channel.

In addition, other rights owners are Migu, Douyin, Kuaishou, and Tencent, so you can expect additional Olympics coverage on their channels and platforms.

Japan

The Japan Consortium owns the rights to the Olympics, so you can expect Olympics coverage on all of their channels, including NHK General TV, Fuji TV, Nippon TV, TBS, TV Asahi, and TV Tokyo.

South Korea

Youâ€ll be able to watch the Olympics on either channel 6, 9, or 11.

Oceania

Australia

The 2024 Olympic Games will be broadcast in Australia on more than 40 free-to-air channels under the Nine Network.

Nine will be providing 24/7 coverage across its main TV channel, 9Gem and 9Now.

Streaming platform 9Now will have more than 40 channels, allowing viewers to watch whatever event they want throughout the games.

Africa

Nigeria

Nigeria, and most African countries, will be able to follow the Olympics through Supersport.

Are WTT Showing Any Matches Live / Playback?

No. WTT is the circuit created by the ITTF for table tennis athletes to compete in.

The Olympics are outside of the scope of the WTT circuit, so we canâ€t expect any Olympics matches on the WTT channel as they are two completely different things.

YouTube Channels Showing Highlights / Live Matches?

There is the official Olympics channel, which will show highlights and stories from the Olympics, but probably not live matches.

For context, Ma Long beat Fan Zhendong on July 30th at the Tokyo Olympics, and that match was uploaded to the Olympics channel on August 13th.

I believe something like this will happen for these Olympics as well, so we can expect high-quality replays sometime after the matches are played.

In addition, some countries will have live coverage on YouTube, but this content will have restrictions.

Some parts of the world will have exclusive YouTube channels covering Olympics matches and highlights, while others will not.

It goes without saying that table tennis matches from the Olympics uploaded by unaccredited sources will be taken down as fast as possible due to copyright reasons.

Alvaroâ€s a qualified ITTF Level 1 Coach who’s been playing Table Tennis since he was 15 and is now ranked within the top 50 in his native Argentina. He loves to compete in provincial tournaments and is always looking for ways to improve. Alvaro made his favorite memories with a racket in hand, and he joined the RacketInsight team to share his passion with other players!

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‘RUN – The Athlete Refugee Team Story’, shares the incredible and inspirational story of the Athlete Refugee Team (ART), from its formal beginnings in early 2017 through the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic last year that halted, albeit temporarily, their seemingly impossible journey towards the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Three years in the making and released in 2020, the feature-length documentary (93 minutes) by director Richard Bullock begins with an introduction to some of the refugee athletes selected to compete on the inaugural Refugee Olympic Team in Rio, who train at the Tegla Loroupe Peace Foundation training camp in Ngong, Kenya.

We meet Loroupe, a pioneer in women’s distance running renowned now as much for her community development and peace-making efforts as for her achievements in sport, who approached World Athletics and the IOC with the refugee team concept and who helped hand-pick those athletes from trials competitions at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northeast Kenya.

And, we follow the athletes’ journey after that ground-breaking and symbolic debut on the world stage at the Rio Games when the programme shifted its focus to longer term goals as it expands to include refugees based in other areas.

But like the best documentaries, the film is at its finest when it shares personal moments that illustrate the challenges and the difficult choices the athletes face, both in and out of training and competition and when showing the importance the athletes place on representing the faceless millions around the world that are currently displaced in unprecendented numbers.

In its annual Global Trends report issued earlier this week, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, reported that nearly 82.4 million people were living displaced from their homes at the end of 2020, a further four per cent increase on top of the already record-high 79.5 million at the end of 2019. Last year marked the ninth straight year of uninterrupted rise in forced displacement worldwide and witnessed a doubling of the number of displaced persons in the world since 2011, when the total was just under 40 million.

When the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games will finally be staged later this summer, the team’s participation – seven were ultimately chosen to compete in athletics – will once again became a source of inspiration for those tens of millions while their stories will resonate with millions more.

“We try to pass a message through sport for the people to recognise that the refugee, that whatever any human being can do, that refugees can also do,” says Anjelina Nadai Lohalith, who will make her second Olympic appearance in Tokyo. “Once they are given the chance.”

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Territories

Match TV
Russia

A1 BULGARIA – Sport Max
Bulgaria

ERT 
Greece

BBC
United Kingdom, Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man

C MORE – TV4 /SVT
Sweden

CBC
Canada

CCTV
China, Macao

Ceska Televize
Czech Republic

Charlton
Israel

Cineplex
Thailand

Flow Sports
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba), Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Virgin Islands

SKY- Mexico (Nova vision)
Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Dominican Republic

Fox Sports
Australia

Globo / Band Sports
Brazil

Ziggo Sports /NOS
Netherlands

Measat
Malaysia

Mono Streaming / Saigon Tourist Cable
Vietnam

NBC Sports
USA

Nent
Denmark

Nordic Entertainment
Iceland

NRK
Norway

Sky
Italy and the Vatican City

RTVS
Slovakia

Ssport 
Turkey

Sky Deutschland
Germany

Spark
New Zealand

Sport TV Portugal
Portugal

SPORTALL/ L’Équipe
France

SRG
Switzerland

Starhub
Singapore

SUPERSPORT (english speaking) and CANAL + International (french speaking)
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Reunion, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, Socotra, South Africa, St. Helena and Ascension, Swaziland, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Zanzibar, Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Mayotte, Morocco, Saint Helena, Somalia, Togo, Tunisia, Western Sahara

Tele Red
Argentina

Movistar
Spain

Polsat
Poland

SPORTKLUB
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia

VRT
Belgium

MTV
Finland

Sentana
Ukraine

Belarus Sport
Belarus

Wanda Diamond League YouTube / Facebook
Bhutan, Bolivia, Chile, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, South Korea, North Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Sri Lanka, Uruguay, Venezuela

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