The ICC has fined Pakistan players 25 percent of their match fee and also docked the team five World Test Championship points for maintaining a slow over-rate against South Africa in the second test at Newlands.

Temba Bavuma led South Africa into the WTC final with a commanding seven-match Test-winning streak. The Proteas skipper promised an all-out effort, determined to end the nation's ICC title drought at Lord's this June.

The visitors were slashed match fees and also deducted World Test Championship points for failing to meet the minimum quota of overs in the allotted time during the second Test in Cape Town.

The 50-over World Cup is far older and has been competed for since back in 1975. Australia are the record winners having run out victorious on five occasions (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015). England took the 2019 crown after a dramatic Ben Stokes-inspired super-over win over New Zealand at Lord's.

Pakistan's cricket team has been fined 25% of their match fees while five points have been deducted in the ICC World Test Championship following a slow over-rate during the Cape Town Test against South Africa.

Pakistan continued to fight on day four but eventually succumbed to South Africa’s massive first-innings advantage.

Pakistan lost the match by 10 wickets after South Africa enforced the follow-on on the visiting side and bundled them for 478 in their second innings. The Proteas successfully chased a 58-run target without losing a wicket on Monday.

South Africa finally break Pakistan's resistance on the fourth day of the second Test to complete a 2-0 series win and finish top of the World Test Championship table.

South Africa made light work of a modest target of 58 to claim victory against Pakistan by 10 wickets at a sun-bathed Newlands on Monday, wrapping up the series 2-0 inside four days of the second and final test.

Pakistan captain Shan Masood continued to defy South Africa as the tourists cut down the deficit to 109 runs on the fourth day of the second and final test.

South Africa earned a seventh successive win after beating Pakistan by 10 wickets on day four of the second test at Newlands on Monday and swept the series 2-0. Pakistan, which was forced to follow on after 194 in the first innings,