Why South Africa and Australia Wore Black Armbands on Day 3 of WTC Final at Lord’s
Players from South Africa and Australia wore black armbands on the third day of the World Test Championship (WTC) final at London’s Lord’s Stadium.
Players from Australia and South Africa are honouring the victims of the horrific Air India airline accident in Ahmedabad by donning black armbands on Day 3 of the World Test Championship (WTC) final. Air India reported after midnight on Friday that 12 crew members and 241 other passengers on board Boeing 787-8 flight 171 have perished in the fatal Ahmedabad plane crash.
On June 12, 2025, the flight, which was travelling from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, carried 169 Indians, 53 British, seven Portuguese, and one Canadian. Sitting at 11-A, which was located in a section of the jet that had landed on the ground floor of the building it had crashed into, was Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, the only person who survived the horrifying disaster. Vishwash, a British national of Indian descent, allegedly took off his seat belt and exited the plane, claiming that the fire had burned his left hand.
Shortly after takeoff, the aircraft crashed in a residential doctors’ hostel building close to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. First Officer Clive Kundar, who had 1,100 flying hours, supported Line Training Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, who had 8,200 hours of flying experience, in piloting the aircraft.
Returning to the game, the WTC final 2025 at Lord’s Stadium has become a speedster’s paradise as both teams are fighting through unrelenting swing and pace. Australia skipper Pat Cummins was the star of the second day of the blockbuster event. He bowled South Africa out for just 138 after Australia’s first innings score of 212 runs, destroying their batting with a six-wicket haul. Australia led by 218 at the beginning of the day.
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