The World Test Championship (WTC) 2025 final is all set to begin from June 11 (Wednesday) as South Africa are all set to take on Australia at the iconic Lord's Cricket Ground in London. This will be the first time in 123 years that the two sides are facing each other in the longest format in Lord's. As the Aussies aim to clinch their second consecutive WTC title, theywill be heavily dependent on their star batter Steve Smith. In fact, Smith is just inches away from creating history at the mega event.

Steve Smith currently has 155 runs in two innings in WTC finals. If he scores 45 more runs in the WTC 2025 final against South Africa, then he will become the first player in history to score 200 runs in WTC finals. The record for the most runs in WTC finals is helf by Ajinkya Rahane. The ace Indian batter has slammed 199 runs in 4 innings.

In fact, Travis Head, with 181 runs in 19 runs away from the 200-run mark in WTC final. However, since Smith comes to bat at no.3 and tends to play a long knock, he has more chances of getting to the landmark before Head, who bats at no.6 in Tests.

Here are the batters with the most runs in WTC Finals:

Ajinkya Rahane (India)- 199

Travis Head (Australia)- 181

Steve Smith (Australia)- 145

Rohit Sharma (India)- 122

Virat Kohli (India)- 120

The WTC Final is currently played as a one-off Test match to determine the best team in the longest format of the game. Ahead of the WTC 2025 final, Steve Smith said that he would ove to have a three-match series to determine the winners of the WTC cycle.

"I haven't thought too much about it, but yeah, maybe a three-match series would be nice. Good luck fitting it into the calendar, which is already pretty packed. But if it could be done, it'd be pretty cool,"

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