Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Swordsoffreedom]

In the first innings, Labuschagne missed his half-century for only one run, which was genuinely sad. But it was actually a little funny how does Australian team be unable to actually put up any fight against the Indian bowlers. I find that funny because, after a few months, they are going to come to India to play in the world cup. Even though that is going to be ODI.

In defense of KL Rahul, I am going to say that he actually tried to hold on to the wicket from one side. And he left the other person, Rohit Sharma do all the scoring. Rohit Sharma was hitting the ball everywhere. So, I did not think that KL Rahul needed to accelerate. 9 fours and 1 six for Rohit Sharma so far.

Wasn't that surprising for me. I was expecting that the Australian batsmen would crumble against Indian spin attack. IMO, they have just two batsmen who have the capability to handle Indian spinners - Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne. But both of them failed to get to a 50 yesterday and got out in unnecessary manner. In case of Labuschagne, he looked confident out there and I was quite disappointed when he got out to the bowling of Jadeja. And as expected, none of the other batsmen provided any resistance and folded up without a fight.

It was assumed earlier that the pitch will be spin-friendly. Australian team management should have considered this in their squad formation. Also, Australia's batsmen are experienced enough. Had they batted with some responsibility they would have been able to collect more than 250 easily. On such pitches, the aim of the players should be to stay at the crease. But Australia's batting line-up collapsed badly. If the Indian batsmen somehow manage to score 300 runs then they will surely win. I guess in the second innings as well we will see a stupid performance from the Australian batsmen.

[Sithara007]

Finally the Australians managed to get Ravichandran Ashwin out, but he had scored 23 by then. Todd Murphy gets his second international wicket in his debut. So far the two inexperienced bowlers (Todd Murphy and Scott Boland) are the ones who looked more threatening from the Australian bowling attack. Rohit Sharma and Cheteshwar Pujara are at the crease and they are being a bit cautious now. The more experienced Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon have gone wicketless and so far they didn't looked threatening at any point of time.

[ZAINmalik75]

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Before the start of this first test match between India and Australia, i had a gut feeling that India will preform better than Australian and the only reason was that the match was being played at Indian soil.

India always have the advantage when playing at home but to fold Australia for 177 runs when they won the toss and then elected to bat first and then for India to dismiss on to a low score is not common. Ravindra Jadeja was not in the picture due to injury and bang he is back with a 5 wicket haul and with Ashwin in the mix they are the best spin combo in the world and the best all rounders in the game today.

It is unlikely that India will end their innings with very few runs. Australia's first innings collection is only 177 runs. And India lost their first wicket by 76 runs. India's collection at the end of the first day is 77/1. Rohit Sharma is batting with responsibility and remains unbeaten with 56 runs. The squad also has talented players like Pujara, Kohli, and Suryakumar Yadav. My guess is India will be able to collect at least 220 runs. But if India is able to take a lead of more than 100 then India's chances of winning this match will increase.

It is a good start for team India. While the Australian team stumbled in the beginning, the opening pair of the Indian team played very well. Australia lost the wickets of their two openers for just 2 runs. But India's opening pair collected 76 runs. They have performed very well. Now if India's experienced middle order is able to perform a bit better and not face any batting disaster then India can easily collect 300 runs. It seems that India will win this match.

I think pitch was little bit friendly for spinner as compared fast and due to that reason most of wicket taker was spinner, but anyway they play phenomenal against strong batting lineup of Australia, unfortunately Australia hasn't alot spinner which may put indian batter in trouble, now Indian has 2 wicket down on 130 runs in 42 overs, but the Captain Rohit take his responsibility and still on a crease unbeated with 77* runs hope he will get his century soon, while still India has long batter lineup hope they will chase the target and will give a huge lead of around 300 which may really increase the winning chances of indian team.

[Sithara007]

Todd Murphy is having a good outing so far and he has picked up his third wicket in the form of Cheteshwar Pujara. He has figures of 15-2-35-3 at this point, while Nathan Lyon has 20-4-66-0 to his name. The two relatively inexperienced bowlers (Todd Murphy and Scott Boland) have so far stood out among the Australian attack and this is the first time that they are playing against India. On the other hand, the Indian batsmen are handling Cummins and Lyon with relative ease. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli at the crease. Australia need some quick wickets now. 

[coinerer]

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Before the start of this first test match between India and Australia, i had a gut feeling that India will preform better than Australian and the only reason was that the match was being played at Indian soil.

India always have the advantage when playing at home but to fold Australia for 177 runs when they won the toss and then elected to bat first and then for India to dismiss on to a low score is not common. Ravindra Jadeja was not in the picture due to injury and bang he is back with a 5 wicket haul and with Ashwin in the mix they are the best spin combo in the world and the best all rounders in the game today.

It is unlikely that India will end their innings with very few runs. Australia's first innings collection is only 177 runs. And India lost their first wicket by 76 runs. India's collection at the end of the first day is 77/1. Rohit Sharma is batting with responsibility and remains unbeaten with 56 runs. The squad also has talented players like Pujara, Kohli, and Suryakumar Yadav. My guess is India will be able to collect at least 220 runs. But if India is able to take a lead of more than 100 then India's chances of winning this match will increase.

It is a good start for team India. While the Australian team stumbled in the beginning, the opening pair of the Indian team played very well. Australia lost the wickets of their two openers for just 2 runs. But India's opening pair collected 76 runs. They have performed very well. Now if India's experienced middle order is able to perform a bit better and not face any batting disaster then India can easily collect 300 runs. It seems that India will win this match.

I think pitch was little bit friendly for spinner as compared fast and due to that reason most of wicket taker was spinner, but anyway they play phenomenal against strong batting lineup of Australia, unfortunately Australia hasn't alot spinner which may put indian batter in trouble, now Indian has 2 wicket down on 130 runs in 42 overs, but the Captain Rohit take his responsibility and still on a crease unbeated with 77* runs hope he will get his century soon, while still India has long batter lineup hope they will chase the target and will give a huge lead of around 300 which may really increase the winning chances of indian team.

Despite being a good team in Australia they are not able to perform well against India they scored only 177 runs against India in the first test match where India completed 151 runs for just 3 wickets and they are expected to cross at least 300 runs so India in the first test match  Will be able to score 2x runs as Australia.  So it will be more difficult for Australia in the next match as it will be almost impossible for them to recover today's runs and clash with the Reds in the next match.

[romero121]

Todd Murphy is having a good outing so far and he has picked up his third wicket in the form of Cheteshwar Pujara. He has figures of 15-2-35-3 at this point, while Nathan Lyon has 20-4-66-0 to his name. The two relatively inexperienced bowlers (Todd Murphy and Scott Boland) have so far stood out among the Australian attack and this is the first time that they are playing against India. On the other hand, the Indian batsmen are handling Cummins and Lyon with relative ease. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli at the crease. Australia need some quick wickets now.  

Some quick wickets is must for Australia at this point to be on the safer side. Based on the performance from Rohit Sharma it looks like he's playing only the confident shots. On the other side Virat have slowly begun his scoring, and by the end of the day atleast we should see score above 300 runs. Todd Murphy is playing good, same as the Indian spinners spin bowling is giving hands to Australia team.

[Sithara007]

This is completely unexpected. Todd Murphy gets his 4th test wicket on debut, as he ousts Virat Kohli for just 12 runs. So far Rohit Sharma has stood like a pillar on one end, and he is rapidly approaching his century. But none of the other batsmen have been able to give him any support so far. Suryakumar Yadav has come out to bat, and this is his test debut as well. BTW, the captaincy from Pat Cummins have been below par so far. Scott Boland has bowled well (9-4-7-0), but Cummins seems to be reluctant to give him extended spells. Instead he is sticking with Lyon from the other end.

[rojan]

In the 1st Test match between these two teams India vs Australia, India has put in a great performance to bat today. India scored 223 runs in 77 overs. And India has lost 5 wickets so far. But India batsman Rohit Sharma scored the highest runs in the match. He scored 117 runs off 204 balls.  KL Rahul did not bat well in this match. It is really difficult for India fans to accept that a good batsman like Virat Kohli will perform poorly in every match.

[JSRAW]

Indian middle order made a match bit interesting for a while but this new partnership should calm the nerve in the Indian dressing room.

Safe to say Iyer will replace SKY in the next match, given he's completely fit and if not then Gill should get a game in the middle order.

Also won't be a bad idea if they push KL, Kohli and SKY down to lower order and replace them with Ash-Jaddu-Axar or even with Bharat.   

[pakhitheboss]

Indian middle order made a match bit interesting for a while but this new partnership should calm the nerve in the Indian dressing room.

Safe to say Iyer will replace SKY in the next match, given he's completely fit and if not then Gill should get a game in the middle order.

Also won't be a bad idea if they push KL, Kohli and SKY down to lower order and replace them with Ash-Jaddu-Axar or even with Bharat.  

As usual Indian middle order has been the same for all the formats. The opener or the lower middle order always comes to the rescue whenever the team needs it. Shreyas Iyer is fit and most probably SKY would be replaced by him in the next test match. At the moment the match is looking interesting.

Rohit out after a long stand. I was hoping him to score 150 but the pitch is looking pretty bad. It is not at all easy for a batter to play comfortably on this pitch. I reckon a target of 150 would be good enough for India.

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Indian middle order made a match bit interesting for a while but this new partnership should calm the nerve in the Indian dressing room.

Safe to say Iyer will replace SKY in the next match, given he's completely fit and if not then Gill should get a game in the middle order.

Also won't be a bad idea if they push KL, Kohli and SKY down to lower order and replace them with Ash-Jaddu-Axar or even with Bharat.   

Although they played well, but even then India's performance in the match was not as expected. I thought they could do the same here as they scored high against New Zealand.
But among India's top order batsmen in this match, none other than Rohit Sharma could perform well and Virat Kohli was out with only 12 runs. But for the last-order batsmen, India is able to increase their score a little in the match and now Ravindra Jadeja has completed his half-century.  All things considered, for the poor performance of Australia's  in first innings , they may have to lose this Test match.

[JSRAW]

I reckon a target of 150 would be good enough for India.

With depressing KL, Kohli and SKY in middle. I don't want to see 100+ runs chase in the 4th inning.

India needs a minimum of 100 runs lead, 130 would be preferable and anything over 150 runs lead is game over for Australia.

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Although they played well, but even then India's performance in the match was not as expected.

Individually some players failed but as a team, India is doing okay be it bowling or batting.

[pakhitheboss]

This is why he is known as Sir Jadeja. First he showed how good he can bowl and now after his half century he again proved India will need him in both test and ODI format. Axar Patel again doing his best as a batter. The confidence this guy has on himself shows with the amount of balls he has taken to score 37 runs. I think he is eyeing a half century and most probably he would get it. I still believe 150 is a good target but anything beyond it is a bonus.

[Iranus]

This is why he is known as Sir Jadeja. First he showed how good he can bowl and now after his half century he again proved India will need him in both test and ODI format. Axar Patel again doing his best as a batter. The confidence this guy has on himself shows with the amount of balls he has taken to score 37 runs. I think he is eyeing a half century and most probably he would get it. I still believe 150 is a good target but anything beyond it is a bonus.

Although the Australian batsmen did not play well, the performance of the Indian batsmen was outstanding. They have already collected 312 runs after losing 7 wickets. Able to take a lead of 135 runs. Probably India will be able to take a lead of 170-180 runs very easily. And the entire match is now under India's control.
Rohit Sharma got off to a brilliant start with 120 runs. Now the partnership of Jadeja and Axar Patel is leading India to big collections. Jadeja scored 60 runs unbeaten and Patel scored 49 runs.

[Sithara007]

The 8th wicket partnership between Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel is now worth 81 runs. From a position of 240/7, they have reached 321/7. Spinners have taken 6 wickets to fall so far, with Todd Murphy having figures of 36-9-82-5 and Nathan Lyon 37-9-98-1. I am yet to see Scott Boland bowling in tandem with Todd Murphy. Boland was impressive, although he is yet to take a wicket. He has figures of 17-4-34-0, and Smith dropped a difficult chance from Jadeja off the bowling of Boland earlier. BTW, it would be a good option to give some overs to Steve Smith. 

[ZAINmalik75]

Despite being a good team in Australia they are not able to perform well against India they scored only 177 runs against India in the first test match where India completed 151 runs for just 3 wickets and they are expected to cross at least 300 runs so India in the first test match  Will be able to score 2x runs as Australia.  So it will be more difficult for Australia in the next match as it will be almost impossible for them to recover today's runs and clash with the Reds in the next match.

I think India are well prepared for any format competition, Firstly Ravindra jadeja show his class in bowling and now in batting too, indian captain Rohit Sharma score phenomenal century with a strike rate of 56.60 and chase the target of 177, rather than Sharma no one score decent runs, like pujara, Rahul, Kohli etc all them failed to score  bunches of runs, now India are looking in good position because there both player are set on crease with half half century , hope they will take lead of around 250+ before declaring the inning

[coinerer]

Despite being a good team in Australia they are not able to perform well against India they scored only 177 runs against India in the first test match where India completed 151 runs for just 3 wickets and they are expected to cross at least 300 runs so India in the first test match  Will be able to score 2x runs as Australia.  So it will be more difficult for Australia in the next match as it will be almost impossible for them to recover today's runs and clash with the Reds in the next match.

I think India are well prepared for any format competition, Firstly Ravindra jadeja show his class in bowling and now in batting too, indian captain Rohit Sharma score phenomenal century with a strike rate of 56.60 and chase the target of 177, rather than Sharma no one score decent runs, like pujara, Rahul, Kohli etc all them failed to score  bunches of runs, now India are looking in good position because there both player are set on crease with half half century , hope they will take lead of around 250+ before declaring the inning

I predicted that India would score more than 300 runs and India did so scoring 321 runs for 7 wickets. Indian players play so beautifully that India has always stood apart from every other team and presented itself as the king of cricket worldwide. They have been performing very well in both the T20, ODI, Test matches and have always kept themselves ahead of all the teams by winning most of the matches. India will easily win this test match with Australia

[rojan]

Despite being a good team in Australia they are not able to perform well against India they scored only 177 runs against India in the first test match where India completed 151 runs for just 3 wickets and they are expected to cross at least 300 runs so India in the first test match  Will be able to score 2x runs as Australia.  So it will be more difficult for Australia in the next match as it will be almost impossible for them to recover today's runs and clash with the Reds in the next match.

I think India are well prepared for any format competition, Firstly Ravindra jadeja show his class in bowling and now in batting too, indian captain Rohit Sharma score phenomenal century with a strike rate of 56.60 and chase the target of 177, rather than Sharma no one score decent runs, like pujara, Rahul, Kohli etc all them failed to score  bunches of runs, now India are looking in good position because there both player are set on crease with half half century , hope they will take lead of around 250+ before declaring the inning

Indian players bowling and batting is very strong. I saw Ravindra Jadeja took 5 wickets on the first day. But in this match I think Ravindra Jadeja will have a big contribution if India win because he bowled great. Rohit Sharma is batting brilliantly.  Showed fans in India.  However, Australia fans may not have expected that Australia will play so badly in the Test match.

[coinerer]

Despite being a good team in Australia they are not able to perform well against India they scored only 177 runs against India in the first test match where India completed 151 runs for just 3 wickets and they are expected to cross at least 300 runs so India in the first test match  Will be able to score 2x runs as Australia.  So it will be more difficult for Australia in the next match as it will be almost impossible for them to recover today's runs and clash with the Reds in the next match.

I think India are well prepared for any format competition, Firstly Ravindra jadeja show his class in bowling and now in batting too, indian captain Rohit Sharma score phenomenal century with a strike rate of 56.60 and chase the target of 177, rather than Sharma no one score decent runs, like pujara, Rahul, Kohli etc all them failed to score  bunches of runs, now India are looking in good position because there both player are set on crease with half half century , hope they will take lead of around 250+ before declaring the inning

Indian players bowling and batting is very strong. I saw Ravindra Jadeja took 5 wickets on the first day. But in this match I think Ravindra Jadeja will have a big contribution if India win because he bowled great. Rohit Sharma is batting brilliantly.  Showed fans in India.  However, Australia fans may not have expected that Australia will play so badly in the Test match.

Ravindra Jadeja has shown a really good performance in the ball that he has taken five wickets single-handedly.  But there is no guarantee that he will be able to play like that in the second match but he really played a big role for yesterday's match. However, his performance in the game seems to suggest that he will play a big role in the upcoming matches as well. Rohit Sharma is already a good player in the Indian team and he continues to play so well

[John Abraham]

It was expected that India will get a good lead from the first innings. Ravindra Jadeja doing good with the bat as well. 38 Srike rate is too low but it's good for test game batters. Congratulations to Rohit Sharma for another Ton. India already has 144 runs ahead and still has five wickets in hand. Seems like India will declare the innings after they gather more than five hundred runs on the board. Ravindra Jadeja looks steady with the bat. Best of luck for a hundred.