Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[WatChe]

It's very much possible as the Indian team has a weird habit of winning matches at home, despite losing a toss. It hardly happens anywhere in the cricketing world. Would be really impressive and satisfactory experience if Indian batters outbat the Aussies but Aussies as a team known for their fightback so no prediction atm.

Nobody can predict whether Australia can fight back after there first innings collapse or not, let India enjoy there awesome bowling on day one. Suryakumar Ashok Yadav is finally playing his first test match after making ODI and T20I dbut in 2021. It took 2 years for BCCI to figure out that Suryakumar Ashok Yadav can play Test also. Ravindrasinh Anirudhsinh Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin both took 8 wickets so it means the track is for spinners.

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[Sithara007]

Test cricket is a game of mouse and cat.

When you think you are getting top of the opposition, something exciting happens. India took 2 early wickets and the Indians were on top, then Smith-Clone Marnus happened and Aussie were back in the game. Exactly after that, Sir Jadeja showed his class and at the same period of time a nice cameo from Handscomb and Carrey. Their inning is still not finished so India must look to quick wrap up under 200 as they are batting last and it won't be a cakewalk.

We couldn't t ask for a better start to BGT. I hope we'll see a same fight between Indian batters and Australian bowlers.

It was interesting at times, but then the outcome of the match was decided in the first say itself. The burden was on the shoulders of Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne, but they couldn't convert the good starts which they got. Once they got out, it was all over for the Australians. I was not expecting much from the Australian bowlers, and things went ahead as per the expectation. I would be surprised, if Australia doesn't lose this test match by an innings. Given the presence of Ashwin and Axar in the team, it is possible for India to put up a total of 500 plus.

[Haunebu]

Never expected Australia to produce such a dismal performance in the 1st innings. India will comfortably win this one at this rate.

Well, Sir jadeja and Ash Anna are cheat codes in India, I've said this countless times and Axar Patel is an addition.

Yeah he was replacement of Jaddu but he cemented his spot in the team cause of his performance, his batting is big plus.

In the test format, Jadeja and Ashwin are like the Durant-Curry combo. They know each other so well that they mesmerise the audience with their varying tactics which have aged like fine wine.

I feel that Axar and Sundar could produce a similar combo in the test format as long as they are given enough chances to prove their respective abilities with both the bat and the ball.

[teosanru]

Never expected Australia to produce such a dismal performance in the 1st innings. India will comfortably win this one at this rate.

Well, Sir jadeja and Ash Anna are cheat codes in India, I've said this countless times and Axar Patel is an addition.

Yeah he was replacement of Jaddu but he cemented his spot in the team cause of his performance, his batting is big plus.

In the test format, Jadeja and Ashwin are like the Durant-Curry combo. They know each other so well that they mesmerise the audience with their varying tactics which have aged like fine wine.

I feel that Axar and Sundar could produce a similar combo in the test format as long as they are given enough chances to prove their respective abilities with both the bat and the ball.

I think Ashwin is Ashwin because his never giving up attitude, he always try to come with new things, whether it's his action, or his delivery stride or his turn. He always loves to try new things which is why he is still one of the greatest spinners as even after batsmen had studied him so much he still brings in something new. You have to do such a thing if you are not one of the best Turners of the ball. Jadeja on the other hand is consistent with everything. He balls in right area with a plan. Let's see if this combo is able to maintain it's charm for such a long period of time.

[noormcs5]

Let's hope no collapse tomorrow and a long day for Aussies.

I was listening to the commentary of DK and he predicted on day one that India would bat big and would bat once. Ravi Shastri supported his prediction

It's very much possible as the Indian team has a weird habit of winning matches at home, despite losing a toss. It hardly happens anywhere in the cricketing world. Would be really impressive and satisfactory experience if Indian batters outbat the Aussies but Aussies as a team known for their fightback so no prediction atm.

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.

The same thing happened and Australia manage to score only 177 run and were all out. None of the Australian batsman were able to make any considerable score. When you see David Warner and Usman khwaja scoring one run each which shows how bad the Australian started the innings.

Jadeija was the best bowler from the Indian team who took 5 wickets and and almost won this match for the Indians.

[mm2543363580]

Let's hope no collapse tomorrow and a long day for Aussies.

I was listening to the commentary of DK and he predicted on day one that India would bat big and would bat once. Ravi Shastri supported his prediction

It's very much possible as the Indian team has a weird habit of winning matches at home, despite losing a toss. It hardly happens anywhere in the cricketing world. Would be really impressive and satisfactory experience if Indian batters outbat the Aussies but Aussies as a team known for their fightback so no prediction atm.

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.

The home team always gets the benefit as their management make pitches according to their team so same happened with India.  They knew the pitch and the balling attack was good which didn't allow Australia to score any runs .
Now tomorrow Australian balling will tell and decide their standing in 1st Test match.

[JSRAW]

Never expected Australia to produce such a dismal performance in the 1st innings. India will comfortably win this one at this rate.

Well, Sir jadeja and Ash Anna are cheat codes in India, I've said this countless times and Axar Patel is an addition.

Yeah he was replacement of Jaddu but he cemented his spot in the team cause of his performance, his batting is big plus.

In the test format, Jadeja and Ashwin are like the Durant-Curry combo. They know each other so well that they mesmerise the audience with their varying tactics which have aged like fine wine.

I feel that Axar and Sundar could produce a similar combo in the test format as long as they are given enough chances to prove their respective abilities with both the bat and the ball.

I think Ashwin is Ashwin because his never giving up attitude, he always try to come with new things, whether it's his action, or his delivery stride or his turn. He always loves to try new things which is why he is still one of the greatest spinners as even after batsmen had studied him so much he still brings in something new. You have to do such a thing if you are not one of the best Turners of the ball. Jadeja on the other hand is consistent with everything. He balls in right area with a plan. Let's see if this combo is able to maintain it's charm for such a long period of time.

Bhai i have a real man crush on Ash Anna tbh.

This guy is a freaking genius IMO, have seen the likes of Murli and Shane bowling in real life and they were like demigods to me back then along with Jumbo Kumble but yaar Ashwin is on another level with his Megamind.

ICT is lucky to have this Ash-Jaddu duo.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Oh come on, there is no need to shit on KL today, he touched the double digits after all, that's a big improvement. Having said that he did okay today despite soft dismissal, things could've been different in case of an early wicket.

Literally Bro such stubborn attitude of KL Rahul proves him he is nothing but a shit. Did you see his face when he got out? He couldn't believe that he played that shot! I wouldn't say that he got tricked by the bowler! It is just that he was avoiding such a trick by being attentive.

What he did was taking the last over casually. He think himself as an established cricketer for India. He is the exact example of a middle class guy who got a brilliant opportunity after getting into the rich class. Thanks to his marriage to one of the richest family of Mumbai.

How can you be so lazy when you are not in the form? He simply layed down his guard as he was still over confident. 

He started having that casual attitude when he started rotating his strike. I was angry when Kholi was not performing but I was happy that his defensive & will do attitude got him through. Such an attitude was a positive sign for his team mate and helped him regain the respect of his team mates. They also started believing in him and on a big day he got his form back. 

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.

[fullhdpixel]

Test cricket is a game of mouse and cat.

When you think you are getting top of the opposition, something exciting happens. India took 2 early wickets and the Indians were on top, then Smith-Clone Marnus happened and Aussie were back in the game. Exactly after that, Sir Jadeja showed his class and at the same period of time a nice cameo from Handscomb and Carrey. Their inning is still not finished so India must look to quick wrap up under 200 as they are batting last and it won't be a cakewalk.

We couldn't t ask for a better start to BGT. I hope we'll see a same fight between Indian batters and Australian bowlers.

It was interesting at times, but then the outcome of the match was decided in the first say itself. The burden was on the shoulders of Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne, but they couldn't convert the good starts which they got. Once they got out, it was all over for the Australians. I was not expecting much from the Australian bowlers, and things went ahead as per the expectation. I would be surprised, if Australia doesn't lose this test match by an innings. Given the presence of Ashwin and Axar in the team, it is possible for India to put up a total of 500 plus.

While I have nothing to say about today play, Aussies are bundled out without any resistance which was expecting specially after having wickets of Marnus and Smith things looking out of the way for them, and they can go down without any trouble because first day play is already given all impression how things could be happened in coming days as well and tally of wickets for Ashwin, Jadeja and Axar are going to be amazing, and they are going to have good start of 2023 while we can expect good performance from these in throughout year.

With whom is going to lead from front in batting this all will be clear because mostly Aussies bowlers are going to have the worst time and their tally is going to be more troubled after this tour of India and lost of BGT again with India going to win 5th time in a row.

[Mahdirakib]

Never expected Australia to produce such a dismal performance in the 1st innings. India will comfortably win this one at this rate.

But I was expecting such pathetic performance from Australia in the first test match. I won't be surprised if India can end the first innings with a big lead and win the match by an innings. SENA countries always struggle when Asian countries team make a spin friendly pitch.

[eaLiTy]

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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.

[laurenB7742]

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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.

[Minor Miner]

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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.

[Sithara007]

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.

[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.