Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[JSRAW]

Likey but there is another scenario for Ind vs SL final if...

- India wins 4-0 against Aus
- SL wins 1-0 or 2-0 against Kiwis
- Windies wins against SA

All three scenarios seem unlikely. In the first case, I am expecting India to win(2-1) while the remaining match will end as a draw. In the second case, I am expecting Sri Lanka and Kiwis to win one match each.

In the third case, I am expecting South Africa to win against Windies. These are my random predictions basically.

Yeah, i like to believe the same as you and teosanru but cricket is a funny game so i am open to everything.

It would be very disappointing if we get to see any draw in this series. Both teams are good and i think there won't be dud pitches in the next matches. Having said that if a draw comes on the difficult pitch then i am up for it because it requires an A game from both teams, which would be a treat to watch.

Skipper Rohit mentioned something really interesting after the match, he basically said that these guys put a lot of pressure on him regarding who should bowl first and from what end as they are too good and want to touch milestones as quickly as possible lol. Tells you a lot about how competitive this duo is and still very good friends.  

I thought captaincy is difficult only under losing conditions after this statement of Rohit I realise how difficult it is in winning conditions as well. You have to make sure you don't lose your shit while you are been presussred by your teammates and also have to make sure all the team mates are happy with your decisions because eventually their performance is going to be dependent on that.

This is the video, in Hindi but too funny haha 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvd0XZgm5n0

Venkatesh Prasad is not happy with KL Rahul

Found it on Twitter yesterday and I thought of sharing it here.



In my opinion, he is correct and none of the veterans are questioning this guy's ability to bat on any format. His selection is purely based on favoritism and not performance. What do you guys think?

He's spot on with everything and the only sane voice in former cricketers, he's also against the star culture in Indian cricket and recently he applied for the selection committee but got rejected as he's not a Yes Man.

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[Mr.corol]

West Indies vs Zimbabwe Test Match. Zimbabwe went into bat on the first day and were all out for 117 runs in 40.5 balls.
most run of players.
117 run 40.5 ball.
1. Kraigg Brathwaite 0(24)ball.
2. Innocent Kaia 35(52)
3. Chibhabha 10(20)
4. Craig Ervine 22(36)
5. Milton Shumba 3(8.)
6. Tafadzwa Tsiga 0(11)
7. Tiripano 23(56)
8. W Masakadza 1 (6)
9. Brandon Mavuta 1(13)
10. Nyauchi 2(8.)
11. Tanaka Chivanga 6(11)



In the lead given by Zimbabwe, West Indies came down to bat and scored 21 runs after losing one wicket in 9 overs.
21 run 9 overs

1. Kraigg Brathwaite 7(27) out lbw.
2. Tagenarine Chanderpaul 14(26) batting
3. Raymon Reifer 0(1) batting

[BobK71]

The second test between West Indies and Zimbabwe is underway, and it's lunch now. It's not a good start for Zimbabwe, who chose to bat after winning the toss. Five wickets have gone down, and the score is just 70. Seems like Zimbabwe will finish there first innings around 150 as Craig Ervine is the only recognized batsmen left.

Zimbabwe cricket does well in other two formats but they have quite weakness in test cricket. But despite being weak, their one good point is that they have managed to draw a match in this series. They could have done better if their prominent player participated in this Test cricket. Their score was not big in the last Test match of the series so their chances of losing this match would be high.

[Haunebu]

He's spot on with everything and the only sane voice in former cricketers, he's also against the star culture in Indian cricket and recently he applied for the selection committee but got rejected as he's not a Yes Man.

KL Rahul should be kicked out of the test and ODI squads, but deserves more chances in the T-20 squad primarily because he is a phenomenal T-20 player. His keeping skills are nothing amazing either.

He is one of the very, very few good looking Indian players which helped him a lot despite his inconsistent performances.

[John Abraham]

Well, This was a dream test match innings for Gudakesh Motie. He got his first five-wicket haul against Zimbabwe. He got seven wickets and conceded only 37 runs. Team Zimbabwe was able to score 115 and all out. Team west Indies already scored 133 and got 18 runs lead. Zimbabwe played well in the last test match. But, In this match, Zimbabwe's batters could not stand in front of Gudakesh Motie. This was the first day of this match. Still a long way to go. I hope Zimbabwe bowlers will try to get some early wicket tomorrow and pack them up as soon as they can.

[WatChe]

Well, This was a dream test match innings for Gudakesh Motie. He got his first five-wicket haul against Zimbabwe. He got seven wickets and conceded only 37 runs. Team Zimbabwe was able to score 115 and all out. Team west Indies already scored 133 and got 18 runs lead. Zimbabwe played well in the last test match. But, In this match, Zimbabwe's batters could not stand in front of Gudakesh Motie. This was the first day of this match. Still a long way to go. I hope Zimbabwe bowlers will try to get some early wicket tomorrow and pack them up as soon as they can.

Zimbabwe batting was impressive only in the first innings of first test match when they scored 379 runs and declared the innings. Zimbabwe today were bowled out in just 40.5 overs and this tells the story that Zimbabwe test performance need improvement. 14 wickets have gone down on very first day so defiantly we will see result of this test.

[ZAINmalik75]

The second test between West Indies and Zimbabwe is underway, and it's lunch now. It's not a good start for Zimbabwe, who chose to bat after winning the toss. Five wickets have gone down, and the score is just 70. Seems like Zimbabwe will finish there first innings around 150 as Craig Ervine is the only recognized batsmen left.

Look like Zimbabwe will lose the second and last test match of this test series, they choose to bat first but they didn't score a lot in order to put pressure on westindies batter during chase, the highest runs from entire Zimbabwe batting lineup is 38 which has been scored by I.Kaia while two other batter score just 22, 23 , this is so shameful performance from them but I think we can expect such kind of bad performances from such kind of small teams, they just score 115 in 40 overs, while on the other hand westindies lose his four wicket in 37th over but thier batter already done Thier job before dismissal. Hope they will lead alot tomorrow

[YinShuiSiYuan]

The second test between West Indies and Zimbabwe is underway, and it's lunch now. It's not a good start for Zimbabwe, who chose to bat after winning the toss. Five wickets have gone down, and the score is just 70. Seems like Zimbabwe will finish there first innings around 150 as Craig Ervine is the only recognized batsmen left.

Zimbabwe cricket does well in other two formats but they have quite weakness in test cricket. But despite being weak, their one good point is that they have managed to draw a match in this series. They could have done better if their prominent player participated in this Test cricket. Their score was not big in the last Test match of the series so their chances of losing this match would be high.

Zimbabwe test performance is really below average and is very bad as compared to T20 and ODI.  Today they bat very bad and west indies is now on lead of 18 runs and still it's day1 so West Indies will give a big target to Zimbabwe and might win this test.

[BALIK]

The second test between West Indies and Zimbabwe is underway, and it's lunch now. It's not a good start for Zimbabwe, who chose to bat after winning the toss. Five wickets have gone down, and the score is just 70. Seems like Zimbabwe will finish there first innings around 150 as Craig Ervine is the only recognized batsmen left.

Look like Zimbabwe will lose the second and last test match of this test series, they choose to bat first but they didn't score a lot in order to put pressure on westindies batter during chase, the highest runs from entire Zimbabwe batting lineup is 38 which has been scored by I.Kaia while two other batter score just 22, 23 , this is so shameful performance from them but I think we can expect such kind of bad performances from such kind of small teams, they just score 115 in 40 overs, while on the other hand westindies lose his four wicket in 37th over but thier batter already done Thier job before dismissal. Hope they will lead alot tomorrow

I did not think that Zimbabwe would perform as badly in the second match as in the first match. The batsmen needed to bat more responsibly in this match. Their performance today was worse than the first match. They lost all the wickets to collect only 115 runs. Innocent Kaia scored the highest 38 runs for the team. West Indies scored 133 runs and lost 4 wickets. I guess West Indies will collect atleast 250. And it doesn't look like Zimbabwe will be able to score 200 runs in the second innings. The condition of their batsmen is very weak now.

[teosanru]

Likey but there is another scenario for Ind vs SL final if...

- India wins 4-0 against Aus
- SL wins 1-0 or 2-0 against Kiwis
- Windies wins against SA

All three scenarios seem unlikely. In the first case, I am expecting India to win(2-1) while the remaining match will end as a draw. In the second case, I am expecting Sri Lanka and Kiwis to win one match each.

In the third case, I am expecting South Africa to win against Windies. These are my random predictions basically.

Yeah, i like to believe the same as you and teosanru but cricket is a funny game so i am open to everything.

It would be very disappointing if we get to see any draw in this series. Both teams are good and i think there won't be dud pitches in the next matches. Having said that if a draw comes on the difficult pitch then i am up for it because it requires an A game from both teams, which would be a treat to watch.

Skipper Rohit mentioned something really interesting after the match, he basically said that these guys put a lot of pressure on him regarding who should bowl first and from what end as they are too good and want to touch milestones as quickly as possible lol. Tells you a lot about how competitive this duo is and still very good friends.  

I thought captaincy is difficult only under losing conditions after this statement of Rohit I realise how difficult it is in winning conditions as well. You have to make sure you don't lose your shit while you are been presussred by your teammates and also have to make sure all the team mates are happy with your decisions because eventually their performance is going to be dependent on that.

This is the video, in Hindi but too funny haha 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvd0XZgm5n0

Venkatesh Prasad is not happy with KL Rahul

Found it on Twitter yesterday and I thought of sharing it here.



In my opinion, he is correct and none of the veterans are questioning this guy's ability to bat on any format. His selection is purely based on favoritism and not performance. What do you guys think?

He's spot on with everything and the only sane voice in former cricketers, he's also against the star culture in Indian cricket and recently he applied for the selection committee but got rejected as he's not a Yes Man.

I don't completely agree with him. I know in Test he has been given a lot of chances but that was more because India was trying to find a suitable replacement for KL Rahul and it was quite late till Rishab Pant fit that spot in Tests. Coming to other formats in ODIs he has a good average of 44. Which is actually a good average considering he even bats at number 5 and opens some times. But yes lately his performance has not been as consistent as one would expect from a vice captain or an experienced players but generally he has played one or two match winning innings. I don't favour KL Rahul's selection but I see what current selectors might want from him and I remember once Rohit Sharma too was given these many chances after which he got his re incarnation and trust me Shubhman Gill is the next person who is going to get this favouritism.

[Vaskiy]

The second test between West Indies and Zimbabwe is underway, and it's lunch now. It's not a good start for Zimbabwe, who chose to bat after winning the toss. Five wickets have gone down, and the score is just 70. Seems like Zimbabwe will finish there first innings around 150 as Craig Ervine is the only recognized batsmen left.

Look like Zimbabwe will lose the second and last test match of this test series, they choose to bat first but they didn't score a lot in order to put pressure on westindies batter during chase, the highest runs from entire Zimbabwe batting lineup is 38 which has been scored by I.Kaia while two other batter score just 22, 23 , this is so shameful performance from them but I think we can expect such kind of bad performances from such kind of small teams, they just score 115 in 40 overs, while on the other hand westindies lose his four wicket in 37th over but thier batter already done Thier job before dismissal. Hope they will lead alot tomorrow

I did not think that Zimbabwe would perform as badly in the second match as in the first match. The batsmen needed to bat more responsibly in this match. Their performance today was worse than the first match. They lost all the wickets to collect only 115 runs. Innocent Kaia scored the highest 38 runs for the team. West Indies scored 133 runs and lost 4 wickets. I guess West Indies will collect atleast 250. And it doesn't look like Zimbabwe will be able to score 200 runs in the second innings. The condition of their batsmen is very weak now.

Zimbabwe isn't performing good. By the end of day 1 West Indies leads by 18 runs and 6 wickets left. Match gonna end by the third day. Zimbabwe should've made atleast 250 runs. I don't find anything bad with the batting line-up. With the players they can easily reach 250+ runs. Upto Tsiga it have batting order and if they weren't able to perform as test match, atleast they could've gone for some big shots. An easier series win for West Indies.

[pakhitheboss]

He's spot on with everything and the only sane voice in former cricketers, he's also against the star culture in Indian cricket and recently he applied for the selection committee but got rejected as he's not a Yes Man.

I do not understand why other veterans are afraid to speak the truth. Financially everyone is very stable considering the amount of money they get paid as pension after retirement. The board won't dare to stop their pension if they speak against those who are always in the mode of licking the ass or constantly support those players who are not performing. India does not have a talent crunch in cricket. Why not give opportunities to those players.

In my opinion the first step that BCCI needs to take is to remove him from vice captaincy and give that responsibility to someone deserving. If he is still not able to perform after that then he should be dropped.

The second test match will be played on 17th in Delhi. Indian has not lost any test match in Delhi for the last 36 years. I am hoping they continue to win this time too.

[JSRAW]

He's spot on with everything and the only sane voice in former cricketers, he's also against the star culture in Indian cricket and recently he applied for the selection committee but got rejected as he's not a Yes Man.

I don't completely agree with him. I know in Test he has been given a lot of chances but that was more because India was trying to find a suitable replacement for KL Rahul and it was quite late till Rishab Pant fit that spot in Tests. Coming to other formats in ODIs he has a good average of 44. Which is actually a good average considering he even bats at number 5 and opens some times. But yes lately his performance has not been as consistent as one would expect from a vice captain or an experienced players but generally he has played one or two match winning innings. I don't favour KL Rahul's selection but I see what current selectors might want from him and I remember once Rohit Sharma too was given these many chances after which he got his re incarnation and trust me Shubhman Gill is the next person who is going to get this favouritism.

KL is an opener in Tests so a comparison with Pant is not right, ODI is a different thing and atm all anger about his test form. Gill is in hot form and he's warming the bench. Mayank is another competitor for opening in the subcontinent. The likes of Mayank were also dropped after a couple of failures and he went back to Ranji and scored tons of runs recently, his runs came a bit late tho.

Another good talent Sarfaraz is nowhere around the Indian squad despite performing regularly, although he's middle-order batter.

Regarding his Vice Captaincy, IMO he shouldn't be near any captaincy role. KL has already played close to 50 tests and still averaging in mid-30s. IDK how many chances he needs, if management wants to keep him close to the squad then keep him during away tours. In the subcontinent, there are countless openers in Ranji who can outbat him even on their worst day.

He's spot on with everything and the only sane voice in former cricketers, he's also against the star culture in Indian cricket and recently he applied for the selection committee but got rejected as he's not a Yes Man.

I do not understand why other veterans are afraid to speak the truth. Financially everyone is very stable considering the amount of money they get paid as pension after retirement. The board won't dare to stop their pension if they speak against those who are always in the mode of licking the ass or constantly support those players who are not performing. India does not have a talent crunch in cricket. Why not give opportunities to those players.

In my opinion the first step that BCCI needs to take is to remove him from vice captaincy and give that responsibility to someone deserving. If he is still not able to perform after that then he should be dropped.

The second test match will be played on 17th in Delhi. Indian has not lost any test match in Delhi for the last 36 years. I am hoping they continue to win this time too.

KL Rahul is the captain of a big franchise so there is a lot of branding and packaging type of bullshit is going on.

He's spot on with everything and the only sane voice in former cricketers, he's also against the star culture in Indian cricket and recently he applied for the selection committee but got rejected as he's not a Yes Man.

KL Rahul should be kicked out of the test and ODI squads, but deserves more chances in the T-20 squad primarily because he is a phenomenal T-20 player. His keeping skills are nothing amazing either.

He is one of the very, very few good looking Indian players which helped him a lot despite his inconsistent performances.

After his WC performance, he should be kicked from the T-20 squad. In ODI he's good but only if he's in the middle order with the gloves.

He's a very beautiful stroke player when he's on a song but tbh he always looks so depressing, scared and under pressure and it's actually hurting the team.

He's vice captain but i have never seen him discussing anything with the senior players. In a recent match Puji, Virat, Rohit and the spinners were in deep discussion and this BKL guy was sipping the coffee on the sideline.

[BobK71]

The second test between West Indies and Zimbabwe is underway, and it's lunch now. It's not a good start for Zimbabwe, who chose to bat after winning the toss. Five wickets have gone down, and the score is just 70. Seems like Zimbabwe will finish there first innings around 150 as Craig Ervine is the only recognized batsmen left.

Look like Zimbabwe will lose the second and last test match of this test series, they choose to bat first but they didn't score a lot in order to put pressure on westindies batter during chase, the highest runs from entire Zimbabwe batting lineup is 38 which has been scored by I.Kaia while two other batter score just 22, 23 , this is so shameful performance from them but I think we can expect such kind of bad performances from such kind of small teams, they just score 115 in 40 overs, while on the other hand westindies lose his four wicket in 37th over but thier batter already done Thier job before dismissal. Hope they will lead alot tomorrow

I did not think that Zimbabwe would perform as badly in the second match as in the first match. The batsmen needed to bat more responsibly in this match. Their performance today was worse than the first match. They lost all the wickets to collect only 115 runs. Innocent Kaia scored the highest 38 runs for the team. West Indies scored 133 runs and lost 4 wickets. I guess West Indies will collect atleast 250. And it doesn't look like Zimbabwe will be able to score 200 runs in the second innings. The condition of their batsmen is very weak now.

Zimbabwe isn't performing good. By the end of day 1 West Indies leads by 18 runs and 6 wickets left. Match gonna end by the third day. Zimbabwe should've made atleast 250 runs. I don't find anything bad with the batting line-up. With the players they can easily reach 250+ runs. Upto Tsiga it have batting order and if they weren't able to perform as test match, atleast they could've gone for some big shots. An easier series win for West Indies.

The batting failure of some of the players of the Zimbabwe team basically hindered their big scoring. Tanunurwa Makoni he returned 0 runs from 24 balls. Milton Shumba returns 3 runs from 8 balls. Tafadzwa Tsiga he returned 0 runs from 11 balls. W Masakadza collected 1 run, Brandon Mavuta 1 run, Nyauchi 1 run, Tanaka Chivanga 6 runs. Where 7 players fail in the match so the team naturally will be fallen in disaster.

[ilovealtcoins]

The second test between West Indies and Zimbabwe is underway, and it's lunch now. It's not a good start for Zimbabwe, who chose to bat after winning the toss. Five wickets have gone down, and the score is just 70. Seems like Zimbabwe will finish there first innings around 150 as Craig Ervine is the only recognized batsmen left.

Look like Zimbabwe will lose the second and last test match of this test series, they choose to bat first but they didn't score a lot in order to put pressure on westindies batter during chase, the highest runs from entire Zimbabwe batting lineup is 38 which has been scored by I.Kaia while two other batter score just 22, 23 , this is so shameful performance from them but I think we can expect such kind of bad performances from such kind of small teams, they just score 115 in 40 overs, while on the other hand westindies lose his four wicket in 37th over but thier batter already done Thier job before dismissal. Hope they will lead alot tomorrow

I did not think that Zimbabwe would perform as badly in the second match as in the first match. The batsmen needed to bat more responsibly in this match. Their performance today was worse than the first match. They lost all the wickets to collect only 115 runs. Innocent Kaia scored the highest 38 runs for the team. West Indies scored 133 runs and lost 4 wickets. I guess West Indies will collect atleast 250. And it doesn't look like Zimbabwe will be able to score 200 runs in the second innings. The condition of their batsmen is very weak now.

Zimbabwe isn't performing good. By the end of day 1 West Indies leads by 18 runs and 6 wickets left. Match gonna end by the third day. Zimbabwe should've made atleast 250 runs. I don't find anything bad with the batting line-up. With the players they can easily reach 250+ runs. Upto Tsiga it have batting order and if they weren't able to perform as test match, atleast they could've gone for some big shots. An easier series win for West Indies.

The batting failure of some of the players of the Zimbabwe team basically hindered their big scoring. Tanunurwa Makoni he returned 0 runs from 24 balls. Milton Shumba returns 3 runs from 8 balls. Tafadzwa Tsiga he returned 0 runs from 11 balls. W Masakadza collected 1 run, Brandon Mavuta 1 run, Nyauchi 1 run, Tanaka Chivanga 6 runs. Where 7 players fail in the match so the team naturally will be fallen in disaster.

Only 3 batsmen managed to collect more than 20 runs in the Zimbabwe team. Besides, 7 batsmen of the team could not collect up to 3 runs. It is not possible for any team to collect big with such bad batting. Apart from Innocent Kaia, I don't see any experienced batsman in the Zimbabwe team. They batted very badly. Probably we will see the result of this match in 3 days. The Zimbabwean team is going to face another defeat.

[Haunebu]

The second test match will be played on 17th in Delhi. Indian
He's spot on with everything and the only sane voice in
He's a very beautiful stroke player when he's on a song but tbh he always looks so depressing, scared and under pressure and it's actually hurting the team.

He's vice captain but i have never seen him discussing anything with the senior players. In a recent match Puji, Virat, Rohit and the spinners were in deep discussion and this BKL guy was sipping the coffee on the sideline.

Lol. Your points make sense, but his recent marriage could help improve his form in the T-20 and ODI formats which is why he shouldn't be sidelined anytime soon. He just needs to perform well consistently asap in order to retain his spot.

Also, I guess the coffee was really, really good which is why he was enjoying it on the sideline .

[John Abraham]

The Zimbabwean team is going to face another defeat.

We are used to seeing them lose matches. But did you see the last game? The way they batted in the first innings of the first match, they could have won the last match against west indies. Craig Ervine is the most experienced player on their team. Innocent Kaia is not the only player who has the ability to bat well. Gary Ballance scored an unbeaten 137. Even No nine batter Brandon Mavuta scored an unbelievable 56 runs from 132 balls. The game has already stopped due to rain. I guess it's helping Zimbabwe's side.

[JSRAW]

The second test match will be played on 17th in Delhi. Indian
He's spot on with everything and the only sane voice in
He's a very beautiful stroke player when he's on a song but tbh he always looks so depressing, scared and under pressure and it's actually hurting the team.

He's vice captain but i have never seen him discussing anything with the senior players. In a recent match Puji, Virat, Rohit and the spinners were in deep discussion and this BKL guy was sipping the coffee on the sideline.

Lol. Your points make sense, but his recent marriage could help improve his form in the T-20 and ODI formats which is why he shouldn't be sidelined anytime soon. He just needs to perform well consistently asap in order to retain his spot.

Also, I guess the coffee was really, really good which is why he was enjoying it on the sideline .

He won't come near the T-20 setup anytime soon unless he scores a fair amount of runs with high SR (important). His ODI spot looks okay as he can always bat in the middle with the gloves on.

Regarding our previous conversation on Draw results. Dharamshala venue is canceled and now the venue for 3rd test is Indore so there might be a slight chance of draw.

[WatChe]

The Zimbabwean team is going to face another defeat.

We are used to seeing them lose matches. But did you see the last game? The way they batted in the first innings of the first match, they could have won the last match against west indies. Craig Ervine is the most experienced player on their team. Innocent Kaia is not the only player who has the ability to bat well. Gary Ballance scored an unbeaten 137. Even No nine batter Brandon Mavuta scored an unbelievable 56 runs from 132 balls. The game has already stopped due to rain. I guess it's helping Zimbabwe's side.

So it was due to rain. I was wondering why West indies were 290 on day 2, there overnight score was 135. Still Zimbabwe is in trouble as West Indies have lead of 175 runs with 2 wickets and 3 days play left. Zimbabwe batting performance was impressive only in first innings of first test (as you mentioned) the subsequent 2 innings showed a complete failure of Zimbabwe batting lineup.
Zimbabwe will be in much better position in this test if they have scored around 225 or 250. It will be tough for Zimbabwe to save this match from here.

[Minor Miner]

The Zimbabwean team is going to face another defeat.

We are used to seeing them lose matches. But did you see the last game? The way they batted in the first innings of the first match, they could have won the last match against west indies. Craig Ervine is the most experienced player on their team. Innocent Kaia is not the only player who has the ability to bat well. Gary Ballance scored an unbeaten 137. Even No nine batter Brandon Mavuta scored an unbelievable 56 runs from 132 balls. The game has already stopped due to rain. I guess it's helping Zimbabwe's side.

So it was due to rain. I was wondering why West indies were 290 on day 2, there overnight score was 135. Still Zimbabwe is in trouble as West Indies have lead of 175 runs with 2 wickets and 3 days play left. Zimbabwe batting performance was impressive only in first innings of first test (as you mentioned) the subsequent 2 innings showed a complete failure of Zimbabwe batting lineup.
Zimbabwe will be in much better position in this test if they have scored around 225 or 250. It will be tough for Zimbabwe to save this match from here.

West Indies is already leading by 175 runs. So it is obviously not going to be easy at all for Zimbabwe to even draw this test match. With the conditions and also the rain, the pitch has become a lot more friendly to bowlers. So when West Indies eventually end their innings, Zimbabwe is going to find it really hard to actually score on this track.

And with a trial like this, Zimbabwe will find it even hard to concentrate on this match. I also agree that only 115  from the first innings was not going to be enough for Zimbabwe to actually be competitive in this test match.