Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[3kpk3]

Since the top order batsmen failed in the Indian second innings, Ravichandran Ashwin made 28 runs in the end but was not able to take his team home. Mohammed Siraj  made 12 runs before he was out while Jasprit Bumrah  remains not out at 6. It was anyone’s game at the end but England bowlers stood out and make sure they all out Indian team and make their first test win.

Luck was on England's side in this match if I am being honest since India suffered from 2 critical runouts in both innings which were game-changing. The tail-enders tried their best and did much better than some of the top order players.

Another thing that helped the English greatly was Pope's epic innings who single-handedly pulled his side back up when it looked like they would lose by an innings.

[cryptoWODL]

West Indies impressively beat Australia in the second Test match and draw the Test series between them.The West Indies team has given a very promising batting and bowling performance in this Test match.The West Indies team batted well in the first innings but did not bat as well as expected in the second innings, resulting in a very low target for the Australian team.

West Indies set Australia a target of 215 runs to win in the second Test, which was a paltry few runs for a strong side but they failed to do so due to their batting failure. But I was very impressed with one man's bowling performance in this match, he single-handedly defeated the Australian team in the second Test match. Shamar Josep took seven wickets for just 68 runs in 11.5 overs which was the best bowling performance of his Test career.This great bowling performance of his will be colorful throughout his career.

[noormcs5]

Since the top order batsmen failed in the Indian second innings, Ravichandran Ashwin made 28 runs in the end but was not able to take his team home. Mohammed Siraj  made 12 runs before he was out while Jasprit Bumrah  remains not out at 6. It was anyone’s game at the end but England bowlers stood out and make sure they all out Indian team and make their first test win.

Luck was on England's side in this match if I am being honest since India suffered from 2 critical runouts in both innings which were game-changing. The tail-enders tried their best and did much better than some of the top order players.

Another thing that helped the English greatly was Pope's epic innings who single-handedly pulled his side back up when it looked like they would lose by an innings.

As you know yesterday was the match of India vs England and this match was just won by India but this time is not for India.

By the way, on 23 October 2022 when the World Cup final was played between Pakistan and England and when Pakistan lost the match Irfan Pathan made fun of this and Twett "Neighbours how your Sunday is going", and after this tweet whenever the Indian team lose so on this day has a Sunday, they lost Test Championship, World Cup final on Sunday and the interesting thing is they lost yesterday's match on Sunday. The power of a tweet. He was making fun of Pakistan but now all the countries making fun of him.

[JSRAW]

Indians are crazy for cricket and any player who perform well in one or two games is taken to sky by Indian media and cricket fans. Gill is very new to cricket, he has played only 21 tests so far and has only scored 2 centuries along with 4 half centuries. Give him some time before calling him best or over hyped player.

21 tests: 42 innings? How many more chances do you think he deserves? He is a great T20 and ODI player for sure, but he hasn't really performed consistently well in the test format which is why he is overhyped for sure.

I am speechless with this all because how this all happens still a shock for the all Indian cricketing community with yesterday while things were in middle few peoples were claiming England is lucky as they avoided an inning defeat with India is going to win this match 100% but suddenly all top order fall down badly and fail to achieve this target.

Yeah. Crazy result for sure, but the Windies defeating Australia on their own soil is even crazier considering how badly they have been performing recently.

His long rope is about to end soon.

I loved the last test match, despite us ending up on the losing side. It's been a while since someone tested the Indian team so for a change it was a nice experience.

Having said that, I don't understand why Jaiswal, Gill and Iyer started their inning with the defensive mindset. Stroke playing and being proactive with the bat is their strong area but for some reason, they went into their shell, quite a surprise to see Jaiswal going defensive.

[BitcoinsGreat]

West Indies impressively beat Australia in the second Test match and draw the Test series between them.The West Indies team has given a very promising batting and bowling performance in this Test match.The West Indies team batted well in the first innings but did not bat as well as expected in the second innings, resulting in a very low target for the Australian team.

West Indies set Australia a target of 215 runs to win in the second Test, which was a paltry few runs for a strong side but they failed to do so due to their batting failure. But I was very impressed with one man's bowling performance in this match, he single-handedly defeated the Australian team in the second Test match. Shamar Josep took seven wickets for just 68 runs in 11.5 overs which was the best bowling performance of his Test career.This great bowling performance of his will be colorful throughout his career.

Yesterday's match was won by West Indies and this was an intense match, the player of the match was Shamar Joseph due to his bowling and now, I want to tell to his story, he was a security guard at a normal store of West Indies but he wants to become a cricketer and on January 2023 he was resigning from the job of Security guard and then he decided to come in cricket and as he decided he did it. In January 2024 he played against Australia and he became a man of the match in this match, he had an injury in his toes but he refused injury and did their best for this victory.

[Essential10]

Yesterday i saw the same drama in two different Test matches on two continents. Couldn't believe that India and Australia would lose at their home ground on such a target.

 In almost three decades, yesterday's Test win will be history for the West Indies. Shamar Joseph, whose dream was to play first-class cricket even a year ago, within a year he made himself so that he got the opportunity to tour Australia in the test series, he is now the hero of making the history of Australia's slaughter on Australian soil. Joseph's bowling figures of 7/68 were truly magnificent.

 Meanwhile, India couldn't score 231 runs with a strong batting line-up. Ollie Pope's individual runs in the second innings, all the Indian batsmen could not equal Ollie Pope's runs in the second innings. Tom Hartley's bowling figures 62/7 simply crushed India.

[Nrcewker]

Yesterday i saw the same drama in two different Test matches on two continents. Couldn't believe that India and Australia would lose at their home ground on such a target.

 In almost three decades, yesterday's Test win will be history for the West Indies. Shamar Joseph, whose dream was to play first-class cricket even a year ago, within a year he made himself so that he got the opportunity to tour Australia in the test series, he is now the hero of making the history of Australia's slaughter on Australian soil. Joseph's bowling figures of 7/68 were truly magnificent.

 Meanwhile, India couldn't score 231 runs with a strong batting line-up. Ollie Pope's individual runs in the second innings, all the Indian batsmen could not equal Ollie Pope's runs in the second innings. Tom Hartley's bowling figures 62/7 simply crushed India.

Indian batting lineup really disappointed all the Indian fans. We all thought that India will easily chase down the target after Pope’s brilliant batting in 3rd innings. But unexpected things really happened this time. Indian team really felt the pressure without the chase master Virat Kohli. Except Rohit Sharma none has batted well. I guess Indian team will rectify these errors in the upcoming games.

[JahriMeayer]

After seeing the first innings score of both india(436 runs) & England(246 runs) team, many of us thought that there will be no restriction for india to win this 1st test match against England. But when 2nd inning starter, Ollie Pope is the warrior who alone change the whole game himself, 196 runs scored by his bat only. I feel bad for him as he struggled from start to end of the match but miss his double century only for 4 runs. Nut still there was chance for India to win because they had giant score in 1st innings but unluckily no batsman performed well in 2nd innings. Legendary bowler Tom Hartley just stopped Indian players within 202 runs and he himself collected 7 wickets in 2nd innings which is epic.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Yesterday i saw the same drama in two different Test matches on two continents. Couldn't believe that India and Australia would lose at their home ground on such a target.

 In almost three decades, yesterday's Test win will be history for the West Indies. Shamar Joseph, whose dream was to play first-class cricket even a year ago, within a year he made himself so that he got the opportunity to tour Australia in the test series, he is now the hero of making the history of Australia's slaughter on Australian soil. Joseph's bowling figures of 7/68 were truly magnificent.

 Meanwhile, India couldn't score 231 runs with a strong batting line-up. Ollie Pope's individual runs in the second innings, all the Indian batsmen could not equal Ollie Pope's runs in the second innings. Tom Hartley's bowling figures 62/7 simply crushed India.

Indian batting lineup really disappointed all the Indian fans. We all thought that India will easily chase down the target after Pope’s brilliant batting in 3rd innings. But unexpected things really happened this time. Indian team really felt the pressure without the chase master Virat Kohli. Except Rohit Sharma none has batted well. I guess Indian team will rectify these errors in the upcoming games.

Well, this was a surprise. I did not think India was going to lose this test match. Especially since they have played so well in the first innings. India had shown great performance in the first innings and that's why I thought that target is not going to be big enough for England to actually successfully defend. Especially since India had a lot of time to actually score those runs. In the end, England was able to win by 28 runs.

Australia lost by 8 runs which must have been heartbreaking. Especially for Steve Smith. He was there till the end and he was not out in his 90s. Maybe Australia was really feeling sorry for themselves for giving the declaration in the first innings. Even though they were nine down, what if they could get 10 more?

[noormcs5]

After seeing the first innings score of both india(436 runs) & England(246 runs) team, many of us thought that there will be no restriction for india to win this 1st test match against England. But when 2nd inning starter, Ollie Pope is the warrior who alone change the whole game himself, 196 runs scored by his bat only. I feel bad for him as he struggled from start to end of the match but miss his double century only for 4 runs. Nut still there was chance for India to win because they had giant score in 1st innings but unluckily no batsman performed well in 2nd innings. Legendary bowler Tom Hartley just stopped Indian players within 202 runs and he himself collected 7 wickets in 2nd innings which is epic.

We know that England has won the test match against India but does this effect the points on the WTC for the both teams. Though it will be good for the England team but it will be hard to them to end up on the top 2.

Now check the WTC points table, it was started in 2023 and finished in 2025. Australia had the number 1 position and in the second position, we can see South Africa. The first two easy qualify for the final and at this time, South Africa and Australia are in the game but it will finish in 2025.

However, these two teams can play the final at this time, and let's check their records.  Australia team whitewashed Pakistan in the matches of three series which caused of their first opposition, and the South African team whitewashed Indian team.

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I could not watch the match between Australia and West Indies as I was busy watching England defeat India. I completed watching the highlight of the match and found out that after 27 years WI won a test against Australia in Gabba. Shamar Joseph got 7 wickets, and Tom Hartley took 7 wickets against India and both happened on the same day. A 22 year old and a 24 year old were responsible for winning the game for their team. Both are debutants and both have now made a name for themselves.

What a historic moment for the West Indies, big teams fail to defeat Australia in a test match on their home ground. This team which had a lot of debutants came out of their shell and defeated a team that was ranked as number 1 in test cricket. I am confident that we will see a lot of names popping up in the coming days from this West Indian side.

[SATWAT]

Yesterday i saw the same drama in two different Test matches on two continents. Couldn't believe that India and Australia would lose at their home ground on such a target.

 In almost three decades, yesterday's Test win will be history for the West Indies. Shamar Joseph, whose dream was to play first-class cricket even a year ago, within a year he made himself so that he got the opportunity to tour Australia in the test series, he is now the hero of making the history of Australia's slaughter on Australian soil. Joseph's bowling figures of 7/68 were truly magnificent.

 Meanwhile, India couldn't score 231 runs with a strong batting line-up. Ollie Pope's individual runs in the second innings, all the Indian batsmen could not equal Ollie Pope's runs in the second innings. Tom Hartley's bowling figures 62/7 simply crushed India.

Indian batting lineup really disappointed all the Indian fans. We all thought that India will easily chase down the target after Pope’s brilliant batting in 3rd innings. But unexpected things really happened this time. Indian team really felt the pressure without the chase master Virat Kohli. Except Rohit Sharma none has batted well. I guess Indian team will rectify these errors in the upcoming games.

Hopefully now Indian fans will be enjoying cricket in real world because in last few years there were too many arguments about them with mostly were feeling they are invisible at home, but this defeat brings them down, and now it's time for having better entertainment in the game as all is not going to stay at the same level for the years they can also go down like this even they were having turning wicket and trio of their best spinners which were completely downed by just one English man.
I am really surprised with Hartley who done good work in his first test match and took 7 wickets in second inning which is memorable performance for him and English cricket as well for years now just few days left with most chances India will hit back but still this is going to be remembered for the years.

[JSRAW]

Bad news for India.

Rahul and Jadeja are ruled out from the 2nd test match due to quadriceps pain and hamstring respectively. Would have been better if Gill and Iyer were the injured ones lol Btw replacements are Sarfaraz (finally haha). Sundar and Saurabh Kumar.

[AirtelBuzz]

Bad news for India.

Rahul and Jadeja are ruled out from the 2nd test match due to quadriceps pain and hamstring respectively. Would have been better if Gill and Iyer were the injured ones lol Btw replacements are Sarfaraz (finally haha). Sundar and Saurabh Kumar.

Yes this is very sad news for Indians.They are already very weak without Virat Kohli in their team, but if they don't have great all-rounders like KL Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja in their team, India will be even weaker. India was a strong team against England in the first test match but still they lost this test match to England.Without these two players in the second Test match, India will be weak and England will have a chance to win this match as well.But I am optimistic that the Indian team will play well and win the second Test match against England. Just a prediction 

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Bad news for India.

Rahul and Jadeja are ruled out from the 2nd test match due to quadriceps pain and hamstring respectively. Would have been better if Gill and Iyer were the injured ones lol Btw replacements are Sarfaraz (finally haha). Sundar and Saurabh Kumar.

It is a good news as the team management would now induct new players to the final team. I doubt Suarabh will be part of the team knowing Hitman. He will go for Sundar and someone more stable. He will not go for Sarfaraz as he still have a grudge with this guy or he would. Letst wait and see how he handles the team and work around the loss he faced as a captain.

[Sithara007]

Bad news for India.

Rahul and Jadeja are ruled out from the 2nd test match due to quadriceps pain and hamstring respectively. Would have been better if Gill and Iyer were the injured ones lol Btw replacements are Sarfaraz (finally haha). Sundar and Saurabh Kumar.

Given his extended bowling spells, it was just a matter of time before Ravindra Jadeja got injured. Let's not forget the fact that he's already 35 years old. I would say the same thing about Ravichandran Ashwin as well, as he is 37 now. Jadeja bowled a total of 52 overs in the first test, followed by Ashwin at 50 overs. Axar and the seamers were underutilized by India. And it would be better if India goes to the second test with just one pace bowler. Mohammed Siraj bowled a total of 11 overs in the first test. What is the point in including him to the playing XI?

[JSRAW]

Bad news for India.

Rahul and Jadeja are ruled out from the 2nd test match due to quadriceps pain and hamstring respectively. Would have been better if Gill and Iyer were the injured ones lol Btw replacements are Sarfaraz (finally haha). Sundar and Saurabh Kumar.

It is a good news as the team management would now induct new players to the final team. I doubt Suarabh will be part of the team knowing Hitman. He will go for Sundar and someone more stable. He will not go for Sarfaraz as he still have a grudge with this guy or he would. Letst wait and see how he handles the team and work around the loss he faced as a captain.

Both scored runs, so I doubt anyone would think this is good news.

Sunder should walk into the team because he's a good bat and Kuldeep is already in the squad so it makes sense if Saurabh is sitting out, maybe Kuldeep in place of Siraj.

I am not sure what sort of grudge you are pointing out but IMO Sarfaraz should also walk in and bat at 4 or 5.

[MusaPk]

21 tests: 42 innings? How many more chances do you think he deserves? He is a great T20 and ODI player for sure, but he hasn't really performed consistently well in the test format which is why he is overhyped for sure.

He appeared in 39 test innings and so far with average of 29 he has scored only 2 centuries and 4 half centuries. I think he has been given adequate chances in test to prove himself. Gill got a golden chance to prove his test suitability in second innings but he missed that by getting out on duck. Indians just like Aussies got overconfident and that's why we saw Aussies and Indians losing game yesterday.

[Haunebu]

I loved the last test match, despite us ending up on the losing side. It's been a while since someone tested the Indian team so for a change it was a nice experience.

Yeah. India loves choking these days and South Africa are probably happy about this. They slipped to the 5th position in the WTC table currently due to which they are under pressure to perform well in the upcoming matches.

Gill is also under a lot of pressure since he was given the spot of Pujara and hasn't lived to selectors expectations so far.

[MusaPk]

Given his extended bowling spells, it was just a matter of time before Ravindra Jadeja got injured. Let's not forget the fact that he's already 35 years old. I would say the same thing about Ravichandran Ashwin as well, as he is 37 now. Jadeja bowled a total of 52 overs in the first test, followed by Ashwin at 50 overs. Axar and the seamers were underutilized by India. And it would be better if India goes to the second test with just one pace bowler. Mohammed Siraj bowled a total of 11 overs in the first test. What is the point in including him to the playing XI?

Muhammad Siraj bowled 4 overs in first innings and 7 in second innings. He is main pace bowler but wasn't given enough chance to bowl in the match. The other fast bowler was Bumrah, who bowled 8 overs in first innings and 16 in second innings. Indian scored 436 runs in first innings and there batting collapsed in second innings due to majestic bowling spell from Tom Hartley who picked 7 wickets. important 12 points for England as this test was part of ICC World Test Championship.