Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Popkon6]

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.

Here, Bumrah collected a total of six wickets in two matches. Bumrah gave a very good bowling performance but basically the Indian team was very strong in the first innings, due to the good batting performance they quickly scored more runs in the period. But the Indian team began to collapse under England's bowling Tom Hartley as he collected a total of nine wickets in the two matches, including 2 wickets in the first innings and 7 wickets in the second innings. This is where I think second innings wickets are the most important, England can win because of more wickets in the second innings.

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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.

In yesterday's match how Travis Head was out?
Shamar Joseph took the wicket of this magical player who is the killer of India's dreams. Shamar Joseph out him with a beauty and he gave a yorker around 141 kilometers per hour and Travis Head lifted the bat but nothing surprising here and he touched to his bat and went to the side of the slip but before going to the slip the wickets came in middle and the ball hits the off wickets and from this he was out. Shamar Joseph did that thing that all the Indian bowlers want to do at the final of the World Cup and test Championship.

[synchronym]

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.

In the first test match of England vs India, England team was bowled out for just 246 runs in the first innings due to their batting failure. But in the second innings, England team performed very well and set India a target of 230 runs. When India was given a target of 230 runs, we thought that India might easily win. But England team won the first test match against India by 28 runs because of their excellent bowling by England team. Congratulations to England team. India lost the first Test match against England due to batting failure in India's second innings. Indian batsmen have really given a very disappointing performance. Apart from Rohit Sharma, no other Indian batsman could bat as well in the second innings which led to India losing by 28 runs against England.

[hafiztalha]

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.

Today India lost this 1 st game of test series which was played with England team and England won this game by 28 runs only  unfortunately India did not chase it. In first inning of India team was very outstanding but England team effort in first inning was very poor. In 1 st inning of England team, England scored 246 runs only and B.Stokes played very well and scored 70 runs in 88 balls with six 4s and three 6s. But India team easily chase down all this runs of England team and set 190 runs as trail. J.Jaiswal scored 80 runs in 74 balls, KL Rahul scored 86 runs in 123 balls and R.Jadega scored 87 runs in 180 balls. But India bowling effort in 2 nd inning was very poor and they did not break England batsman for low target and 2 nd inning of England team made 402 runs and india scored 202 runs only. O.Pope almost achieved double full century only 4 runs left for 2 nd century but dismissed by Jadega bowler. But he won player of game award.

[onecall123]

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.

Here, Bumrah collected a total of six wickets in two matches. Bumrah gave a very good bowling performance but basically the Indian team was very strong in the first innings, due to the good batting performance they quickly scored more runs in the period. But the Indian team began to collapse under England's bowling Tom Hartley as he collected a total of nine wickets in the two matches, including 2 wickets in the first innings and 7 wickets in the second innings. This is where I think second innings wickets are the most important, England can win because of more wickets in the second innings.

9 wickets in the match is a great achievement, and hopefully, there will be more to come! Tom Hartley took 7 wickets in the second innings, leading to a remarkable victory to go 1-0 up in the five-match series. This win is as good as any I've seen in my lifetime. Pope's innings is right up there with the best too. After the 1st innings thrashing, he did a brilliant turnaround to win the game for his team. Pope and Hartley deserve all the praise. This has to be one of England’s greatest Test wins! The competition is on.

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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.

In the first Test match between India and England, India captain Rohit Sharma used more spin bowlers than fast bowlers. Md Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah are both excellent fast bowlers yet they were allowed to bowl only twelve overs in total. I think the pitch in this Test match between India and England was spin-friendly with Rohit Sharma using the most of the spin bowlers to gain an added advantage. But Rohit Sharma's plan worked as they bowled out England for just 246 runs in the first innings.

[WatChe]

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.

Defeating team like Australia and that too on there home ground is a big achievement for team like West Indies. This is also a lesson for teams like Pakistan who continue to have a whitewash on Australia tour for last two decades. If team like West Indies can beat them then rest of teams can also do that.
Shamar Joseph is a great discovery for West Indies. Made his debut in this series and what a series he has, he is also player of the series. He picked 5 wickets in first innings of first test and had a historic spell in second innings of second test. May be this is the beginning of another great era for West Indies cricket.   

[Haunebu]

May be this is the beginning of another great era for West Indies cricket.   

Way too quick! They won one test against Australia which certainly doesn't imply that this is the beginning of a great era for them. They would need to win series after series in order to justify a big statement like that.

This is just one upset at the moment, but they definitely seem to be on the right track at least in the test format.

[Justin999]

In India vs England 1st test, i couldn't imagine india would paly so excellent. I mean every player of them did excellent performance. KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Yashasvi Jaiswal all of these three player scored more than 80+ runs and Ravindra Jadeja still not out...

I think India will play till lunch today. They will try to add more 80-100 runs and will declare their innings.Moreover they will also need to make the England team all out before tomorrow in order to win the match. It will be really exciting to watch the match according to me. If Jadeja plays well like this then definitely he will make his century complete. He just needs a good partnership now. Today’s innings will be really fun

1st innings was extra ordinary for india but in 2nd inning I can't imagine India could score such poorer. In previous comment,. I mentioned 3 players name from india who did more than 80+ runs in 1st innings but when 2nd innings started, all of them just ended up their batting with rahul 22, Jaiswal 15 and jadeja 2 runs only. I don't know how could all of them get down in 2nd innings. Whatever and did you check the Ollie Pope score? He did 1 run in 1st innings lol. But in 2nd innings he did 196 alone. It seems he consume that 3india players batting performance together. Well really Ollie Pope deserve Respect and if he could score 4 more runs then it would be great archivement for him

[SATWAT]

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.

Defeating team like Australia and that too on there home ground is a big achievement for team like West Indies. This is also a lesson for teams like Pakistan who continue to have a whitewash on Australia tour for last two decades. If team like West Indies can beat them then rest of teams can also do that.
Shamar Joseph is a great discovery for West Indies. Made his debut in this series and what a series he has, he is also player of the series. He picked 5 wickets in first innings of first test and had a historic spell in second innings of second test. May be this is the beginning of another great era for West Indies cricket.   

I am agreed with your all statement partially because no doubt this is the biggest win for them in 27 years with no one thinking about this and Brian Lara was also in tears after this impressive win, but this is simply upset we can't give them any rating or anything special after this one win because still they have to work on for the better results in future with their batting is still biggest problem for them in four innings they fail to give any positive impression which is surely dilemma for them their all top order fail.
Bowlers done good job but now time to have players like Chanderpaul and Sarwan in test with quality and consistency is missing from their batting which is surely not easy to fix now we have to wait for more positive results from them.

[libert19]

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.

Without Kohli, Jadeja, Rahul being there, now it feels like a youngsters team. Washington is perfect replacement for Jadeja, I don't think anyone else could replace him better. Sarfraz Khan, I have heard his name and watched him in Delhi Capitals, wasn't impressed, let's see how he does here. Don't think Saurabh will get chance while a Kuldeep is there.

Patidar better get chance in playing XI in 2nd test.

[Sithara007]

Without Kohli, Jadeja, Rahul being there, now it feels like a youngsters team. Washington is perfect replacement for Jadeja, I don't think anyone else could replace him better. Sarfraz Khan, I have heard his name and watched him in Delhi Capitals, wasn't impressed, let's see how he does here. Don't think Saurabh will get chance while a Kuldeep is there.

Patidar better get chance in playing XI in 2nd test.

Kuldeep Yadav in all probability will replace Ravindra Jadeja. Saurabh Kumar and Washington Sundar have been added to the squad, but chances are that they may not get a place in the playing XI. One of them may find a place in case Indian selectors opt for just one pacer. Saurabh Kumar is a well known name in Indian domestic circuit, and recently performed well against the England Lions. And it is a straight battle between Rajat Patidar vs Sarfaraz Khan to replace KL Rahul. IMO, Patidar will be a better choice given Sarfaraz's lack of consistency.

[libert19]

Without Kohli, Jadeja, Rahul being there, now it feels like a youngsters team. Washington is perfect replacement for Jadeja, I don't think anyone else could replace him better. Sarfraz Khan, I have heard his name and watched him in Delhi Capitals, wasn't impressed, let's see how he does here. Don't think Saurabh will get chance while a Kuldeep is there.

Patidar better get chance in playing XI in 2nd test.

Kuldeep Yadav in all probability will replace Ravindra Jadeja. Saurabh Kumar and Washington Sundar have been added to the squad, but chances are that they may not get a place in the playing XI. One of them may find a place in case Indian selectors opt for just one pacer. Saurabh Kumar is a well known name in Indian domestic circuit, and recently performed well against the England Lions. And it is a straight battle between Rajat Patidar vs Sarfaraz Khan to replace KL Rahul. IMO, Patidar will be a better choice given Sarfaraz's lack of consistency.

All-rounder can save the day in test matches, to replace spin all-rounder with pure spinner doesn't seem like a wise idea. If I were to guess selectors only added Washington Sundar to the squad as replacement of Jadeja.

I think India will still go with 2 pacers, plus, we are going to see at least 1 change in terms of Gill and Iyer, one is going out next game and Patidar/Sarafraz gonna make in. High chances for Patidar as Gill's replacement. Gill sat on bench in Afghanistan matches too.

Probable XI for second test according to me: Rohit, Jaiswal, Patidar, Iyer, KS Bharat, Sundar, Patel, Ashwin, Kuldeep, Siraj, Bumrah (I can see lack of batters in middle order, so it's likely this will not happen but I pitched in anyway ).

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Without Kohli, Jadeja, Rahul being there, now it feels like a youngsters team. Washington is perfect replacement for Jadeja, I don't think anyone else could replace him better. Sarfraz Khan, I have heard his name and watched him in Delhi Capitals, wasn't impressed, let's see how he does here. Don't think Saurabh will get chance while a Kuldeep is there.

Patidar better get chance in playing XI in 2nd test.

I don't mean to say that Washington Sundar is a worse all-rounder than Ravindra Jadejadar.However, Washington Sundar has less experience than Ravindra Jadeja.The game of cricket sometimes requires a lot of experience which he lacks. Sarfraz Ahmed is a familiar face in the domestic league but he has not been able to perform consistently which might not get him into the Indian team for the second Test match. However, I feel that the Indian team will rely entirely on youth in the second Test match. Because most of the players in their team are young in the second test match.

[libert19]

Without Kohli, Jadeja, Rahul being there, now it feels like a youngsters team. Washington is perfect replacement for Jadeja, I don't think anyone else could replace him better. Sarfraz Khan, I have heard his name and watched him in Delhi Capitals, wasn't impressed, let's see how he does here. Don't think Saurabh will get chance while a Kuldeep is there.

Patidar better get chance in playing XI in 2nd test.

I don't mean to say that Washington Sundar is a worse all-rounder than Ravindra Jadejadar.However, Washington Sundar has less experience than Ravindra Jadeja.The game of cricket sometimes requires a lot of experience which he lacks.

Look at updated Indian squad, who do you think should replace Jadeja then?

Rohit Sharma (C), Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shreyas Iyer, KS Bharat (WK), Dhruv Jurel (WK), Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohd. Siraj, Mukesh Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah (VC), Avesh Khan, Rajat Patidar, Sarfaraz Khan, Washington Sundar, Sourabh Kumar.

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Without Kohli, Jadeja, Rahul being there, now it feels like a youngsters team. Washington is perfect replacement for Jadeja, I don't think anyone else could replace him better. Sarfraz Khan, I have heard his name and watched him in Delhi Capitals, wasn't impressed, let's see how he does here. Don't think Saurabh will get chance while a Kuldeep is there.

Patidar better get chance in playing XI in 2nd test.

Sarfaraz Khan didn't do well in the IPL, but he was quite impressive in Ranji and when he played against the England lion. I feel he is not a T20 material but an ODI & test cricket player. He takes time to settle, when he gets set he can hit a ton. Patidar should get an opportunity this time he is a specialist batter. The team does look young with the exclusion of some big players.

[lixer]

I think India will play till lunch today. They will try to add more 80-100 runs and will declare their innings.Moreover they will also need to make the England team all out before tomorrow in order to win the match. It will be really exciting to watch the match according to me. If Jadeja plays well like this then definitely he will make his century complete. He just needs a good partnership now. Today’s innings will be really fun

1st innings was extra ordinary for india but in 2nd inning I can't imagine India could score such poorer. In previous comment,. I mentioned 3 players name from india who did more than 80+ runs in 1st innings but when 2nd innings started, all of them just ended up their batting with rahul 22, Jaiswal 15 and jadeja 2 runs only. I don't know how could all of them get down in 2nd innings. Whatever and did you check the Ollie Pope score? He did 1 run in 1st innings lol. But in 2nd innings he did 196 alone. It seems he consume that 3india players batting performance together. Well really Ollie Pope deserve Respect and if he could score 4 more runs then it would be great archivement for him

India were in complete control of the game in first three days but they lost only control into fourth and last day with lost of match as well because while in first inning they bowled out England this was impressive and then having big lead were clearly into their favour but for me from here mostly their batsmen were overconfidence which hurt them badly, and they lost their match with absence of Virat Kohli was also having his impact because he is experienced campaigner for them in this format, and they need him for few years which will help these new generation players for having better technique and patience to stay at crease for the better finish of the match.

Now we are heading for the second test which is going to start after few days and injury of Ravindra Jadeja and KL Rahul are going to create more problems for them in this match but I still sure India will win this series.

[synchronym]

In India vs England 1st test, i couldn't imagine india would paly so excellent. I mean every player of them did excellent performance. KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Yashasvi Jaiswal all of these three player scored more than 80+ runs and Ravindra Jadeja still not out...

I think India will play till lunch today. They will try to add more 80-100 runs and will declare their innings.Moreover they will also need to make the England team all out before tomorrow in order to win the match. It will be really exciting to watch the match according to me. If Jadeja plays well like this then definitely he will make his century complete. He just needs a good partnership now. Today’s innings will be really fun

1st innings was extra ordinary for india but in 2nd inning I can't imagine India could score such poorer. In previous comment,. I mentioned 3 players name from india who did more than 80+ runs in 1st innings but when 2nd innings started, all of them just ended up their batting with rahul 22, Jaiswal 15 and jadeja 2 runs only. I don't know how could all of them get down in 2nd innings. Whatever and did you check the Ollie Pope score? He did 1 run in 1st innings lol. But in 2nd innings he did 196 alone. It seems he consume that 3india players batting performance together. Well really Ollie Pope deserve Respect and if he could score 4 more runs then it would be great archivement for him

You are right that India's batting failure in the second innings has really disappointed thousands of cricket fans. When England set India a target of 230 runs, we thought that India would easily win their first Test match. But no, the way India batted in the second innings really disappointed us all. Indian batsmen. We didn't expect this kind of batting from the Indian batsmen. In the second innings, the England team turned around brilliantly. Indian team except Rohit Sharma, no batsman could bat well due to which team India could not score many runs in the second innings. But the only reason India lost the first test match was poor batting. We all know that India have very good batsmen but they did not bat very well in the second innings. Due to which they lost the first test match against England. The way the Indian team batted in the second innings really broke the hearts of thousands of Indian cricket fans.

[cryptoWODL]

Sarfaraz Khan didn't do well in the IPL, but he was quite impressive in Ranji and when he played against the England lion. I feel he is not a T20 material but an ODI & test cricket player. He takes time to settle, when he gets set he can hit a ton. Patidar should get an opportunity this time he is a specialist batter. The team does look young with the exclusion of some big players.

Yes, Sarfraz Khan could not give good performance in IPL to the Indian audience and even to the Indian Cricket Board. But he played well in Indian domestic leagues especially in Ranji Trophy he performed well in almost many matches. As India are comes field mostly young players in this Test match, the experienced players who are still in their squad will have to perform well. Otherwise, they might lose against England in the second test match like the first test match. But I think Shubman Gill might give his best performance in the second test match after the failure of the first match and score more runs than everyone expects from him.

[fullhdpixel]

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.

In the first test match of England vs India, England team was bowled out for just 246 runs in the first innings due to their batting failure. But in the second innings, England team performed very well and set India a target of 230 runs. When India was given a target of 230 runs, we thought that India might easily win. But England team won the first test match against India by 28 runs because of their excellent bowling by England team. Congratulations to England team. India lost the first Test match against England due to batting failure in India's second innings. Indian batsmen have really given a very disappointing performance. Apart from Rohit Sharma, no other Indian batsman could bat as well in the second innings which led to India losing by 28 runs against England.

When we have England 275 for 6 in their second inning match was in India control, and they were on verge of win this first match of this series but Ollie Pope and Rehan Ahmad 64 runs partnership create foundation of England win with Hartley and Ollie Pope's partnership of 80 runs create trouble for them because chasing 230 runs is never been easy even you are playing at home and have enough quality batting lineup, so this was really impressive performance from the England in this first match of the series which create good interest for the remaining matches of this series with now India will try their best for fighting back and things will be good for the cricketing fans while they will watch these two big teams are fighting for the win in coming matches.