Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Vishnu.Reang]

Right now New Zealand is not good against Australia and England in test matches even they are playing at home because their bowling is not good enough for test matches even batting can give them some advantage and England is very balances side for test matches this is going to be interesting series I am feeling England can win this.

You may disagree with me, but in my opinion the New Zealand team is having two of the best bowlers in the world right now - Lockie Ferguson and Trent Boult. Both these bowlers can destroy any batting lineup, given that they are on top form. But consistency have been a problem with the Kiwi pacers. And they don't have a large player pool like India and Australia.

[JSRAW]

^^ @Vishnu.Reang  We can expect some firework from kiwis bowlers and same expectation from Stuart broad and Jofra Archer in absence of James Anderson. I was reading a pitch report on one twitter thread and it appears to me that there are high chances of Green Pitch tomorrow. Although they are using Dukes ball so at the end it should be balanced competition.


Interesting read

Read full thread: https://twitter.com/sidvee/status/1197026658533830656

To anyone who says 'Test cricket's viewership is on the decline' I always want to ask - how do you know? Just because you see sparsely filled stadiums doesn't mean that fewer people are watching Tests. Commentators and administrators make this assumption quite often.

[BitSat19]

I just check its very interesting Mount Maunganui, is new Test cricket home as its first test is going to play here between these two teams and after checking players look like New Zealand is going with advantage as they have three good bowlers these all can do any damage to any batting side batting is also going with good advantage as they have good unit and England is going with few new names so New Zealand can win this match.

[AB de Royse777]

I just check its very interesting Mount Maunganui, is new Test cricket home as its first test is going to play here between these two teams and after checking players look like New Zealand is going with advantage as they have three good bowlers these all can do any damage to any batting side batting is also going with good advantage as they have good unit and England is going with few new names so New Zealand can win this match.

You are saying this after I put more money for England ! :-P
Anyway, it does not matter. As long as we enjoy the Test match and it does not go one sided then I think we are fine. I am expecting a good Test match and I will feel great if England wins :-)

[Haunebu]

Feel free to try your luck. A three selection seems to be an easy one to win.

Good luck.

Just placed my bet in the NZ vs ENG test match. I will be siding with NZ even though I am expecting England to win since the odds are juicier overall. Seems like someone bet on a draw too making this pool far more interesting.

You are saying this after I put more money for England ! :-P
Anyway, it does not matter. As long as we enjoy the Test match and it does not go one sided then I think we are fine. I am expecting a good Test match and I will feel great if England wins :-)

Lol. I doubt this match will be a one-sided one. The kiwis are hungry for some revenge after their string of losses to England and am expecting fireworks in this one. Latham and Ferguson are the ones to watch for me.

[deadley]

I just check its very interesting Mount Maunganui, is new Test cricket home as its first test is going to play here between these two teams and after checking players look like New Zealand is going with advantage as they have three good bowlers these all can do any damage to any batting side batting is also going with good advantage as they have good unit and England is going with few new names so New Zealand can win this match.

You are saying this after I put more money for England ! :-P
Anyway, it does not matter. As long as we enjoy the Test match and it does not go one sided then I think we are fine. I am expecting a good Test match and I will feel great if England wins :-)

Very odd time for Indian, because it's start 3:30 AM, so not going to play on this, but in NZ, winning from NZ is very hard because of so much swinging condition. According to me, you will never see more swing bowling than NZ anywhere. NZ bowlers are far better swing bowlers than ENG.

[AB de Royse777]

~snip~
Just placed my bet in the NZ vs ENG test match. I will be siding with NZ even though I am expecting England to win since the odds are juicier overall. Seems like someone bet on a draw too making this pool far more interesting.

Yeah it akhjob and imagine if this match turns out to be a draw then he will win all the money single handily :-D

The pool fund is not bad compering to other pools we had.

Reserved for stake logs:

User - Team - Withdrawal address - Bet amount
Royse777 - England - bc1qmuw7d9lygyhfxr2ahxvygxjg5v0pp43ydusj33 - 0.0004 BTC
JSRAW - New Zealand- awaiting - 0.0001 BTC
akhjob - Draw - bc1qgw48mz96q88gjwwza67gzp7dmgkxx8kwamd8mg - 0.0004 BTC
SaShiRaJaVu - New Zealand - bc1qm768h5dsnzgrngnajr835eth53nhg4hrlt3y0x - 0.0004 BTC
Little Mouse - England - bc1qx0m5z2f3x3a38yw270mh0xgpnudl3lxql0dyu0 - 0.0001 BTC
Royse777 - England - bc1qmuw7d9lygyhfxr2ahxvygxjg5v0pp43ydusj33 - 0.00049740 BTC
Haunebu - New Zealand - awaiting - 0.0001 BTC

Rolled over:------------------------------------------------------------------- 0.0000 BTC
Total in the pool -------------------------------------------------------------- 0.0019974 BTC

Good luck everyone, including me :-D

[akhjob]

Yeah it akhjob and imagine if this match turns out to be a draw then he will win all the money single handily :-D

Yeah, I'll be getting almost 5x if it's a draw. And if both teams perform well with the bat, a draw is inevitable. So let's hope for the batsmen to perform well   

[ene1980]

Lol. I doubt this match will be a one-sided one. The kiwis are hungry for some revenge after their string of losses to England and am expecting fireworks in this one. Latham and Ferguson are the ones to watch for me.

Both teams have world class bowlers and it all depends upon which batsman will score runs, England does have a young team and if they are able to rise to the occasion then it will be a good contest and it is difficult to predict how the match goes and hence i will be watching this match as a fan and will plan on entering after seeing the first session, the pitch will assist the pacers as it is a green turf and in the final two days it might spin.

[vella85]

The first test match between Australia and Pakistan starts today, Australia are big favourites to win and they should win at home however Pakistan do seem to play well against Australia so we could see a good contest. The Brisbane pitch should suite the Pakistan fast bowlers and later on in the match it takes spin. The toss has been important as the team batting first normally goes on to win the match so its going to be interesting to see the young Pakistan bowlers against a top Australia batting team.

[Sithara007]

The first test match between Australia and Pakistan starts today, Australia are big favourites to win and they should win at home however Pakistan do seem to play well against Australia so we could see a good contest. The Brisbane pitch should suite the Pakistan fast bowlers and later on in the match it takes spin. The toss has been important as the team batting first normally goes on to win the match so its going to be interesting to see the young Pakistan bowlers against a top Australia batting team.

Pakistan is off to a very good start. They crawled along during the first session, but didn't lost a wicket against the fearsome pace triad of Mitchell Starc/Josh Hazlewood/Pat Cummins. The pitch at Brisbane offers equal amount of support for both the batsmen and the bowlers and I think that 300 plus would be a good first innings score that would give advantage to Pakistan. So far Shan Masood and Azhar Ali have done exceptionally well and if they could continue doing that during the post-lunch session then it will give Pakistan a real chance of upset.

BTW, a lot of the Pakistani fans may be excited about the test debut by pacer Naseem Shah. At 16 years and 279 days, he is one of the youngest ever players to make debut in international test matches (the record belongs to Hasan Raza, who made his debut aged 14 years and 227 days against Zimbabwe in 1996). Pakistan this time has completely changed their pace-attack and apart from Naseem, they have included young pace bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi, along with Imran Khan jr.

[Avirunes]

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Your post made me think about this point: I have noticed for sometime now that Pakistan are really good with their young bowlers. They are a good "production house" of bowlers while they extremely lack at producing young and potential batsman. Is it that they don't have any or they are just choosing their regular batsman over young batsman (if they spotted)?

[Sithara007]

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Your post made me think about this point: I have noticed for sometime now that Pakistan are really good with their young bowlers. They are a good "production house" of bowlers while them extremely lack at producing young and potential batsman. Is it that they don't have any or they are just choosing their regular batsman over young batsman (if they spotted)?

Well.. you definitely have a point there. Apart from Babar Azam, all of the Pakistani batsmen are aged 30 or above. I think that this has something to do with the decline in the quality of the domestic cricket in Pakistan. A number of domestic cricketers have quit in recent years, to take part in various franchise leagues (the most recent incident involved three players - Haris Rauf, Mirza Ehsan Baig and Sohail Akhtar). Also, some of the bowlers have been able to get contracts with the T20 franchise sides abroad, but very few of the younger Pakistani batsmen are currently playing in such leagues.

[Little Mouse]

Babor Azam has gone now, the only man who used to perform well. Pakistan is in trouble. It was expected although. Their batting line up was always poor. Chance is they will lose the match with a big margin.

[JSRAW]

Babor Azam has gone now, the only man who used to perform well. Pakistan is in trouble. It was expected although. Their batting line up was always poor. Chance is they will lose the match with a big margin.

6th wicket down now, have to say very bad decision from ground and third umpire. it was clearly no ball from pat Cummins but umpire gave Mohammad Rizwan out anyway. what's the use of technology if you still not going to use it correctly,

[onrise]

From tomorrow we will have a day night test match between India and Bangladesh and a first one in India . This is going to be exciting and also a Fun to watch out as India would be stronger side to start with as in last T20 we saw what happened .

[Haunebu]

6th wicket down now, have to say very bad decision from ground and third umpire. it was clearly no ball from pat Cummins but umpire gave Mohammad Rizwan out anyway. what's the use of technology if you still not going to use it correctly,

This has been a problem for sometime now. The frequency of bad decisions keeps increasing with time and I blame ICC for this. Majority of the decisions given by the umpires these days are so messed up that I feel like the viewers can do a better job in comparison.

From tomorrow we will have a day night test match between India and Bangladesh and a first one in India . This is going to be exciting and also a Fun to watch out as India would be stronger side to start with as in last T20 we saw what happened .

I agree. It seems that the pink ball is heavier than the red ball according to Kohli. It will be interesting to watch how many people attend this event in Kolkata and if Ganguly made the right call here. Excited.

[eaLiTy]

From tomorrow we will have a day night test match between India and Bangladesh and a first one in India . This is going to be exciting and also a Fun to watch out as India would be stronger side to start with as in last T20 we saw what happened .

I have not watched a day night Test match yet and hope it will help the bowlers too as the pink ball is said to help the fast bowlers as you will get more swing with it and if it is a success then it will continue in the future, India will win the match within 3 days as i do not expect much resistance from the Bangladesh players.

England surprised me with a steady start and they are in a comfortable position.
Pakistan did not surprise me as they are all out for 240 runs.

[JSRAW]

6th wicket down now, have to say very bad decision from ground and third umpire. it was clearly no ball from pat Cummins but umpire gave Mohammad Rizwan out anyway. what's the use of technology if you still not going to use it correctly,

This has been a problem for sometime now. The frequency of bad decisions keeps increasing with time and I blame ICC for this. Majority of the decisions given by the umpires these days are so messed up that I feel like the viewers can do a better job in comparison.

It was very hard for Ground Umpire but Third umpire had millions of camera angle and footage but still he went with soft decision of out which was original decision. i can make peace with Ground umpire when it comes to close calls but third umpire simply has no excuse. this kind of decision can cost game to one team, Rizwan was playing very well and was in attacking mode.
 

[ene1980]

It was very hard for Ground Umpire but Third umpire had millions of camera angle and footage but still he went with soft decision of out which was original decision. i can make peace with Ground umpire when it comes to close calls but third umpire simply has no excuse. this kind of decision can cost game to one team, Rizwan was playing very well and was in attacking mode.
 

I did not watch the match but all the third umpires usually take a look at the no ball and then proceed with the rest of the ultra edge and other technological methods to determine whether the on field umpire made the right decision and i am not sure what happened in this case but if the third umpire made this blunder then he is not fit to be an umpire as he usually gets a few referrals every match and if he is not even capable of verifying with the help of all the equipment then he might need an assistant