Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[As-Soon-As]

On this side these players took their high salaries and make dump performance in every match on the other side Bangladesh women team won the SAFF football final. They should learn from those womens.

If Bangladeshi cricketers are brought under accountability by reducing their salaries and bonuses, then maybe they will understand the reason for this ignorant poor performance. There is no point in playing cricket for a team that cannot score half of South Africa's innings in two innings on home ground. They must be punished and held accountable and they must be reduced in salary as usual or these cricketers will never learn.

It is certainly true that the Bangladeshi players were overpaid and their bodies swelled, as neither player could form a long-lasting partnership between the two innings.  What was under such pressure that the Bangladeshi players could not build their partnership even in two matches. Because they are just lazy, bowling and batting are lacking the most. South Africa bowlers were under less pressure but Bangladesh batsmen are not experienced due to which this match is the most difference.

Although Mominul performed well enough in the first innings but no one could support him, no player could perform well in the second innings. I have never noticed such a bad performance in a test match in the past, only Bangladesh has been able to stand in the other team.

[Tony116]

Kiwis are 6 down and it does look like India are in control but i think Indian spinners were not consistent enough with their line and length.

The pitch is doing more than enough and everybody running out of carrots because of humidity so from India's POV scorecard should have read 150/6 instead of 192/6, Credit to Kiwi's batters, they are fighting hard.  

New Zealand's innings stopped at 235 runs. A collection of just 235 runs on this pitch at Wankhede is not a good collection. New Zealand needed to collect at least 320. But New Zealand's batsmen can't stay at the crease for long against the Indian bowlers.

Washington Sundar and Jadeja bowled well today. Due to the controlled bowling of these two bowlers, New Zealand lost wickets quickly. Jadeja took 5 wickets and Washington Sundar 4 wickets. New Zealand cannot collect big. India lost the first two Test matches. In the last match of the series, India will try their best to win. And I would say India looks more likely to win this match.

[Fuso.hp]

Kiwis are 6 down and it does look like India are in control but i think Indian spinners were not consistent enough with their line and length.

The pitch is doing more than enough and everybody running out of carrots because of humidity so from India's POV scorecard should have read 150/6 instead of 192/6, Credit to Kiwi's batters, they are fighting hard.  

New Zealand's innings stopped at 235 runs. A collection of just 235 runs on this pitch at Wankhede is not a good collection. New Zealand needed to collect at least 320. But New Zealand's batsmen can't stay at the crease for long against the Indian bowlers.

Washington Sundar and Jadeja bowled well today. Due to the controlled bowling of these two bowlers, New Zealand lost wickets quickly. Jadeja took 5 wickets and Washington Sundar 4 wickets. New Zealand cannot collect big. India lost the first two Test matches. In the last match of the series, India will try their best to win. And I would say India looks more likely to win this match.

India lost the first two Test matches against New Zealand by a big margin and in the third match, Team India played against New Zealand looking for victory. Despite not doing well in the other two matches, India bowled well in the first innings of the third Test as they bowled out New Zealand for just 235 runs in the first innings. In a short while, India may be out to bat in their first innings and India will surely try to finish the first innings with a huge run lead over New Zealand. 

If India falls behind in the first innings, there is a big chance of losing the third match as well. India will certainly not want to whitewash the Test series against New Zealand in their home country.

[laijsica]

Kiwis are 6 down and it does look like India are in control but i think Indian spinners were not consistent enough with their line and length.

The pitch is doing more than enough and everybody running out of carrots because of humidity so from India's POV scorecard should have read 150/6 instead of 192/6, Credit to Kiwi's batters, they are fighting hard.  

New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat but their batsmen did not perform well. The bowlers of the Indian team have already managed to take all their wickets with controlled bowling. New Zealand collected 235 runs and they did not bat all day and lost all their wickets in 65.4 overs. New Zealand team captain Tom Latham scored only 28 runs off 44 balls, Will Young 71 and Daryl Mitchell played an innings of 82 runs and other batsmen failed to show good performance. Indian team bowlers bowled very well in this test and among them Ravindra Jadeja alone took 5 wickets and Washington Sundar took 4 wickets which is the main reason for New Zealand team's batting disaster.

The dampness of the pitch in the morning gave the pacers a good advantage even though they did not get any wickets but the batsmen were forced to bat defensively and wickets fell over time. Having lost two consecutive tosses, the Indian team is under a lot of pressure and will try hard to win this Test.

[HelliumZ]

Kiwis are 6 down and it does look like India are in control but i think Indian spinners were not consistent enough with their line and length.

The pitch is doing more than enough and everybody running out of carrots because of humidity so from India's POV scorecard should have read 150/6 instead of 192/6, Credit to Kiwi's batters, they are fighting hard.  

New Zealand's innings stopped at 235 runs. A collection of just 235 runs on this pitch at Wankhede is not a good collection. New Zealand needed to collect at least 320. But New Zealand's batsmen can't stay at the crease for long against the Indian bowlers.

Washington Sundar and Jadeja bowled well today. Due to the controlled bowling of these two bowlers, New Zealand lost wickets quickly. Jadeja took 5 wickets and Washington Sundar 4 wickets. New Zealand cannot collect big. India lost the first two Test matches. In the last match of the series, India will try their best to win. And I would say India looks more likely to win this match.

Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar have collected nine wickets together, then it is understood how the position of this wicket is. It is not possible to say for sure that India will be able to bat very well on spinner assisted wickets. But can New Zealand beat India without Santner in this match? Southee and Santner have been replaced by ISH Southee and Matt Henry. But time will tell if they can bowl like Santner.

[Tony116]

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India lost the first two Test matches against New Zealand by a big margin and in the third match, Team India played against New Zealand looking for victory. Despite not doing well in the other two matches, India bowled well in the first innings of the third Test as they bowled out New Zealand for just 235 runs in the first innings. In a short while, India may be out to bat in their first innings and India will surely try to finish the first innings with a huge run lead over New Zealand. 

If India falls behind in the first innings, there is a big chance of losing the third match as well. India will certainly not want to whitewash the Test series against New Zealand in their home country.

In the second match, the Indian bowlers were able to bowl well. New Zealand's batsmen cannot collect big. Even then the Indian team was defeated due to poor batting. The main reason behind India's defeat in both the matches was the lack of performance from the senior and experienced players in the squad. Had the senior players in the squad performed well, India would not have been defeated in the first two matches.

Indian bowlers have bowled quite well in today's match as well. New Zealand managed to collect only 235 runs. No chance of calling it a big collection on this pitch. India can take a decent lead in the first innings only if the Indian batsmen can bat responsibly.

[Haunebu]

Rohit gone quickly yet again. Top order excluding Jaiswal keeps misfiring. Jadeja and Sundar were brilliant together and decimated the Kiwis when it looked like they would easily reach 300+ at one stage.

However, their batsmen need to take full advantage of this somehow and provide a proper lead. Santner is the big danger which is why they need to be extra careful with him.

[Rabata]

Kiwis are 6 down and it does look like India are in control but i think Indian spinners were not consistent enough with their line and length.

The pitch is doing more than enough and everybody running out of carrots because of humidity so from India's POV scorecard should have read 150/6 instead of 192/6, Credit to Kiwi's batters, they are fighting hard.  

New Zealand's innings stopped at 235 runs. A collection of just 235 runs on this pitch at Wankhede is not a good collection. New Zealand needed to collect at least 320. But New Zealand's batsmen can't stay at the crease for long against the Indian bowlers.

Washington Sundar and Jadeja bowled well today. Due to the controlled bowling of these two bowlers, New Zealand lost wickets quickly. Jadeja took 5 wickets and Washington Sundar 4 wickets. New Zealand cannot collect big. India lost the first two Test matches. In the last match of the series, India will try their best to win. And I would say India looks more likely to win this match.

Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar have collected nine wickets together, then it is understood how the position of this wicket is. It is not possible to say for sure that India will be able to bat very well on spinner assisted wickets. But can New Zealand beat India without Santner in this match? Southee and Santner have been replaced by ISH Southee and Matt Henry. But time will tell if they can bowl like Santner.

New Zealand team does not have spinners like India, so India should not be too hard. Their current time with New Zealand is not going well. Having lost two Test matches in a row, India will now try their hardest to win the last match otherwise such a debacle by such a big team could lead to widespread criticism. Two bowlers destroyed the entire New Zealand team in the 3rd Test. India team is batting they have already lost 1 wicket. Rohit Sharma's wicket was crucial for both teams but New Zealand will have the advantage. A quick fall of a wicket will increase the pressure on the Indian batsmen. Although I am optimistic that India will definitely try their best to win this match.

[HelliumZ]

Rohit gone quickly yet again. Top order excluding Jaiswal keeps misfiring. Jadeja and Sundar were brilliant together and decimated the Kiwis when it looked like they would easily reach 300+ at one stage.

However, their batsmen need to take full advantage of this somehow and provide a proper lead. Santner is the big danger which is why they need to be extra careful with him.

Since New Zealand won the Test series, they did not want to take any extra risk with Santner, which is why they did not include him in the squad for the Test match. But with Santner, New Zealand might have gained some extra advantage like Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar.
However, New Zealand's biggest achievement in this session was the fall of Rohit Sharma's wicket. The dismissal of dangerous top-order batsman Rohit Sharma meant that some runs would have been added to the score.

[noormcs5]

Kiwis are 6 down and it does look like India are in control but i think Indian spinners were not consistent enough with their line and length.

The pitch is doing more than enough and everybody running out of carrots because of humidity so from India's POV scorecard should have read 150/6 instead of 192/6, Credit to Kiwi's batters, they are fighting hard.  

New Zealand's innings stopped at 235 runs. A collection of just 235 runs on this pitch at Wankhede is not a good collection. New Zealand needed to collect at least 320. But New Zealand's batsmen can't stay at the crease for long against the Indian bowlers.

Washington Sundar and Jadeja bowled well today. Due to the controlled bowling of these two bowlers, New Zealand lost wickets quickly. Jadeja took 5 wickets and Washington Sundar 4 wickets. New Zealand cannot collect big. India lost the first two Test matches. In the last match of the series, India will try their best to win. And I would say India looks more likely to win this match.

India lost the first two Test matches against New Zealand by a big margin and in the third match, Team India played against New Zealand looking for victory. Despite not doing well in the other two matches, India bowled well in the first innings of the third Test as they bowled out New Zealand for just 235 runs in the first innings. In a short while, India may be out to bat in their first innings and India will surely try to finish the first innings with a huge run lead over New Zealand. 

If India falls behind in the first innings, there is a big chance of losing the third match as well. India will certainly not want to whitewash the Test series against New Zealand in their home country.

India is looking stronger this time, they have come in the ground with full mind set to win the game that we can analyse by seeing their wonderful bowling. New Zealand batsmen were struggling to make a good score or to make partnership. And when the Indian team came to bat then India has lost one early wicket of Rohit Sharma. Meanwhile our favorite and the captain as well has gone. Virat Kohli has not come to play after Rohit Sharma, he came later. Both heroes, Rohit Sharma and Virat are facing trouble to play in the current days, both are not in form and that is hurting the Indian team big time.

[JSRAW]

At one point I thought, with 77/1 on the board it's finally India's day.

But they proved me wrong and ruined all the hard work with 15 minutes of retarded batting. Rohit and Kohli have become walking wickets in this series. Everybody talks about facing spin but Rohit looks clueless against seamers. On the other hand, Kohli is finding new ways to get out, sometimes gifting his wicket on full toss and today's brain fade runout was painful and hilarious to watch. Can't blame Siraj as he's the proper number 11 batter and was sent to see off the day on turning deck (all blame goes to Gambhir).

Jaiswal proved more than enough in his short career but sometimes this kid needs to learn how to play the situations as well and keep his ego in check. There was no requirement for a premeditative high risk shot when you are 2 overs away from the stump and it's the 1st day of the test match.

[sarmrakib]

I am really getting upset after watching poor batting by team India. I think they have lost the rhythm of batting. Jaiswal was set but couldn’t carry on. Very disappointing to be a run out on test match when the wicket was Virat kohli.Now hope is on Subman Gill and Rishab. I am really hopeful that they will play better cricket tomorrow and set a good run on 1st innings. On the other hand New Zeland are really successful to pick early wickets. The will try to pick all wickets below 200. India need to be strong and not to throw wicket early. Hopefully we will have a good match at the end.

[Bitcoin_people]

In today's match India batting to meet the target of 235 runs, the New Zealand team did not play much better today than other days. However, the New Zealand team bowled brilliantly while India came to bat and lost their opening batsmen early on.  4 wicket lost for 86 runs India did not have a very good batting in this match, although India's chances of winning the third Test match are very low. However, if India are unable to meet New Zealand's target on the second day, they will surely lose this match as well. If Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant put in a good batting performance tomorrow, New Zealand might be able to meet the target, but New Zealand's bowling is very good, so India will have to bat patiently.

[Olatundespo]

Kiwis are 6 down and it does look like India are in control but i think Indian spinners were not consistent enough with their line and length.

The pitch is doing more than enough and everybody running out of carrots because of humidity so from India's POV scorecard should have read 150/6 instead of 192/6, Credit to Kiwi's batters, they are fighting hard.  

New Zealand's innings stopped at 235 runs. A collection of just 235 runs on this pitch at Wankhede is not a good collection. New Zealand needed to collect at least 320. But New Zealand's batsmen can't stay at the crease for long against the Indian bowlers.

Washington Sundar and Jadeja bowled well today. Due to the controlled bowling of these two bowlers, New Zealand lost wickets quickly. Jadeja took 5 wickets and Washington Sundar 4 wickets. New Zealand cannot collect big. India lost the first two Test matches. In the last match of the series, India will try their best to win. And I would say India looks more likely to win this match.

India lost the first two Test matches against New Zealand by a big margin and in the third match, Team India played against New Zealand looking for victory. Despite not doing well in the other two matches, India bowled well in the first innings of the third Test as they bowled out New Zealand for just 235 runs in the first innings. In a short while, India may be out to bat in their first innings and India will surely try to finish the first innings with a huge run lead over New Zealand. 

If India falls behind in the first innings, there is a big chance of losing the third match as well. India will certainly not want to whitewash the Test series against New Zealand in their home country.

India is looking stronger this time, they have come in the ground with full mind set to win the game that we can analyse by seeing their wonderful bowling. New Zealand batsmen were struggling to make a good score or to make partnership. And when the Indian team came to bat then India has lost one early wicket of Rohit Sharma. Meanwhile our favorite and the captain as well has gone. Virat Kohli has not come to play after Rohit Sharma, he came later. Both heroes, Rohit Sharma and Virat are facing trouble to play in the current days, both are not in form and that is hurting the Indian team big time.

After losing the previous two Tests they are in a bad shape and the players have performed very well especially Jadeja and Sundar have bowled well. In this test I will have India ahead even though they lost 4 wickets in the late afternoon. I expected better batting from Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli but they disappointed us. Hosts India have been performing so poorly in recent times that it is very disappointing for the visitors. Hopefully they will be able to avoid white wash.

[cryptoWODL]

In today's match India batting to meet the target of 235 runs, the New Zealand team did not play much better today than other days. However, the New Zealand team bowled brilliantly while India came to bat and lost their opening batsmen early on.  4 wicket lost for 86 runs India did not have a very good batting in this match, although India's chances of winning the third Test match are very low. However, if India are unable to meet New Zealand's target on the second day, they will surely lose this match as well. If Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant put in a good batting performance tomorrow, New Zealand might be able to meet the target, but New Zealand's bowling is very good, so India will have to bat patiently.

New Zealand's bowling line-up is very strong as we have seen in the first Test match of this series. Because the New Zealand team bowled out India for just 46 runs in the first match of the Test series. Every player in India has had a poor performance against New Zealand in recent times which has led them to lose two consecutive Test matches to New Zealand. But we thought maybe India will play well in the third Test after losing the first two Tests and try to win against New Zealand. But the way they are currently batting in their first innings looks like they will be all out in very few runs. If India are whitewashed by New Zealand in this series, they may drop far down the Test Championship rankings.

[UmerIdrees]

Coming into this match, India A have shown some poor performances, I do not know if they are unable to adjust to the conditions or whatever reason but when you will see the scorecard, you will be shocked. 99/9 is the current scorecard for the Indian team and they have failed badly in the batting.

Today was the first day of the test match between India A and Australia A. India has not played well as they had lost their all wickets at a low score of just 107, the way they started this test match was not good at all.

Australia has almost chased the target and I am pretty sure tomorrow Australia will convert it into a very big lead as they are playing, they also lost 4 wickets to reach here but I am looking good for them. Let's see what will happen tomorrow, however on the first day we have seen very ups and downs and I am looking at Australia A as a winner.

I got 1.3 odds with Australia and I feel I am lucky to get such nice odds. If Australia further strengthen their position tomorrow, the odds will decrease further so better to place the bet now.

For some reasons India are playing well in the 2nd innings. They already have made the runs that needed to level the Australia A score and now are in the lead. They still have 8 wickets in hand and this means if India A can make a lead of around 250 runs, this could be a good target. Australia A were able to make 195 runs in the first innings and this means that it won’t be easy to chase any target beyond 200 in the fourth innings of this test match.
Any result is still possible in this test.

The day has finished and the India A team is leading the game. They has scored 208 in the 2nd innings and the great thing is they have a lot of wickets still left, playing with good strength. In the first innings of India, they has not scored high and lost all the wickets at the score of just 107 but this time now the Indian team are playing in good style.

They have the lead of  120 already and just lost 2 wickets. I hope that the next day tomorrow they will get the lead of many runs. India did come back in the game and they are coming near to win the game.

[HelliumZ]

After losing the previous two Tests they are in a bad shape and the players have performed very well especially Jadeja and Sundar have bowled well. In this test I will have India ahead even though they lost 4 wickets in the late afternoon. I expected better batting from Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli but they disappointed us. Hosts India have been performing so poorly in recent times that it is very disappointing for the visitors. Hopefully they will be able to avoid white wash.

After bowling out New Zealand for 235 runs, it looked like India might do well in this Test and most likely take a lead of many runs. India got off to a good start but eventually ended the second day's play with the loss of four wickets for 86 runs. Expected a lot from Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli but they failed to deliver and India fell far behind for the time being as three top-order batsmen got out too easily. On the third day tomorrow, if they can take a lead of 100 to 150 runs by batting well, then maybe this match will be possible for India to win.

[libert19]

Mitchel looked in touch today, but what he was trying to do with shot he got out on, was he not aware of slip fielder?

Rachin tried his luck by balling similar ball as Santner to get Kohli out on a full toss but went for four 

I found it really smooth the way Kohli got up upon reaching his crease in his run-out. Good fitness display, and unnecessary loss of crucial wicket for 1 run in test match.

[LDL]

I found it really smooth the way Kohli got up upon reaching his crease in his run-out. Good fitness display, and unnecessary loss of crucial wicket for 1 run in test match.

A run out in Test cricket means giving away wickets for no reason. Especially how an experienced batsman like Virat Kohli called the batsman on the non-strike edge to get a run after the ball went to Matt Henry standing 10 yards away. Virat Kohli is entirely to blame for this run out. Since such an experienced player like him, it is not possible for an experienced batsman like Virat Kohli to take such dangerous runs in Tests where runs are not supposed to be made. However, the fall of Virat Kohli's wicket means that India take a step back in terms of a draw or a win in this Test.

[noormcs5]

In the 2nd Test match of Bangladesh vs South Africa team, South Africa team won by 273 runs. The bowling line and batting line of Bangladesh team performed poorly for which South Africa team won very easily in this 2nd Test match. The bowling line of South Africa team was very strong.  Bangladesh team's batting was under pressure.

That was totally one sided match and we saw many less matches like that because South African International cricket team played only one inning and they wo the match by y one inning and 273 runs . SA test team won the match and also won the series . That was very easy win for South Africa. I am very surprised that why Pakistani test cricket team lose series against Low quality Bangladeshi team and now Bangladeshi team is losing matches and after losing series against Bangladesh Pakistani team won the series against England. Tony de Zorzi was awarded as player of the match because he made 177 runs in this match which helped this team to win this match easily.

In the first innings, the South African team gave the target of many runs which was almost an impossible chase by the Bangladesh in the two innings and lost the game very poorly. South Africa scored 575 in the first innings which is too high for the team like Bangladesh who are weak in batting.

From that time, I have been expecting that South Africa would win this game and that they did. South Africa won it by 273 runs. What a great victory for the South African team, Tony de Zorzi was the player of the game as he made 177, if he would make 200 then it would be more great for him. However, he is the hero of the South Africa team in this test.