Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Bitcoin_people]

Australia's batting in the first Test match today was so impressive that it was worth watching. Usman Khawaja is unbeaten on 147 runs and Steven Smith is unbeaten on 104 runs. The partnership between these two is strong. The huge target of 330 runs will definitely make the Australian batsmen play more strongly on the second day. The Sri Lankan team has only managed to take two wickets from Australia, but if the Sri Lankan team cannot bowl well on the second day, then the target for Australia will be even bigger.

[Marvell1]

Australia's batting in the first Test match today was so impressive that it was worth watching. Usman Khawaja is unbeaten on 147 runs and Steven Smith is unbeaten on 104 runs. The partnership between these two is strong. The huge target of 330 runs will definitely make the Australian batsmen play more strongly on the second day. The Sri Lankan team has only managed to take two wickets from Australia, but if the Sri Lankan team cannot bowl well on the second day, then the target for Australia will be even bigger.

Sri Lanka are not good at their home ground. I thought the match would be competitive as the Sri Lankan players are very familiar with this pitch. But the responsible batting of the Australian batsmen has made the match completely one-sided. The Sri Lankan bowlers could not take any advantage on the first day. We have only seen Australian domination.

Usman Khawaja is unbeaten on 147 runs. Usman Khawaja is unbeaten on 147 runs from 210 balls. Steven Smith has scored 104 runs from 188 balls. These two batsmen are performing well. Australia have scored 195 runs from this pair. Australia will probably score 500/600 runs in the first innings.

[SATWAT]

Pointless test series ongoing between Australia and Sri Lanka currently. The Aussies are whooping the Lankans on their turf as expected thanks to Khawaja who already scored a century and Smith is on his way to another century.

This series is another example as to why the 2 division system could greatly benefit tests in the long run in my opinion.

Grow up man every series is not pointless every team have right to play and give their series.
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Australian tour of Sri Lanka is important for them just because of this they send their full squad for this just chill and enjoy cricket.

[noormcs5]

Pointless test series ongoing between Australia and Sri Lanka currently. The Aussies are whooping the Lankans on their turf as expected thanks to Khawaja who already scored a century and Smith is on his way to another century.

This series is another example as to why the 2 division system could greatly benefit tests in the long run in my opinion.

Grow up man every series is not pointless every team have right to play and give their series.
Every time calling same sh** is not good if you are not happy then stop spam here and enjoy with your other stuff.
Australian tour of Sri Lanka is important for them just because of this they send their full squad for this just chill and enjoy cricket.

Yes, for the teams and players, every series is important. Even if one of the teams is too strong, like Australia in this case, they can have good batting and bowling practice. Also, the weak team (Sri Lanka) gets good experience by playing with more mature and talented players /team. However, from the spectator's point of view, it isn't much fun to watch the match. Just as we see day 01 of this match, almost everyone is certain that the match will be won by Aussie after 5 days of play (or earlier).

[JSRAW]

Pointless test series ongoing between Australia and Sri Lanka currently. The Aussies are whooping the Lankans on their turf as expected thanks to Khawaja who already scored a century and Smith is on his way to another century.

This series is another example as to why the 2 division system could greatly benefit tests in the long run in my opinion.

Grow up man every series is not pointless every team have right to play and give their series.
Every time calling same sh** is not good if you are not happy then stop spam here and enjoy with your other stuff.
Australian tour of Sri Lanka is important for them just because of this they send their full squad for this just chill and enjoy cricket.

Agree with the overall sentiment but at the same time, just look at some other things. Channel Seven secured the rights for this tour just 2 weeks before the series, which tells you about the seriousness. I assume there was no bid competition and it's free to air for Aussie audience. Skipper Cummins is not there and took a break.

For SL it's an important series and then include the Aussie batter into the mix.

[Webetcoins]

Australia's batting in the first Test match today was so impressive that it was worth watching. Usman Khawaja is unbeaten on 147 runs and Steven Smith is unbeaten on 104 runs. The partnership between these two is strong. The huge target of 330 runs will definitely make the Australian batsmen play more strongly on the second day. The Sri Lankan team has only managed to take two wickets from Australia, but if the Sri Lankan team cannot bowl well on the second day, then the target for Australia will be even bigger.

Today Australians were on their best as they faced 81.1 overs and score 330 runs with the lost of 2 wickets which is amazing stuff all day they were dominating in this match first Travis Head play like he smashed in IPL then we have classic batting from amazing lefty Usman Khawaja and legendary Steven Smith who score his 35th test century and also completed 10,000 test runs.

There were some predictions about this series as Australia are going to face problems, but first day of this tour completely belong to them most chances 550+ is their target because this will give them good confidence for bowling. Galle is usually spinner friendly pitch, but this time look like Sri Lankan trying something different and going to for batting practice instead of having anything which favours bowlers due to their poor-quality bowling.

[ZAINmalik75]

Talking about the Sri Lanka bowler, it was nothing special from them today. Prabath Jayasuriya and Jeffrey Vandersay but they bowled so many over, almost 50+ overs between them, and getting only 2 wickets isn't anything to be proud of.  Australia are looking to make a very big score in this innings.

Mostly we have seen huge turn and difficult pitches to bat at SiriLanka, and that's why most of team like new Zealand and Afghanistan recently really got brutally punished while playing against SiriLankan in SiriLanka. But now the way Australian were easily  tackling things indicates it Gona be one sided match, as I don't think any SiriLankan batter has potential to Stay longer against pro test Australian bowlers to put some good number on board. Australian already scored 300+ with loss of his just two batter, while still long number to go. so if they continue things like that then no doubt they will declare innings around 500 which will be enough for SiriLankan for both innings after applying follow on rule on them lol 😉

[Minor Miner]

Talking about the Sri Lanka bowler, it was nothing special from them today. Prabath Jayasuriya and Jeffrey Vandersay but they bowled so many over, almost 50+ overs between them, and getting only 2 wickets isn't anything to be proud of.  Australia are looking to make a very big score in this innings.

Mostly we have seen huge turn and difficult pitches to bat at SiriLanka, and that's why most of team like new Zealand and Afghanistan recently really got brutally punished while playing against SiriLankan in SiriLanka. But now the way Australian were easily  tackling things indicates it Gona be one sided match, as I don't think any SiriLankan batter has potential to Stay longer against pro test Australian bowlers to put some good number on board. Australian already scored 300+ with loss of his just two batter, while still long number to go. so if they continue things like that then no doubt they will declare innings around 500 which will be enough for SiriLankan for both innings after applying follow on rule on them lol 😉

I thought this pitch would not be conducive for the batsmen. The batsmen will not be able to score big. But the Australian batsmen are batting very responsibly and are moving towards a big score. Australia has already scored a huge 330 runs for the loss of only 2 wickets. If the Sri Lankan bowlers do not bowl well in the first session tomorrow, then I would say Australia will score at least 600 runs in the first innings. Steven Smith and Usman Khawaja are at the crease now. Both have scored centuries. Also Josh English, and Alex Carey are capable of playing big innings.

I have not seen any Sri Lankan bowler bowling well. Prabath Jayasuriya has bowled 33 overs and given away 102 runs. He has taken only one wicket. The bowlers are not able to provide any advantage. Maybe we will see the dominance of the Australian batsmen in the coming days too.

[Nanga Parbat]

Today Australians were on their best as they faced 81.1 overs and score 330 runs with the lost of 2 wickets which is amazing stuff all day they were dominating in this match first Travis Head play like he smashed in IPL then we have classic batting from amazing lefty Usman Khawaja and legendary Steven Smith who score his 35th test century and also completed 10,000 test runs.

There were some predictions about this series as Australia are going to face problems, but first day of this tour completely belong to them most chances 550+ is their target because this will give them good confidence for bowling. Galle is usually spinner friendly pitch, but this time look like Sri Lankan trying something different and going to for batting practice instead of having anything which favours bowlers due to their poor-quality bowling.

It had to happen because the Australian team is the only team when he play and if every target is not big it cannot happen. Their batsmen are not affect by any kind of hard bowling as they are hardworking and strong that why their batsmen have scored 330 runs and they have enough overs left to score more runs. This is the biggest test for Sri Lanka that they will face in this series with Australia. In which they will have to face defeat and we get to see this happen in the first innings of the first match.

Whoever predicts that Australia will have a hard time must understand that Australia is not weak. If he looks at Australia matches and their perform and watches this match he should never predict Australia again. Well in one match or one innings Sri Lanka can improve themselves and play well and it is very difficult to think about the whole match because Australia will not give any chance to Sri Lanka which will not lead them to defeat.

[Compromise me]

The first Test match between Australia and Sri Lanka is being played today and in this match, the Australian team is batting in the first innings. Today they have lost only two wickets and their current score is 330 runs, today's match the batting performance of the Australian team is so great that they have been able to score big. The partnership that these two batsmen Steven Smith and Usman Khawaja have made today is really amazing, both of them have made great centuries and are still unbeaten. Usman Khawaja and Steven Smith have collected 251 runs in the partnership today, these two batsmen will definitely try to bat better on their second day. All in all, the Australian team has performed well against Sri Lanka today and looking at their batting performance, it can be understood that they may be the favorites to win this match.

Yes ,you are absolutely right. Usman made the match one sided because Steve and Usman made match one sided because he made 330 runs in first day. Usman made 147 runs which are important for the team and one thing is also unique in this match which is unique by that player . Sri Lankan International test cricket team should try to win this match because that match depends on Sri Lanka team because match could go towards Australia team or towards the Sri Lanka team but more chances that Australian team could win this match because they will give big target in the first inning. Let's see what happens because 4 days work in remaining.One day is ended today and Australia was dominant in this match and partnership between Usman and Steve is great in this match.

[hafiztalha]

Australia's batting in the first Test match today was so impressive that it was worth watching. Usman Khawaja is unbeaten on 147 runs and Steven Smith is unbeaten on 104 runs. The partnership between these two is strong. The huge target of 330 runs will definitely make the Australian batsmen play more strongly on the second day. The Sri Lankan team has only managed to take two wickets from Australia, but if the Sri Lankan team cannot bowl well on the second day, then the target for Australia will be even bigger.

1 st test series game is playing between Australia team and Sri Lanka team and Australia team batting line effort looks so good and they scored 330 runs in 81 overs and losing 2 wickets. Sri Lanka bowlers is not showing good struggle and Australia Batsman will set big runs in first line to Sri Lanka. Travis wicket was fell down and he made 57 runs in 40 balls and hitted ten 4s and one 6s. Other wicket Australia team was lost Marnus, his effort was not much good and made 20 runs only in 50 balls and hitted two 4s. Usman and Smith both playing their line and both showing their great effort to bowlers of Sri Lanka team. Usman complete century and he scored 147 runs in 110 balls and hitting ten 4s and one 6s. Smith also made century and 104 runs in 188 balls and hitted ten 4s and one 6s.

[LDL]

Australian batsman Smith achieved a milestone in this Test series between Australia and Sri Lanka, especially as he was one run short of completing 10,000 runs in his Test career. Today, in addition to completing that one run in his Test career, he has also scored a century, which has brought his personal tally to 10,103 runs in his Test career. However, the Test will be a high-scoring affair, especially with Australia having completed 330 runs at the end of the first day, losing just two wickets. In this case, it can be said that if they can bat for two sessions today, they will easily reach 600 runs.

[Publictalk792]

Australian batsman Smith achieved a milestone in this Test series between Australia and Sri Lanka, especially as he was one run short of completing 10,000 runs in his Test career. Today, in addition to completing that one run in his Test career, he has also scored a century, which has brought his personal tally to 10,103 runs in his Test career. However, the Test will be a high-scoring affair, especially with Australia having completed 330 runs at the end of the first day, losing just two wickets. In this case, it can be said that if they can bat for two sessions today, they will easily reach 600 runs.

Australian batsman Smith has done something very special. He has shown that he is extremely skilled player who works very hard. Scoring 10,000 runs in Test cricket is amazing achievement and hitting century in same match makes it even more amazing. Match is turning out to be a game with a lot of runs. If they can keep playing well for two more parts of game it is very likely that they will score 600 runs. It will be exciting to see what happens next in match and if Australia can keep playing better than Sri Lankan team.

[Lidger]

Australian batsman Smith achieved a milestone in this Test series between Australia and Sri Lanka, especially as he was one run short of completing 10,000 runs in his Test career. Today, in addition to completing that one run in his Test career, he has also scored a century, which has brought his personal tally to 10,103 runs in his Test career. However, the Test will be a high-scoring affair, especially with Australia having completed 330 runs at the end of the first day, losing just two wickets. In this case, it can be said that if they can bat for two sessions today, they will easily reach 600 runs.

He reached the milestone of 10,000 runs in Sri Lanka by covering around 8,000 km. Steve Smith has excelled in Test cricket and what he has done in the Australian jersey is not usually seen from cricketers from other countries. If there is one most reliable Australian batsman in Test cricket, it is Steve Smith.  
Steve Smith saved the team from danger when Australia was in batting disaster and when the team needed a big collection Steve Smith kept on keeping the wickets on one side and kept running and taking his team's collection to a better level. He has held an edge against Sri Lanka when the first two batsmen have been dismissed and is unbeaten with a wicket so far. The Australian batsman remained unbeaten on 104 runs before the end of the first day's play. Really, the more I praise this cricketer, the less it will be.  

On one hand congratulations to this cricketer and on the other hand thanks to this cricketer for touching such a milestone in Test cricket.

[noormcs5]

The first Test match between Australia and Sri Lanka is being played today and in this match, the Australian team is batting in the first innings. Today they have lost only two wickets and their current score is 330 runs, today's match the batting performance of the Australian team is so great that they have been able to score big. The partnership that these two batsmen Steven Smith and Usman Khawaja have made today is really amazing, both of them have made great centuries and are still unbeaten. Usman Khawaja and Steven Smith have collected 251 runs in the partnership today, these two batsmen will definitely try to bat better on their second day. All in all, the Australian team has performed well against Sri Lanka today and looking at their batting performance, it can be understood that they may be the favorites to win this match.

Yes ,you are absolutely right. Usman made the match one sided because Steve and Usman made match one sided because he made 330 runs in first day. Usman made 147 runs which are important for the team and one thing is also unique in this match which is unique by that player . Sri Lankan International test cricket team should try to win this match because that match depends on Sri Lanka team because match could go towards Australia team or towards the Sri Lanka team but more chances that Australian team could win this match because they will give big target in the first inning. Let's see what happens because 4 days work in remaining.One day is ended today and Australia was dominant in this match and partnership between Usman and Steve is great in this match.

The run machine for the Aussies continue in this test and they are now 413 for three wickets down. Steven Smith was out on 141 runs. He was lbw by Vandersay and denied him the 150 runs for him.

However Usman khawaja is batting on 183 runs and I am hopeful that we will see his double century today. Australia has played over a hundred overs and have lost only three wickets. I don't know what is the plan to get how big total in the first innings.

[Haunebu]

Test matchups like the ongoing one between Australia and Sri Lanka are reasons why this format is slowly dying sadly. ICC really need to take drastic steps to save this format in my opinion.

Grow up man every series is not pointless every team have right to play and give their series.
Every time calling same sh** is not good if you are not happy then stop spam here and enjoy with your other stuff.
Australian tour of Sri Lanka is important for them just because of this they send their full squad for this just chill and enjoy cricket.

Firstly, your grammar is just bad and it's something that you need to work on. Secondly, you seem to be living in a fantasy land where all matches between all teams are relevant. Wake up and embrace reality dumdum. This is an irrelevant series for most viewers regardless of whether you like it or not.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Sri Lankan bowlers are not able to do well in the first session of the second day. I did not think that Sri Lanka would face such a difficult situation in the home match against Australia. Sri Lankan bowlers are well acquainted with the pitch. But even then, Sri Lankan bowlers are not able to do well. On the first day, we only saw the dominance of Australian batsmen. Sri Lanka was able to take only 2 wickets. Australia is playing well on the second day as well.

Sri Lanka is not able to take the wicket of Usman Khawaja. Usman is still at the crease after collecting 208 runs. Smith was out after collecting 141 runs. Josh English is unbeaten on 50 runs from 51 balls. Australia has already collected 486 runs for the loss of only 3 wickets. Australia can easily collect up to 600.

I do not see any possibility of Sri Lanka winning this match. Australia has a high chance of winning. However, if Sri Lankan batsmen can play well, there is a possibility of a draw in the match.

[cryptoWODL]

The first Test match between Australia and Sri Lanka is being played today and in this match, the Australian team is batting in the first innings. Today they have lost only two wickets and their current score is 330 runs, today's match the batting performance of the Australian team is so great that they have been able to score big. The partnership that these two batsmen Steven Smith and Usman Khawaja have made today is really amazing, both of them have made great centuries and are still unbeaten. Usman Khawaja and Steven Smith have collected 251 runs in the partnership today, these two batsmen will definitely try to bat better on their second day. All in all, the Australian team has performed well against Sri Lanka today and looking at their batting performance, it can be understood that they may be the favorites to win this match.

Yes ,you are absolutely right. Usman made the match one sided because Steve and Usman made match one sided because he made 330 runs in first day. Usman made 147 runs which are important for the team and one thing is also unique in this match which is unique by that player . Sri Lankan International test cricket team should try to win this match because that match depends on Sri Lanka team because match could go towards Australia team or towards the Sri Lanka team but more chances that Australian team could win this match because they will give big target in the first inning. Let's see what happens because 4 days work in remaining.One day is ended today and Australia was dominant in this match and partnership between Usman and Steve is great in this match.

Those two batsmen batted in such a way that they were able to help their team score a lot of runs in this match. Australian batsman Usman Khawaja this player has scored more 200 runs today, meaning he has scored a double century in today's match. Moreover, the other batsman of the Australian team, Steven Smith, also played very well today and he made a record. The Australian team is still batting and they are consistently scoring a lot of runs.

In this situation, it doesn't seem like there will be any chance of Sri Lanka winning this match. However, there is one opportunity for the Sri Lankan team at the moment, and that opportunity is to draw this match. Maybe the Australian cricket team will be able to score 600 runs easily in this match.

[fuguebtc]

In this situation, it doesn't seem like there will be any chance of Sri Lanka winning this match. However, there is one opportunity for the Sri Lankan team at the moment, and that opportunity is to draw this match. Maybe the Australian cricket team will be able to score 600 runs easily in this match.

This pitch in Galle is completely batting friendly. And I have seen Sri Lankan batsmen bat well on this pitch in the past. Sri Lanka scored 704 runs against Ireland losing only 3 wickets. Even the Irish batsmen were able to play big innings in the match.

I think Sri Lanka has deliberately made the pitch batting friendly. If it was a bowling friendly pitch, it would have been very difficult for Sri Lanka to win against Australia. Now that the pitch is batting friendly, if the Sri Lankan batsmen can bat a little better, the match will be drawn. Sri Lanka is unlikely to lose this match.

[Cheema02]

Sri Lankan bowlers are not able to do well in the first session of the second day. I did not think that Sri Lanka would face such a difficult situation in the home match against Australia. Sri Lankan bowlers are well acquainted with the pitch. But even then, Sri Lankan bowlers are not able to do well. On the first day, we only saw the dominance of Australian batsmen. Sri Lanka was able to take only 2 wickets. Australia is playing well on the second day as well.

Sri Lanka is not able to take the wicket of Usman Khawaja. Usman is still at the crease after collecting 208 runs. Smith was out after collecting 141 runs. Josh English is unbeaten on 50 runs from 51 balls. Australia has already collected 486 runs for the loss of only 3 wickets. Australia can easily collect up to 600.

It was an amazing batting display to watch Usman Khawaja score his first double-century in test cricket. I think Australia should declare the first inning because the score has already crossed 600 runs. They go close to 700, then it will be a very difficult task for Sri Lanka, and it looks impossible for Sri Lanka to come back in this match.  Sri Lankan bowlers are not taking wickets, and their batters will be under pressure. Australia current score is 627 runs in a loss of five wickets. Australia overall batting performance is outstanding especially Usman Khawaja batting performance scored 232 and Steve Smith also added important 141 runs to the team total and assisted his team to cross 600 plus runs.