Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Rustam Meraj]

Afghanistan team performed badly in both the first and second innings, could not perform well in front of Indian bowlers and could not stand strong. They were all out in both innings after scoring few runs, Indian team players were very excited in this match. Good performance is only for Indian team, if I consider from experience and strength then Indian team is much ahead of Afghanistan team in all aspects.
Afghanistan team lost by 300 runs in this first test match, so there will be more chances of Afghanistan team losing in the next matches also.

I do not think it is fair to completely forget them for the next few games due to one bad game. Cricket is a learning game and against a much better side with huge experience, is the way smaller sides realize their serious skill weaknesses. But entire match should prove to be wake up call for the Afghanistan management and not to be sad by the 300 runs loss. Quickly correct their batting footwork and they can and should do much more in the next game, even if they do not win.

[vivekdhyani1]

England are "hopeful" that Jofra Archer will be available for the second Test of their series against New Zealand after a post-IPL break, but head coach Brendon McCullum has warned that he is not a guaranteed pick in any case.

Archer was deemed "unavailable" for the first Test at Lord's due to the short turnaround after his IPL commitments with Rajasthan Royals but has been building up his workload at home in Barbados with a view to playing the second and third Tests. McCullum said after England's win at Lord's that Archer's availability would be confirmed "in the next couple of days".

[fuguebtc]

I do not think it is fair to completely forget them for the next few games due to one bad game. Cricket is a learning game and against a much better side with huge experience, is the way smaller sides realize their serious skill weaknesses. But entire match should prove to be wake up call for the Afghanistan management and not to be sad by the 300 runs loss. Quickly correct their batting footwork and they can and should do much more in the next game, even if they do not win.

It was a very boring match. We knew that Afghanistan would lose against India. The Indian team is very  experienced and strong. On the other hand, Afghanistan is a bit weak in the test format. But I could not have imagined that afghanistan would face such a miserable defeat.

India had scored 564  runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the first innings. This was undoubtedly a big score. Except for Mohammad saleem, no afghan bowler could do well. Saleem took  6 wickets. The Afghan bowlers performed very badly.

The performance of the Afghan batsmen surprised me the most. The pitch was not bowling friendly. Even then, Afghanistan could only score 152  runs in the first innings. Their performance in the second innings was even more atrocious. Afghanistan lost all their wickets for just  112 runs. Afghanistan should host a Test series against a team like Bangladesh or Zimbabwe. Then the match would be competitive.

[virasog]

Finally Afghanistan get success to gain Test Cricket membership and they made there debut against the most strongest test team named as India and during the first day India win the toss and elected to bat first and what a aggressive knock they played at day one and among the openers KL Rahul played an iconic knock by putting a remarkable hundred and in middle order Sai Sudharsan and Shubman Gill built a very strong partnership and Shubman Gill was consistently played a very important and impactful knocks and today he played a very classical and undefeated knock by putting a remarkable century and Rishab Pant and Gill was present on pitch at the end of the day one and during day two its difficult for Afghanistan that they take all wickets.

There was no chance for the Afghanistan team in this match. They completely failed in both batting and bowling. First, when they were bowling, it was hard for their bowlers to get any wickets. Ziaur Rahman and Azmatullah Omarzai failed to make any impact. Mohammad Saleem took six wickets, and he was the only successful bowler.

Then, when it came to batting, none of the batsmen could stay longer on the wicket. Rahmat Shah made a good 60 runs in the first innings but in the 2nd innings he could only make 13 runs. It was difficult for the Afghanistan team to show any progress after the follow-on was enforced by the Indian team.

[Haunebu]

England are "hopeful" that Jofra Archer will be available for the second Test of their series against New Zealand after a post-IPL break, but head coach Brendon McCullum has warned that he is not a guaranteed pick in any case.

Archer was deemed "unavailable" for the first Test at Lord's due to the short turnaround after his IPL commitments with Rajasthan Royals but has been building up his workload at home in Barbados with a view to playing the second and third Tests. McCullum said after England's win at Lord's that Archer's availability would be confirmed "in the next couple of days".

Yeah. Michael Vaughan etc were whining about Archer prioritising IPL over these tests which could have impacted his return though I hope not. England are doing really well without him anyway thanks to New Zealand's weak batting lineup currently.

Him coming back would definitely boost their bowling lineup like crazy. They might add him in the 3rd test if England ends up losing the second test in my opinion.

[Bitcoin Smith]

England are "hopeful" that Jofra Archer will be available for the second Test of their series against New Zealand after a post-IPL break, but head coach Brendon McCullum has warned that he is not a guaranteed pick in any case.

Archer was deemed "unavailable" for the first Test at Lord's due to the short turnaround after his IPL commitments with Rajasthan Royals but has been building up his workload at home in Barbados with a view to playing the second and third Tests. McCullum said after England's win at Lord's that Archer's availability would be confirmed "in the next couple of days".

Yeah. Michael Vaughan etc were whining about Archer prioritising IPL over these tests which could have impacted his return though I hope not. England are doing really well without him anyway thanks to New Zealand's weak batting lineup currently.

Him coming back would definitely boost their bowling lineup like crazy. They might add him in the 3rd test if England ends up losing the second test in my opinion.

No one would want to skip IPL because of the money they are getting paid and the new rule also forces them to not to skip the game unless it os due to injury or something. World cricket has to take a break and needs to schedule their games based on the IPL timetable, which might not looks fair, but this is what it is.

BTW Stokes skipped IPL and look how much runs he scored in both innings.

[Compromise me]

Afghanistan team performed badly in both the first and second innings, could not perform well in front of Indian bowlers and could not stand strong. They were all out in both innings after scoring few runs, Indian team players were very excited in this match. Good performance is only for Indian team, if I consider from experience and strength then Indian team is much ahead of Afghanistan team in all aspects.
Afghanistan team lost by 300 runs in this first test match, so there will be more chances of Afghanistan team losing in the next matches also.

Washington Sundar gave all round performance in this match because he made a half century in this match and took 5 wickets in this match and he was a player who was a impact player in the second inning of the match. Manav Suthar was a person who took 7 wickets in this match and he took 6 wickets in the first inning of the match and he made match for her team. Afghanistan match was not in good form because they are playing against India and they were relaxed in this match and they did not give their full effort to win this match .  Kuldeep Yadav played crutial role in the second inning because he took 3 wickets and he applied pressure on the opposed team and he played for the country not for his wickets only.

[ene1980]

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It was a very boring match. We knew that Afghanistan would lose against India. The Indian team is very  experienced and strong. On the other hand, Afghanistan is a bit weak in the test format. But I could not have imagined that afghanistan would face such a miserable defeat.

It was a complete domination by India which was expected. Soon as the match started the live odds went down drastically and hence was not able to place a bet on the match. Once India scored a massive total, it was evident that Afghanistan will struggle and the match could end within four days and that is exactly what happened.

 

[Popkon6]

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It was a very boring match. We knew that Afghanistan would lose against India. The Indian team is very  experienced and strong. On the other hand, Afghanistan is a bit weak in the test format. But I could not have imagined that afghanistan would face such a miserable defeat.

It was a complete domination by India which was expected. Soon as the match started the live odds went down drastically and hence was not able to place a bet on the match. Once India scored a massive total, it was evident that Afghanistan will struggle and the match could end within four days and that is exactly what happened.

In any case, betting was logical for India, because in this match, it was not possible to win against the Indian team in any way. The Afghan team could not even come close to the Indian team after performing in two innings, it was a complete failure of the Afghan team. The Afghan team collapsed under the bowling of the twelve teams, so this match was completely one-sided.
In this match, only those who had bet before the start of the game were able to participate in the bati, besides, there was no opportunity to bet.