Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Vishnu.Reang]

^^^^ If everyone in the Pakistan batting lineup plays like Babar Azam, then they will be the no.1 ranking test team in the world. But that is the problem with Pakistan. The entire workload is falling on the shoulders of a few players, with few others contributing. BTW, what happened to Fakhar Zaman? The combination (Babar-Zaman) was the backbone of Pakistan batting earlier. Babar also performs well, when he is batting along with Zaman. The chemistry is very good, between these two payers.

After good batting from Pakistan bowlers also give some good support now I am feeling this match is going to end in early hours as tail enders cannot resist against quality bowling Naseem's 45 th hatrick in test matches give really good end of day as now he is youngest bowler to achieve this honor now may be Pakistan win this match by an inning.

Both Naseem Shah and Yasir Shah bowled well. But these guys need to be consistent while facing tougher opposition. I still remember what happened to Naseem, when he played his first test match (against Australia at Brisbane). He couldn't handle the pressure then. Anyway, it is encouraging to see some young players in the starting XI for Pakistan after a long time. 

[Indymoney]

^^^^ If everyone in the Pakistan batting lineup plays like Babar Azam, then they will be the no.1 ranking test team in the world. But that is the problem with Pakistan. The entire workload is falling on the shoulders of a few players, with few others contributing. BTW, what happened to Fakhar Zaman? The combination (Babar-Zaman) was the backbone of Pakistan batting earlier. Babar also performs well, when he is batting along with Zaman. The chemistry is very good, between these two payers.

After good batting from Pakistan bowlers also give some good support now I am feeling this match is going to end in early hours as tail enders cannot resist against quality bowling Naseem's 45 th hatrick in test matches give really good end of day as now he is youngest bowler to achieve this honor now may be Pakistan win this match by an inning.

Both Naseem Shah and Yasir Shah bowled well. But these guys need to be consistent while facing tougher opposition. I still remember what happened to Naseem, when he played his first test match (against Australia at Brisbane). He couldn't handle the pressure then. Anyway, it is encouraging to see some young players in the starting XI for Pakistan after a long time. 

A sad news as Pakistan's inaugural tests last link dies in Karachi even he was not great but was a good stroke maker https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/28669947/waqar-hasan-last-link-pakistan-inaugural-test-dies-87

[Vishnu.Reang]

A sad news as Pakistan's inaugural tests last link dies in Karachi even he was not great but was a good stroke maker https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/28669947/waqar-hasan-last-link-pakistan-inaugural-test-dies-87

Hmmm... Pakistan played its first test match in 1952. But I need to remember you that Pakistan players were part of the British India test squad, when they played their first match on 1932 (at Lord's). For example, Ghulam Mohammad represented Sindh in the domestic tournaments. Naoomal Jeoomal was born in Karachi. Mohammad Nissar was born in Hoshiarpur, but later moved to Lahore. 

[Indymoney]

A sad news as Pakistan's inaugural tests last link dies in Karachi even he was not great but was a good stroke maker https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/28669947/waqar-hasan-last-link-pakistan-inaugural-test-dies-87

Hmmm... Pakistan played its first test match in 1952. But I need to remember you that Pakistan players were part of the British India test squad, when they played their first match on 1932 (at Lord's). For example, Ghulam Mohammad represented Sindh in the domestic tournaments. Naoomal Jeoomal was born in Karachi. Mohammad Nissar was born in Hoshiarpur, but later moved to Lahore. 

I am not talking any thing related to any other player or team just have news so linked and post here because he was last person on earth who played first test match for Pakistan all others already gone and now we have no more like this just link nothing else because we have many players those played for India but these all already passed away.

[ene1980]

Both Naseem Shah and Yasir Shah bowled well. But these guys need to be consistent while facing tougher opposition. I still remember what happened to Naseem, when he played his first test match (against Australia at Brisbane). He couldn't handle the pressure then. Anyway, it is encouraging to see some young players in the starting XI for Pakistan after a long time. 

If they are able to develop young talents when the sernior players are still in the team, then they will be able to groom them and become a better player than they started and all the teams should follow that pattern to have a good team even after their past super stars retire, the problem with Pakistan is that they usually replace the senior players at once if they fail a series and push the young players and that will not help them develop.

[BitSat19]

Both Naseem Shah and Yasir Shah bowled well. But these guys need to be consistent while facing tougher opposition. I still remember what happened to Naseem, when he played his first test match (against Australia at Brisbane). He couldn't handle the pressure then. Anyway, it is encouraging to see some young players in the starting XI for Pakistan after a long time. 

If they are able to develop young talents when the sernior players are still in the team, then they will be able to groom them and become a better player than they started and all the teams should follow that pattern to have a good team even after their past super stars retire, the problem with Pakistan is that they usually replace the senior players at once if they fail a series and push the young players and that will not help them develop.

Pakistan's biggest issue is not development of youngsters we have history of many exciting new and talented youngsters they came give very few performance and then suddenly disappear because here biggest issue is personal like and dislike we have no 100% Merit system which give young's confidence which is very important in cricket we have very poor system and sick mind peoples in management which are not able to handle things as they need to be for good quality and performance.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Both Naseem Shah and Yasir Shah bowled well. But these guys need to be consistent while facing tougher opposition. I still remember what happened to Naseem, when he played his first test match (against Australia at Brisbane). He couldn't handle the pressure then. Anyway, it is encouraging to see some young players in the starting XI for Pakistan after a long time. 

If they are able to develop young talents when the sernior players are still in the team, then they will be able to groom them and become a better player than they started and all the teams should follow that pattern to have a good team even after their past super stars retire, the problem with Pakistan is that they usually replace the senior players at once if they fail a series and push the young players and that will not help them develop.

Personally I am against the idea of allowing 16-year olds to play in the national team. But Pakistan has done it very frequently. Hasan Raza was just 14-years old, when he played his first match for Pakistan. Some of the other teams don't allow this. For example, the last time Australia had a teenager in theri national side was in 2011, when Pat Cummins made his debut. 

[UmerIdrees]

Both Naseem Shah and Yasir Shah bowled well. But these guys need to be consistent while facing tougher opposition. I still remember what happened to Naseem, when he played his first test match (against Australia at Brisbane). He couldn't handle the pressure then. Anyway, it is encouraging to see some young players in the starting XI for Pakistan after a long time. 

If they are able to develop young talents when the sernior players are still in the team, then they will be able to groom them and become a better player than they started and all the teams should follow that pattern to have a good team even after their past super stars retire, the problem with Pakistan is that they usually replace the senior players at once if they fail a series and push the young players and that will not help them develop.

Things have changed a lot these days in cricket. You will not find many seniors players teaching or coaching to Jr. Players as then these Jr Players become threat for the Seniors ones. Due to a lot of competition among the players, no one will want that others players take the place of one self. Players thinks of their career more than what is more beneficial for their country or team.

[7788bitcoin]

Personally I am against the idea of allowing 16-year olds to play in the national team. But Pakistan has done it very frequently. Hasan Raza was just 14-years old, when he played his first match for Pakistan. Some of the other teams don't allow this. For example, the last time Australia had a teenager in theri national side was in 2011, when Pat Cummins made his debut. 

It depends upon the skill level of the player, Sachin, Afridi all came during their younger days in the team and it is a rare occurrence and they were in the team because of their immense talent and they fulfilled their career. There is a lot more competition now and rather than pushing an younger player they need to help them developer and mature themselves.

[JSRAW]

Both Naseem Shah and Yasir Shah bowled well. But these guys need to be consistent while facing tougher opposition. I still remember what happened to Naseem, when he played his first test match (against Australia at Brisbane). He couldn't handle the pressure then. Anyway, it is encouraging to see some young players in the starting XI for Pakistan after a long time. 

If they are able to develop young talents when the sernior players are still in the team, then they will be able to groom them and become a better player than they started and all the teams should follow that pattern to have a good team even after their past super stars retire, the problem with Pakistan is that they usually replace the senior players at once if they fail a series and push the young players and that will not help them develop.

Personally I am against the idea of allowing 16-year olds to play in the national team. But Pakistan has done it very frequently. Hasan Raza was just 14-years old, when he played his first match for Pakistan. Some of the other teams don't allow this. For example, the last time Australia had a teenager in theri national side was in 2011, when Pat Cummins made his debut. 

For some weird reason i see this as a age-scam whenever any young fella from Sub-continent pops in the international team. In sub-continent hiding age is big scam. few examples comes into my mind such as Sehwag ( he accepted this on record) and Shahid Afridi ( Prime example)

[BitSat19]

Both Naseem Shah and Yasir Shah bowled well. But these guys need to be consistent while facing tougher opposition. I still remember what happened to Naseem, when he played his first test match (against Australia at Brisbane). He couldn't handle the pressure then. Anyway, it is encouraging to see some young players in the starting XI for Pakistan after a long time. 

If they are able to develop young talents when the sernior players are still in the team, then they will be able to groom them and become a better player than they started and all the teams should follow that pattern to have a good team even after their past super stars retire, the problem with Pakistan is that they usually replace the senior players at once if they fail a series and push the young players and that will not help them develop.

Personally I am against the idea of allowing 16-year olds to play in the national team. But Pakistan has done it very frequently. Hasan Raza was just 14-years old, when he played his first match for Pakistan. Some of the other teams don't allow this. For example, the last time Australia had a teenager in theri national side was in 2011, when Pat Cummins made his debut. 

For some weird reason i see this as a age-scam whenever any young fella from Sub-continent pops in the international team. In sub-continent hiding age is big scam. few examples comes into my mind such as Sehwag ( he accepted this on record) and Shahid Afridi ( Prime example)

These two accepted but we have some many others also in this community those hide age because in sub-continent its very common thing as just few days back I was in my kids school principal is my friend and he was celebrating his 55th birthday and twin sister was just 45 years old so you can imagine whats going here Naseem is good youngster but I feel he is above but now its no matter because he is already in record books.

[7788bitcoin]

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These two accepted but we have some many others also in this community those hide age because in sub-continent its very common thing as just few days back I was in my kids school principal is my friend and he was celebrating his 55th birthday and twin sister was just 45 years old so you can imagine whats going here Naseem is good youngster but I feel he is above but now its no matter because he is already in record books.

I was not aware of this strange situation where people will be able to lie about their age. I have read about Afridi in his biography that he claimed that he was not that young when he scored the fastest century and i thought it was just a publicity stunt to sell more books but i like the ten year difference between twins  . I am not sure how that is even possible to lie about a ten year gap as these are well above my comprehension .

[Indymoney]

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These two accepted but we have some many others also in this community those hide age because in sub-continent its very common thing as just few days back I was in my kids school principal is my friend and he was celebrating his 55th birthday and twin sister was just 45 years old so you can imagine whats going here Naseem is good youngster but I feel he is above but now its no matter because he is already in record books.

I was not aware of this strange situation where people will be able to lie about their age. I have read about Afridi in his biography that he claimed that he was not that young when he scored the fastest century and i thought it was just a publicity stunt to sell more books but i like the ten year difference between twins  . I am not sure how that is even possible to lie about a ten year gap as these are well above my comprehension .

Here in our society its nothing serious business because I am working in a company where we need to add personal stuff for many things once I have very interesting problem as daughter give me data she is 30 years old and second day mother was saying she is just 42 so I was very confuse as she was not giving any identity or proof but I have to manage because this was nothing serious just formalty so as @JSRAW already pointed we have thousands cases like this.

[Vishnu.Reang]

For some weird reason i see this as a age-scam whenever any young fella from Sub-continent pops in the international team. In sub-continent hiding age is big scam. few examples comes into my mind such as Sehwag ( he accepted this on record) and Shahid Afridi ( Prime example)

I have to agree on this part. Even during the recently concluded U19 World Cup, many of the players looked as if they were comfortably above 19 years (sadly most of them playing for the four Asian teams). It is easier to forge the age certificates in Asian nations, since data is not stored in servers (mostly it is in hard copy format). On the other hand, in the Western nations all the details are stored digitally and it is almost impossible to forge the DOB or other details of an individual.

[ene1980]

It is easier to forge the age certificates in Asian nations, since data is not stored in servers (mostly it is in hard copy format). On the other hand, in the Western nations all the details are stored digitally and it is almost impossible to forge the DOB or other details of an individual.

So are you telling that it is sponsored by the respective cricket boards, if not it is impossible to forget these documents even if it is not stored in servers and if you are able to do these kind of manipulations then you can even edit the digital entries, it is a serious accusation and i am not sure about the authenticity of these accusations as i have not seen any major newspaper picking this news and if they are caught then it will have a serious implication in the future.

[BitSat19]

It is easier to forge the age certificates in Asian nations, since data is not stored in servers (mostly it is in hard copy format). On the other hand, in the Western nations all the details are stored digitally and it is almost impossible to forge the DOB or other details of an individual.

So are you telling that it is sponsored by the respective cricket boards, if not it is impossible to forget these documents even if it is not stored in servers and if you are able to do these kind of manipulations then you can even edit the digital entries, it is a serious accusation and i am not sure about the authenticity of these accusations as i have not seen any major newspaper picking this news and if they are caught then it will have a serious implication in the future.

Even in Sub-Continent big cities have facility of computer based certificates which are good but most of rural areas still have this advantage of doing tricks which will end soon but this was really works for many in past because they give wrong certificates and I am sure boards members also involved in this all as they take gift boxes for this which is now going to end in near future.

[JSRAW]

It is easier to forge the age certificates in Asian nations, since data is not stored in servers (mostly it is in hard copy format). On the other hand, in the Western nations all the details are stored digitally and it is almost impossible to forge the DOB or other details of an individual.

So are you telling that it is sponsored by the respective cricket boards, if not it is impossible to forget these documents even if it is not stored in servers and if you are able to do these kind of manipulations then you can even edit the digital entries, it is a serious accusation and i am not sure about the authenticity of these accusations as i have not seen any major newspaper picking this news and if they are caught then it will have a serious implication in the future.

Age-fudging is common problem in any sport and cricket is no exception but i doubt if any board support this idea. in fact in recent time boards are taking necessary precaution. Recently BCCI banned few players (Manjot Kalra,Rasikh Salam) because of this and investigating many cases in domestic cricket. Players now can play only 1 u-19 WC, initiative taken by Rahul Dravid. He and Gangully doing their job as far as BCCI is concern.

[RamBahadur.Gurung]

Age-fudging is common problem in any sport and cricket is no exception but i doubt if any board support this idea. in fact in recent time boards are taking necessary precaution. Recently BCCI banned few players (Manjot Kalra,Rasikh Salam) because of this and investigating many cases in domestic cricket. Players now can play only 1 u-19 WC, initiative taken by Rahul Dravid. He and Gangully doing their job as far as BCCI is concern.

This can be a serious issue in age group tournaments (especially those for U-15 and U-19 groups). Players who fudge their age do have an unfair advantage. It is like allowing men to take part in tournaments which are meant only for women. But there is no ready made solution for this. It is not practical to conduct x-ray examination for all the players.

[erikalui]

Looks like you all are discussing forging documents but sadly it is not just forging but many don't have their birth even recorded, especially since many players come from villages where they just know their birth month and may be year so for them, it's easy to get fake documents as there is no proof. Even in my college I had one student whose birth month and year were forged but nobody ever bothered to take a look at it.

Tomorrow's test match have the same openers probably. Don't know whether to watch or not to watch as this would hamper India's rank in the WC tournament. Sharma may be back in one of the matches so we have a good bowler atleast. More than the batsmen, we need the best bowlers.

[JSRAW]

Age-fudging is common problem in any sport and cricket is no exception but i doubt if any board support this idea. in fact in recent time boards are taking necessary precaution. Recently BCCI banned few players (Manjot Kalra,Rasikh Salam) because of this and investigating many cases in domestic cricket. Players now can play only 1 u-19 WC, initiative taken by Rahul Dravid. He and Gangully doing their job as far as BCCI is concern.

This can be a serious issue in age group tournaments (especially those for U-15 and U-19 groups). Players who fudge their age do have an unfair advantage. It is like allowing men to take part in tournaments which are meant only for women. But there is no ready made solution for this. It is not practical to conduct x-ray examination for all the players.

Yeah serious issue for u-15 and u-19 category that's why boards especially Asian boards taking this seriously. BCCI doing their thingy such as vetting younger players in Domestic cricket, It has fair amount of challenge but as far as i know x-ray (Bone-density test) comes when every other options fails such as Birth certificates, High school marksheet etc. Not full proof plan though but at-least they are serious and trying to crack down the age fraud.  

especially since many players come from villages where they just know their birth month and may be year so for them, it's easy to get fake documents as there is no proof. Even in my college I had one student whose birth month and year were forged but nobody ever bothered to take a look at it.

Yeah, Shivam Mavi was similiar case i suppose but they caught him eventually, Not Guilty as of now but investigation are in progress.