Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[UmerIdrees]

Can srilankan team going to win the match without any upset tomorrow?, because of they are need only 135 runs with 10 wikets in hand to win in final day, so it will be sefe to bet on srilanka? Please let me share some tips about it I can bet on srilanka team?

Many experts here will stop you from going All -IN but this is one match where you can go all in. I mean Srilanka cannot be out for less than 135 runs tomorrow. 
The only disadvantage is that odds for the srilanka win are way too less.
Although the profit will be less but it is a sure shot profit.

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[vella85]

England have fought back well in the second test match as it looked like Australia would take a lead in the match but thanks to some great bowling by Broad and Woakes England are back in the match. I think if they get a lead of 180 runs that should be enough and if England really want to win the match they should try and get to that lead and put Australia in to bat and see what happens. We can still see a result in this match but it all depends on what England do and if they want to try and go for the win or just take their time and play for a draw.

[Vishnu.Reang]

High chances for Sri lanka even if there is a half day rain and half day play time since they only needs 145 runs but they have got 10 wickets in their hand,no one would lose a game from this stage.

At this point, I would say that there is a 99.9% probability of a Sri Lankan win. In the first innings, the Kiwis were able to restrict the Lankan batsmen thanks to some quality bowling by Ajaz Patel. He looked clueless yesterday. Sri Lanka is half-way through, without any loss of wickets and today it should be a cake-walk for them and they should win before the end of the second session of play.

[akram143]

High chances for Sri lanka even if there is a half day rain and half day play time since they only needs 145 runs but they have got 10 wickets in their hand,no one would lose a game from this stage.

At this point, I would say that there is a 99.9% probability of a Sri Lankan win. In the first innings, the Kiwis were able to restrict the Lankan batsmen thanks to some quality bowling by Ajaz Patel. He looked clueless yesterday. Sri Lanka is half-way through, without any loss of wickets and today it should be a cake-walk for them and they should win before the end of the second session of play.

Only needs 50 rus more but they have got 7 wickets in hand and also two full sessions left so they got this match buddy.Rain God you are out in this match.

[Haunebu]

England have fought back well in the second test match as it looked like Australia would take a lead in the match but thanks to some great bowling by Broad and Woakes England are back in the match. I think if they get a lead of 180 runs that should be enough and if England really want to win the match they should try and get to that lead and put Australia in to bat and see what happens. We can still see a result in this match but it all depends on what England do and if they want to try and go for the win or just take their time and play for a draw.

They will most likely take their time and push for a draw since Australia are capable of chasing down 200 in a short span of time and England would not risk losing another one pushing this series closer to an Australian whitewash.

At this point, I would say that there is a 99.9% probability of a Sri Lankan win. In the first innings, the Kiwis were able to restrict the Lankan batsmen thanks to some quality bowling by Ajaz Patel. He looked clueless yesterday. Sri Lanka is half-way through, without any loss of wickets and today it should be a cake-walk for them and they should win before the end of the second session of play.

Sri Lanka won this one quite easily by 6 wickets thanks to a stellar opening partnership by Karunaratne and Thirimanne. Did not expect Sri Lanka to defeat New Zealand so easily though at the end of the day.

[FIFA worldcup]

England have fought back well in the second test match as it looked like Australia would take a lead in the match but thanks to some great bowling by Broad and Woakes England are back in the match. I think if they get a lead of 180 runs that should be enough and if England really want to win the match they should try and get to that lead and put Australia in to bat and see what happens. We can still see a result in this match but it all depends on what England do and if they want to try and go for the win or just take their time and play for a draw.

They will most likely take their time and push for a draw since Australia are capable of chasing down 200 in a short span of time and England would not risk losing another one pushing this series closer to an Australian whitewash.

At this point, I would say that there is a 99.9% probability of a Sri Lankan win. In the first innings, the Kiwis were able to restrict the Lankan batsmen thanks to some quality bowling by Ajaz Patel. He looked clueless yesterday. Sri Lanka is half-way through, without any loss of wickets and today it should be a cake-walk for them and they should win before the end of the second session of play.

Sri Lanka won this one quite easily by 6 wickets thanks to a stellar opening partnership by Karunaratne and Thirimanne. Did not expect Sri Lanka to defeat New Zealand so easily though at the end of the day.

Dimuth Karunaratne is also declared the man of the match to score a 100 in this low scoring test match. Also remember this test is a part of ICC World Test Championship. So with this win Srilanka gets on top of the table with 60 points. Can they remain at the top, that's an interesting question.

[AB de Royse777]

@ragavancoin, not sure if you have placed bet for Sri Lanka but if you do then congratulations! You won the bet. 10% of the investment is not bad :-)

Also congratulations to Sri Lankan fan. This was an unexpected performance from the team. I did not follow the match but I thought Sri Lanka will lose this series but now it seems they found themselves in a good position to win the series. They just do let the NZ team to win the 2nd Test.

Back to the Aus Vs Eng Test. Man! I hate the rain.

Rain dlays start to mounthwatering final day

This is the current headline in cricinfo.

[FIFA worldcup]

@ragavancoin, not sure if you have placed bet for Sri Lanka but if you do then congratulations! You won the bet. 10% of the investment is not bad :-)

Also congratulations to Sri Lankan fan. This was an unexpected performance from the team. I did not follow the match but I thought Sri Lanka will lose this series but now it seems they found themselves in a good position to win the series. They just do let the NZ team to win the 2nd Test.

Back to the Aus Vs Eng Test. Man! I hate the rain.

Rain dlays start to mounthwatering final day

This is the current headline in cricinfo.

The rain in the last day means that this test will end in a draw now. There is no way any team can win now and also there is an almost 1 hour lost in this rain-every-day test match. England should bat the whole day ,buttler and strokes are capable to do so and end the test in a positive note.

[AB de Royse777]

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The rain in the last day means that this test will end in a draw now. There is no way any team can win now and also there is an almost 1 hour lost in this rain-every-day test match. England should bat the whole day (buttler and strokes are capable to do so) and end the test in a positive note.

The match has started and both Buttler and Stokes are trying to manage some quick runs. We all know the excitement of this Test has gone unless Australia can take all wickets of England before the lunch and I do not think it will happen. Rain will be the winner of this Test.

The dominance percentage of this match so far is (calculated by my broken calculator :-P):
Rain: 50%
Australia: 30%
England: 20%

[erikalui]

^Why Australia has more chances from here? I feel it should be this:

Rain: 70%
England: 20%
Australia: 10%

And LOL

Live Report - Rain delays start to mouthwatering final day

What's mouthwatering here? England looked comfortable compared to Australia who showed how much they depend on Steve. England deserve to be the winners now and they can easily put up another 150-180 runs and declare.

[onrise]

England have fought back well in the second test match as it looked like Australia would take a lead in the match but thanks to some great bowling by Broad and Woakes England are back in the match. I think if they get a lead of 180 runs that should be enough and if England really want to win the match they should try and get to that lead and put Australia in to bat and see what happens. We can still see a result in this match but it all depends on what England do and if they want to try and go for the win or just take their time and play for a draw.

Considering the last day of the play and rain could also hit the match . Most likely it could end up in a tie. If full 90 overs of the match just happen and OZ can take 6 quick wickets of England then they have chance to even win this test match. For me Tie is the most likely outcome of this match and second chance OZ winning it. Very unlikely England winning this test match.

[AB de Royse777]

What's mouthwatering here?

My interpretation is that:
Having the whole 5th day and England having 6 wickets in hand the match could go anywhere.

England could score quick runs, play the innings like ODI match and give a good target to Australia. Australia would either go for a win or a draw or if England bowling was too good then may be England would win from there.

On the other side, Australia could take 6 wickets very quickly and get an easy target to win and either win from there or draw the match.

But, now it seems too obvious that it will be a draw match.

[UmerIdrees]

What's mouthwatering here?

My interpretation is that:
Having the whole 5th day and England having 6 wickets in hand the match could go anywhere.

England could score quick runs, play the innings like ODI match and give a good target to Australia. Australia would either go for a win or a draw or if England bowling was too good then may be England would win from there.

On the other side, Australia could take 6 wickets very quickly and get an easy target to win and either win from there or draw the match.

But, now it seems too obvious that it will be a draw match.

This was only possible if we have the full 5 days for this test. Since we are having the 4 day test match, it is going towards the draw quickly.

Just a though creeping in my mind, if we have rain in the one day or T20, we reduce the overs for both the teams. Similarly something should be done for  test matches too to get the results.  For example every 20 overs lost in the test will mean that the both the team will have one batsmen less to bat or something like this 

[AB de Royse777]

This was only possible if we have the full 5 days for this test. Since we are having the 4 day test match, it is going towards the draw quickly.

I think it turn out to be a 3 day match :-P Two days were completely wasted if you sum up the wasted time so far.

Just a though creeping in my mind, if we have rain in the one day or T20, we reduce the overs for both the teams. Similarly something should be done for  test matches too to get the results.  For example every 20 overs lost in the test will mean that the both the team will have one batsmen less to bat or something like this  

LOL this will be hilarious. Take off Smith from Australian team :-P

On a serious note, I do not see there will be even any thought about it at all. Weather (Rain, wind, sunshine, cold) is a part of cricket match. May be in the future we can see indoor stadium with a huge roof above so that rain can not stop a match than again we will see balls will not swing much because of less windy surface.

[UmerIdrees]

This was only possible if we have the full 5 days for this test. Since we are having the 4 day test match, it is going towards the draw quickly.

I think it turn out to be a 3 day match :-P Two days were completely wasted if you sum up the wasted time so far.

Just a though creeping in my mind, if we have rain in the one day or T20, we reduce the overs for both the teams. Similarly something should be done for  test matches too to get the results.  For example every 20 overs lost in the test will mean that the both the team will have one batsmen less to bat or something like this 

LOL this will be hilarious. Take off Smith from Australian team :-P

Nope seriously it will work. We would have max of 5 players removed from the batting in case 100 overs are lost. ( as in this match case). Since we lost almost 100 overs in the very first day, this means each team can now bat with 5 batsmen only and we would easily have the result by now. 

[AB de Royse777]

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Nope seriously it will work. We would have max of 5 players removed from the batting in case 100 overs are lost. ( as in this match case). Since we lost almost 100 overs in the very first day, this means each team can now bat with 5 batsmen only and we would easily have the result by now. 

Test cricket will lose it's glory :-D

[Haunebu]

I think it turn out to be a 3 day match :-P Two days were completely wasted if you sum up the wasted time so far.

Yeah. This seriously sucks. Draw for the win. On the other hand, Sri Lanka seems to be a better test match team these days when compared to their performances in other formats.

Nope seriously it will work. We would have max of 5 players removed from the batting in case 100 overs are lost. ( as in this match case). Since we lost almost 100 overs in the very first day, this means each team can now bat with 5 batsmen only and we would easily have the result by now. 

Lol. This is a crazy idea. It would not be a proper match-up and lead to super over style matches which itself is not the best way to determine a winner. I don't think ICC will ever implement something like this in the future.

[erikalui]

I still have hope to see the match result as England have lost  wickets and have 197 runs on the board. Once Stokes is out, no other good batsman will be able to stay on the field for long. Let's say if England manage to make 50 more runs in 15 overs (going by the run rate), Australia will have 40+ overs to chase the runs. Game is still ON!

[AB de Royse777]

I still have hope to see the match result as England have lost  wickets and have 197 runs on the board. Once Stokes is out, no other good batsman will be able to stay on the field for long. Let's say if England manage to make 50 more runs in 15 overs (going by the run rate), Australia will have 40+ overs to chase the runs. Game is still ON!

Well you have noticed that the lead is now 217. 56 overs remaining.

Let's say England even dared to declare the innings now. Still taking 218 runs is not going to be an easy task for Australia. It's a test match, not ODI. This is a dead Test and there are no way for any team to win :-P

[erikalui]

^Test matches can also have the ODI spirit and now both teams need to buck up. Stokes is playing very well now hitting 4s and 6s so I guess declaring is on their mind and they can't take chances with Australia without putting up atleast 280 runs (now 223). See the run rate now: from 3.0 to 3.23 in less than 3 overs.

Edit: Stokes scored a century...Excellent! :-D