Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Haunebu]

England are destroying Pakistan at the moment by the looks of things. Pakistan had a great chance to win the 1st test, but threw it out the window thanks to sloppy batting in the 2nd innings. The English bowlers are having a gala time out in the middle.

Every bowler picked up at least 1 wicket and they might wrap up Pakistan within 230 at this rate. Only rain can save Pakistan now in my opinion.

[BitSat19]

England are destroying Pakistan at the moment by the looks of things. Pakistan had a great chance to win the 1st test, but threw it out the window thanks to sloppy batting in the 2nd innings. The English bowlers are having a gala time out in the middle.

Every bowler picked up at least 1 wicket and they might wrap up Pakistan within 230 at this rate. Only rain can save Pakistan now in my opinion.

Yea Pakistan team management is doing very poor work they have no home work for this serious and doing just experiment with person who is not eligible for leading team from front may be I wrote this before that now Pakistan is going to face whitewash because after first test England is not going to give any chance just rain can help Pakistan from this all.

[eaLiTy]

English slip fielders showing some extraordinary talent by dropping sitter today  . They already gave Abid Ali 2 chances at slip. Abid Ali now need to play good knock for his team, not everyday you gets 2 lifelines in the test cricket.

The fielding standards and fitness have gone up from the past decade but there is a lack of catching skills and all the teams were dropping catches every match and in the last World Cup Pakistan alone dropped 14 catches and England dropped 10 catches and a total of 54 catches dropped in a single world cup in 2019 by all the teams.

Every bowler picked up at least 1 wicket and they might wrap up Pakistan within 230 at this rate. Only rain can save Pakistan now in my opinion.

From a good second wicket partnership Pakistan completely lost the plot loosing 4 wickets in quick succession.

[vella85]

Pakistan once again have cracked under pressure just like the last test match. Every time they look like being in a good strong position they then lose quick wickets which then gives all the momentum to the other team and in sports its hard to turn it around when the other team has all the momentum. Lucky for Pakistan that rain came however I don't think it will stop England from winning the match, I'm hoping I'm wrong and Pakistan come out on day two and show some fight.

[JSRAW]

English slip fielders showing some extraordinary talent by dropping sitter today  . They already gave Abid Ali 2 chances at slip. Abid Ali now need to play good knock for his team, not everyday you gets 2 lifelines in the test cricket.

The fielding standards and fitness have gone up from the past decade but there is a lack of catching skills and all the teams were dropping catches every match and in the last World Cup Pakistan alone dropped 14 catches and England dropped 10 catches and a total of 54 catches dropped in a single world cup in 2019 by all the teams.
 

Pretty cool stats, didn't know about it. Where did you find this anyway, guess through commentators?

Pakistan was bit lucky and rain is their only ally so far.

[eaLiTy]

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Pretty cool stats, didn't know about it. Where did you find this anyway, guess through commentators?
Pakistan was bit lucky and rain is their only ally so far.

I got these stats from sports star magazine as there was a world cup review edition during that time (was moving and cleaning everything as i am shifting my home and found a bunch of old magazines) and when i watched that i saw many dropped catches and i used to wonder i rarely see these butter hands in the past and the most famous missed catches actually costed them the world cup in the past, like Herschelle Gibbs dropping Steve Waugh and literally the world cup in 1999 and actually Gibbs was throwing the ball in the air to celebrate and not actual butter hands like we see today but it slipped and that cost them the world cup and then the famous 1992 world cup when Imran Khan himself promoted himself to motivate the team and he was really lucky that he got a life in the form of dropped catch and then went on to score the highest score for the team and winning the world cup.

But if you take a look at 54 dropped catches in the entire 2019 world cup, the standard of catching has gone down tremendously and every match you will see dropped catches which we rarely see in the past and there was a time when South African fielding standards were a benchmark to the world but now they do not have that standard and they missed many catches but if you compare the past strangely India just missed one catch in the 2019 World cup edition and the fielding and fitness has improved tremendously. The butter hands in the team are Rohit Sharma and Ishant Sharma .

Rain is ruining the match, all the breaks Pakistan had made them loose their composure and thereby lost the wickets and the morning session is delayed by rain.

[JSRAW]

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+1 yeah old timers were not great athletes but almost everyone had good pair of hands, especially when guarding slips and we don't see many good catchers there nowadays.  

Rohit is good slip fielder but lazy when out of the circle. Ishant well he's disappointment when chasing a ball.
edit : shiiit Babar gone.....

Pak : 158/6.

[pakhitheboss]

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+1 yeah old timers were not great athletes but almost everyone had good pair of hands, especially when guarding slips and we don't see many good catchers there nowadays.  

Rohit is good slip fielder but lazy when out of the circle. Ishant well he's disappointment when chasing a ball.
edit : shiiit Babar gone.....

Pak : 158/6.

Pakistan in big trouble 175/7

Rizwan batting on 23 and trying to stay on the pitch, Afridi on zero. What happened to Pakistan batting today. I do not think they will be able to score 200 if wickets keep falling like this.

[JSRAW]

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Pakistan in big trouble 175/7

Rizwan batting on 23 and trying to stay on the pitch, Afridi on zero. What happened to Pakistan batting today. I do not think they will be able to score 200 if wickets keep falling like this.

They are not very far from 200 mark so they should reach there and try to push for extra 10-15 runs, it would give some fighting chance to their bowlers. Conditions are good for seamers here and Pakistan pace battery can do some damage for sure.

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Lol run out... now 200 looking far... hehe

Wasim Akram bashing tailender  ....

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Rizwan doing exceptional job for his team. 196/8

and 200 up for Pakistan... every run from here is bonus for them..

[BitSat19]

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Pakistan in big trouble 175/7

Rizwan batting on 23 and trying to stay on the pitch, Afridi on zero. What happened to Pakistan batting today. I do not think they will be able to score 200 if wickets keep falling like this.

They are not very far from 200 mark so they should reach there and try to push for extra 10-15 runs, it would give some fighting chance to their bowlers. Conditions are good for seamers here and Pakistan pace battery can do some damage for sure.

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Lol run out... now 200 looking far... hehe

Wasim Akram bashing tailender  ....

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Rizwan doing exceptional job for his team. 196/8

and 200 up for Pakistan... every run from here is bonus for them..

Rizwan has helped Pakistan team to cross 200 runs and Pakistan is now 223/9. Though it is not a big score, but rains/bad light is helping the team to save the game. Just if the match does not happen or only few more overs happen today so basically in 2 days only 1 innings has happened and this means England needs to score big in their first innings only if they see any chance of winning from here.

Forecast is not good for next few days so only this is good thing going in Pakistan favour other all things going against them Rizwan is doing good job until even 223/9 is not good but still some manageable I am really upset with Azhar Ali Asad Shafiq after playing lots of matches still doing same mistakes matter of shame for them.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Rain interruption is having a more disruptive role in international cricket nowadays, compared to the situation we had a few decades back. Climate change may be one of the reasons. ICC needs to look in to this issue and find a solution which is acceptable to all. One of the solutions would be to stage more matches in countries such as UAE and Australia, where the chances of rain interruption are low.

[JSRAW]

^^^English weather flirting with the cricket is not new thing tho. How about...
- Avoid mansoon season in subcontinent. Fix domestic series during mansoon, if necessary.
- No ICC tournament in England  

[JohnBitCo]

Rain interruption is having a more disruptive role in international cricket nowadays, compared to the situation we had a few decades back. Climate change may be one of the reasons. ICC needs to look in to this issue and find a solution which is acceptable to all. One of the solutions would be to stage more matches in countries such as UAE and Australia, where the chances of rain interruption are low.

Rain delay and bad light give advantage to one team and this time it is Pakistan who are getting benefits from this delay. The match may resume in some time but if Pakistan were able to draw this match, then the credit will goes to the weather. England team deserve to win the 2nd test if the weather permits.

[Indymoney]

Rain interruption is having a more disruptive role in international cricket nowadays, compared to the situation we had a few decades back. Climate change may be one of the reasons. ICC needs to look in to this issue and find a solution which is acceptable to all. One of the solutions would be to stage more matches in countries such as UAE and Australia, where the chances of rain interruption are low.

Rain delay and bad light give advantage to one team and this time it is Pakistan who are getting benefits from this delay. The match may resume in some time but if Pakistan were able to draw this match, then the credit will goes to the weather. England team deserve to win the 2nd test if the weather permits.

Surely this rain is going to be in favour of Paksitan right now if we have one more day lost due to rain then surely this match is going to be draw or if we able to have some cricket in all three days then surely we will able to have result but weather is not good for next few days which is not good.
English Empire's mistake and ICC anti corruption unit in action https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/29661711/umpire-richard-kettleborough-spoken-anti-corruption-officials-smartwatch

[FIFA worldcup]

Rain interruption is having a more disruptive role in international cricket nowadays, compared to the situation we had a few decades back. Climate change may be one of the reasons. ICC needs to look in to this issue and find a solution which is acceptable to all. One of the solutions would be to stage more matches in countries such as UAE and Australia, where the chances of rain interruption are low.

Rain delay and bad light give advantage to one team and this time it is Pakistan who are getting benefits from this delay. The match may resume in some time but if Pakistan were able to draw this match, then the credit will goes to the weather. England team deserve to win the 2nd test if the weather permits.

Surely this rain is going to be in favour of Paksitan right now if we have one more day lost due to rain then surely this match is going to be draw or if we able to have some cricket in all three days then surely we will able to have result but weather is not good for next few days which is not good.
English Empire's mistake and ICC anti corruption unit in action https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/29661711/umpire-richard-kettleborough-spoken-anti-corruption-officials-smartwatch

So wearing smart watches is not allowed in the field ? This is a new rule to my understanding. So what will be the outcome of this investigation ? Will the umpire be punished in this case or the player  and what would be the punishment ?

[Indymoney]

Rain interruption is having a more disruptive role in international cricket nowadays, compared to the situation we had a few decades back. Climate change may be one of the reasons. ICC needs to look in to this issue and find a solution which is acceptable to all. One of the solutions would be to stage more matches in countries such as UAE and Australia, where the chances of rain interruption are low.

Rain delay and bad light give advantage to one team and this time it is Pakistan who are getting benefits from this delay. The match may resume in some time but if Pakistan were able to draw this match, then the credit will goes to the weather. England team deserve to win the 2nd test if the weather permits.

Surely this rain is going to be in favour of Paksitan right now if we have one more day lost due to rain then surely this match is going to be draw or if we able to have some cricket in all three days then surely we will able to have result but weather is not good for next few days which is not good.
English Empire's mistake and ICC anti corruption unit in action https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/29661711/umpire-richard-kettleborough-spoken-anti-corruption-officials-smartwatch

So wearing smart watches is not allowed in the field ? This is a new rule to my understanding. So what will be the outcome of this investigation ? Will the umpire be punished in this case or the player  and what would be the punishment ?

Until now no punishment just reminder for future as its not allowed in 2018 few Pakistani players also done same mistake may be in future they will introduce any new rule or puniishment about this.

[FIFA worldcup]

Rain interruption is having a more disruptive role in international cricket nowadays, compared to the situation we had a few decades back. Climate change may be one of the reasons. ICC needs to look in to this issue and find a solution which is acceptable to all. One of the solutions would be to stage more matches in countries such as UAE and Australia, where the chances of rain interruption are low.

Rain delay and bad light give advantage to one team and this time it is Pakistan who are getting benefits from this delay. The match may resume in some time but if Pakistan were able to draw this match, then the credit will goes to the weather. England team deserve to win the 2nd test if the weather permits.

Surely this rain is going to be in favour of Paksitan right now if we have one more day lost due to rain then surely this match is going to be draw or if we able to have some cricket in all three days then surely we will able to have result but weather is not good for next few days which is not good.
English Empire's mistake and ICC anti corruption unit in action https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/29661711/umpire-richard-kettleborough-spoken-anti-corruption-officials-smartwatch

So wearing smart watches is not allowed in the field ? This is a new rule to my understanding. So what will be the outcome of this investigation ? Will the umpire be punished in this case or the player  and what would be the punishment ?

Until now no punishment just reminder for future as its not allowed in 2018 few Pakistani players also done same mistake may be in future they will introduce any new rule or puniishment about this.

Not sure but what harm the smart watch can do if the players wear it. The players can get message and instructions from the dressing room through smart watch but even without this smart gadget they still get the instructions and messages, don't they ?
The other thing is that fielders can get busy though smart watches and may lose focus on the match temporarily.

[JSRAW]

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Surely this rain is going to be in favour of Paksitan right now if we have one more day lost due to rain then surely this match is going to be draw or if we able to have some cricket in all three days then surely we will able to have result but weather is not good for next few days which is not good.

Both teams known for their batting collapse and looking at current scenario Pakistan already reached at respectable total. Pitch is still alive so who knows if its low total game, we might see result despite bad weather.

[Vishnu.Reang]

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Surely this rain is going to be in favour of Paksitan right now if we have one more day lost due to rain then surely this match is going to be draw or if we able to have some cricket in all three days then surely we will able to have result but weather is not good for next few days which is not good.

Both teams known for their batting collapse and looking at current scenario Pakistan already reached at respectable total. Pitch is still alive so who knows if its low total game, we might see result despite bad weather.

Two days gone and not even one innings completed till now. I would be really surprised, if this match doesn't end up as another boring draw. Weather predictions are also not looking that great. Heavy rains are predicted for the next three days and we can expect the same situation we had during the first two days. I don't expect more than 100-150 overs of play to happen in the remaining three days.

[FIFA worldcup]

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Surely this rain is going to be in favour of Paksitan right now if we have one more day lost due to rain then surely this match is going to be draw or if we able to have some cricket in all three days then surely we will able to have result but weather is not good for next few days which is not good.

Both teams known for their batting collapse and looking at current scenario Pakistan already reached at respectable total. Pitch is still alive so who knows if its low total game, we might see result despite bad weather.

Two days gone and not even one innings completed till now. I would be really surprised, if this match doesn't end up as another boring draw. Weather predictions are also not looking that great. Heavy rains are predicted for the next three days and we can expect the same situation we had during the first two days. I don't expect more than 100-150 overs of play to happen in the remaining three days.

This is not the good news and neither all the cricket fans would be happy about it as they could not watch the live match between both the teams. The match is moving towards draw unless if we can see next 3 days of cricket without much rain’s interruption. England team would be disappointed because when they perform well things become more difficult for them in a way.

It will be interesting to know how the pitch behaves after this two days of rain. Even if the play resumes, we could not have consecutive 3 days of cricket because rain may interrupt again. Also the outfield will be wet and this will make bowlers job more difficult with wet ball.