Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[JSRAW]

Babar Azam--------------- Misbah Ul Haq

Babar is going to end up with one of the great in modern cricket, no matter he's captain or not. On Batsman Misbah (Not coach) i would say Pakistani cricket fraternity was very critical as far as batter Misbah is concern but he was or still very respectable figure all around the world and rated highly in the Red ball cricket, not so in Pakistan tho. One of the many reason Pakistan failed to produce more test batsmen in the last decade or so.
 

[Vishnu.Reang]

Pakistan Cricket Board is still doing some experiments and trying to upset good career of Babar Azam after appointing him as Test Captain replacing Azhar Ali its really frustrating and poor management from them as they can give this spot to Sarfraz as Babar could be his deputy and have some good lessons for this format but personal likes and dislikes and poor politics is around here which is killing careers of good players and nothing good happening to Pakistan Cricket.

I agree with JSRAW. There is nothing wring in giving the captaincy to Babar Azam. He has captained the team before and I don't think that the added responsibility will put him in any sort of pressure. The reason why they went for this decision is that Sarfraz hasn't performed that well as the captain. So there is no harm in doing a bit of experimenting. If things doesn't work out, then they can always go back to Sarfraz.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Pakistan Cricket Board is still doing some experiments and trying to upset good career of Babar Azam after appointing him as Test Captain replacing Azhar Ali its really frustrating and poor management from them as they can give this spot to Sarfraz as Babar could be his deputy and have some good lessons for this format but personal likes and dislikes and poor politics is around here which is killing careers of good players and nothing good happening to Pakistan Cricket.

I agree with JSRAW. There is nothing wring in giving the captaincy to Babar Azam. He has captained the team before and I don't think that the added responsibility will put him in any sort of pressure. The reason why they went for this decision is that Sarfraz hasn't performed that well as the captain. So there is no harm in doing a bit of experimenting. If things doesn't work out, then they can always go back to Sarfraz.

If the captain is not successful then the experiment should be done by giving the responsibility of captain to someone new. There are many old players in the Pakistan's squad. Many are very experienced. If Sarfraz is not successful in captaincy, then another experienced player should be given the responsibility of captain. Since they have alternative options. So they should be tested to see which player is perfect for the post of captain.

[SaShiRaJaVu]

If the captain is not successful then the experiment should be done by giving the responsibility of captain to someone new. There are many old players in the Pakistan's squad. Many are very experienced. If Sarfraz is not successful in captaincy, then another experienced player should be given the responsibility of captain. Since they have alternative options. So they should be tested to see which player is perfect for the post of captain.

Pakistan needs to groom the players before handling them the responsibility as a captain, i was checking their past under 19 captains and none of them made it to the international level which is questionable in itself how they become the captain in the first place. Teams like Australia and recently India groom the players that have the leadership quality and if they are performing well and have enough experience they will hand the captaincy to them and that is how you build a team and Pakistan is lacking that.

[bryant.coleman]

If the captain is not successful then the experiment should be done by giving the responsibility of captain to someone new. There are many old players in the Pakistan's squad. Many are very experienced. If Sarfraz is not successful in captaincy, then another experienced player should be given the responsibility of captain. Since they have alternative options. So they should be tested to see which player is perfect for the post of captain.

It is not as easy as you say. First of all, the captain should be someone who has a permanent slot in the playing XI. Right now, there are only 5-6 such players. What is the point in making someone a captain and sustaining him in the playing XI even if he is not playing well? Babar Azam never complained about the added responsibility. Let's see how it goes.

[JSRAW]

Pakistan Cricket Board is still doing some experiments and trying to upset good career of Babar Azam after appointing him as Test Captain replacing Azhar Ali its really frustrating and poor management from them as they can give this spot to Sarfraz as Babar could be his deputy and have some good lessons for this format but personal likes and dislikes and poor politics is around here which is killing careers of good players and nothing good happening to Pakistan Cricket.

I agree with JSRAW. There is nothing wring in giving the captaincy to Babar Azam. He has captained the team before and I don't think that the added responsibility will put him in any sort of pressure. The reason why they went for this decision is that Sarfraz hasn't performed that well as the captain. So there is no harm in doing a bit of experimenting. If things doesn't work out, then they can always go back to Sarfraz.

If the captain is not successful then the experiment should be done by giving the responsibility of captain to someone new. There are many old players in the Pakistan's squad. Many are very experienced. If Sarfraz is not successful in captaincy, then another experienced player should be given the responsibility of captain. Since they have alternative options. So they should be tested to see which player is perfect for the post of captain.

Just to be clear, Babar took captaincy from Sarfaraz and Azhar Ali from ODI/T-20 and Test format, respectively. Pakistan has a habit of changing captains like clothes so i wouldn't be surprise if PCB change their captain again, if Babar fail as a test captain.

[Swordsoffreedom]

If the captain is not successful then the experiment should be done by giving the responsibility of captain to someone new. There are many old players in the Pakistan's squad. Many are very experienced. If Sarfraz is not successful in captaincy, then another experienced player should be given the responsibility of captain. Since they have alternative options. So they should be tested to see which player is perfect for the post of captain.

It is not as easy as you say. First of all, the captain should be someone who has a permanent slot in the playing XI. Right now, there are only 5-6 such players. What is the point in making someone a captain and sustaining him in the playing XI even if he is not playing well? Babar Azam never complained about the added responsibility. Let's see how it goes.

I didn't say that if someone plays badly he should be made captain. You don't understand my point. There are many players in the Pakistan squad who are experienced. At the same time they are playing well. If someone loses form, plays a few matches badly, you can't call him a bad player. Someone should be made a captain who is a regular contributor to the team's victory and the main thing is that he must be experienced.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Just to be clear, Babar took captaincy from Sarfaraz and Azhar Ali from ODI/T-20 and Test format, respectively. Pakistan has a habit of changing captains like clothes so i wouldn't be surprise if PCB change their captain again, if Babar fail as a test captain.

Hopefully this time Babar will remain as the captain for some time. Stability is needed at the most important position, but I understand why Sarfraz and Azhar were dropped. A lot of people were comparing Babar with Virat Kohli as far as batting is concerned (although I believe such comparisons make no sense at all). Now if he can do what Virat did with captaincy as well, then it will benefit Pakistan in a big way.

[Bitcoin577]

Just to be clear, Babar took captaincy from Sarfaraz and Azhar Ali from ODI/T-20 and Test format, respectively. Pakistan has a habit of changing captains like clothes so i wouldn't be surprise if PCB change their captain again, if Babar fail as a test captain.

Hopefully this time Babar will remain as the captain for some time. Stability is needed at the most important position, but I understand why Sarfraz and Azhar were dropped. A lot of people were comparing Babar with Virat Kohli as far as batting is concerned (although I believe such comparisons make no sense at all). Now if he can do what Virat did with captaincy as well, then it will benefit Pakistan in a big way.

This all is not new we have too many issues in PCB and these happening for very long time mostly teams captain is not selected on merit they have personal likes and dislikes right now Misbah is very key man so he don't like sarfraz just because of this we have too many changes in very quick session and Azhar Ali was never been capable of captaincy he already have few caps under his captaincy this all was bonus.

[JSRAW]

BCCI announced their complete squad for upcoming Australia tour. Rohit Sharma and Ishant Sharma names are missing due to injuries.

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This is more or less same squad as last tour except inclusion of Siraj and Shubman Gill. KL Rahul back in the test squad, i still remember his last performance in the last tour  

Team India Test squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Mayank Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane (vice-captain), Hanuma Vihari, Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha (wicket-keeper), Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Shami, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, R. Ashwin, Mohd. Siraj

New Updates

BCCI seems confused on Rohit and other players due to injury, they should have wait to finish IPL first to avoid any confusion, or at least disclose the squad one week before the Finals. Anyways here are more changes and update on Indian squad.


https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/30284064/virat-kohli-play-only-one-test-australia,-rohit-sharma-added-squad

Follow up

Australian Squad against India is out.. couple of youngsters Cameron Green and Will Pucovsk will be part of the squad due to their good performances in Sheffield. Surprisingly Usman Khawaja is not included even in Australia A team, may be he's taking break or got injured.
https://www.cricketaustralia.com.au/media/announcements/australia-test-squad-versus-india/2020-11-12

[Indymoney]

Australian Squad against India is out.. couple of youngsters Cameron Green and Will Pucovsk will be part of the squad due to their good performances in Sheffield. Surprisingly Usman Khawaja is not included even in Australia A team, may be he's taking break or got injured.

Usman Khawaj is currently busy in Sheffield but his form is not good so just because of this Aussie Selectors drop him and bring some new blood in team and sometime back he was in some argument with some officials in ACB just because of this I am feeling his career is already over for Australia.

[7788bitcoin]

Australian Squad against India is out.. couple of youngsters Cameron Green and Will Pucovsk will be part of the squad due to their good performances in Sheffield. Surprisingly Usman Khawaja is not included even in Australia A team, may be he's taking break or got injured.

I am happy to see Will Pucovski getting selected because he was in tremendous form scoring back to back double centuries against WA and SA and i wish to see him as the openers for Australia along with David Warner and that means Joe Burns will be sitting out, i do not think that Usman Khawaja is injured but he does not have a place in the playing eleven and i am expecting Australia to dominate India in the series.

[JSRAW]

Australian Squad against India is out.. couple of youngsters Cameron Green and Will Pucovsk will be part of the squad due to their good performances in Sheffield. Surprisingly Usman Khawaja is not included even in Australia A team, may be he's taking break or got injured.

I am happy to see Will Pucovski getting selected because he was in tremendous form scoring back to back double centuries against WA and SA and i wish to see him as the openers for Australia along with David Warner and that means Joe Burns will be sitting out, i do not think that Usman Khawaja is injured but he does not have a place in the playing eleven and i am expecting Australia to dominate India in the series.

Usman Khawaj is currently busy in Sheffield but his form is not good so just because of this Aussie Selectors drop him and bring some new blood in team and sometime back he was in some argument with some officials in ACB just because of this I am feeling his career is already over for Australia.

@7788bitcoin True, this Pucovski guy is really talented, he was making his case strongly and caught everyone's attention in the last season as well. @Indymoney Bad form makes more sense in Khawaja's case. Smith and Marnus would take 3rd and 4th spot respectively so its hard for him to get into the Aussie squad, it seems competition is really tough in Australia for batters.

[vella85]

Australian Squad against India is out.. couple of youngsters Cameron Green and Will Pucovsk will be part of the squad due to their good performances in Sheffield. Surprisingly Usman Khawaja is not included even in Australia A team, may be he's taking break or got injured.

I am happy to see Will Pucovski getting selected because he was in tremendous form scoring back to back double centuries against WA and SA and i wish to see him as the openers for Australia along with David Warner and that means Joe Burns will be sitting out, i do not think that Usman Khawaja is injured but he does not have a place in the playing eleven and i am expecting Australia to dominate India in the series.

Like you I was very happy to see that Will Pucovski get picked for the Australian team as he has been in top form and deserved to be picked. My honest opinion with Usman Khawaja is that his test career is almost over as he has been in and out of the team for years now and can't seem to hold his spot in the team once he gets in as poor form lets him down in test matches. I think Australia now has one of the best batting line ups in test match cricket and will be very hard to beat on home soil. That is why I said this time around it will be a different story as now India will be playing a full strength Australian team when compared to the last series that was played in Australia between the two teams.

[7788bitcoin]

Smith and Marnus would take 3rd and 4th spot respectively so its hard for him to get into the Aussie squad, it seems competition is really tough in Australia for batters.

The competition is really high and there are youngsters who are performing well in first class matches knocking at the doors.

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My honest opinion with Usman Khawaja is that his test career is almost over as he has been in and out of the team for years now and can't seem to hold his spot in the team once he gets in as poor form lets him down in test matches.

Even when Usman Khawaja was in prime form scoring back to back centuries in different formats a few years ago he was not picked in the Australian squad until someone was injured and he could not replicate the exact form in the international level but now with his form in doubt it is difficult for him to return.

I think Australia now has one of the best batting line ups in test match cricket and will be very hard to beat on home soil. That is why I said this time around it will be a different story as now India will be playing a full strength Australian team when compared to the last series that was played in Australia between the two teams.

With Warner and Smith back in the team the competition is really high and India sneaked a victory last time in Australia but this time it is not going to happen  .

[Clement Kaliyar]

With Warner and Smith back in the team the competition is really high and India sneaked a victory last time in Australia but this time it is not going to happen  .

It was a comprehensive victory because the team Australia selected was not able to face the Indian bowlers and the same bowling line up might not be coming back to Australia because Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Ishant Sharma is injured but Mohammed Shami  and Jasprit Bumrah could test the players and the ODI and T20 would be really interesting but for Test matches without Virat Kohli in the team might be a hard battle.

[JSRAW]

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Will Pucovski 

He's giving tough fight to Burns for opening slot. Both of them made double tons so it would be really hard for selectors to choose one. I would say, at least for 1st game they might go with Burns, if something goes wrong in the opening game then Will might replace him.

[plast555]

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Will Pucovski 

He's giving tough fight to Burns for opening slot. Both of them made double tons so it would be really hard for selectors to choose one. I would say, at least for 1st game they might go with Burns, if something goes wrong in the opening game then Will might replace him.

We all know about Australian level of cricket they are really tough and its never been easy for any one to have spot in this team and right now they have very tough situation as two players from same standard fighting for spot in team I read selectors also in touch with Warner about his partner hopefully we will have some good news about this in coming days because after very long wait we are going to have some interesting matches in Australia even every one still fighting hard with this Covid-19 second row in world.

[eaLiTy]

We all know about Australian level of cricket they are really tough and its never been easy for any one to have spot in this team and right now they have very tough situation as two players from same standard fighting for spot in team I read selectors also in touch with Warner about his partner hopefully we will have some good news about this in coming days because after very long wait we are going to have some interesting matches in Australia even every one still fighting hard with this Covid-19 second row in world.

Australia played a high standard of game for decades but in recent times when Warner and Smith was suspended they struggled to find a quality player that could replace them and so is the reason everyone is claiming that the team India beat last time was without their main players and i was expecting a tough battle but Virat Kohli not playing the entire series was a bummer.

[7788bitcoin]

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It was a comprehensive victory because the team Australia selected was not able to face the Indian bowlers and the same bowling line up might not be coming back to Australia because Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Ishant Sharma is injured but Mohammed Shami  and Jasprit Bumrah could test the players and the ODI and T20 would be really interesting but for Test matches without Virat Kohli in the team might be a hard battle.

Whatever be the case India will be sending the best team possible and Australia will be looking forward to that and hopefully Australia could dominate the series and there is no debate about India having good pace bowlers but i believe that Australia will be more than capable to score runs against them and win the series comprehensively  .