Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Vaskiy]

Did not expect a draw today. Yes NZ has done it so well until the last over. Till last evening, was hoping India would take off all wickets. India set a target of 284. NZ stood still after 9th wicket and that made them drawn the match. Last wicket last till the end facing 59 balls.

Axar and Aswin's performance have really lead Indian fans to win today's test match. Hoping for a win in the second test match soon.

India played good, and New Zealand on the last day gave an unexpected performance. I thought New Zealand will make it looking upon its scoring pattern. In between the consecutive wickets turned the game. For the last wicket India tried all possible ways, but weren't able to take the wicket. In the next match India will try to be more stronger, understanding what to be done and where the mistake took place.

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[Haunebu]

These test match rules completely suck sometimes. How the heck does NZ get away with a draw when India clearly won the match? The ICC needs to add a Duckworth Lewis kind of system in order to prevent draws in tests.

Test matches ending in draws are pointless basically and nullifies all efforts by players of both teams which is messed up. This is one of the primary reasons why I don't bother watching tests from start to finish.

[JSRAW]

These test match rules completely suck sometimes. How the heck does NZ get away with a draw when India clearly won the match? The ICC needs to add a Duckworth Lewis kind of system in order to prevent draws in tests.

Test matches ending in draws are pointless basically and nullifies all efforts by players of both teams which is messed up. This is one of the primary reasons why I don't bother watching tests from start to finish.

India failed to take 10 wickets, although they were bit unlucky that bad light ruined their party when they needed only 1 wicket but they had their chances.

I do agree that such kind of draw doesn't taste good to strongly positioned sides but test cricket need similar results sometimes or some last overs finish because it makes test cricket more exciting and will attract more eyeballs in a longer run as far as Red ball cricket is concern. I would also add that no one forgets these kind of tests even after decades.   

Having said that, bad light problem could be tackle in some cases if cricket board start focusing more on D/N tests at some venues where sunlight becoming big issue during winter or other reasons.

[Sithara007]

These test match rules completely suck sometimes. How the heck does NZ get away with a draw when India clearly won the match? The ICC needs to add a Duckworth Lewis kind of system in order to prevent draws in tests.

Test matches ending in draws are pointless basically and nullifies all efforts by players of both teams which is messed up. This is one of the primary reasons why I don't bother watching tests from start to finish.

I don't think that a rule similar to the Duckworth/Lewis is going to help. In case of the Kanpur test, there was no rain interruption and 5 days of play was possible. And there is no defense, if a result can't be obtained in a sports match after paying for close to 40 hours. A football match lasts for 1.5 hours and provides a definite result in the end. A hockey match lasts even shorter and it also provided the results. Now comes test cricket, which doesn't provide a result after playing continuously for 5 days. We really need to get rid of this obsolete format.

[virasog]

Eventually India has given a target of 284 runs to the New Zealand team. The surface of the pitch is helping the bowlers more now. New Zealand has lost their first wickets today and the match will continue on day five. I have a strong feelings that India will win the match. There is a big difference between the betting odds and it is fully in favour of India now.

Congrats to those who made there bet on draw they must have enough funds to enjoy there Christmas and new year. Its proved once again that odds are nothing to predict the outcome of any match. They say and I believe that "cricket is old funny game". India must be disappointed and they should rightly be but nonetheless its an interesting contest.

If you had placed a bet on a draw before the start of the match, that's understandable but i doubt anyone would have placed a bet on draw on the last day of this test match. There were no signs of draw but the last wicket partnership stood in between a winning of a team and a draw. No one would have predicted this in the morning of the last day of the test.

[UmerIdrees]

These test match rules completely suck sometimes. How the heck does NZ get away with a draw when India clearly won the match?

Really, now you want to award the wining's to the Indian team even if they have not managed to win the match ?

The fact is that Indian team have included failed and pathetic bowlers like Ishant Sharma, Ashwin and Patel who cant even bowl out the last man of the New Zealand team. They were looking completely helpless to get the wicket.

[savetheFORUM]

I would say New Zealand deserved to draw the match. I was expecting India to win the match considering they had all the world class spinners and still if they are able to last the entire day is their resistance and fight to avoid the defeat. Glad i did not place a bet on India to win the match, i was thinking to place a bet but the odds were not that great and hence i skipped placing a bet.

Surely they have done one of their best test performance at Indian soil because no one was expecting resistance like this from them specially after losing all well experienced batsmen last pair stay at crease for 10 overs which is best from their tail enders after this draw now they can feel much relaxed because now they have some good experience and better strategy for next game which is going to play after just 3 days at Mumbai which is also heaven for spinners and this is going to be very interesting competition between these two teams because now Kohli is also coming back and New Zealanders also having some better time after this draw lets see what's going to happen with both teams looking for some healthy points for WTC.

[onecall123]

These test match rules completely suck sometimes. How the heck does NZ get away with a draw when India clearly won the match?

Really, now you want to award the wining's to the Indian team even if they have not managed to win the match ?

The fact is that Indian team have included failed and pathetic bowlers like Ishant Sharma, Ashwin and Patel who cant even bowl out the last man of the New Zealand team. They were looking completely helpless to get the wicket.

A rare thing happened in the Kanpur draw when the Indian bowling line up failed to pick up the last wicket. Yes, visitors rarely draw with India in a test match. A lot of effort and heart went into that result. The Indian bowlers managed to put NZ under pressure throughout the innings, but NZ batters made a significant contribution till the last ball.

[JSRAW]

Updated WTC point table.

In this cycle Pakistan has a real solid chance of qualifying into the finals. They are playing SENA countries in their own condition (Home) or may be their UAE home ground, all away matches are against Ban, SL and WI.

NZ, Ind, Aus, Eng has a equal chance of qualifying. Although we can rule out England completely cause they are already 2-1 behind one of their own home series against India and playing against Kiwis at home. Ashes is on the line too. Their schedule looks tough af.

[LittleBitFunny]

These test match rules completely suck sometimes. How the heck does NZ get away with a draw when India clearly won the match?

Really, now you want to award the wining's to the Indian team even if they have not managed to win the match ?

The fact is that Indian team have included failed and pathetic bowlers like Ishant Sharma, Ashwin and Patel who cant even bowl out the last man of the New Zealand team. They were looking completely helpless to get the wicket.

Although the match was drawn. But I have to say that India has played great. Here New Zealand's goal was to survive at the crease and draw the match. New Zealand did not expect to win the run target that India gave. They also failed to survive at the crease. The performance of the batsmen was terribly bad. Rachin Ravindra played 91 balls. Only for Ravindra, New Zealand can draw the match.

[laurenB7742]

In the second Test between West Indies and Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka finished their first innings with just 204 runs. I thought they would collect more than 250. This collection seems very low for the first inning. West Indies lost just one wicket and scored 61 runs. The West Indies will be looking to win this Test after losing the first Test. You must play well in the first innings to win. If you perform poorly in the first innings, victory is not possible with good performance in the second innings.

[Mahdirakib]

If you had placed a bet on a draw before the start of the match, that's understandable but i doubt anyone would have placed a bet on draw on the last day of this test match. There were no signs of draw but the last wicket partnership stood in between a winning of a team and a draw. No one would have predicted this in the morning of the last day of the test.

I didn't place any bet on draw. Actually I thought India will win and the odds was on favour of them. I believe, no expected such long partnership from the last wicket. They played for almost ten overs, where middle order batsmen got out frequently. The match was officially declared as drawn few minutes earlier than the ending time because of the low light problem.

[Theones]

In the second Test between West Indies and Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka finished their first innings with just 204 runs. I thought they would collect more than 250. This collection seems very low for the first inning. West Indies lost just one wicket and scored 61 runs. The West Indies will be looking to win this Test after losing the first Test. You must play well in the first innings to win. If you perform poorly in the first innings, victory is not possible with good performance in the second innings.

Good first wicket partnership but later oder batsmen failed to take advantage of that 100 runs opening partnership. Its same thing we saw in NZ/India and Pak/Bangladesh match. We can't say bad 1st innings performance may lead to loss.  There are always chances to recover in second innings. WI first inning is still in progress so we can't say who has done bad in first innings.

[Maidak]

In the second Test between West Indies and Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka finished their first innings with just 204 runs. I thought they would collect more than 250. This collection seems very low for the first inning. West Indies lost just one wicket and scored 61 runs. The West Indies will be looking to win this Test after losing the first Test. You must play well in the first innings to win. If you perform poorly in the first innings, victory is not possible with good performance in the second innings.

West Indies did really well up to this point in the second test match. And I think they did well to restrict the Sri Lankan batting only for 204. And they also played well while batting as they have lost only one wicket for 62 runs. I think west indies really need to survive the next morning and play out those hard overs. Then they can score more feeling when they have wickets in hand.

[Iranus]

These test match rules completely suck sometimes. How the heck does NZ get away with a draw when India clearly won the match?

Really, now you want to award the wining's to the Indian team even if they have not managed to win the match ?
The fact is that Indian team have included failed and pathetic bowlers like Ishant Sharma, Ashwin and Patel who cant even bowl out the last man of the New Zealand team. They were looking completely helpless to get the wicket.

Although the match was drawn. But I have to say that India has played great. Here New Zealand's goal was to survive at the crease and draw the match. New Zealand did not expect to win the run target that India gave. They also failed to survive at the crease. The performance of the batsmen was terribly bad. Rachin Ravindra played 91 balls. Only for Ravindra, New Zealand can draw the match.

Yes, absolutely and I think ok almost all the credit goes to the last pair of batsmen. They really survived a great amount of time and that was also in front of a really good morning attack. I mean even the top order and the middle-order batsman couldn't do anything against those bowlers. India should really feel a little disappointed not to be able to get the last wicket but they really dominated the test match even though it was a draw.

[laurenB7742]

In the second Test between West Indies and Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka finished their first innings with just 204 runs. I thought they would collect more than 250. This collection seems very low for the first inning. West Indies lost just one wicket and scored 61 runs. The West Indies will be looking to win this Test after losing the first Test. You must play well in the first innings to win. If you perform poorly in the first innings, victory is not possible with good performance in the second innings.

West Indies did really well up to this point in the second test match. And I think they did well to restrict the Sri Lankan batting only for 204. And they also played well while batting as they have lost only one wicket for 62 runs. I think west indies really need to survive the next morning and play out those hard overs. Then they can score more feeling when they have wickets in hand.

The outcome of the entire match will depend on the first session of the next day. The first session of the day is always important. The team that is ahead in the first session usually dominates the whole day. If the West Indies play carefully in the first session of the third day and do not lose wickets, I think they will be able to collect a big one. But if they lose a few wickets at the start of the season, the match will be controlled by the Sri Lankan bowler

[pakhitheboss]

In the second Test between West Indies and Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka finished their first innings with just 204 runs. I thought they would collect more than 250. This collection seems very low for the first inning. West Indies lost just one wicket and scored 61 runs. The West Indies will be looking to win this Test after losing the first Test. You must play well in the first innings to win. If you perform poorly in the first innings, victory is not possible with good performance in the second innings.

West Indies did really well up to this point in the second test match. And I think they did well to restrict the Sri Lankan batting only for 204. And they also played well while batting as they have lost only one wicket for 62 runs. I think west indies really need to survive the next morning and play out those hard overs. Then they can score more feeling when they have wickets in hand.

The outcome of the entire match will depend on the first session of the next day. The first session of the day is always important. The team that is ahead in the first session usually dominates the whole day. If the West Indies play carefully in the first session of the third day and do not lose wickets, I think they will be able to collect a big one. But if they lose a few wickets at the start of the season, the match will be controlled by the Sri Lankan bowler

WI still trail by 135 runs and I do not think it will be hard for them to reach that target. They have already lost 1 wicket and if they lose more then it will be a struggle for them. Kraigg Brathwaite is still on the pitch and he needs to stay there. I feel this match is heading towards draw lets see what happens.

[Sithara007]

Anyone following the unofficial test between South Africa A and India A? I am seeing India A in action after a long break. And I am not sure whether this tournament will go ahead as planned, as the Omicron variant is spreading across South Africa. But for now, the matches are ongoing. After first day of play, South Africa A is at 233/7, but none of their players managed a half century. There were a few 40s and 30s, but no 50s. Among the Indian bowlers, Ishan Porel and Navdeep Saini picked up two wickets each.

[LittleBitFunny]

Shakib Al Hasan returns to the squad for the second Test against Pakistan. This is good news for Bangladesh. Bangladesh's bowling lineup is very weak. In the second innings of the previous Test, they were able to take only two wickets for Pakistan. Moreover, the performance of pace bowlers is worse. In such a situation, an all-rounder team like Shakib was needed.

[Juggy777]

Shakib Al Hasan returns to the squad for the second Test against Pakistan. This is good news for Bangladesh. Bangladesh's bowling lineup is very weak. In the second innings of the previous Test, they were able to take only two wickets for Pakistan. Moreover, the performance of pace bowlers is worse. In such a situation, an all-rounder team like Shakib was needed.

@LittleBitFunny Shakib is more than an a all rounder he’s an leader and inspires the dressing room by his mere presence, hence his availability is indeed a major boost for the Bangladeshi team. Also I’m sure his experience will help other bowlers too, so it looks like Pakistan will not find it easy to beat Bangladesh in the next test match.