Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[galambo]

Damn you Bangladesh!! This is the second time Saffa's spin duo knocked you out cheaply, what happened to you guys?

Australia and South Africa are bossing the point table, South Africa still has 2 tough series away from home but 1 easy series at home against Windies.

India and Pakistan walking on tightrope.
https://i.imgur.com/W1Cq24h.jpg

Disappointing performance from Bangladesh in second innings. They have players in their team that can easily take score to 200 atleast but they are failing to reach double figure's. Only two South African bowlers were enough to uproot whole Bangladeshi team.

[KennyR]

Damn you Bangladesh!! This is the second time Saffa's spin duo knocked you out cheaply, what happened to you guys?

Australia and South Africa are bossing the point table, South Africa still has 2 tough series away from home but 1 easy series at home against Windies.

India and Pakistan walking on tightrope.
https://i.imgur.com/W1Cq24h.jpg

Disappointing performance from Bangladesh in second innings. They have players in their team that can easily take score to 200 atleast but they are failing to reach double figure's. Only two South African bowlers were enough to uproot whole Bangladeshi team.

Considering the first innings performance what Bangladesh did in the second innings of the match is really disappointing. Even in the first innings there is continued wicket fall at specific interval, but the team managed to score 217 runs. During the second innings also it should've managed to score atleast 200 runs. Losing entire wickets for 80 runs in a test match shows that Bangladesh needs lots of improvement.

[wiss19]

Considering the first innings performance what Bangladesh did in the second innings of the match is really disappointing. Even in the first innings there is continued wicket fall at specific interval, but the team managed to score 217 runs. During the second innings also it should've managed to score atleast 200 runs. Losing entire wickets for 80 runs in a test match shows that Bangladesh needs lots of improvement.

Maharaj is the biggest nightmare for Bangladesh in this series as he takes 16 wickets in just three innings which is surely amazing performance from this short man but on other side surely a terrible series for Bangladesh specially after winning ODI series and South African playing without their main players which are not available due to their duties in IPL.

Now with just 23 overs and 80 runs on board Bangladesh have one unwanted record that they are victim of 16th occasion when a team is bowled by two bowlers with this record they face the worst defeat, and now they are just above England in WTC ranking with most chances they will drop out at bottom because now in next few weeks England is going to have some points.

With this result now we can hope from BCB that they will think about this format as well and bring some good changes for better quality which helps them for staying in good place.

[Newlifebtc]

Damn you Bangladesh!! This is the second time Saffa's spin duo knocked you out cheaply, what happened to you guys?

Australia and South Africa are bossing the point table, South Africa still has 2 tough series away from home but 1 easy series at home against Windies.

India and Pakistan walking on tightrope.
https://i.imgur.com/W1Cq24h.jpg

Disappointing performance from Bangladesh in second innings. They have players in their team that can easily take score to 200 atleast but they are failing to reach double figure's. Only two South African bowlers were enough to uproot whole Bangladeshi team.

do you know that cricket game is one of difficult game so far in sports, Bangladesh team did perform well does show that they don't know what they are doing because i know that games are not play to be like that but at most failures pay visit to match you know fully well that your supporter will win. The disappointment you have for the team is not constant, i hope you know

[mm2543363580]

Damn you Bangladesh!! This is the second time Saffa's spin duo knocked you out cheaply, what happened to you guys?

Australia and South Africa are bossing the point table, South Africa still has 2 tough series away from home but 1 easy series at home against Windies.

India and Pakistan walking on tightrope.
https://i.imgur.com/W1Cq24h.jpg

Disappointing performance from Bangladesh in second innings. They have players in their team that can easily take score to 200 atleast but they are failing to reach double figure's. Only two South African bowlers were enough to uproot whole Bangladeshi team.

do you know that cricket game is one of difficult game so far in sports, Bangladesh team did perform well does show that they don't know what they are doing because i know that games are not play to be like that but at most failures pay visit to match you know fully well that your supporter will win. The disappointment you have for the team is not constant, i hope you know

Bangladesh always remains the target of criticism. I think they need a little moral boosting as well. Every time they loose a match they are under serious pressure of criticism from all around. They came to the field a bit later than other team. They need time as well to be considered as an experienced team.

[Naficopa]

Damn you Bangladesh!! This is the second time Saffa's spin duo knocked you out cheaply, what happened to you guys?

Australia and South Africa are bossing the point table, South Africa still has 2 tough series away from home but 1 easy series at home against Windies.

India and Pakistan walking on tightrope.
https://i.imgur.com/W1Cq24h.jpg

Disappointing performance from Bangladesh in second innings. They have players in their team that can easily take score to 200 atleast but they are failing to reach double figure's. Only two South African bowlers were enough to uproot whole Bangladeshi team.

do you know that cricket game is one of difficult game so far in sports, Bangladesh team did perform well does show that they don't know what they are doing because i know that games are not play to be like that but at most failures pay visit to match you know fully well that your supporter will win. The disappointment you have for the team is not constant, i hope you know

I agree with you, every game is difficult when the player is in the field.
It is easy to criticize someone, but it’s easier to appreciate the players as well. Bangladishi team needs an appreciation as well. They are always under the pressure of criticism.

[savetheFORUM]

Bangladesh always remains the target of criticism. I think they need a little moral boosting as well. Every time they loose a match they are under serious pressure of criticism from all around. They came to the field a bit later than other team. They need time as well to be considered as an experienced team.

It's all because of their poor record in test matches, they have total 130  16  97  0  17  0.16  12.3  74.61  13.07     
16 wins from 130 matches is the worst which is bringing some good criticism for them, they badly fail to adopt this and been never deserve this status mostly peoples were feeling Zimbabwe is the worst team in this format, but they are also having better record and can compete in this format if they solve their inner political problems which are hurting cricket very badly in long run.

But, for Bangladesh there is no problem like this they are completely failed to adopt this and going down badly day by day which is really a problem which need to settle or ICC need to do some other options.

[Juggy777]

Damn you Bangladesh!! This is the second time Saffa's spin duo knocked you out cheaply, what happened to you guys?

Australia and South Africa are bossing the point table, South Africa still has 2 tough series away from home but 1 easy series at home against Windies.

India and Pakistan walking on tightrope.
https://i.imgur.com/W1Cq24h.jpg

Disappointing performance from Bangladesh in second innings. They have players in their team that can easily take score to 200 atleast but they are failing to reach double figure's. Only two South African bowlers were enough to uproot whole Bangladeshi team.

do you know that cricket game is one of difficult game so far in sports, Bangladesh team did perform well does show that they don't know what they are doing because i know that games are not play to be like that but at most failures pay visit to match you know fully well that your supporter will win. The disappointment you have for the team is not constant, i hope you know

I agree with you, every game is difficult when the player is in the field.
It is easy to criticize someone, but it’s easier to appreciate the players as well. Bangladishi team needs an appreciation as well. They are always under the pressure of criticism.

Bangladesh always remains the target of criticism. I think they need a little moral boosting as well. Every time they loose a match they are under serious pressure of criticism from all around. They came to the field a bit later than other team. They need time as well to be considered as an experienced team.

It's all because of their poor record in test matches, they have total 130  16  97  0  17  0.16  12.3  74.61  13.07     
16 wins from 130 matches is the worst which is bringing some good criticism for them, they badly fail to adopt this and been never deserve this status mostly peoples were feeling Zimbabwe is the worst team in this format, but they are also having better record and can compete in this format if they solve their inner political problems which are hurting cricket very badly in long run.

But, for Bangladesh there is no problem like this they are completely failed to adopt this and going down badly day by day which is really a problem which need to settle or ICC need to do some other options.

I think people are right to criticise Bangladesh for this poor performance, because they gave away 29 wickets to the African spinners and there’s no justification for the way they played in the second innings. Also Bangladesh can learn a lot from this defeat and work on improving their game, because I feel with some more efforts they can improve their overall game and provide tough challenge to their opponents.

[blatchcorn]

I think people are right to criticise Bangladesh for this poor performance, because they gave away 29 wickets to the African spinners and there’s no justification for the way they played in the second innings. Also Bangladesh can learn a lot from this defeat and work on improving their game, because I feel with some more efforts they can improve their overall game and provide tough challenge to their opponents.

People may be right or wrong in criticising Bangladesh but Bangladesh are in no mood of learning anything from there mistakes. They need to build a strong domestic infrastructure which can produce quality players from grass root level. You can only have a strong team if your domestic setup has quality FC or list A games

[mm2543363580]

I think people are right to criticise Bangladesh for this poor performance, because they gave away 29 wickets to the African spinners and there’s no justification for the way they played in the second innings. Also Bangladesh can learn a lot from this defeat and work on improving their game, because I feel with some more efforts they can improve their overall game and provide tough challenge to their opponents.

People may be right or wrong in criticising Bangladesh but Bangladesh are in no mood of learning anything from there mistakes. They need to build a strong domestic infrastructure which can produce quality players from grass root level. You can only have a strong team if your domestic setup has quality FC or list A games

Bangladesh is a progressive country - but I don't know why the team is not coming up to the people's expectations?
You have well stated that they are not ready to learn from their mistakes and the performance is going down like never before. Time to serious learn from the mistakes and move a head.

[Maidak]

I think people are right to criticise Bangladesh for this poor performance, because they gave away 29 wickets to the African spinners and there’s no justification for the way they played in the second innings. Also Bangladesh can learn a lot from this defeat and work on improving their game, because I feel with some more efforts they can improve their overall game and provide tough challenge to their opponents.

People may be right or wrong in criticising Bangladesh but Bangladesh are in no mood of learning anything from there mistakes. They need to build a strong domestic infrastructure which can produce quality players from grass root level. You can only have a strong team if your domestic setup has quality FC or list A games

One thing I really don't understand is that these players are supposed to be the best in Bangladesh because I assume that's why they are on the national team.

If this is the performance that can be produced by the best in Bangladesh I really don't know what to say. 

Can anyone talk about what happened to Mehidy Miraz? That occurrence alone can tell us what goes in the mindset of the Bangladesh cricketers when they are playing test cricket.

[blatchcorn]

One thing I really don't understand is that these players are supposed to be the best in Bangladesh because I assume that's why they are on the national team.

If this is the performance that can be produced by the best in Bangladesh I really don't know what to say.  

Can anyone talk about what happened to Mehidy Miraz? That occurrence alone can tell us what goes in the mindset of the Bangladesh cricketers when they are playing test cricket.

Bangladesh has proper domestic infrastructure and I don't know why that domestic setup cant produce any quality Test team till date. Remember this is South Africa second Sting team and against them Bangladesh were bowled out for 53 in 1st test and on 80 in second test.
The positive thing for SA from this series is that "they are not throwing the doors open to welcome back the IPL absentees who "vacated their spots", as coach Mark Boucher put it, after finding a strong second-tier of players in their series sweep over Bangladesh. (source) "

[Maidak]

Bangladesh has proper domestic infrastructure and I don't know why that domestic setup cant produce any quality Test team till date. Remember this is South Africa second Sting team and against them Bangladesh were bowled out for 53 in 1st test and on 80 in second test.
The positive thing for SA from this series is that "they are not throwing the doors open to welcome back the IPL absentees who "vacated their spots", as coach Mark Boucher put it, after finding a strong second-tier of players in their series sweep over Bangladesh. (source) "

The domestic setup is not producing much in Bangladesh because the cricket board is being run by people who don't know how to do their work and at times they don't even care.
Even the President of the Bangladesh cricket board is just there for the money. And a cricket board cannot be run like that. I really don't believe that he knows anything about sports.

[blatchcorn]

The domestic setup is not producing much in Bangladesh because the cricket board is being run by people who don't know how to do their work and at times they don't even care.
Even the President of the Bangladesh cricket board is just there for the money. And a cricket board cannot be run like that. I really don't believe that he knows anything about sports.

Players come from grass root level and its difficult rather impossible to build a team at international level. I mean you cant select players and then say we will make a strong team from these players. Bangladesh may be paying more attention to BPL on there domestic test setup thats why they have gone down to such low level in test.

[SirLancelot]

Bangladesh is a progressive country - but I don't know why the team is not coming up to the people's expectations?
You have well stated that they are not ready to learn from their mistakes and the performance is going down like never before. Time to serious learn from the mistakes and move a head.

There is no doubt Bangladesh recently achieve some amazing success in economically, and they are one of developing countries those are doing best for having good success in future, but still corruption is the biggest concern for them.

Specially with having not strong and fair system is hurting them very badly they need to work on basic requirements which bring transparency which is very important for having good and strong foundation.
They are not learning from their mistakes and not developing their domestic system as well which is very important for any country to have good talent from grassroots which give them good success as we have in India even it needs good money but still they can achieve this.

Sports is now a big industry which can bring some good foreign investment in any country, but it needs strong management.

[coinism]

There is no doubt Bangladesh recently achieve some amazing success in economically, and they are one of developing countries those are doing best for having good success in future, but still corruption is the biggest concern for them.

If Bangladesh maintains this current form then big teams wont be interested in playing against such weak team. Take example of Pakistan, they don't have a strong board like BCCI, CA but they have a strong team that's why countries love to play with them and we see there players in every T20 leagues.

[mm2543363580]

There is no doubt Bangladesh recently achieve some amazing success in economically, and they are one of developing countries those are doing best for having good success in future, but still corruption is the biggest concern for them.

If Bangladesh maintains this current form then big teams wont be interested in playing against such weak team. Take example of Pakistan, they don't have a strong board like BCCI, CA but they have a strong team that's why countries love to play with them and we see there players in every T20 leagues.

Pakistan has a flare for cricket. And its played in every street and grounds and youngster idealize cricketers alot. PSL itself was very big success but by the time Rameen Raja has joined the PCB team has performed better and they have gained confidence as well. Pakistani team cannot afford defeat since they know there is so much emotions attached with the game.

[Sithara007]

If Bangladesh maintains this current form then big teams wont be interested in playing against such weak team. Take example of Pakistan, they don't have a strong board like BCCI, CA but they have a strong team that's why countries love to play with them and we see there players in every T20 leagues.

Both Bangladesh and Pakistan are having similar population size, but in terms of economy, Pakistan is a lot better when compared to Bangladesh. Now they have a quality franchise T20 league in PSL as well. On the other hand, the BPL started much before PCB were even planning for the PSL, but it is not being regarded as one of the top T20 leagues in the world. Dhaka based clubs are not happy with the BPL, as they believe that it takes away some of their fans. Not saying that there is no infighting within the PCB, but for the BCB it is far worse.

[JSRAW]

Both Bangladesh and Pakistan are having similar population size, but in terms of economy, Pakistan is a lot better when compared to Bangladesh.

Ha! That's a ridiculous claim. Bangladesh already surpassed pakistan in terms of GDP and their economy quite strong in comparison to Pakistan, Pak's economy is in shambles atm and also look at inflation rate. Bongs are even ahead of India in terms Per capita income.

But yeah they lack cricketing talent and lagging dramatically.

[blatchcorn]

Ha! That's a ridiculous claim. Bangladesh already surpassed pakistan in terms of GDP and their economy quite strong in comparison to Pakistan, Pak's economy is in shambles atm and also look at inflation rate. Bongs are even ahead of India in terms Per capita income.

But yeah they lack cricketing talent and lagging dramatically.

You are right that economics indicators in Bangladesh are far better then Pakistan. Pakistan has faced lots of issues related to terrorism in last 15 years still its standing firmly, I don't think Bangladesh is strong enough to face situation like Pakistan for 15 years. I till date cant understand why they were given Test status on basis of winning a game against Pakistan in 1999 WC.