Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Haunebu]

This match just keeps swinging here and there with no clear winner yet. Who would have expected Ireland to give England such a tough fight especially after they won the World Cup recently?

This is pure entertainment people. If England does not post something close to 200, I am confident that they will lose this match most likely.

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[Little Mouse]

6th gone and England is leading by 113 runs only. The match is now having some more interest. Root is fighting hardly, if Ireland can manage him, target will not be more than 200 I think.This is a big chance for them.

[Vishnu.Reang]

6th gone and England is leading by 113 runs only. The match is now having some more interest. Root is fighting hardly, if Ireland can manage him, target will not be more than 200 I think.This is a big chance for them.

7th gone and England leading by 117 runs. If Ireland can restrict the Brits to a lead of less than 150, then they will be having the advantage. However, any score above that will be very difficult under the current circumstances. Woakes can bat, and Sam Curran is not really a tail ender. So hope is still not lost for England. What they need to do is to bat patiently.

[erikalui]

Ireland got a great team of bowlers who managed to slow down England batsmen else with 1 wicket down, they were looking to get over 300 runs but now they are struggling to get 280. Only 3 wickets to take and then Ireland can easily win this match with about 150-160 to chase down.

If England lose this match, they'll say Ireland have great bowlers

[Vishnu.Reang]

Ireland got a great team of bowlers who managed to slow down England batsmen else with 1 wicket down, they were looking to get over 300 runs but now they are struggling to get 280. Only 3 wickets to take and then Ireland can easily win this match with about 150-160 to chase down.

If England lose this match, they'll say Ireland have great bowlers

Looking at the seam movement and bounce, I would say that even 150 is going to be difficult for Ireland. But we are not done with the England innings yet. Broad and Curran are good batsmen, and if they build a partnership, then they will be able to rescue the team from trouble. But disturbingly, none of the English batsmen has shown any patience or determination to stay at the crease. They seems to be in T20 mode. 

[BitSat19]

Ireland got a great team of bowlers who managed to slow down England batsmen else with 1 wicket down, they were looking to get over 300 runs but now they are struggling to get 280. Only 3 wickets to take and then Ireland can easily win this match with about 150-160 to chase down.

If England lose this match, they'll say Ireland have great bowlers

Looking at the seam movement and bounce, I would say that even 150 is going to be difficult for Ireland. But we are not done with the England innings yet. Broad and Curran are good batsmen, and if they build a partnership, then they will be able to rescue the team from trouble. But disturbingly, none of the English batsmen has shown any patience or determination to stay at the crease. They seems to be in T20 mode. 

This partnership really hurting Ireland 43 runs in just 5 overs can kill Irish dream if these two stay for more 3 or 4 overs then all damage will be done Curran is on fire 36 from 24 balls.

[Raja_MBZ]

Ireland got a great team of bowlers who managed to slow down England batsmen else with 1 wicket down, they were looking to get over 300 runs but now they are struggling to get 280. Only 3 wickets to take and then Ireland can easily win this match with about 150-160 to chase down.

If England lose this match, they'll say Ireland have great bowlers

Looking at the seam movement and bounce, I would say that even 150 is going to be difficult for Ireland. But we are not done with the England innings yet. Broad and Curran are good batsmen, and if they build a partnership, then they will be able to rescue the team from trouble. But disturbingly, none of the English batsmen has shown any patience or determination to stay at the crease. They seems to be in T20 mode. 

Well, Curran played very well but now he's gone. It's quite amazing that even at the ninth and tenth number, England has some excellent batsmen. If England wins this one, it'll primarily because of amazing batting by Stuart Broad and Curran. IMO, these 60 runs will prove to be extremely precious for England.

[sujonali1819]

Again rain is playing with this tournament like last the world cup. Anyway, 2nd innings of England is a little bit of helpful for England because they are already leading 181 runs in 9 wickets. One wicket is remaining.  So another few runs will be came from the last wicket. So I think 200 more runs will be good for fighting.

[jvdp]

I believe prediction for test matches are really not needed at all because most of the matches are ends in Draw or if that is winning kind moment goes also it will be one-sided match.
When the situation is like that. Do we need prediction thread for test cricket?
However, good luck for your attempt to organise cricket lovers more closely

[AB de Royse777]

I'm glad that you created this thread! Test format deserved a separate thread for the discussion. Good work, Royse!

Appreciate it bud.

Back to the Test match, England has 181 runs lead and they still have 1 wicket remaining. Tomorrow morning if they do not add anymore run still I think they will win this test. My expectation was to give Irish 150ish runs target but here we already have 181.

Who would have thought that a Test between Ireland and England will be that close :-P

[RapTarX]

I'm glad that you created this thread! Test format deserved a separate thread for the discussion. Good work, Royse!

Appreciate it bud.

Back to the Test match, England has 181 runs lead and they still have 1 wicket remaining. Tomorrow morning if they do not add anymore run still I think they will win this test. My expectation was to give Irish 150ish runs target but here we already have 181.

Who would have thought that a Test between Ireland and England will be that close :-P

200 must be achievable for IRELAND. It's 3rd day only and pitch is still in good mode. But, yesterday's rain main affect sognificantly. England has changed their game plan totally after they were packed with 85 runs. They planned to play aggresive and add some runs in the board which they achieved. Otherwise, it would be more easy for Ireland.

[SaShiRaJaVu]

200 must be achievable for IRELAND. It's 3rd day only and pitch is still in good mode. But, yesterday's rain main affect sognificantly. England has changed their game plan totally after they were packed with 85 runs. They planned to play aggresive and add some runs in the board which they achieved. Otherwise, it would be more easy for Ireland.

It is not an easy task to score 200 runs in the fourth innings as i expect the ball to turn and the ball might not reach the bat because of the rain, if Ireland can play some incredible cricket then they can rewrite history and win a test match against a top team like England, one of the worst performance by England in their history and it is not a good sign leading to the Ashes.

[Haunebu]

For some reason, some of my quality posts recently got deleted which has left me perplexed. What is going on in this forum these days? I had around 3 posts deleted in last couple of weeks.

Example of a post that got deleted:

Fun Fact : out of 11 players, 9 Irish player are British born.
I remember reading this some where, can't find the source though.

Damn. Not surprising at all though. Morgan himself is an Irish citizen and he is the first captain to have successfully led England to World Cup glory. Its pretty smart of England to recruit such talented individuals and unite them under a single nation.

England now trail by 122 runs and 10 wicket remaining . Ireland is all out for 207. Can Ireland win this test match by a inning or will they have to bat second. I think England will come back strongly and put up a big total and quite possible that they could even beat Ireland by some runs if somebody make a century from England team.

Doubt it. The max that England can hope for at this point I believe is a draw. They need to post a huge score if they wish to win this one against a quality Irish bowling attack.

How in the world is this post off topic or spammy? It seems someone is targeting the Cricket threads a lot these days and is clearly doing a bad job of reporting posts and the moderator involved is actually agreeing with the reports. Are any of you guys facing similar issues? If you are, some serious improvements are required in this aspect of this forum.

[JSRAW]

@haunebu : it's very clear that other poster is not making any sense and clearly a signature spam. If someone reports his post then your reply will be delete along with his posts. Recently happened with pffrt, royce and me where someone deliberately reported pffrt posts in cricketing thread.

So make sure you are not quoting any useless comment  in cricketing thread.

@haunebu : guess you missed this post?

I already stopped quoting and replying anyone who is not regular in cricket thread and who post once in a while for signature spam and don't follow the existing conversation.

And i noticed you quoted other guy as well with your deleted post. his post is deleted and automatically your post get deleted with him.

Pffrt's thread : My on topic posts are getting deleted

[AB de Royse777]

LOL
People started reporting from this thread too and mods are deleting them? This is very poor justification. I will again say the mods are not setting any standard here. Shame.

back to the test match, we are going to see a result today. the match is on for both team but I will keep England ahead. It's third day and pitch will have cracks so batting is not going to be easy for Irish.

By the way, Malinga's last match : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5168386.msg51955687#msg51955687

And i noticed you quoted other guy as well with your deleted post. his post is deleted and automatically your post get deleted with him.

This is BS theory from the mod in meta. So say,

post one, very good content

post two, off topic

post three, very good content with off topic response

post four, very good content to response on topic post three

post five, very good content to response on topic post three

post six, very good content to response on topic post four

According to this BS theory, 2nd post get deleted so post three, four, five, six also gets deleted. Then let's stop making any conversations. Sick theory indeed.

I assume whoever is the mod here has very less knowledge of what he is doing. He is just relying on the reporter whoever it is. If you are too much dependent on that repoter then retire from your job and give it to that reporter. He deservs the money you are taking from the forum fund.

[Vishnu.Reang]

My prediction is like this:

If the lead is <150, then Ireland has a great chance of winning this test.
If the lead is in the range of 151-200, then both the teams have equal chances.
If the lead is >200, then England has a great chance of winning this test.

Now the lead has increased to 181, and let's see whether they will be able to cross 200 or not.

[Vishnu.Reang]

BTW, someone had claimed that 9 out of the 11 members of the Irish squad were born in England. This is not true. Check this:

WTS Porterfield: born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland
JA McCollum: born in Waringstown, Northern Ireland
A Balbirnie: born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland
PR Stirling: born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
KJ O'Brien: born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland
GC Wilson: born in Dundonald, Northern Ireland
SR Thompson: born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland
MR Adair: born in Holywood, Northern Ireland
AR McBrine: born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland
TJ Murtagh: born in Lambeth, England
WB Rankin: born in Londonderry, Northern Ireland

The only player who was born outside Ireland is Tim Murtagh and he is playing for Ireland because his grandparents were from Ireland and he is an Irish citizen since 2012. On the other hand, the England captain (Eoin Morgan) was born in the Republic of Ireland and holds the Irish passport. To this date, he don't have a British passport.

The Irish cricket team is the United Ireland team (Republic of Ireland + Northern Ireland). In football and all the other sports, they play separately.

[erikalui]

It has been raining today and it just stopped raining now. It doesn't give me a good feeling as yesterday's game was called off when England's innings were just about to end and now since it's a new day and Broad is in full form, he may try adding up more 30-40 runs which is dangerous for Ireland. Ireland are capable of chasing 200 runs and hence if they lose, the margin will be so less. Adair is still bowling so hoping that he takes the fourth wicket.

[JSRAW]

My prediction is like this:

If the lead is <150, then Ireland has a great chance of winning this test.
If the lead is in the range of 151190-200, then both the teams have equal chances.
If the lead is >200, then England has a great chance of winning this test.

Now the lead has increased to 181, and let's see whether they will be able to cross 200 or not.

TBH Yesterday pitch behaved very differently in every session.

First when Jack Leech and Jason Roy were batting, pitch was looking easy to bat after that bowlers took the advantage of pitch. Result; Collapse in English middle order but in the end English's tailenders added some useful runs easily.

So I prefer second scenario, if it happens then its going to be good contest between ball and bat again.

[Haunebu]

I already stopped quoting and replying anyone who is not regular in cricket thread and who post once in a while for signature spam and don't follow the existing conversation.

And i noticed you quoted other guy as well with your deleted post. his post is deleted and automatically your post get deleted with him.

Pffrt's thread : My on topic posts are getting deleted

It all makes sense now. This is a pretty messed up situation. I have quoted different kinds of posts on this forum from several years and this is the first time that I have had several quoted posts deleted in a few weeks and I quote sensible replies only. Thanks for the tip though.

According to this BS theory, 2nd post get deleted so post three, four, five, six also gets deleted. Then let's stop making any conversations. Sick theory indeed.
I assume whoever is the mod here has very less knowledge of what he is doing. He is just relying on the reporter whoever it is. If you are too much dependent on that repoter then retire from your job and give it to that reporter. He deservs the money you are taking from the forum fund.

I can understand that the mods have a shit ton of work on their hands and they can't always check everything thoroughly, but they need to try and change this system by deleting the spam post itself instead of deleting everything linked to it.