Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[erikalui]

I don't get why they get no other place to host the Test WC except for England and now I also believe that it's in favor of England. Also, the format is so confusing. First 5 matches of Aus and Eng on 1st August, then 2 matches of other team and here India and Pakistan are not playing against each other so no cricket tension for both. But still how are they going to decide the winner by having irregular number of matches between 2 teams?

[Haunebu]

Good comeback by England in the 4th Innings. They are lucky that it was a team like Ireland. I am wondering what will happen against Australia in Ashes. Although I understand this English team was not giving their 100% against Irish. Some of the key players were taking rest in the last match.

Chris Woakes and Jofra Archer form the deadly combo required to dismantle the Australian lineup in my opinion. Other players like Stuart Broad etc lead me to believe that Australia will have a tough time defeating England this time around.

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[bitcoinisbest]

Good comeback by England in the 4th Innings. They are lucky that it was a team like Ireland. I am wondering what will happen against Australia in Ashes. Although I understand this English team was not giving their 100% against Irish. Some of the key players were taking rest in the last match.

Chris Woakes and Jofra Archer form the deadly combo required to dismantle the Australian lineup in my opinion. Other players like Stuart Broad etc lead me to believe that Australia will have a tough time defeating England this time around.

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Archer if gets the right length and line could turn very vital for England as he has really quick pace and can easily trouble the Oz batsman with his pace . If he gets the good form and continue it he will be be a real match winner for the team .

[AB de Royse777]

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Archer if gets the right length and line could turn very vital for England as he has really quick pace and can easily trouble the Oz batsman with his pace . If he gets the good form and continue it he will be be a real match winner for the team .

Archer was the x-factor for England in world cup and no wonder he will play the same role in the upcoming Ashes. This Ashes will be a very interesting one to watch. Both England and Australia is in good shape (ignoring England's batting against Irish). If England has Archer, Woakes then Australia has Mitchell Starc, Cummins.

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I don't get why they get no other place to host the Test WC except for England and now I also believe that it's in favor of England. Also, the format is so confusing. First 5 matches of Aus and Eng on 1st August, then 2 matches of other team and here India and Pakistan are not playing against each other so no cricket tension for both. But still how are they going to decide the winner by having irregular number of matches between 2 teams?

What are we talking about here? Sorry I am confuse here.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Anyone agree with me that the ICC should revoke the test status of Ireland? Their performance was really horrible and I have a feeling that test matches should be limited to those teams with international standard. Ireland comes nowhere close. Afghanistan is doing well, so I would suggest the ICC to revoke the test status of Zimbabwe and Ireland, to make it a ten team affair.

[AB de Royse777]

I am not sure about Zimbabwe, haven't seen their test match in the last few years but I see nothing wrong with Ireland. This was their 2nd test if I am not wrong and they performed very well especially their bowling department.

The batting department did not perform in both innings especially in the 2nd innings it was a complete disaster but it was the same for England too. The exception was their 1st innings. Like Ireland's 2nd innings their 1st innings was disaster. Both teams bowling department was more then excellent.

[erikalui]

Ireland still is new in terms of test cricket and if their batting is miserable, their bowling was quite good and hence we were even able to see the end of the test and it did not end in as an NA. Many teams haven't been able to perform in test cricket and were able to win their first match after 20-25 years with things being changed recently. It's not fair to judge them so soon.

[Little Mouse]

Countries like Ireland, Zimbabwe can't olay much test cricket, not even ODI. High rank team has more matches despite low teams. This is one of the reason, a low team can't gain enough experience. I don't think it will be easy for them to fight against a bigger team who play 5-6 times or more than lower. They have better chance to.win against a lower team.

[RapTarX]

Countries like Ireland, Zimbabwe can't olay much test cricket, not even ODI. High rank team has more matches despite low teams. This is one of the reason, a low team can't gain enough experience. I don't think it will be easy for them to fight against a bigger team who play 5-6 times or more than lower. They have better chance to.win against a lower team.

They can invite top ranked team, although most team will not play. I guess that's not good of ICC, they must allow each teams to play at least 5-10 tests in a year, it would help them improve.

[UmerIdrees]

Countries like Ireland, Zimbabwe can't olay much test cricket, not even ODI. High rank team has more matches despite low teams. This is one of the reason, a low team can't gain enough experience. I don't think it will be easy for them to fight against a bigger team who play 5-6 times or more than lower. They have better chance to.win against a lower team.

They can invite top ranked team, although most team will not play. I guess that's not good of ICC, they must allow each teams to play at least 5-10 tests in a year, it would help them improve.

You mean to say that ICC should the schedule tournaments for the teams like Ireland and Zimbabwe to play 5 or more tests per year with the main teams like Australia, India , Pakistan etc.  This will be extremely infeasible as they will not be able to generate any revenue from them. Also  from the viewers point of view no one will like to watch these one sided test matches.

[Pffrt]

Countries like Ireland, Zimbabwe can't olay much test cricket, not even ODI. High rank team has more matches despite low teams. This is one of the reason, a low team can't gain enough experience. I don't think it will be easy for them to fight against a bigger team who play 5-6 times or more than lower. They have better chance to.win against a lower team.

They can invite top ranked team, although most team will not play. I guess that's not good of ICC, they must allow each teams to play at least 5-10 tests in a year, it would help them improve.

You mean to say that ICC should the schedule tournaments for the teams like Ireland and Zimbabwe to play 5 or more tests per year with the main teams like Australia, India , Pakistan etc.  This will be extremely infeasible as they will not be able to generate any revenue from them. Also  from the viewers point of view no one will like to watch these one sided test matches.

While you are correct that from those matches, ICC will not be able to generate revenue, in my opinion, ICC must have allow kind of subsidies for the globalization of cricket. In that case, low performed team would have better performance.

[SaShiRaJaVu]

Anyone agree with me that the ICC should revoke the test status of Ireland? Their performance was really horrible and I have a feeling that test matches should be limited to those teams with international standard. Ireland comes nowhere close. Afghanistan is doing well, so I would suggest the ICC to revoke the test status of Zimbabwe and Ireland, to make it a ten team affair.

Zimbabwe is already suspended by ICC and they cannot participate in any ICC events in the future and the funds has already ended because of the political intervention in cricket and it all happened recently, Ireland does not have a test status, England played a one off test match as a warm up match before the Ashes and other than that i do not think they have a status till now. Afghanistan is doing well in ODI but test match cricket is a different ball game all together.

[Haunebu]

You mean to say that ICC should the schedule tournaments for the teams like Ireland and Zimbabwe to play 5 or more tests per year with the main teams like Australia, India , Pakistan etc.  This will be extremely infeasible as they will not be able to generate any revenue from them. Also  from the viewers point of view no one will like to watch these one sided test matches.

This is true, but the people betting on heavy favorites in this case will earn a lot through these games. However, I don't really see the entertainment value in such games which is why I agree with you here.

Watching big teams play tests is itself boring, but watching small teams like Ireland play in tests is even more horrible in this regard. I literally just watched the highlights on youtube thanks to the ICC channel.

[AB de Royse777]

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Zimbabwe is already suspended by ICC and they cannot participate in any ICC events in the future and the funds has already ended because of the political intervention in cricket and it all happened recently, Ireland does not have a test status, England played a one off test match as a warm up match before the Ashes and other than that i do not think they have a status till now. Afghanistan is doing well in ODI but test match cricket is a different ball game all together.

You are all wrong there :-P

Ireland with Afghanistan got their Test status on 22 June 2017. Read this news: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/19705648/afghanistan-ireland-get-test-status

The last test against England was their 3rd test if I am not wrong. First one was against Pakistan (lost by 5 wickets), 2nd one was against Afghanistan (lost by 7 wickets) and the latest one was against England. All three were internationally recorded. Not warm up or that kind.

[UmerIdrees]

You mean to say that ICC should the schedule tournaments for the teams like Ireland and Zimbabwe to play 5 or more tests per year with the main teams like Australia, India , Pakistan etc.  This will be extremely infeasible as they will not be able to generate any revenue from them. Also  from the viewers point of view no one will like to watch these one sided test matches.

This is true, but the people betting on heavy favorites in this case will earn a lot through these games. However, I don't really see the entertainment value in such games which is why I agree with you here.

Watching big teams play tests is itself boring, but watching small teams like Ireland play in tests is even more horrible in this regard. I literally just watched the highlights on youtube thanks to the ICC channel.

This is not true as in such matches you get very low odds for the strong team. Also it is risky because in case of upset you will lose all your money and in case of win, the winning percentage is not good at all.

[Haunebu]

This is not true as in such matches you get very low odds for the strong team. Also it is risky because in case of upset you will lose all your money and in case of win, the winning percentage is not good at all.

Some profit is better than nothing at all and upsets in such matches rarely happen. For example, did Ireland defeat England recently? I know that all it takes is 1 big loss to wash away the profits, but many people still enjoy betting at low odds.

This is also why many people like betting over 0.5 and under 6.5 or 7.5 in a soccer match.

[UmerIdrees]

This is not true as in such matches you get very low odds for the strong team. Also it is risky because in case of upset you will lose all your money and in case of win, the winning percentage is not good at all.

Some profit is better than nothing at all and upsets in such matches rarely happen. For example, did Ireland defeat England recently? I know that all it takes is 1 big loss to wash away the profits, but many people still enjoy betting at low odds.

This is also why many people like betting over 0.5 and under 6.5 or 7.5 in a soccer match.

Ireland did not defeated England but they were close to give a big upset. I know a lot of people who were gambling in the favor of England couldn't sleep properly when they saw England were all out on 85. However England managed to win in the end and thus a lot of gamblers money were saved. 

[SaShiRaJaVu]

You are all wrong there :-P
Ireland with Afghanistan got their Test status on 22 June 2017. Read this news: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/19705648/afghanistan-ireland-get-test-status
The last test against England was their 3rd test if I am not wrong. First one was against Pakistan (lost by 5 wickets), 2nd one was against Afghanistan (lost by 7 wickets) and the latest one was against England. All three were internationally recorded. Not warm up or that kind.

ICC does have a strict policy to play against every test playing nations in a particular designated period and i was not aware of their test status and they have not played much test matches either in the the past two years after getting the test status against any other nation, so i am not sure what is the point in granting them a test status if none of the other test playing nations are not willing to play a series with these two nations.

[Haunebu]

Ireland did not defeated England but they were close to give a big upset.

That is exactly what I was trying to say. They got close, but England easily defeated them at the end of the day. This is why it is worth betting on certain teams at short odds now and then. I know many people who won reasonable profits in this manner.

I know a lot of people who were gambling in the favor of England couldn't sleep properly when they saw England were all out on 85. However England managed to win in the end and thus a lot of gamblers money were saved.  

Any gamble carries an amount of risk with it. That is the reality. However, I like betting on long odds primarily and short odds secondarily especially with accumulators.

[JSRAW]

Pathetic performance by Ireland. It was the worst performance by any team in a test match. The ICC should seriously consider revoking their test status and reconsider the decision only when they are 100% sure of their competitiveness. Their appalling performance brought disgrace to all the emerging teams and now test nations would be reluctant to stage any matches against these lesser teams.

Anyone agree with me that the ICC should revoke the test status of Ireland? Their performance was really horrible and I have a feeling that test matches should be limited to those teams with international standard. Ireland comes nowhere close. Afghanistan is doing well, so I would suggest the ICC to revoke the test status of Zimbabwe and Ireland, to make it a ten team affair.

No, not me Give them some time, they are just couple of matches old. India, South Africa, New Zealand took more than one decade to register their first win so i am sure new test playing nations will come along soon.

And Worst performance record belongs to Kiwis team. 26 runs all out.

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:

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That was me  i didn't looked into it, but i remember reading this somewhere. can't find the source, guess i am victim of fake or BS news