Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[eaLiTy]

Mark my words. Labuschagne is going to be the next Steve Smith for Australia. He is extremely consistent and performs against top teams. BTW, I am happy for Natarajan. He made his international debut for India in all the three formats during this series. And that was despite the fact that he wasn't originally named in the ODI/test squads. It turns out that the injury woes are beneficial for at least some of the players.

Marnus Labuschagne is really lucky in this tournament as he was dropped multiple times during this series which includes during the ODI series and he was able to add much runs after that that could choke India as he was not able to convert that into a century and in this match he was dropped twice and he was able to reach a century finally.
The swing Natarajan was getting was great and hopefully he will be able to pick more wickets and sad to have another injury in the match as Navdeep Saini is injured and the bad omen continues.

[Vaskiy]

Srilanka 135/10 and Joe root 168 (not out)  . It seems that Joe Root alone defeated Sri Lanka  . However, Sri Lanka is having a very bad time. The Test series is completely one-sided. Sri Lanka is not able to fight at all. At least I didn't expect it to be a bad performance. Although I did not think Sri Lanka would win, I thought they would fight at least a little bit. But they broke my hopes. They will lose by an innings and huge runs.

I am not familiar with the members in the Sri Lankan team and i expected this to happen as it is not that easy to tour Australia or England with inexperienced players and expect extraordinary results.
Australia having a good team is facing a completely depleted Indian team and yet they are not able to dominate them is really disappointing.

Thats a wrong assumption. Indian team is no longer low to the Australian cricket team. You need to understand the level of competence and the play from both the teams. With cricket even a single player's effort can make a big change in the match. Same as that more incidents have taken place for Australia and India, but throughout this series it was purely combined efforts than individual play.

[JSRAW]

New rules such as The Power Surge, X-Factor etc coming out nicely with in the game?

I'd be happy if they just played "hit the bloody ball ya mug!" Every once in a while.

All joking aside, Australia's players need to stop preening themselves in the mirror and get back to basics starting with practing in the nets.

That bad?

Anyway current series is about to finish and Aussie need to figure it out their opening combination as SA tour is coming up next (If its safe to travel SA). 

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It seems every batsmen banking on inexperienced indian bowlers, you know its bad when even Nathon Lyon using drive and sweep effectively.

352/8

[Sithara007]

Australia finished at 369, and I would consider anything above 350 as giving a definite advantage to them. The two debutants, Sundar and Natarajan picked up three wickets each, along with Shardul Thakur. Navdeep Saini was out of action due to injury, while Mohammed Siraj was the most inefficient Indian bowler taking one wicket for 77 runs. The immediate target for India is to make 170, in order to avoid follow on.

[Timelord2067]

It's raining on Brisbane's inner Northside at the moment (quite heavily in fact) ... Well... It *was* raining quite heavily, now it's stopped again...

I wouldn't be surprised if play is halted very soon. (If it doesn't rain on Brisbane's inner South East, then it's going to become even more hot and steamy than it already is)

[pakhitheboss]

Australia finished at 369, and I would consider anything above 350 as giving a definite advantage to them. The two debutants, Sundar and Natarajan picked up three wickets each, along with Shardul Thakur. Navdeep Saini was out of action due to injury, while Mohammed Siraj was the most inefficient Indian bowler taking one wicket for 77 runs. The immediate target for India is to make 170, in order to avoid follow on.

Anything above 350 would put Indian batsmen in unease. This is evident as India lost a couple of wickets in quick succession. I am sure they will avoid the follow on but I doubt they will win this match. Australian batsmen have done their job now the bowlers need to do their.

[mersal]

It's raining on Brisbane's inner Northside at the moment (quite heavily in fact) ... Well... It *was* raining quite heavily, now it's stopped again...

I wouldn't be surprised if play is halted very soon. (If it doesn't rain on Brisbane's inner South East, then it's going to become even more hot and steamy than it already is)

It seems the match maybe resume after the inspection from the umpires and if there is no further rain we could have the complete quota of overs for today with that 30 minute extra time.But the weather forecast for the day 4 and 5 is not that good.

[Timelord2067]

It seems the match maybe resume after the inspection from the umpires and if there is no further rain we could have the complete quota of overs for today with that 30 minute extra time.But the weather forecast for the day 4 and 5 is not that good.

I've just seen that further play has been abandoned for the rest of the day. There's scattered showers lingering around the southside and it's quite overcast throughout the city.

I managed to see Loyd take a wicket earlier - he's one of the few consistent bowlers Australia has I feel.

[Iranus]

Australia finished at 369, and I would consider anything above 350 as giving a definite advantage to them. The two debutants, Sundar and Natarajan picked up three wickets each, along with Shardul Thakur. Navdeep Saini was out of action due to injury, while Mohammed Siraj was the most inefficient Indian bowler taking one wicket for 77 runs. The immediate target for India is to make 170, in order to avoid follow on.

Anything above 350 would put Indian batsmen in unease. This is evident as India lost a couple of wickets in quick succession. I am sure they will avoid the follow on but I doubt they will win this match. Australian batsmen have done their job now the bowlers need to do their.

I think India will be able to collect 260 to 280 runs. If the Australian bowlers can bowl well in the first session tomorrow, India will lose wickets in very few runs. India will want to draw this match, but Australia will want to win the series. The match will be very competitive

[7788bitcoin]

Anything above 350 would put Indian batsmen in unease. This is evident as India lost a couple of wickets in quick succession. I am sure they will avoid the follow on but I doubt they will win this match. Australian batsmen have done their job now the bowlers need to do their.

The weather will be helpful for India as rain stopped play earlier and if there is further more delays then they can draw the match. Even with a new bowling line up India did not concede much as expected and all the debut bowlers picked 3 wickets each and if their batsman can spend some time in the crease and if weather will come to their aide then they will share the trophy and it will be a win that no one expected considering the long list of injured players.

[eaLiTy]

I managed to see Loyd take a wicket earlier - he's one of the few consistent bowlers Australia has I feel.

Welcome to the thread, glad to see that you watch cricket. Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc are bowling well along with Pat Cummins, the fielders are a disappointment in this series. In the past three Test match alone, Australia dropped around 15 catches and India dropped around 12 catches. The bowlers are bowling their heart out but the fielders are a disappointment dropping catches.

[FIFA worldcup]

Anything above 350 would put Indian batsmen in unease. This is evident as India lost a couple of wickets in quick succession. I am sure they will avoid the follow on but I doubt they will win this match. Australian batsmen have done their job now the bowlers need to do their.

The weather will be helpful for India as rain stopped play earlier and if there is further more delays then they can draw the match. Even with a new bowling line up India did not concede much as expected and all the debut bowlers picked 3 wickets each and if their batsman can spend some time in the crease and if weather will come to their aide then they will share the trophy and it will be a win that no one expected considering the long list of injured players.

The match is even at the moment and i would not call any team favorite at this moment. Tomorrow first two session will decide the fate of the match because if india bat well, we could be headed towards a draw because there could be more rain interruptions in the coming days. However if they fail to bat well, then again they have to survive the last innings as they did in last test match.

[Vaskiy]

Australia has set a big target, if the Indian players perform same as the previous match it'll be more interesting. These days most of the test matches are getting the result compared to the past. In the past most of the matches ends in a draw. Australia have scored 369 and India has started good losing two wickets with the score of 69.

[onrise]

Australia has set a big target, if the Indian players perform same as the previous match it'll be more interesting. These days most of the test matches are getting the result compared to the past. In the past most of the matches ends in a draw. Australia have scored 369 and India has started good losing two wickets with the score of 69.

Two batsman who are on crease currently will play a vital role tomorrow. If they could negotiate the first session without losing more than 1 wicket then things may be better looking for India else since they do not have much depth in their batting order now in this test it will only add more pressure on remaining batsman. Even if 1 of them from Rahane and Pujara can reach century then India would reach near OZ score even if they do not end up taking lead in first innings.

[FIFA worldcup]

Anyone watching the one sided match between Srilanka and England ? Just saw the score on cricinfo and was surprised to see such a poor performance from srilanka. They only made 135 runs in the first innings. I expected them to show some better performance in their home ground.

[Avirunes]

Anyone watching the one sided match between Srilanka and England ? Just saw the score on cricinfo and was surprised to see such a poor performance from srilanka. They only made 135 runs in the first innings. I expected them to show some better performance in their home ground.

Wasn't surprised since England has better squad than Sri Lanka. Still 135 is very low, quite some performance from Dom Bess and Broad in first innings. Winning is out of option for Sri Lanka, they still have chance to draw (very small chance). They started the second innings well with both the opening batsman giving them quite a score. Still Thirimanne is on crease which is a good sign for Sri Lanka, I think startegy for the fourth day should be to play it slow and push the match towards draw. It would be quite some task for the middle order though.

[onrise]

Anyone watching the one sided match between Srilanka and England ? Just saw the score on cricinfo and was surprised to see such a poor performance from srilanka. They only made 135 runs in the first innings. I expected them to show some better performance in their home ground.

Saw the scorecard and expected that SL is now not as powerful as a team what they used to be few years back. Only good thing in this test match is that SL has come back strongly than the first innings atleast. Though the ned result might be England winning it, but what SL requires is to sustain their innings for longer time and bat as much as possible and not give up easily like in first innings they did. This is how the players will get exposure and experience and which in turn will help may be in future games.

[Indymoney]

Anyone watching the one sided match between Srilanka and England ? Just saw the score on cricinfo and was surprised to see such a poor performance from srilanka. They only made 135 runs in the first innings. I expected them to show some better performance in their home ground.

After very poor performance in first inning now they are doing much better in second as they are facing fight against time they must need to avoid inning defeat at home because this could be worst for them just because of this now much things better but tomorrow first session could be very important as Thirimanne  is key for them if he is going to stay then surely they will able to do some moe good after end of third day in this first test England 421/10 Sri Lanka 135/10 & 156/2 very poor from Sri Lanka.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Sri Lanka was completely shattered in the first innings but returned to form in the second innings. The openers did not play well in the first innings but they played well enough in the second innings. Lahiru Thirimanne is still unbeaten, he has scored 76 runs off 189 balls. Great innings. But Kushal Mendis is out of form in both innings. I want to see a century from Lahiru Thirimanne tomorrow

[deadley]

Sri Lanka was completely shattered in the first innings but returned to form in the second innings. The openers did not play well in the first innings but they played well enough in the second innings. Lahiru Thirimanne is still unbeaten, he has scored 76 runs off 189 balls. Great innings. But Kushal Mendis is out of form in both innings. I want to see a century from Lahiru Thirimanne tomorrow

Don't even remind me how fucking shit SL played in 1st inning, it was look like they were not playing test match but T20 and playing very risky shot even without settling.