Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Swordsoffreedom]

This is Team England. Those who scored 36 runs lost 4 wickets. Now their collection is 135. The funny thing is that Joe Root returned to the dressing room with zero runs. He could not add any run to the team's scoreboard. After a long time we saw such an innings from Root.
Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow are playing very well. Stokes are unbeaten on 52 and Bairstow on 25. Runs will continue to be added to England's scoreboard as long as their innings and partnership last. When they are both out. My prediction is that all other players will not be able to collect more than 70-80 runs.

Thanks to Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes innings England manage to cross 200 with still 4 wickets in hand. They avoid follow on because of these two innings. How many times Root has to score alone? He is a player and can get out on zero. I dont know why Zak Crawley and Haseeb are selected as opener for such a big contest.

England now collects 258, losing 7 wickets. Bairstow has scored 103 runs and is not out yet. Stokes was out for 67 runs. I think, England's innings will end tomorrow morning. England will lose all the wickets in the first session. I doubt if England will be able to stay in the crease for 10 overs after Bairstow is out. However, 3 days have passed. England are expected to draw this match.

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[pakhitheboss]

This is Team England. Those who scored 36 runs lost 4 wickets. Now their collection is 135. The funny thing is that Joe Root returned to the dressing room with zero runs. He could not add any run to the team's scoreboard. After a long time we saw such an innings from Root.
Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow are playing very well. Stokes are unbeaten on 52 and Bairstow on 25. Runs will continue to be added to England's scoreboard as long as their innings and partnership last. When they are both out. My prediction is that all other players will not be able to collect more than 70-80 runs.

Thanks to Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes innings England manage to cross 200 with still 4 wickets in hand. They avoid follow on because of these two innings. How many times Root has to score alone? He is a player and can get out on zero. I dont know why Zak Crawley and Haseeb are selected as opener for such a big contest.

England now collects 258, losing 7 wickets. Bairstow has scored 103 runs and is not out yet. Stokes was out for 67 runs. I think, England's innings will end tomorrow morning. England will lose all the wickets in the first session. I doubt if England will be able to stay in the crease for 10 overs after Bairstow is out. However, 3 days have passed. England are expected to draw this match.

Another match getting wasted by the English team. If they could have batted on the fourth day then the situation would have been different. They have already lost 8 wickets and the first session has not yet ended. Australia will win this match too without any doubt. There is no more scope to draw this match.

[Haunebu]

Bairstow is the lone warrior for England currently. Few others like Stokes etc good starts, but couldn't convert them into big scores. I cannot imagine the pressure that Bairstow is under because he knows that their innings is over once he gets out.

He is basically trying to waste as many balls as possible in order to force a draw which is the most likely outcome at this point.

Edit: Bairstow just got out as I was typing this post. Boland is on fire. Australia still has a decent chance to win this one. This match just became a bit more interesting.

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Bairstow just got out as I was typing this post. Boland is on fire. Australia still has a decent chance to win this one. This match just became a bit more interesting.

If not for the innings of Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes they would have conceded yet another huge defeat in this match, now it all depends upon how the England bowlers are going to bowl. I am not expecting any miracles, i hope Australia will score some quick runs as they already have 122 runs lead and if they play three sessions and then put England back to bat, i am sure they will not survive till the final session of the last day .

[eaLiTy]

^^  I am also not expecting any heroic effort from this England side as their batting struggled throughout this series and Jonny Bairstow was able to score a century but he is not that consistent with his performance. Ben Stokes got lucky as always, he would have dismissed earlier when a ball hit the stumps but the bails did not move an inch.

Anything over 300 runs and they should declare because England will not be able to chance them and they are terrible at defense .

[Sithara007]

Anything over 300 runs and they should declare because England will not be able to chance them and they are terrible at defense .

Even 300 is not needed. First innings lead is 122 runs. I guess Australia can declare after their total lead gets to around 370-380 (i.e a second innings total of ~250). And from what I can see, both Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne are trying to step up the scoring rate. But the England captain on the other side is sticking with James Anderson, and this is making it really difficult for the Australian batsmen to score quick runs. If the rain gods decide against intervention, by tomorrow we can expect Australia to take a lead of 4-0.

[Vaskiy]

Anything over 300 runs and they should declare because England will not be able to chance them and they are terrible at defense .

Even 300 is not needed. First innings lead is 122 runs. I guess Australia can declare after their total lead gets to around 370-380 (i.e a second innings total of ~250). And from what I can see, both Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne are trying to step up the scoring rate. But the England captain on the other side is sticking with James Anderson, and this is making it really difficult for the Australian batsmen to score quick runs. If the rain gods decide against intervention, by tomorrow we can expect Australia to take a lead of 4-0.

Day back the match was predicted to draw, and today the winning chance of Australia have increased to 50% and the chance of draw has come down to 45% This series is full of missing chances for England. The team completely depends on few players and this is not enough to play against a team like Australia. If rain intervention happens there is possible chance for a draw as well.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Day back the match was predicted to draw, and today the winning chance of Australia have increased to 50% and the chance of draw has come down to 45% This series is full of missing chances for England. The team completely depends on few players and this is not enough to play against a team like Australia. If rain intervention happens there is possible chance for a draw as well.

I think the chances of a draw in this match are not low yet. The Australian team is experienced. So they declared their innings before the end of the fourth day. The good news for England is that they did not lose a wicket on the fourth day. They will have 10 wickets on the fifth day. England do not expect to win by batting for 388 runs. Their goal is to draw.
If you want to draw the match, Root, Stokes and Bairstow must play a role. If these three players can play well then England can expect to win. Because no other player of the team is in the form now. The match will be a draw even if the two openers play the first full session, but it is almost impossible for them.

[galambo]

I think the chances of a draw in this match are not low yet. The Australian team is experienced. So they declared their innings before the end of the fourth day. The good news for England is that they did not lose a wicket on the fourth day. They will have 10 wickets on the fifth day. England do not expect to win by batting for 388 runs. Their goal is to draw.
If you want to draw the match, Root, Stokes and Bairstow must play a role. If these three players can play well then England can expect to win. Because no other player of the team is in the form now. The match will be a draw even if the two openers play the first full session, but it is almost impossible for them.

Australia chances are bright as England need 358 more runs to win. Seeing the bowling performance of Australia in recent tests I am very much sure they will bowl out England tomorrow. As far as England is concerned they will try to draw the game. Let's see who succeed in achieving his aims.

[JSRAW]

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I think the chances of a draw in this match are not low yet. The Australian team is experienced. So they declared their innings before the end of the fourth day. The good news for England is that they did not lose a wicket on the fourth day. They will have 10 wickets on the fifth day. England do not expect to win by batting for 388 runs. Their goal is to draw.
If you want to draw the match, Root, Stokes and Bairstow must play a role. If these three players can play well then England can expect to win. Because no other player of the team is in the form now. The match will be a draw even if the two openers play the first full session, but it is almost impossible for them.

Pitch is complete road, weather forecast is not promising as well so draw seems fair outcome but this is English team we're talking about. They have a unique talent of collapsing even on flat wicket and they could make this test interesting. Having said that i do want to see them drawing this match and stop Aussie from farming points or stat padding. 

[Sithara007]

I have a feeling that the Australian captain waited for too long before declaring. A target of 350 or so would have been enough, but they wanted Usman Khawaja to complete his century. The target for England was kept at 388. Ideally, they should have declared at least 10-15 overs before that and should have scored some quick runs towards the end. Cameron Green was scoring runs at a good rate, but Khawaja slowed down considerably, in order to focus on his ton. This may cost Australia the match and the opportunity to go 4-0 up in the series.

[pakhitheboss]

I have a feeling that the Australian captain waited for too long before declaring. A target of 350 or so would have been enough, but they wanted Usman Khawaja to complete his century. The target for England was kept at 388. Ideally, they should have declared at least 10-15 overs before that and should have scored some quick runs towards the end. Cameron Green was scoring runs at a good rate, but Khawaja slowed down considerably, in order to focus on his ton. This may cost Australia the match and the opportunity to go 4-0 up in the series.

There is nothing wrong with what the Australian captain did? He knew that the English team is struggling this season and wanted Khawaja to get this century for his record. England needs 352 runs to win this match which I think is still not achievable considering their past performance. Australia has already won 3 matches and they will be looking for a win in this match too.

[eaLiTy]

There is nothing wrong with what the Australian captain did? He knew that the English team is struggling this season and wanted Khawaja to get this century for his record. England needs 352 runs to win this match which I think is still not achievable considering their past performance. Australia has already won 3 matches and they will be looking for a win in this match too.

Australia could have declared the innings as soon as Usman Khawaja scored a history century in both innings, instead they played for a while and unless they lost two quick wickets in consecutive balls they declared the innings, if they declared as soon as Usman Khawaja scored his century they would get around 18 to 20 overs for the day.

England lost their first wicket and how long they will survive in this match is to be seen and Scott Boland took the wicket and whether we will see another magical spell is to be seen  .

[Sithara007]

Things look difficult for England (once again, as has been the case all through the series). They have 7 wickets remaining and need to survive some 60 plus overs. And for the first time, Nathan Lyon looked like the most lethal bowler in the Australian lineup. He, along with Scott Boland and Cameron Green picked one wicket apiece. If there is no rain interruption, it will be extremely hard for England to avoid a loss. But they will be having some hope as long as Joe Root (currently on 13 n.o) is out there. Personally I believe that the chances of a draw is close to nill.

[pakhitheboss]

The second test match between Newzealand VS Bangladesh has started. Bangladesh won the toss and choose to bowl first. I am not sure why did the choose to bowl first as Newzealand has already scored more 348 runs with the loss of only 1 wicket. Latham has already scored 186 run and might reach his double century.

[UmerIdrees]

There is nothing wrong with what the Australian captain did? He knew that the English team is struggling this season and wanted Khawaja to get this century for his record. England needs 352 runs to win this match which I think is still not achievable considering their past performance. Australia has already won 3 matches and they will be looking for a win in this match too.

Australia could have declared the innings as soon as Usman Khawaja scored a history century in both innings, instead they played for a while and unless they lost two quick wickets in consecutive balls they declared the innings, if they declared as soon as Usman Khawaja scored his century they would get around 18 to 20 overs for the day.

England lost their first wicket and how long they will survive in this match is to be seen and Scott Boland took the wicket and whether we will see another magical spell is to be seen  .

Look like England will survive this test match and this will end in a draw. Around 7 overs left in the day and they till have two wickets in hand. I am not sure if they will play all the remaining overs in the day or the dim light will call the day off early and England will be thankful for that. 

[laurenB7742]

New Zealand     VS     Bangladesh

Bangladesh won the toss and was elected to field first. The team batting later in this field of Christchurch gets more advantage. Bangladesh's decision to field first was right. However, New Zealand played great on the first day. They lost only 1 wicket and collected 349. Conway is unbeaten on 99 and Latham is unbeaten on 186. Although Bangladesh's innings has not started yet, I do not think there is a possibility of Bangladesh winning this match. The pitch will assist the pace bowlers. New Zealand's bowling lineup is very strong.

[TheGreatPython]

Look like England will survive this test match and this will end in a draw. Around 7 overs left in the day and they till have two wickets in hand. I am not sure if they will play all the remaining overs in the day or the dim light will call the day off early and England will be thankful for that.  

You must be a genius to predict the draw outcome of this match. After Smith picked the wicket of Jack Leach, I thought pacers will easily scalp James Anderson for leg before but surprisingly he survived all last six balls to break the dreams of Aussies about winning the Ashes 5-0.

The team batting later in this field of Christchurch gets more advantage. Bangladesh's decision to field first was right.

Christchurch is another flat pitch in New Zealand? I thought Bangladesh miss the greater opportunity to take advantage of this match by batting first. Let's see when will Bangladesh bat on this match; I guess only on day-3 and New Zealand might set 600 to 700 runs to chase down for Bangladesh with both the innings.

[JSRAW]

The team batting later in this field of Christchurch gets more advantage. Bangladesh's decision to field first was right.

Christchurch is another flat pitch in New Zealand? I thought Bangladesh miss the greater opportunity to take advantage of this match by batting first. Let's see when will Bangladesh bat on this match; I guess only on day-3 and New Zealand might set 600 to 700 runs to chase down for Bangladesh with both the innings.

Pitch was dark green, some would say ridiculous amount of grass in comparison of subcontinent but it didn't misbehaved at all except few balls.


Exciting end of dead rubber match (in context of series), only England is capable of doing such thing. At least they fought hard in this match and interestingly Australia keep failing to close the game at SCG, 2 back to back match, first against India and today against England. May be bowlers are running out of carrot in a long run.

No more points farming for Australia. One more draw plz 

[romero121]

There is nothing wrong with what the Australian captain did? He knew that the English team is struggling this season and wanted Khawaja to get this century for his record. England needs 352 runs to win this match which I think is still not achievable considering their past performance. Australia has already won 3 matches and they will be looking for a win in this match too.

Australia could have declared the innings as soon as Usman Khawaja scored a history century in both innings, instead they played for a while and unless they lost two quick wickets in consecutive balls they declared the innings, if they declared as soon as Usman Khawaja scored his century they would get around 18 to 20 overs for the day.

England lost their first wicket and how long they will survive in this match is to be seen and Scott Boland took the wicket and whether we will see another magical spell is to be seen  .

Look like England will survive this test match and this will end in a draw. Around 7 overs left in the day and they till have two wickets in hand. I am not sure if they will play all the remaining overs in the day or the dim light will call the day off early and England will be thankful for that. 

Somehow England managed to draw the match. If one more wicket have fallen for England it could be a win for Australia. In this match it is John Baristow who is the key for such a draw, because he scored good in the first innings as well as managed to keep the partnership with players even when there is consecutive wicket fall. When there were 40 overs left and 200 runs required to win the match I believed it could turn towards England.