Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[galambo]

]It is not a huge surprise that Bangladesh is struggling to put runs on the board in Test matches, their solid players in the squad is Tamim Iqbal and you cannot expect him to score runs all the time and Mushfiqur Rahim is in the team solely as a batsman as they have Litton Das as the main wicket keeper and they need to find quality players in the Test format if they really want to challenge teams while touring. At home they play a much better game.

Reliance on few players is the biggest weakness of Bangladeshi team. They just won the ODI series but are no where in competition in Test. Tamim Iqbal contributed his part by scoring 47 runs but rest of top order failed miserably. Bangladesh target must now be to avoid follow on.

[Sithara007]

LOL.. yesterday I posted that Keshav Maharaj is in terrific form with the bat. And he top-scored for South Africa in the first innings of the Gqeberha test, by making 84 (batting at no. . South Africa were 300/6 at one point, but they finished at 453. The last four batsmen added more than a hundred and fifty runs between them. And that means Bangladesh require 254 to avoid follow on. Looks difficult, given the fact that they need another 115 runs with just 5 wickets in hand. And surprisingly, Wiaan Mulder has taken three of the wickets that has gone down so far.

[savetheFORUM]

]It is not a huge surprise that Bangladesh is struggling to put runs on the board in Test matches, their solid players in the squad is Tamim Iqbal and you cannot expect him to score runs all the time and Mushfiqur Rahim is in the team solely as a batsman as they have Litton Das as the main wicket keeper and they need to find quality players in the Test format if they really want to challenge teams while touring. At home they play a much better game.

Reliance on few players is the biggest weakness of Bangladeshi team. They just won the ODI series but are no where in competition in Test. Tamim Iqbal contributed his part by scoring 47 runs but rest of top order failed miserably. Bangladesh target must now be to avoid follow on.

Winning ODI series and then going into test series is completely different things no doubt they have done good job in ODI series but after this win they have one of there the worst lost in test as well even we have some controversies as well but still their batting was completely down and out in this inning against Maharaj who is hero for South Africa in this win.

53 all out is surely the worst part for them, they need to do some better work in this second test but sadly until now they are again down and out with 450+ runs in first inning by home team and now just 173 for 5 from Bangladesh is poor response most chances in this situation they will lose this match without any big trouble which could be surely the worst from them against this South African side without many star players.

[DanWalker]

LOL.. yesterday I posted that Keshav Maharaj is in terrific form with the bat. And he top-scored for South Africa in the first innings of the Gqeberha test, by making 84 (batting at no. . South Africa were 300/6 at one point, but they finished at 453. The last four batsmen added more than a hundred and fifty runs between them. And that means Bangladesh require 254 to avoid follow on. Looks difficult, given the fact that they need another 115 runs with just 5 wickets in hand. And surprisingly, Wiaan Mulder has taken three of the wickets that has gone down so far.

I really don't have any high hopes for Bangladesh and especially after the score is 139 for five wickets at the moment. Probably something could happen if Mushfiqur Rahim can play a big inning but other than that I really don't see how Bangladesh she's going to even get closer to the score that was posted by South Africa in the first innings. Things really are not looking good for Bangladesh as they are still trailing by 314 runs.

[blatchcorn]

LOL.. yesterday I posted that Keshav Maharaj is in terrific form with the bat. And he top-scored for South Africa in the first innings of the Gqeberha test, by making 84 (batting at no. . South Africa were 300/6 at one point, but they finished at 453. The last four batsmen added more than a hundred and fifty runs between them. And that means Bangladesh require 254 to avoid follow on. Looks difficult, given the fact that they need another 115 runs with just 5 wickets in hand. And surprisingly, Wiaan Mulder has taken three of the wickets that has gone down so far.

If you are that good in prediction then you must go for placing bets on players also that will be a big plus for you. Its look difficult from current score that Bangladesh can avoid follow on. Mushfiqur Rahim is the last hope for Bangladesh in this innings, only he can help in avoiding the follow on.

[Iranus]

I am very upset to see the performance of the Bangladesh team in the Test format. The Test format is consistently performing poorly. I have not seen any improvement in their players. BCB is enough rich board. However, they are not taking adequate steps to improve the test format. The quality of their domestic leagues is getting worse day by day. If it continues like this, in a few days Bangladesh team will fall further behind in ranking. It will even lose against teams like the UAE and the Netherlands.

On the third day, Bangladesh lost 5 wickets for 139 runs, they are still 314 runs behind. Now the match is being delayed due to rain. And if it continues to rain, Bangladesh may be able to draw the match. Otherwise, they will surely be defeated.

[mdzahed134]

I am very upset to see the performance of the Bangladesh team in the Test format. The Test format is consistently performing poorly. I have not seen any improvement in their players. BCB is enough rich board. However, they are not taking adequate steps to improve the test format. The quality of their domestic leagues is getting worse day by day. If it continues like this, in a few days Bangladesh team will fall further behind in ranking. It will even lose against teams like the UAE and the Netherlands.

Right, particularly Bangladesh in the test cricket i haven’t seen any significant improve for the last couple of year's. But BD team win a historic ODI series after 20 years against SA. And i think they're not bad also in T-20 but i just can't be satisfied with their performance in this test format. BCB is rich but due to a lot of mismanagement of this board even in the domestic league’s so there are no improvement what's we are expecting.

[CryptoBuds]

]It is not a huge surprise that Bangladesh is struggling to put runs on the board in Test matches, their solid players in the squad is Tamim Iqbal and you cannot expect him to score runs all the time and Mushfiqur Rahim is in the team solely as a batsman as they have Litton Das as the main wicket keeper and they need to find quality players in the Test format if they really want to challenge teams while touring. At home they play a much better game.

Reliance on few players is the biggest weakness of Bangladeshi team. They just won the ODI series but are no where in competition in Test. Tamim Iqbal contributed his part by scoring 47 runs but rest of top order failed miserably. Bangladesh target must now be to avoid follow on.

Winning ODI series and then going into test series is completely different things no doubt they have done good job in ODI series but after this win they have one of there the worst lost in test as well even we have some controversies as well but still their batting was completely down and out in this inning against Maharaj who is hero for South Africa in this win.
53 all out is surely the worst part for them, they need to do some better work in this second test but sadly until now they are again down and out with 450+ runs in first inning by home team and now just 173 for 5 from Bangladesh is poor response most chances in this situation they will lose this match without any big trouble which could be surely the worst from them against this South African side without many star players.

^ I have to say Bangladesh was never really good at test cricket. But I thought maybe they could do better this time because they are coming on the back of a good series win in the ODI.

And I don't think Tamim Iqbal did his part just because he scored 47. He needed to stay at the pitch a lot longer and obviously, I am not saying the other guys did well. The other players also needed to play a lot better. By the looks of things, I think Bangladesh is going to lose the second test as well.

[coinism]

Right, particularly Bangladesh in the test cricket i haven’t seen any significant improve for the last couple of year's. But BD team win a historic ODI series after 20 years against SA. And i think they're not bad also in T-20 but i just can't be satisfied with their performance in this test format. BCB is rich but due to a lot of mismanagement of this board even in the domestic league’s so there are no improvement what's we are expecting.

Bangladesh all out on 217 and that gave South Africa a lead of 236 runs. South Africa didn't take the follow on and now batting. Mushfiqur Rahim and Yasir Ali did score some runs lower down the order. Overall a disappointing batting from Bangladesh. South Africa now are in complete control of the match.

[ibuddy122505]

South African decide not let them follow on. Forcing the follow on, the match would end by the first session of the fourth. After Bangladesh all out at 217 runs, SA skipper charge the bat. SA have already a big lead, they have plan to win the test match in big margin that helps them. In this scenario Bangladesh won't come back strong in their second innings and lose by a big margin. Yes, Bangladesh was never great at test cricket. These players lacks the fundamental thing which is patience.

[coinism]

South African decide not let them follow on. Forcing the follow on, the match would end by the first session of the fourth. After Bangladesh all out at 217 runs, SA skipper charge the bat. SA have already a big lead, they have plan to win the test match in big margin that helps them. In this scenario Bangladesh won't come back strong in their second innings and lose by a big margin. Yes, Bangladesh was never great at test cricket. These players lacks the fundamental thing which is patience.

South Africa have scored 33 runs in there second innings and lead now is of 269 runs. By stumps today South Africa will take the lead to 400 which will be an easy win for SA. Bangladesh is not a new test team they are playing test for over two decades but till now they have only won few matches.

[nhaila]

South African decide not let them follow on. Forcing the follow on, the match would end by the first session of the fourth. After Bangladesh all out at 217 runs, SA skipper charge the bat. SA have already a big lead, they have plan to win the test match in big margin that helps them. In this scenario Bangladesh won't come back strong in their second innings and lose by a big margin. Yes, Bangladesh was never great at test cricket. These players lacks the fundamental thing which is patience.

South Africa have scored 33 runs in there second innings and lead now is of 269 runs. By stumps today South Africa will take the lead to 400 which will be an easy win for SA. Bangladesh is not a new test team they are playing test for over two decades but till now they have only won few matches.

Actually BAN team management are not perfect for test match because Bangladeshi cricket team members have no patience in pitch for long time batting. I think they are perfect for one day and T20 cricket....

[sarmrakib]

South African decide not let them follow on. Forcing the follow on, the match would end by the first session of the fourth. After Bangladesh all out at 217 runs, SA skipper charge the bat. SA have already a big lead, they have plan to win the test match in big margin that helps them. In this scenario Bangladesh won't come back strong in their second innings and lose by a big margin. Yes, Bangladesh was never great at test cricket. These players lacks the fundamental thing which is patience.

South Africa have scored 33 runs in there second innings and lead now is of 269 runs. By stumps today South Africa will take the lead to 400 which will be an easy win for SA. Bangladesh is not a new test team they are playing test for over two decades but till now they have only won few matches.

Actually BAN team management are not perfect for test match because Bangladeshi cricket team members have no patience in pitch for long time batting. I think they are perfect for one day and T20 cricket....

Bangladesh always shows the light on test match when they play the match on their home ground .They make the pitch as spin they have the opportunity of spin attack. We don't see so many achievement on test match on outside they played though they have quality players on their team .I could not understand why the are not able to become patient when they do bat though they are good at bowling now on test match as we have seen some quality bowlers like Taizul ,Youngster Khaled and Taskin as well .However i need they need to work hard on this format in order to get win on abroad .South Africa are throwing a huge target now on 2nd test match and it will be tough to win the match and even draw .At last i wanna just say that they need to improve on this format not only on home ground but also on abroad.

[Mahdirakib]

South African decide not let them follow on. Forcing the follow on, the match would end by the first session of the fourth. After Bangladesh all out at 217 runs, SA skipper charge the bat. SA have already a big lead, they have plan to win the test match in big margin that helps them. In this scenario Bangladesh won't come back strong in their second innings and lose by a big margin. Yes, Bangladesh was never great at test cricket. These players lacks the fundamental thing which is patience.

South Africa has declared their second innings by adding 176 more runs. Now the target is 413 runs for team Bangladesh. The target is quite much and Bangladesh won't be able to chase it. They have already lost their first 2 wickets in just 11 runs. I think Bangladesh will loss the game by at least 300 runs. Bangladeshi players aren't suitable for the test format. They are good in the ODI format only.

[NicNacCoin]

South African decide not let them follow on. Forcing the follow on, the match would end by the first session of the fourth. After Bangladesh all out at 217 runs, SA skipper charge the bat. SA have already a big lead, they have plan to win the test match in big margin that helps them. In this scenario Bangladesh won't come back strong in their second innings and lose by a big margin. Yes, Bangladesh was never great at test cricket. These players lacks the fundamental thing which is patience.

South Africa have scored 33 runs in there second innings and lead now is of 269 runs. By stumps today South Africa will take the lead to 400 which will be an easy win for SA. Bangladesh is not a new test team they are playing test for over two decades but till now they have only won few matches.

Actually BAN team management are not perfect for test match because Bangladeshi cricket team members have no patience in pitch for long time batting. I think they are perfect for one day and T20 cricket....

Bangladesh Cricket Team Management Can't achieve such good success in Test match. Bangladesh's bowling performance is a little better but batting is Performance is very poor.They don't give much importance to Test matches, they don't give much importance to Test matches, they give more importance to T20 or ODI series.Which is why they did a little better in the T20s but because of the Tests they did a little better in the T20s but they can't do well in the Tests.

[eaLiTy]

South African decide not let them follow on. Forcing the follow on, the match would end by the first session of the fourth. After Bangladesh all out at 217 runs, SA skipper charge the bat. SA have already a big lead, they have plan to win the test match in big margin that helps them. In this scenario Bangladesh won't come back strong in their second innings and lose by a big margin. Yes, Bangladesh was never great at test cricket. These players lacks the fundamental thing which is patience.

Bangladesh needs 386 more runs to win the match and they already lost 3 wickets in the second innings. In a pitch even South Africa struggled to score runs in the second innings, the match will probably last till the final session tomorrow and if there is any outstanding performance from Mushfiqur Rahim or any other batsman they can drag till the final day which is highly unlikely.

[coinism]

Actually BAN team management are not perfect for test match because Bangladeshi cricket team members have no patience in pitch for long time batting. I think they are perfect for one day and T20 cricket....

If they can't have patience even after playing 20 years of test cricket then I don't think they will be able to have patience in there players. On stumps day 3, Bangladesh have lost 3 wickets and still 386 to go. If you are chasing a target of 400+ then have some patience and try to stay on pitch for sometimes but these players are in hurry in returning to dressing rooms.

[7788bitcoin]

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If they can't have patience even after playing 20 years of test cricket then I don't think they will be able to have patience in there players. On stumps day 3, Bangladesh have lost 3 wickets and still 386 to go. If you are chasing a target of 400+ then have some patience and try to stay on pitch for sometimes but these players are in hurry in returning to dressing rooms.

There are teams that took multiple decades to develop their infrastructure and find performers that could match the International standards, for example England never had a great ODI team for decades and they started developing players of ODI and T20 after the introduction of T20 Cricket, India never had a good fast bowler for decades and only recently they started to find exceptional talents in that department. Some countries like South Africa never got to replace the legendary players they once had and Bangladesh will have talented players in the future that would have an impact on the Test level.

[onecall123]

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If they can't have patience even after playing 20 years of test cricket then I don't think they will be able to have patience in there players. On stumps day 3, Bangladesh have lost 3 wickets and still 386 to go. If you are chasing a target of 400+ then have some patience and try to stay on pitch for sometimes but these players are in hurry in returning to dressing rooms.

There are teams that took multiple decades to develop their infrastructure and find performers that could match the International standards, for example England never had a great ODI team for decades and they started developing players of ODI and T20 after the introduction of T20 Cricket, India never had a good fast bowler for decades and only recently they started to find exceptional talents in that department. Some countries like South Africa never got to replace the legendary players they once had and Bangladesh will have talented players in the future that would have an impact on the Test level.

In Bangladesh, there is a strong domestic league, although it focuses only on limited overs and is not competitive enough. It is high time that they move their focus from limited to longer formats. Its inexperience, brought about by a lack of exposure, has held Bangladesh back. They are still in the process of developing test maturity, and are still considered minors in test cricket. If your approach in test cricket even at home by playing safe and not beating your opponents, you may not be able to last long. While it's obvious that the process takes time, you don't know whether you are going the right direction until you see it in action.

[dezoel]

In Bangladesh, there is a strong domestic league, although it focuses only on limited overs and is not competitive enough. It is high time that they move their focus from limited to longer formats. Its inexperience, brought about by a lack of exposure, has held Bangladesh back. They are still in the process of developing test maturity, and are still considered minors in test cricket. If your approach in test cricket even at home by playing safe and not beating your opponents, you may not be able to last long. While it's obvious that the process takes time, you don't know whether you are going the right direction until you see it in action.

Bangladesh has very long and good history in cricket even they have test status just 23 years ago, but their set-up is very old but sadly as I read due to domestic corruption they fail to develop this all never have any solid plan for setting things in positive way as few mentioning other countries they develop things, but these all happen just because of strong approach by their own boards and other authorities with this all Bangladesh is also can do this all but first hey need to bring some better set up in management and then work on all fields which must for improving their cricket setup currently they are third most populated country in cricket but sadly due to
their own issues they are at bottom of all lists which is not good.

They already lost some good time but still they have few things which can bring them in good position with available talent which is good but need some good development programs now they have some good funds through BPL which also can help them.