Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Sithara007]

Bangladesh test team failed severely, performance drastically super low to make any good competition. Though they  rarely perform at home but outside stats not worthy to talk. Following their next test series against SL, Shakib Al Hasan rule out as he tests positive. It's gonna be a huge impact on Bangladesh team. Though both team posses same level, I guess BAN will dominant as BAN host the match.

Well.. if Shakib is not playing, then we can easily predict the outcome. 23 years have passed since Bangladesh received the test status. All these years, their performance has remained unsatisfactory. After a long wait, they produced a legendary player in Shakib al Hassan. But his talent is never utilized to its peak potential, because of politics and issues within the BCB. The series against Sri Lanka is a good opportunity for them to bounce back, because their opponents are also not in good form right now.

[coinism]

Well.. if Shakib is not playing, then we can easily predict the outcome. 23 years have passed since Bangladesh received the test status. All these years, their performance has remained unsatisfactory. After a long wait, they produced a legendary player in Shakib al Hassan. But his talent is never utilized to its peak potential, because of politics and issues within the BCB. The series against Sri Lanka is a good opportunity for them to bounce back, because their opponents are also not in good form right now.

Shakib al Hassan has issues with his discipline and they are in good numbers not just few. There is nothing strange about Bangladesh Test performance but its heartbreaking to see team like SL, who was once one of strongest team has now gone down to be compared with Bangladesh. SL these days is also facing an economic crisis and lets hope both of there crisis i.e. economic and cricket comes to end very soon.   

[Maidak]

Bangladesh test team failed severely, performance drastically super low to make any good competition. Though they  rarely perform at home but outside stats not worthy to talk. Following their next test series against SL, Shakib Al Hasan rule out as he tests positive. It's gonna be a huge impact on Bangladesh team. Though both team posses same level, I guess BAN will dominant as BAN host the match.

Well.. if Shakib is not playing, then we can easily predict the outcome. 23 years have passed since Bangladesh received the test status. All these years, their performance has remained unsatisfactory. After a long wait, they produced a legendary player in Shakib al Hassan. But his talent is never utilized to its peak potential, because of politics and issues within the BCB. The series against Sri Lanka is a good opportunity for them to bounce back, because their opponents are also not in good form right now.

I think we all remember the last cricket world cup where Shakib Al Hasan was the only one holding the whole Bangladesh team together with his brilliant performance. He proves that he is actually the best cricketer in the whole world. But the Bangladesh cricket board is full of donkeys and people without a brain who obviously don't know how to do their work and that's why Shakib Al Hasan was never exploited with his full potential. If they decide to play against Sri Lanka without Shakib Al Hasan they will lose,  and I want everyone to remember this post because trust me, this prediction is going to be 100% accurate.

[JSRAW]

Rob Key is the new managing director for ECB. He used to do commentary for Sky.

Now they are coming up with new idea. Spilt coaching for the Test format and limited overs cricket, similar to spilt captaincy. Sounds like a good idea from coach's perspective, considering they play minimum 20 tests every year.

Actually, that is going to be a really good idea because the fitness and the skill are completely different in every other format of cricket. In the T-20 cricket players need to perform like they are running a 100m sprinting race, meanwhile, the test cricket is like a marathon.
And the ODI cricket is a mix of both.

So, this is something going to be a really good idea to give the players different types of coaching for different types of formats.

Yeah and have to admit. They don't afraid to experiment new things, no matter if it backfire or not. I grudgingly admire this attitude of ECB, on the other hand other cricket board specially BCCI loves to stay on the same course and prefer status quo on every freaking thing.

Also new update on captaincy

Another update...

News/Rumors are coming out that Brendon McCullum is about to take Test coaching role of England soon. They are actually going for 2 coaches formula similar to 2 format captains, brave call but i'm sure this is effective solution.

[blatchcorn]

I think we all remember the last cricket world cup where Shakib Al Hasan was the only one holding the whole Bangladesh team together with his brilliant performance. He proves that he is actually the best cricketer in the whole world. But the Bangladesh cricket board is full of donkeys and people without a brain who obviously don't know how to do their work and that's why Shakib Al Hasan was never exploited with his full potential. If they decide to play against Sri Lanka without Shakib Al Hasan they will lose,  and I want everyone to remember this post because trust me, this prediction is going to be 100% accurate.

Bangladesh board is full of incompetent people that's why such ill disciplined player like Shakib is still a hero there. If Shakib is under some sane board then he would have been ban for life because of his behaviour issues. Bangladesh need good players they can't rely on one player for long term success. 

[Sithara007]

Shakib al Hassan has issues with his discipline and they are in good numbers not just few. There is nothing strange about Bangladesh Test performance but its heartbreaking to see team like SL, who was once one of strongest team has now gone down to be compared with Bangladesh. SL these days is also facing an economic crisis and lets hope both of there crisis i.e. economic and cricket comes to end very soon.   

In terms of population, Sri Lanka is a very small country. Despite that, they managed to win the ODI world cup of 1996 (the country was suffering from civil war during that time). But things are getting difficult now, since the other countries (mostly big-3) have made a lot of progress. Sri Lanka has remained at a level they were two decades ago, while others have surged ahead. But the case with Bangladesh is surprising. Their population is almost equal to that of Pakistan. In terms of cricket playing nations, they have the second largest population. But I don't understand why they fail to perform everytime.

[JSRAW]

- Brendon McCullum news is confirmed, he's set to take England's test coaching role. He'll soon resign from the KKR.
- Shakib is ruled out from the 1st test against SL due to injury.
- Hasan and Pujara are bullying in the County, although they were up against weaker teams but still.

[pakhitheboss]

Virtually no bilateral cricket is happening in cricketing world right now but from next week this is going to change (SL vs BAN). IMO this test series might not effect points standing that much. Sri Lanka is playing spoiler role in this cycle, not in this test series tho (Spoiler role is reserved for home test matches against Pak and Aus)
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I really don't expect anything from Bangladesh at all in the test cricket format because they are very bad at test cricket. 
I can even put my trust in Afghanistan a lot more in test cricket instead of just hoping that Bangladesh wins and I become the loser. 
I believe Bangladesh is not good in test cricket and this has been the case since the start, believe that in comparison to Bangladesh.

I do not think the Srilankan team will be playing in their right mindset considering the present economic situation in Srilanka. I believe it will affect their overall performance. I think Bangladesh has a better chance as they will have the home ground advantage and they would be mentally more stable than their counterparts. I am waiting for the test match between England & Newzealand which will be played next month. That would be a better match to watch.

[Juggy777]

Virtually no bilateral cricket is happening in cricketing world right now but from next week this is going to change (SL vs BAN). IMO this test series might not effect points standing that much. Sri Lanka is playing spoiler role in this cycle, not in this test series tho (Spoiler role is reserved for home test matches against Pak and Aus)
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I really don't expect anything from Bangladesh at all in the test cricket format because they are very bad at test cricket.  
I can even put my trust in Afghanistan a lot more in test cricket instead of just hoping that Bangladesh wins and I become the loser.  
I believe Bangladesh is not good in test cricket and this has been the case since the start, believe that in comparison to Bangladesh.

I do not think the Srilankan team will be playing in their right mindset considering the present economic situation in Srilanka. I believe it will affect their overall performance. I think Bangladesh has a better chance as they will have the home ground advantage and they would be mentally more stable than their counterparts. I am waiting for the test match between England & Newzealand which will be played next month. That would be a better match to watch.

I believe you’re right because the Srilankan player’s will probably be distracted by the sad events taking place at home, and this will be an advantage for Bangladesh player’s but do you’ll feel that they’ll be able to capitalise on it. Furthermore I’m backing Bangladesh to win or expecting the match to end up in a draw because I feel that they’re slightly better than Srilanka due to home advantage, but it seems that many here are backing Srilanka so maybe I’m the only one underestimating Srilanka?.

[blatchcorn]

I believe you’re right because the Srilankan player’s will probably be distracted by the sad events taking place at home, and this will be an advantage for Bangladesh player’s but do you’ll feel that they’ll be able to capitalise on it. Furthermore I’m backing Bangladesh to win or expecting the match to end up in a draw because I feel that they’re slightly better than Srilanka due to home advantage, but it seems that many here are backing Srilanka so maybe I’m the only one underestimating Srilanka?.

No you are not alone who is thinking like that. Sri lanka for quite sometimes is having performace issues in cricket and that mainly happend because there key players like Malinga, jayawardene, sangakara and Dilshan all left the team at same time. The current situation of Sri lanka will add more downfall to perfromance of Sri Lanka cricket team. I my view both teams are so same level now a days.

[BALIK]

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I do not think the Srilankan team will be playing in their right mindset considering the present economic situation in Srilanka. I believe it will affect their overall performance. I think Bangladesh has a better chance as they will have the home ground advantage and they would be mentally more stable than their counterparts. I am waiting for the test match between England & Newzealand which will be played next month. That would be a better match to watch.

I believe you’re right because the Srilankan player’s will probably be distracted by the sad events taking place at home, and this will be an advantage for Bangladesh player’s but do you’ll feel that they’ll be able to capitalise on it. Furthermore I’m backing Bangladesh to win or expecting the match to end up in a draw because I feel that they’re slightly better than Srilanka due to home advantage, but it seems that many here are backing Srilanka so maybe I’m the only one underestimating Srilanka?.

I forgot that there are certain situations going on in Sri Lanka which might affect their performance in the field. If anyone doesn't know what is going on in Sri Lanka I suggest them to open the news.

Now back to cricket, I know that this situation is quite bad for Sri Lanka. But I still do not believe that Bangladesh is going to perform well enough to beat them because the Bangladeshi cricketers just cannot play test cricket. I don't know if they don't have enough patience or if they don't have enough skill. I just know that if I trust Bangladesh to win this test series I am going to make a mistake.

[blatchcorn]

I forgot that there are certain situations going on in Sri Lanka which might affect their performance in the field. If anyone doesn't know what is going on in Sri Lanka I suggest them to open the news.

Now back to cricket, I know that this situation is quite bad for Sri Lanka. But I still do not believe that Bangladesh is going to perform well enough to beat them because the Bangladeshi cricketers just cannot play test cricket. I don't know if they don't have enough patience or if they don't have enough skill. I just know that if I trust Bangladesh to win this test series I am going to make a mistake.

Situation inside Sri Lanka is very much same as is performance of their cricket team. At the moment there is no player in Sri Lanka that is reliable like Malinga, Dilshan or Sangakara. Coming towards Bangladesh, they may have some edge that they have some senior players that are playing test for years like Lutan Das and Shakib.

[Swordsoffreedom]

- Brendon McCullum news is confirmed, he's set to take England's test coaching role. He'll soon resign from the KKR.
- Shakib is ruled out from the 1st test against SL due to injury.
- Hasan and Pujara are bullying in the County, although they were up against weaker teams but still.

Shakib Al Hasan is affected by Covid-19 and he is not going to play the first test against Sri Lanka.
Source: https://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/covid-infected-bangladesh-cricket-team-all-rounder-shakib-al-hasan-out-of-sri-lanka-test-2963777


Yes, it is official that Brendon McCullum is going to step down as the KKR coach because he is going to take up the job as the England coach in the test format.
Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/brendon-mccullum-to-step-down-as-kkr-coach-to-take-over-england-job-7912039/

I believe the English cricket board is the most bold and better decision making board in the whole cricket scene.
They always like to think out of the box and this type of thinking is surely appreciated in cricket right now because cricket needs people to think out of the box to get its popularity up again.

[Sithara007]

No you are not alone who is thinking like that. Sri lanka for quite sometimes is having performace issues in cricket and that mainly happend because there key players like Malinga, jayawardene, sangakara and Dilshan all left the team at same time. The current situation of Sri lanka will add more downfall to perfromance of Sri Lanka cricket team. I my view both teams are so same level now a days.

Let's not forget the fact that the SLCB is receiving around $15-$20 million from the ICC every year. I would like to know where all this money is flowing in to, because till now I haven't seen any growth outside Colombo. Cricket in Sri Lanka remains confined to Colombo and it's suburbs. If players from other regions of Sri Lanka want to compete in first class cricket, then they need to travel to Colombo in order to do so. They don't even have a proper region-based domestic cricket structure and for the player pool they are entirely dependent on the cricket clubs in Colombo.

[blatchcorn]

Let's not forget the fact that the SLCB is receiving around $15-$20 million from the ICC every year. I would like to know where all this money is flowing in to, because till now I haven't seen any growth outside Colombo. Cricket in Sri Lanka remains confined to Colombo and it's suburbs. If players from other regions of Sri Lanka want to compete in first class cricket, then they need to travel to Colombo in order to do so. They don't even have a proper region-based domestic cricket structure and for the player pool they are entirely dependent on the cricket clubs in Colombo.

Money can't produce good sports team otherwise England won't have to wait till 2019 to win ODI world cup. In Srilanka there are also issues with tamil population they are not welcome in institutes controlled by central government. They need to expand cricket to other communities also.

[Minor Miner]

No you are not alone who is thinking like that. Sri lanka for quite sometimes is having performace issues in cricket and that mainly happend because there key players like Malinga, jayawardene, sangakara and Dilshan all left the team at same time. The current situation of Sri lanka will add more downfall to perfromance of Sri Lanka cricket team. I my view both teams are so same level now a days.

Let's not forget the fact that the SLCB is receiving around $15-$20 million from the ICC every year. I would like to know where all this money is flowing in to, because till now I haven't seen any growth outside Colombo. Cricket in Sri Lanka remains confined to Colombo and it's suburbs. If players from other regions of Sri Lanka want to compete in first class cricket, then they need to travel to Colombo in order to do so. They don't even have a proper region-based domestic cricket structure and for the player pool they are entirely dependent on the cricket clubs in Colombo.

The progress of Sri Lankan cricket has really been decreasing in the last few years because once Sri Lanka was a team that was playing against the top-level games and winning quite comfortably. They were a team to be reckoned with but now Sri Lanka does not play like that anymore.

I honestly believe that this is because of the corruption that is going on in the Sri Lankan cricket board. Otherwise, there is no reason why they will not be able to find good enough players. I don't think they have any shortage of talent.

[pakhitheboss]

Virtually no bilateral cricket is happening in cricketing world right now but from next week this is going to change (SL vs BAN). IMO this test series might not effect points standing that much. Sri Lanka is playing spoiler role in this cycle, not in this test series tho (Spoiler role is reserved for home test matches against Pak and Aus)
-snip

I really don't expect anything from Bangladesh at all in the test cricket format because they are very bad at test cricket.  
I can even put my trust in Afghanistan a lot more in test cricket instead of just hoping that Bangladesh wins and I become the loser.  
I believe Bangladesh is not good in test cricket and this has been the case since the start, believe that in comparison to Bangladesh.

I do not think the Srilankan team will be playing in their right mindset considering the present economic situation in Srilanka. I believe it will affect their overall performance. I think Bangladesh has a better chance as they will have the home ground advantage and they would be mentally more stable than their counterparts. I am waiting for the test match between England & Newzealand which will be played next month. That would be a better match to watch.

I believe you’re right because the Srilankan player’s will probably be distracted by the sad events taking place at home, and this will be an advantage for Bangladesh player’s but do you’ll feel that they’ll be able to capitalise on it. Furthermore I’m backing Bangladesh to win or expecting the match to end up in a draw because I feel that they’re slightly better than Srilanka due to home advantage, but it seems that many here are backing Srilanka so maybe I’m the only one underestimating Srilanka?.

On papers Srilanka is a better test playing team but the situation is different at the moment and that is why I feel Bangladesh has a better chance of winning, it is possible that the end result of this series might be draw. If Bangladesh is able to draw the series then still it will be better than losing it.

[JSRAW]

- Brendon McCullum news is confirmed, he's set to take England's test coaching role. He'll soon resign from the KKR.
- Shakib is ruled out from the 1st test against SL due to injury.
- Hasan and Pujara are bullying in the County, although they were up against weaker teams but still.

Shakib Al Hasan is affected by Covid-19 and he is not going to play the first test against Sri Lanka.
Source: https://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/covid-infected-bangladesh-cricket-team-all-rounder-shakib-al-hasan-out-of-sri-lanka-test-2963777


Yes, it is official that Brendon McCullum is going to step down as the KKR coach because he is going to take up the job as the England coach in the test format.
Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/brendon-mccullum-to-step-down-as-kkr-coach-to-take-over-england-job-7912039/

I believe the English cricket board is the most bold and better decision making board in the whole cricket scene.
They always like to think out of the box and this type of thinking is surely appreciated in cricket right now because cricket needs people to think out of the box to get its popularity up again.

No doubt about that, after all they invented the game of cricket and also introduced T-20 and now The 100 Balls format.

That's another debate that commercially BCCI hijacked almost everything, mainly T-20 but they don't even come close to ECB  "New Ideas" competition.

[Cryptock]

No you are not alone who is thinking like that. Sri lanka for quite sometimes is having performace issues in cricket and that mainly happend because there key players like Malinga, jayawardene, sangakara and Dilshan all left the team at same time. The current situation of Sri lanka will add more downfall to perfromance of Sri Lanka cricket team. I my view both teams are so same level now a days.

Let's not forget the fact that the SLCB is receiving around $15-$20 million from the ICC every year. I would like to know where all this money is flowing in to, because till now I haven't seen any growth outside Colombo. Cricket in Sri Lanka remains confined to Colombo and it's suburbs. If players from other regions of Sri Lanka want to compete in first class cricket, then they need to travel to Colombo in order to do so. They don't even have a proper region-based domestic cricket structure and for the player pool they are entirely dependent on the cricket clubs in Colombo.

The progress of Sri Lankan cricket has really been decreasing in the last few years because once Sri Lanka was a team that was playing against the top-level games and winning quite comfortably. They were a team to be reckoned with but now Sri Lanka does not play like that anymore.

I honestly believe that this is because of the corruption that is going on in the Sri Lankan cricket board. Otherwise, there is no reason why they will not be able to find good enough players. I don't think they have any shortage of talent.

My heart goes with the Srilanaka - Very hard time for them. I am not sure how they will come out of the situation. Mu Srilanakan student wanted IK like Prime Minister, they said he is free for sometime so let him come to Sirilanka to help build our economy. That was very sweet of them. But we also need IK. I wish both countries a very bright future. Ameen

[onecall123]

Virtually no bilateral cricket is happening in cricketing world right now but from next week this is going to change (SL vs BAN). IMO this test series might not effect points standing that much. Sri Lanka is playing spoiler role in this cycle, not in this test series tho (Spoiler role is reserved for home test matches against Pak and Aus)
-snip

I really don't expect anything from Bangladesh at all in the test cricket format because they are very bad at test cricket.  
I can even put my trust in Afghanistan a lot more in test cricket instead of just hoping that Bangladesh wins and I become the loser.  
I believe Bangladesh is not good in test cricket and this has been the case since the start, believe that in comparison to Bangladesh.

I do not think the Srilankan team will be playing in their right mindset considering the present economic situation in Srilanka. I believe it will affect their overall performance. I think Bangladesh has a better chance as they will have the home ground advantage and they would be mentally more stable than their counterparts. I am waiting for the test match between England & Newzealand which will be played next month. That would be a better match to watch.

I believe you’re right because the Srilankan player’s will probably be distracted by the sad events taking place at home, and this will be an advantage for Bangladesh player’s but do you’ll feel that they’ll be able to capitalise on it. Furthermore I’m backing Bangladesh to win or expecting the match to end up in a draw because I feel that they’re slightly better than Srilanka due to home advantage, but it seems that many here are backing Srilanka so maybe I’m the only one underestimating Srilanka?.

On papers Srilanka is a better test playing team but the situation is different at the moment and that is why I feel Bangladesh has a better chance of winning, it is possible that the end result of this series might be draw. If Bangladesh is able to draw the series then still it will be better than losing it.

Despite the worst economic crisis in the country's history, Sri Lanka should be motivated and at least give a better performance in the next two test matches. A good performance ultimately benefits all Sri Lankans. Winning is the most desired thing for any team but Bangladesh here is in a good position to grab all attention. Shakib Al Hasan's test results are negative, so he will join Bangladesh's squad. Bangladesh will benefit from this move by giving a boost to their performance in the first Test against Sri Lanka.