Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Mahdirakib]

It is not about the bowling of either England or Pakistan, the pitch is a flat dead wicket and there is no purchase for the bowlers and hence England batsman were able to score freely and made huge runs including two double centuries and now it is the Pakistan batsman's turn to pile in the runs and if they play carefully the match will end up in a draw and some of the batsman will be improving their career averages  .

You are mixing up something here. 4 players of England scored centuries, one of them scored one hundred and fifty runs. Two Australian players have scored double centuries against West Indies in the first innings. Anyway, Pakistan pitch isn't suitable for bowlers. The match will end as a draw. But Australia has pretty good chance to win against West Indies.

[jostorres]

What is the point in watching these matches, where the bowlers have no role to play? Imagine in test cricket run rate shooting up to 7 runs per over. That tells a lot about the track that was prepared in Pindi. I just hope that the ICC will take note of this and penalize the PCB. Someone please enlighten me how a result can be obtained from matches such as this one. 5-days and 450 overs of cricket, and still in the end we will be left with yet another boring draw. And then the folks at ICC wonder why test cricket is getting less and less popular with every passing year.

Absolutely there is no point in watching this test match. The pitch was not helpful for bowlers on day on day two it is giving a little help. It seems England was lucky enough to win the toss and bat on such a pitch. Now it will be intresting to see whether this pitch helps the English bowlers or Pakistan batters.

I am watching cricket for last 30 years and I have feeling PCB is one of the most crap managements in this sports organization because they have never done things to have positive results and give good entertainment to public which is surely must if you want to have better revenue and sponsorships even today I was reading Ramiz Raja was also feeling embarrassment with this pitch because he was not expecting things like this going to happen.

With this all you are bringing two seamers in team and both have nightmare start of their career in test matches we already have few world records, and we can expect something special as well in coming days which will be more embarrassing for them in current situation, but one thing is surely they will never take any lesson from these badass things which are they doing for the long time.

[Ayers]

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Pakistan scored 181 runs in 51 overs by batting today. Pakistan has not lost any wicket so far. But I am waiting to see how Pakistan will play tomorrow. Now the thing to watch is if England can perform well in bowling then Pakistan will not be able to score so many runs in this match.

It is not about the bowling of either England or Pakistan, the pitch is a flat dead wicket and there is no purchase for the bowlers and hence England batsman were able to score freely and made huge runs including two double centuries and now it is the Pakistan batsman's turn to pile in the runs and if they play carefully the match will end up in a draw and some of the batsman will be improving their career averages  .

A completely bad pitch. The bowlers are not doing any favors. We saw England's devastating batting. England scored 657 runs in their first innings. But Pakistani batsmen are also playing well. Despite collecting 181 runs, they have not lost any wicket yet. England's two openers Abdullah Shafique and Imam Ul Haque are batting very well. The two Pakistani openers are batting very carefully. There is no doubt that the match is going to be a draw unless there is a batting disaster.

Due to the fact that England has had enough runs on the board, they have lost quick wickets today. At least, that's what I believe to be the case. Currently, Pakistan is batting in the middle of the innings. However, nothing seems to be helping with the bowlers at the moment. In terms of the pitch, they are not getting any help from it. As a result, Pakistan's openers are playing according to their own wishes. I can see this test match being another draw. Do you remember when Pakistan did this against Australia and everyone hated them for it? Compared to the last time, I think the hatred is going to be much more intense this time around.

[Sithara007]

There is a viral tweet from Iceland Cricket Board, regarding the ongoing test between Pakistan and England at Pindi:

https://twitter.com/icelandcricket/status/1598648896799920128

There are various ways of taking wickets at Rawalpindi, but they all come with bans of 3-10 years.

And from what I heard, the ICC is already looking in to this issue and PCB will be in trouble if they find that the Pindi pitch was not suitable for international matches. And remember that PCB is a repeat offender. During the tour by Australia also they prepared similar pitches. I hope this time they will not get away with what they have done. Most probably they will receive a penalty of monetary fine. Hopefully they will avoid deduction of points for the World Test Championship table.

[ZAINmalik75]

Currently, Pakistan is batting in the middle of the innings. However, nothing seems to be helping with the bowlers at the moment. In terms of the pitch, they are not getting any help from it. As a result, Pakistan's openers are playing according to their own wishes.

It's true that pitch didn't help bowler and that the reason that world best bowling lineup didn't much wicket on first day of test and didn't hold English batter at small target but at second day miricle occure and Pakistan departure all of England player to pavilion,
Now same condition is for England bowler they also didn't get any help pitch and that's the reason the england bowler Anderson didn't get any wicket.

[BobK71]

Currently, Pakistan is batting in the middle of the innings. However, nothing seems to be helping with the bowlers at the moment. In terms of the pitch, they are not getting any help from it. As a result, Pakistan's openers are playing according to their own wishes.

It's true that pitch didn't help bowler and that the reason that world best bowling lineup didn't much wicket on first day of test and didn't hold English batter at small target but at second day miricle occure and Pakistan departure all of England player to pavilion,
Now same condition is for England bowler they also didn't get any help pitch and that's the reason the england bowler Anderson didn't get any wicket.

Today's session in Pakistan has begun. Pakistan players are walking on the same street against England. They have not lost any wickets so far. However, when the situation of the two teams are the same, it naturally comes to the attention on the Pitch. In that case, the pitch is not favor on the billowing side. As a result, we are also going to see a good innings from Pakistan. Since the target is so long in the test match, In that case there may be a game like ODI cricket.

[mm2543363580]

Today's session in Pakistan has begun. Pakistan players are walking on the same street against England. They have not lost any wickets so far. However, when the situation of the two teams are the same, it naturally comes to the attention on the Pitch. In that case, the pitch is not favor on the billowing side. As a result, we are also going to see a good innings from Pakistan. Since the target is so long in the test match, In that case there may be a game like ODI cricket.

Defiantly it will be a draw, as on third day Pakistan are 221/0. Both Imam and Abdullah have scored centuries they are not as quick as English openers were. PCB should take some responsibility and start preparing pitches that can do justice with Test format, we saw similar type of pitches in Australia tour. Seems like PCB has not learned anything.

[ZAINmalik75]

Currently, Pakistan is batting in the middle of the innings. However, nothing seems to be helping with the bowlers at the moment. In terms of the pitch, they are not getting any help from it. As a result, Pakistan's openers are playing according to their own wishes.

It's true that pitch didn't help bowler and that the reason that world best bowling lineup didn't much wicket on first day of test and didn't hold English batter at small target but at second day miricle occure and Pakistan departure all of England player to pavilion,
Now same condition is for England bowler they also didn't get any help pitch and that's the reason the england bowler Anderson didn't get any wicket.

Today's session in Pakistan has begun. Pakistan players are walking on the same street against England. They have not lost any wickets so far. However, when the situation of the two teams are the same, it naturally comes to the attention on the Pitch. In that case, the pitch is not favor on the billowing side. As a result, we are also going to see a good innings from Pakistan. Since the target is so long in the test match, In that case there may be a game like ODI cricket.

Now both of Pakistani opener scored 225 runs of partnership in 65 over which is quite good and it's the correct way of playing test cricket match, but now unfortunately one of Pakistani opener A.Shafiq has been departure by England bowler to pavilion. I think the way match is going it's totally in favor of draw . Hope we will get some better results.

[UmerIdrees]

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Pakistan scored 181 runs in 51 overs by batting today. Pakistan has not lost any wicket so far. But I am waiting to see how Pakistan will play tomorrow. Now the thing to watch is if England can perform well in bowling then Pakistan will not be able to score so many runs in this match.

It is not about the bowling of either England or Pakistan, the pitch is a flat dead wicket and there is no purchase for the bowlers and hence England batsman were able to score freely and made huge runs including two double centuries and now it is the Pakistan batsman's turn to pile in the runs and if they play carefully the match will end up in a draw and some of the batsman will be improving their career averages  .

I really don't understand the logic of PCB here to prepare such dead wickets. I am sure it is not the fear of loss as Pakistan has good bowling options that could have been exploited on fast pitches. Don't know who gave them these suggestions to make a dead pitch.

A team as good as England is coming to our country, we should have prepared good pitches, no one wants to watch these dead pitches matches. Honestly, I prefer to watch FIFA world cup matches and highlights rather than watching these batsmen from both countries piling up the runs.

[Naficopa]

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Pakistan scored 181 runs in 51 overs by batting today. Pakistan has not lost any wicket so far. But I am waiting to see how Pakistan will play tomorrow. Now the thing to watch is if England can perform well in bowling then Pakistan will not be able to score so many runs in this match.

It is not about the bowling of either England or Pakistan, the pitch is a flat dead wicket and there is no purchase for the bowlers and hence England batsman were able to score freely and made huge runs including two double centuries and now it is the Pakistan batsman's turn to pile in the runs and if they play carefully the match will end up in a draw and some of the batsman will be improving their career averages  .

I really don't understand the logic of PCB here to prepare such dead wickets. I am sure it is not the fear of loss as Pakistan has good bowling options that could have been exploited on fast pitches. Don't know who gave them these suggestions to make a dead pitch.

A team as good as England is coming to our country, we should have prepared good pitches, no one wants to watch these dead pitches matches. Honestly, I prefer to watch FIFA world cup matches and highlights rather than watching these batsmen from both countries piling up the runs.

That's true when you watch FIFA you watch wonderful, exciting matches with the efforts of their host country  who have prepared outstanding world class stadiums for this world cup .
Then here we have this test series in which players are just collecting runs making centuries and that's it. Atleast PCB have prepared and worked on thier pitches.  I don't know how is Ramiz Raja going to organise Asia Cup in pakistan with this casual attitude.

[noormcs5]

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Pakistan scored 181 runs in 51 overs by batting today. Pakistan has not lost any wicket so far. But I am waiting to see how Pakistan will play tomorrow. Now the thing to watch is if England can perform well in bowling then Pakistan will not be able to score so many runs in this match.

It is not about the bowling of either England or Pakistan, the pitch is a flat dead wicket and there is no purchase for the bowlers and hence England batsman were able to score freely and made huge runs including two double centuries and now it is the Pakistan batsman's turn to pile in the runs and if they play carefully the match will end up in a draw and some of the batsman will be improving their career averages  .

I really don't understand the logic of PCB here to prepare such dead wickets. I am sure it is not the fear of loss as Pakistan has good bowling options that could have been exploited on fast pitches. Don't know who gave them these suggestions to make a dead pitch.

A team as good as England is coming to our country, we should have prepared good pitches, no one wants to watch these dead pitches matches. Honestly, I prefer to watch FIFA world cup matches and highlights rather than watching these batsmen from both countries piling up the runs.

That's true when you watch FIFA you watch wonderful, exciting matches with the efforts of their host country  who have prepared outstanding world class stadiums for this world cup .
Then here we have this test series in which players are just collecting runs making centuries and that's it. Atleast PCB have prepared and worked on thier pitches.  I don't know how is Ramiz Raja going to organise Asia Cup in pakistan with this casual attitude.

Are we having the Asia Cup in Pakistan? I heard somewhere that since India does not want to come to Pakistan to play the Asia cup, the venue may be shifted to some Neutral venue as, without India, the Asia cup won't be of any interest.

Coming back to this test match, the pitch is a big mess here. Think that players are making centuries but no one is appreciating them because it is more of the dead pitches that is playing the part in all these runs.

[JSRAW]

Excellent response from the Pakistani batters but for cricketing fans, it's already turned into a dead rubber, where everyone is just stat padding. Even the likes of Crawley and Ben Duckett got their tons in a fashionable manner. 3rd day and 7 centuries tell the complete story. 

Poms are still in a good position and they would like some braindead collapse from Pak, unlikely but you never know.

[UmerIdrees]

Are we having the Asia Cup in Pakistan? I heard somewhere that since India does not want to come to Pakistan to play the Asia cup, the venue may be shifted to some Neutral venue as, without India, the Asia cup won't be of any interest.

Though this is not related to test cricket, keep in mind that Asia Cup will be played in Pakistan and it will be fun without India being part of it. For sure, if they do not come to Pakistan, the only reason will be that they don't want to taste the insult of losing to Pakistan in Pakistan.

I am not happy with PCB making dead wickets but i am proud on their firm decision of Asia cup should be played where it is planned and no team is over and above the cricketing bodies.

[Naficopa]

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Pakistan scored 181 runs in 51 overs by batting today. Pakistan has not lost any wicket so far. But I am waiting to see how Pakistan will play tomorrow. Now the thing to watch is if England can perform well in bowling then Pakistan will not be able to score so many runs in this match.

It is not about the bowling of either England or Pakistan, the pitch is a flat dead wicket and there is no purchase for the bowlers and hence England batsman were able to score freely and made huge runs including two double centuries and now it is the Pakistan batsman's turn to pile in the runs and if they play carefully the match will end up in a draw and some of the batsman will be improving their career averages  .

I really don't understand the logic of PCB here to prepare such dead wickets. I am sure it is not the fear of loss as Pakistan has good bowling options that could have been exploited on fast pitches. Don't know who gave them these suggestions to make a dead pitch.

A team as good as England is coming to our country, we should have prepared good pitches, no one wants to watch these dead pitches matches. Honestly, I prefer to watch FIFA world cup matches and highlights rather than watching these batsmen from both countries piling up the runs.

That's true when you watch FIFA you watch wonderful, exciting matches with the efforts of their host country  who have prepared outstanding world class stadiums for this world cup .
Then here we have this test series in which players are just collecting runs making centuries and that's it. Atleast PCB have prepared and worked on thier pitches.  I don't know how is Ramiz Raja going to organise Asia Cup in pakistan with this casual attitude.

Are we having the Asia Cup in Pakistan? I heard somewhere that since India does not want to come to Pakistan to play the Asia cup, the venue may be shifted to some Neutral venue as, without India, the Asia cup won't be of any interest.

Coming back to this test match, the pitch is a big mess here. Think that players are making centuries but no one is appreciating them because it is more of the dead pitches that is playing the part in all these runs.

Yea Asia Cup is happening in Pakistan and Ramiz Raja recently told in a press conference that its happening with or without India.  Now that's a big question mark for all the world and ICC too how will the tournament held without India and BCCI?

[pakhitheboss]

As expected this match is going draw, all thanks to PCB and the pitch curator. Indeed Pakistan has lost 7 wickets but, 3 days have been exhausted out of 5 and Inam sure Pakistan would try to utilise the whole 4 day to avoid a defeat in their home ground. I completely wasted test match with no result is a maximum possibility now. 

[JSRAW]

As expected this match is going draw, all thanks to PCB and the pitch curator. Indeed Pakistan has lost 7 wickets but, 3 days have been exhausted out of 5 and Inam sure Pakistan would try to utilise the whole 4 day to avoid a defeat in their home ground. I completely wasted test match with no result is a maximum possibility now. 

Wishful scenario but

Let's say England picks the last 3 wickets quickly in the morning with a minimum lead of 120-ish and is followed by another Bazball batting performance by smashing 280-300 runs in 50-60 overs.

We know we are losing 8-10 overs every day due to bad light so Poms need to give approx 100 overs to Pakistan for a 400-ish run chase and If the pitch stays the same then hope Pakistan takes the bait and tries to win the match.

[laurenB7742]

As expected this match is going draw, all thanks to PCB and the pitch curator. Indeed Pakistan has lost 7 wickets but, 3 days have been exhausted out of 5 and Inam sure Pakistan would try to utilise the whole 4 day to avoid a defeat in their home ground. I completely wasted test match with no result is a maximum possibility now. 

England batted well and scored 657 runs in the first innings. Perhaps England wanted to win this match. But without the good performance of the bowlers it is not possible to win on such a flat pitch. On the third day, he collected 499 runs with the loss of 7 wickets. Pakistan's batsmen will also try to reduce their gap with Pakistan tomorrow. I guess Pakistan will lose all wickets by 550. And we will definitely see a draw unless a miracle happens.

[onecall123]

As expected this match is going draw, all thanks to PCB and the pitch curator. Indeed Pakistan has lost 7 wickets but, 3 days have been exhausted out of 5 and Inam sure Pakistan would try to utilise the whole 4 day to avoid a defeat in their home ground. I completely wasted test match with no result is a maximum possibility now. 

England batted well and scored 657 runs in the first innings. Perhaps England wanted to win this match. But without the good performance of the bowlers it is not possible to win on such a flat pitch. On the third day, he collected 499 runs with the loss of 7 wickets. Pakistan's batsmen will also try to reduce their gap with Pakistan tomorrow. I guess Pakistan will lose all wickets by 550. And we will definitely see a draw unless a miracle happens.

One team is yet to be bowled out after three days of play, however, England and Pakistan both believe they will win the test. If we're being honest, it looks like a draw will be the outcome. Against strong bowling attacks, Pakistani batters score runs. Yet, England's bowlers did an excellent job of taking 7 wickets. There is a good chance that Pakistan will lose all their wickets the next day morning, so a draw is likely unless a miracle happens.

[Sithara007]

England batted well and scored 657 runs in the first innings. Perhaps England wanted to win this match. But without the good performance of the bowlers it is not possible to win on such a flat pitch. On the third day, he collected 499 runs with the loss of 7 wickets. Pakistan's batsmen will also try to reduce their gap with Pakistan tomorrow. I guess Pakistan will lose all wickets by 550. And we will definitely see a draw unless a miracle happens.

Since Pakistan has managed to avoid follow on, I don't think that the outcome can be any different than draw. Pakistan may make a total of 550-600. England need to score at least 250-300 more, to make sure that they don't lose the match. And that will give England less than a day to bowl out Pakistan. And given the track conditions at Pindi, I don't think that it is a possible scenario.

BTW, anyone watching the Australia vs West Indies match? It is much more exciting. With one day remaining, West Indies need more than 300 runs to win, with 7 wickets in hand. Australia is having an upper hand right now, but we can't be sure about their win at this point.

[LittleBitFunny]

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Pakistan scored 181 runs in 51 overs by batting today. Pakistan has not lost any wicket so far. But I am waiting to see how Pakistan will play tomorrow. Now the thing to watch is if England can perform well in bowling then Pakistan will not be able to score so many runs in this match.

It is not about the bowling of either England or Pakistan, the pitch is a flat dead wicket and there is no purchase for the bowlers and hence England batsman were able to score freely and made huge runs including two double centuries and now it is the Pakistan batsman's turn to pile in the runs and if they play carefully the match will end up in a draw and some of the batsman will be improving their career averages  .

I really don't understand the logic of PCB here to prepare such dead wickets. I am sure it is not the fear of loss as Pakistan has good bowling options that could have been exploited on fast pitches. Don't know who gave them these suggestions to make a dead pitch.
A team as good as England is coming to our country, we should have prepared good pitches, no one wants to watch these dead pitches matches. Honestly, I prefer to watch FIFA world cup matches and highlights rather than watching these batsmen from both countries piling up the runs.

That's true when you watch FIFA you watch wonderful, exciting matches with the efforts of their host country  who have prepared outstanding world class stadiums for this world cup .
Then here we have this test series in which players are just collecting runs making centuries and that's it. Atleast PCB have prepared and worked on thier pitches.  I don't know how is Ramiz Raja going to organise Asia Cup in pakistan with this casual attitude.

Are we having the Asia Cup in Pakistan? I heard somewhere that since India does not want to come to Pakistan to play the Asia cup, the venue may be shifted to some Neutral venue as, without India, the Asia cup won't be of any interest.
Coming back to this test match, the pitch is a big mess here. Think that players are making centuries but no one is appreciating them because it is more of the dead pitches that is playing the part in all these runs.

Yea Asia Cup is happening in Pakistan and Ramiz Raja recently told in a press conference that its happening with or without India.  Now that's a big question mark for all the world and ICC too how will the tournament held without India and BCCI?

Is it possible to organize a big tournament like Asia Cup without BCCI? We all know that BCCI has big influence over ICC. Because BCCI can be considered as the main funder of ICC. Also, India has a huge fan base of cricket. I think more than half of cricket fans in the world are Indians. Because their population is huge. I don't think it is possible to host the Asia Cup without such a country. If BCCI voluntarily abstains from playing Asia Cup then maybe possible.