Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[wiss19]

Things are quite not easy for Pakistan at the moment. The target is not that big considering the number of days left in this test match but they have lost already 3 wickets and as of now they seem to be struggling against the English pace attack. Pakistan needs a big partnership if they want to win and the best part here is that Ben stokes knows that and whenever he sees a partnership building he introduces a pace bowlers into the attack. Cunning captaincy by Ben I must say that.

Things never been easy for Pakistan while they are chasing their target in fourth inning on any pitch because they never play with aggressive approach which is never been ideal situation for any team and most of the time batsmen play for their own status which is mostly never help any team but in today we have amazing stuff from veteran Anderson and youngster Robinson both give shocking out swingers and both top rank batsmen completely clueless with lost their wickets cheaply.

Now Pakistan still needs 157 runs which is big task, and they have six wickets in hand only average batsmen available as they have no good experience and skills for staying on crease and win this match for their team but still we can expect good end of this match as bat and bowl will be fight for series decider because if England won they could be winner of the series as well.

[WatChe]

Imam Ul Haque and Saud Shakeel's responsible batting is slowly leading Pakistan toward victory. These two batsmen have already managed to make a partnership of 102 runs. And Pakistan's collection is 185 runs. Pakistan needs only 170 runs to win. Scoring 170 runs in test format are not difficult. But there is no way to say for sure that Pakistan will win. Because I think if England can take the wickets of Shakeel and Imam Ul Haque, then the rest of Pakistan's batsmen will quickly return to the dressing room. Apart from these two batsmen, I don't see any other responsible batsmen in the Pakistan squad who can contribute to the team's victory.

Imam game is over as he was bowled out by Leah on 60 runs, now only Saud is on the crease. Pakistan have two complete days to chase England target but the issue is they have only 6 wickets in hands. 157 is not a big score to chase but we have already seen how Pakistan tail collapsed yesterday morning. Muhammad Nawaz can bat also but he need to be careful as its very important to stay on the crease and score runs. IMO game is more towards England side as they have got wickets of key Pakistani batsmen. Lets see how Pakistan play tomorrow.

[roslinpl]

Pakistan second test against the England was very entertaining one. Because Pakistan had improved their game in recent days. They had give best knock against the best team of world, the England. No one believe this the old Pakistan team, Pakistan had nearly 6 wickets and 2 days remaining. If they miss this chance, it will be the worst blunder by the Pakistan team, it will look like they again repeat the history. Saud should make his unique batting and score his needed 50 against the England and it’s classic. His fifty run was welcome one by the team and recommend by the coach of the game to make it.

[GigaBit]

Mitchell Swepson said "Spin, bounce, pace-nothing on the wicket'  when he came to play in Pakistan nine months ago. Multan's wicket on Friday surely redeemed his mistake. On the first day of the second Test tomorrow, England were bowled out for 281 in the first innings. Young Pakistani spinner Abrar Ahmed took England's first seven wickets on debut.

The 24 year old Abrar impressed with seven wickets for 114 runs in 22 overs. He joined Pakistan cricket as another bright star. If this amazing performance could not win Pakistan cricket in the test, but he introduced himself. Had another teammate, leg-spinner Zahid Mahmood, not taken the last three wickets, he might have got the full 10 wickets.

[DanWalker]

Enjoying these series is just a waste of time. It was a completely one-sided series. West Indies should have organized the Test series against Bangladesh. They should not play Tests against big teams like Australia or England. I would have been happy if West Indies had organized a 5-match T20 series against Australia. Because West Indies are still strong enough in T20 series and they can win against Australia too. ICC should not organize such one-sided series. As a result, the general audience will lose interest in cricket.

Agreed about this all with you because I also feel series like this is waste of time, money and energy specially if you are not going to have any positive impact in long run as well West Indies is completely crap side in test format, and they can't do things for positive change because they are now having the worst things around them with no hope of better future just ODI and t20 can give them better results and better way of stay into this game of cricket.
All team bowled out on 77 with match ended with the heaviest defeat and no batsman able to cross highest run by Chanderpaul in second inning what a batting by the former kings of cricket here in Adelaide most of the time stadium was empty as peoples are also feeling nothing entertaining going to happen which is also really poor hopefully ICC and WICB will do things for the improvement of their quality in near future.

Australia already won the match. Australia won by a huge margin of 419 runs. This was just a weird dominance from Australia. West Indies was all out only for 77 runs. Australia whitewashes West Indies in this test series by 2-0. These are the reasons why test cricket is dying. There is barely any competition when there is a match-up like this. And we all know that test cricket needs your skills. So it is very hard for weaker opponents to overcome difficulties against that better and bigger opponents. And I think we all knew that the outcome of this test series is going to be something like this.

[eaLiTy]

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The 24 year old Abrar impressed with seven wickets for 114 runs in 22 overs. He joined Pakistan cricket as another bright star. If this amazing performance could not win Pakistan cricket in the test, but he introduced himself. Had another teammate, leg-spinner Zahid Mahmood, not taken the last three wickets, he might have got the full 10 wickets.

Abrar Ahmed took 11 wickets in his Test debut and that is a great start and he is young and if he could continue this kind of performance then it will be great for Pakistan. Pakistan messed up the first innings as i expected them to score a good lead but they are just unpredictable and even now they are in a good position to win the match as they only need 157 runs and since it is Pakistan you never know how they will bat tomorrow.

[Mahdirakib]

Things are quite not easy for Pakistan at the moment. The target is not that big considering the number of days left in this test match but they have lost already 3 wickets and as of now they seem to be struggling against the English pace attack. Pakistan needs a big partnership if they want to win and the best part here is that Ben stokes knows that and whenever he sees a partnership building he introduces a pace bowlers into the attack. Cunning captaincy by Ben I must say that.

Pakistan is in the front seat of the match now. They have made a good partnership on the 4th wicket and dominating in the game. They need 157 runs only with 6 wickets in hand. However, the betting odds is still in favour of England. I found it reasonable, because Pakistan batting lineup may collapse at any time. We have seen it in the first innings.

[Hamza2424]

This Match is looking like jot to draw but the bots can't be trusted. ENG vs PAK more likely it a tight call for now on the moment when bot show's the rating of 47 53 well you know it fluctuates every over. Multan pitch seems good and that was a decent innings. There was a troll on the IND vs NZ trophy size but it seems PCB did some good job on the size especially haha.

[Vaskiy]

Things are quite not easy for Pakistan at the moment. The target is not that big considering the number of days left in this test match but they have lost already 3 wickets and as of now they seem to be struggling against the English pace attack. Pakistan needs a big partnership if they want to win and the best part here is that Ben stokes knows that and whenever he sees a partnership building he introduces a pace bowlers into the attack. Cunning captaincy by Ben I must say that.

Pakistan is in the front seat of the match now. They have made a good partnership on the 4th wicket and dominating in the game. They need 157 runs only with 6 wickets in hand. However, the betting odds is still in favour of England. I found it reasonable, because Pakistan batting lineup may collapse at any time. We have seen it in the first innings.

We have experienced the poor performance from Pakistan in its first innings, but in such a match Pakistan have got golden opportunity to record it's win. None is sure of the winning, and I expect Multan pitch to be in favour of Pakistan. 6 wickets in hand is enough to score more 157 runs. Shakeel in good form and the players need to accompany his performance to reach the target and mark it a winning for Pakistan.

[onecall123]

Things are quite not easy for Pakistan at the moment. The target is not that big considering the number of days left in this test match but they have lost already 3 wickets and as of now they seem to be struggling against the English pace attack. Pakistan needs a big partnership if they want to win and the best part here is that Ben stokes knows that and whenever he sees a partnership building he introduces a pace bowlers into the attack. Cunning captaincy by Ben I must say that.

Pakistan is in the front seat of the match now. They have made a good partnership on the 4th wicket and dominating in the game. They need 157 runs only with 6 wickets in hand. However, the betting odds is still in favour of England. I found it reasonable, because Pakistan batting lineup may collapse at any time. We have seen it in the first innings.

For Pakistan to win this match, they should play attacking cricket. If you play defensively, chances are that you will lose wickets, so at least maintain your run rate. Pakistan's batsmen Saud Shakeel and Nawaz are both well-settled right now, so they may continue to rule the game. Could Saud Shakeel save the day this time? There are only 95 more runs to go. However, we cannot exclude the other factor because the batting lineup of Pakistan could collapse at any time.

[laurenB7742]

Enjoying these series is just a waste of time. It was a completely one-sided series. West Indies should have organized the Test series against Bangladesh. They should not play Tests against big teams like Australia or England. I would have been happy if West Indies had organized a 5-match T20 series against Australia. Because West Indies are still strong enough in T20 series and they can win against Australia too. ICC should not organize such one-sided series. As a result, the general audience will lose interest in cricket.

Agreed about this all with you because I also feel series like this is waste of time, money and energy specially if you are not going to have any positive impact in long run as well West Indies is completely crap side in test format, and they can't do things for positive change because they are now having the worst things around them with no hope of better future just ODI and t20 can give them better results and better way of stay into this game of cricket.
All team bowled out on 77 with match ended with the heaviest defeat and no batsman able to cross highest run by Chanderpaul in second inning what a batting by the former kings of cricket here in Adelaide most of the time stadium was empty as peoples are also feeling nothing entertaining going to happen which is also really poor hopefully ICC and WICB will do things for the improvement of their quality in near future.

Australia already won the match. Australia won by a huge margin of 419 runs. This was just a weird dominance from Australia. West Indies was all out only for 77 runs. Australia whitewashes West Indies in this test series by 2-0. These are the reasons why test cricket is dying. There is barely any competition when there is a match-up like this. And we all know that test cricket needs your skills. So it is very hard for weaker opponents to overcome difficulties against that better and bigger opponents. And I think we all knew that the outcome of this test series is going to be something like this.

you are right We were sure that Australia would win this series. But it will be completely one-sided, perhaps many did not think. West Indies were unable to put up any resistance in the two matches. In both the matches we saw the dominance of only Australian players. West Indies performed poorly both in batting and bowling. They managed to bat only 110 overs in the second possible match. Meanwhile, they have lost 20 wickets. If they can't improve on such poor batting, they shouldn't host a Test series with a team like Australia or England.

[JSRAW]

I really feel bad for Saud Shakeel, he deserved his maiden century but unfortunately faced a tough decision. It could've been gone either way if the soft signal wasn't out. Anyway, i hope we'll see more of Shakeel in the future, he performed like a champion under pressure.

England needs 3 wickets and Pakistan is just 64 runs away from victory.

[WatChe]

I really feel bad for Saud Shakeel, he deserved his maiden century but unfortunately faced a tough decision. It could've been gone either way if the soft signal wasn't out. Anyway, i hope we'll see more of Shakeel in the future, he performed like a champion under pressure.

England needs 3 wickets and Pakistan is just 64 runs away from victory.

England inching close to yet another test victory as they need 1 more wicket to win and Pakistan need 36 more runs to win this game. This is second test for Saud and he has done good in both innings. Can he be the batsmen in the middle order which Pakistan is looking for years? Pakistan really need to do some overhauling in the batting lineup and focus be given on bowlers that can remain fit for long time. Already young bowlers like Afridi and Naseem are struggling to maintain fitness. Anyways its a good recovery from England since the last Ashes and Ben is proving to be a good captain for England.

[LittleBitFunny]

I really feel bad for Saud Shakeel, he deserved his maiden century but unfortunately faced a tough decision. It could've been gone either way if the soft signal wasn't out. Anyway, i hope we'll see more of Shakeel in the future, he performed like a champion under pressure.

England needs 3 wickets and Pakistan is just 64 runs away from victory.

England inching close to yet another test victory as they need 1 more wicket to win and Pakistan need 36 more runs to win this game. This is second test for Saud and he has done good in both innings. Can he be the batsmen in the middle order which Pakistan is looking for years? Pakistan really need to do some overhauling in the batting lineup and focus be given on bowlers that can remain fit for long time. Already young bowlers like Afridi and Naseem are struggling to maintain fitness. Anyways its a good recovery from England since the last Ashes and Ben is proving to be a good captain for England.

I am very disappointed with Pakistan's batting performance today. When I last checked the scoreboard, Pakistan were 278 for the loss of 5 wickets. They needed just 76 runs to win. I don't think Pakistan will lose this match too badly. I expected Pakistan to win this match. But they failed to collect only 76 runs for 5 wickets. Pakistan's batting lineup is weak in all three formats. Pakistan management should focus more on their batting line-up. Otherwise, this team will not be able to win against weak teams in the future.

[ZAINmalik75]

I really feel bad for Saud Shakeel, he deserved his maiden century but unfortunately faced a tough decision. It could've been gone either way if the soft signal wasn't out. Anyway, i hope we'll see more of Shakeel in the future, he performed like a champion under pressure.

England needs 3 wickets and Pakistan is just 64 runs away from victory.

England inching close to yet another test victory as they need 1 more wicket to win and Pakistan need 36 more runs to win this game. This is second test for Saud and he has done good in both innings. Can he be the batsmen in the middle order which Pakistan is looking for years? Pakistan really need to do some overhauling in the batting lineup and focus be given on bowlers that can remain fit for long time. Already young bowlers like Afridi and Naseem are struggling to maintain fitness. Anyways its a good recovery from England since the last Ashes and Ben is proving to be a good captain for England.

I am very disappointed with Pakistan's batting performance today. When I last checked the scoreboard, Pakistan were 278 for the loss of 5 wickets. They needed just 76 runs to win. I don't think Pakistan will lose this match too badly. I expected Pakistan to win this match. But they failed to collect only 76 runs for 5 wickets. Pakistan's batting lineup is weak in all three formats. Pakistan management should focus more on their batting line-up. Otherwise, this team will not be able to win against weak teams in the future.

It's true that Pakistan batting lineup is not good enough to win the match, overall team depends on Baber , if baber score team will be if he mistakenly got out and didn't score a decent score then it's confirmed that Pakistan will lose the match, PCB should take a look on batting lineup because soon the ODI world cup is on the way and if they didn't prepare himself then I am quite woory that Pakistan will failed to qualify for semifinals or any big stage.
The best performer from Pakistan side was Suad Shakeel who score 94 but unfortunately due to small mistake ho got departure by wood to pavilion, another strong performance by Imam who score 60 while he was injured but he do his best...

[pakhitheboss]

Pakistan team has become a Joke!

The ability to lose an easy win cricket match can only be displayed by this team. Of course there have been instances when they have won a match which every cricket fan knew they would lose. Such inconsistency has hampered Pakistan cricket performance for a few years now. PCB is busy constantly fighting with other boards or ICC. It is better they concentrate more on finding talents and nurturing them.

Getting defeated so easily on your home ground is the one big humiliation and I think Pakistan doesn't get bothered with such humiliation otherwise they would have not repeated the same mistake.

I have now become a big fan of Ben stokes captaincy. Not only he is one hell of an all rounder but he has proven that he can be a hell of a test team captain.

[Hamza2424]

England won by 26 runs in this Pakistan vs England match. Pakistan did not perform very well. Pakistan did not score very good runs in batting and I did not think the runs that England scored were the right runs to win. But they could not score these runs.  Pakistan.

Well haha, its now the sort of regular news in test cricket that Pakistan didn't perform well in this innings. The only reason is because of the non-implemented batting line up as every of expert says Pakistan needs changes in its batting strength. Its a test so it doesn't matter alot but from this point, the team gains strength by doing some experimental work.

[onecall123]

Getting defeated so easily on your home ground is the one big humiliation and I think Pakistan doesn't get bothered with such humiliation otherwise they would have not repeated the same mistake.

It's a typical Pakistani style. With such an even contest, they are always able to hold their heads high. It was a case of being so close and yet so far away. There is nothing more frustrating than losing a series at home, even under ideal conditions.

I have now become a big fan of Ben stokes captaincy. Not only he is one hell of an all rounder but he has proven that he can be a hell of a test team captain.

He is a game-changer. Taking the win is the only option, never look for a draw. I really like Ben's leadership. His captaincy should be noted for their relaxed approach, and their attitude speaks for itself. This difference is due to the approach of the English team.

[JSRAW]

Pakistan team has become a Joke!

Meme team for sure but terming them a "Joke team" would be too harsh IMO as i felt they fought well in this test despite ruining their chances today.

Meme team because of Rambo's strategy and team performance.

-At pindi PCB created a dead wicket for draw and England rolled them over royally.
-Then Created a spin track at Multan and English pacer got a majority of wickets, at the same time Pakistani seamers didn't claim a single wicket.

[fuguebtc]

I really feel bad for Saud Shakeel, he deserved his maiden century but unfortunately faced a tough decision. It could've been gone either way if the soft signal wasn't out. Anyway, i hope we'll see more of Shakeel in the future, he performed like a champion under pressure.
England needs 3 wickets and Pakistan is just 64 runs away from victory.

England inching close to yet another test victory as they need 1 more wicket to win and Pakistan need 36 more runs to win this game. This is second test for Saud and he has done good in both innings. Can he be the batsmen in the middle order which Pakistan is looking for years? Pakistan really need to do some overhauling in the batting lineup and focus be given on bowlers that can remain fit for long time. Already young bowlers like Afridi and Naseem are struggling to maintain fitness. Anyways its a good recovery from England since the last Ashes and Ben is proving to be a good captain for England.

I am very disappointed with Pakistan's batting performance today. When I last checked the scoreboard, Pakistan were 278 for the loss of 5 wickets. They needed just 76 runs to win. I don't think Pakistan will lose this match too badly. I expected Pakistan to win this match. But they failed to collect only 76 runs for 5 wickets. Pakistan's batting lineup is weak in all three formats. Pakistan management should focus more on their batting line-up. Otherwise, this team will not be able to win against weak teams in the future.

It's true that Pakistan batting lineup is not good enough to win the match, overall team depends on Baber , if baber score team will be if he mistakenly got out and didn't score a decent score then it's confirmed that Pakistan will lose the match, PCB should take a look on batting lineup because soon the ODI world cup is on the way and if they didn't prepare himself then I am quite woory that Pakistan will failed to qualify for semifinals or any big stage.
The best performer from Pakistan side was Suad Shakeel who score 94 but unfortunately due to small mistake ho got departure by wood to pavilion, another strong performance by Imam who score 60 while he was injured but he do his best...

This was a really sad loss for Pakistan. I really believed that they could win this test match and level it out for one-one. But they could not do that. It felt like the pitch got better and better for batting as that test match progressed. Pakistan had a good chance but they could not maximize it.

In the last innings of the test match, Pakistan had just five batsmen who did not have any significant contribution to the Pakistani team in any way. If they could have put on a few more runs, Pakistan was surely going to win this one. But anyway, congratulations to England for winning the series with one match left already.