Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

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On This Day 2015, with a brilliant 108* (164) vs Sri Lanka in Hamilton - from 4/1 & chasing 189, Kane Williamson achieved

▫️ 13th Test century
▫️ 2nd Test 100 in 4th innings
▫️ Most Test 100s by NZ batter in a year [5]
▫️ Most Test runs by NZ batter in a year [1172 runs @ 90.15]

[dhyani_vivek@gmail.com]

India's captains in away Tests this year:

2nd Test in SA - KL Rahul
3rd Test in SA - Virat Kohli
5th Test in ENG - Jasprit Bumrah (Rescheduled)
1st Test in BAN - KL Rahul
2nd Test in BAN - With KL Rahul doubtful for the 2nd Test, Cheteshwar Pujara might step up as the captain in his absence.

Rohit Sharma misses all away Tests in 2022 due to injuries.

[laurenB7742]

Every team has drawbacks. Every team has some mismanagements. Every team has some players who need more practice.
We can't say anything or can't underestimate or can't set a mind about the team. Because anytime any team can perform well and can eliminate their major issues.
A small team can win from a big team if it play well and has good management.

All teams have some weak points, we all know that. But we have been seeing this for a long time because of the weakness of the Pakistan team's batting line-up. The last few years have seen the team depend on the performances of Babar and Rizwan. Apart from these two batsmen, no player is able to collect runs regularly. And Pakistan's management is failing to solve it. Since we have been seeing this problem for a long time, I would say it is the failure of Pakistan's management. It is because of their management failure that they are performing so badly.

This is a really sad thing for Pakistan cricket team and their fans,  they didn't even win one match in recent series . Pakistani batting is struggling badly.

We all know that Pakistani batter are quite good in every format of Cricket, they perform well but not with consistency. Only Baber Azam performance is not enough for Pakistan the other should perform too to strengthen the batting lineup. We know that Rizwan are class player but if he didn't perform the management should give him rest but they didn't also the other batter too. Now due to these bad performance of team and many other matter Pakistan government decide to remove the current PCB chairman and bring some one new..

Pakistan batsmen are good enough. But the batsmen cannot perform well against the big teams in the national team. At the end of the day the entire Pakistan team depends on Babar Azam's performance. If Babar Azam does not perform well, it becomes very difficult for Pakistan to collect big. And if Pakistan can't reduce such dependence on Babar then they will face bigger problems in future. They will also lose against teams like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or Afghanistan.

[JSRAW]

Pakistan batsmen are good enough. But the batsmen cannot perform well against the big teams in the national team. At the end of the day the entire Pakistan team depends on Babar Azam's performance. If Babar Azam does not perform well, it becomes very difficult for Pakistan to collect big. And if Pakistan can't reduce such dependence on Babar then they will face bigger problems in future. They will also lose against teams like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or Afghanistan.

What's the point of having good batsmen in the team when they can't perform against the big teams?

In the upcoming NewZealand tour of Pakistan, they have a good opportunity to compete or even win the series as Kiwis performance and overall trajectory is going down. Let's hope Pakistan wins the next series.

[kro55]

India VS Bangladesh

I am looking forward to Bangladesh vs India's second test match. Undoubtedly, India is a much stronger team than Bangladesh in the Test format. But since Bangladesh won the ODI series, they are very confident now. And the important thing is that the match will be held in Mirpur. Mirpur pitch is lucky for Bangladesh. And Bangladesh always performs well in Mirpur.

If India wants to win the second Test match, they will have to be very careful with their squad selection. The squad should be formed keeping in mind the pitch conditions. If they dominate the pace bowlers on a spin-friendly pitch they will not be able to beat Bangladesh.

[TheGreatPython]

The changing of the chairman of PCB, I think this should not effect on team performance.
By the way you are right on some points. The only one person can't do everything. If every player will play his role than the team will give a good performance at all. The management has some weak points which should be fxed as soon as possible.

Is this confirmed? I heard rumors that Rameez Raja may be replaced with Najam Sethi as the chairman of the PCB. It will have no immediate impact on the performance of the Pakistan team, but in the long term I don't think that it will be beneficial for the growth of grassroots cricket in Pakistan. Sethi is like old wine in new bottle. He will once again bring nepotism and bias to Pakistani cricket. Rameez on the other hand was the one who rescued the finances of PCB, by coming up with deals with various media corporations.

This is confirmed because current authorities are not happy with his aggressive approach against India specially while he talks about not sending team to India for the world cup and now another thing gone against him with his new comments about Peshawar which create mess up and many other peoples also feeling not happy about his these comments and third reason Pakistan have first whitewash in their test cricket history which is also going against his poor policies even he was not engaged in pitches but mostly feeling things are not going good specially change of government is also having big impact.
 
Here I agreed with you this change could be not positive with this change because he is not the best administrator, just puppet for the many peoples those are involved in PCB and was feeling not good in presence of Ramiz Raja's presidency.

[JSRAW]

This is confirmed because current authorities are not happy with his aggressive approach against India specially while he talks about not sending team to India for the world cup and now another thing gone against him with his new comments about Peshawar which create mess up and many other peoples also feeling not happy about his these comments and third reason Pakistan have first whitewash in their test cricket history which is also going against his poor policies even he was not engaged in pitches but mostly feeling things are not going good specially change of government is also having big impact.
 
Here I agreed with you this change could be not positive with this change because he is not the best administrator, just puppet for the many peoples those are involved in PCB and was feeling not good in presence of Ramiz Raja's presidency.

-Losing 2 back to back historic series
-Creating mediocre pitches for a majority of matches and making retarded excuses every time.
-Going in front of English media and complaining Pindi administrators were responsible for poor pitches and he didn't know anything.

But yeah his rant against BCCi was responsible for his removal, not Pak Gov-PCB politics. 

[Naficopa]

The changing of the chairman of PCB, I think this should not effect on team performance.
By the way you are right on some points. The only one person can't do everything. If every player will play his role than the team will give a good performance at all. The management has some weak points which should be fxed as soon as possible.

Is this confirmed? I heard rumors that Rameez Raja may be replaced with Najam Sethi as the chairman of the PCB. It will have no immediate impact on the performance of the Pakistan team, but in the long term I don't think that it will be beneficial for the growth of grassroots cricket in Pakistan. Sethi is like old wine in new bottle. He will once again bring nepotism and bias to Pakistani cricket. Rameez on the other hand was the one who rescued the finances of PCB, by coming up with deals with various media corporations.

This is confirmed because current authorities are not happy with his aggressive approach against India specially while he talks about not sending team to India for the world cup and now another thing gone against him with his new comments about Peshawar which create mess up and many other peoples also feeling not happy about his these comments and third reason Pakistan have first whitewash in their test cricket history which is also going against his poor policies even he was not engaged in pitches but mostly feeling things are not going good specially change of government is also having big impact.
 
Here I agreed with you this change could be not positive with this change because he is not the best administrator, just puppet for the many peoples those are involved in PCB and was feeling not good in presence of Ramiz Raja's presidency.

Ramiz Raja strict and direct stance on various topics was not good for PCB and the decision regarding world cups and Asia Cup was very clear, I think government of Pakistan didn't find that suitable fir diplomatic relations and they decided to change the chairman.
One thing is clear pakistan cricket team showed great progress in his time as compared to najam sethi.

[WatChe]

This is confirmed because current authorities are not happy with his aggressive approach against India specially while he talks about not sending team to India for the world cup and now another thing gone against him with his new comments about Peshawar which create mess up and many other peoples also feeling not happy about his these comments and third reason Pakistan have first whitewash in their test cricket history which is also going against his poor policies even he was not engaged in pitches but mostly feeling things are not going good specially change of government is also having big impact.
 
Here I agreed with you this change could be not positive with this change because he is not the best administrator, just puppet for the many peoples those are involved in PCB and was feeling not good in presence of Ramiz Raja's presidency.

-Losing 2 back to back historic series
-Creating mediocre pitches for a majority of matches and making retarded excuses every time.
-Going in front of English media and complaining Pindi administrators were responsible for poor pitches and he didn't know anything.

But yeah his rant against BCCi was responsible for his removal, not Pak Gov-PCB politics. 

The new PCB chairman, Najam Sethi, is a journalist and is given this position just because of his services to the current ruling party. Ramiz Raja may rightly be removed, but appointing Sethi as new PCB chairman will do no good to Pakistan cricket. Ramiz should have resigned by the time government was changed in April this year.

[darewaller]

Tomorrow again India and Bangladesh teams will face each other to play the 2nd Test match. The last Test match was held at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram. Tomorrow's match will be at the Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka where India lost the ODI series against Bangladesh. Many feel that India may not get the advantage they got in Chittagong in the last test. But I don't think so. Indian team is in good form that they can win the 2nd Test match with having large distance. Shubman Gill and Pujara will perform well in the next match ‍as well.

Tomorrow we will be having last test match 2022 for Bangladesh and India after winning first match by big margin most chances they will win this match easily as well because in red ball format home team struggling badly with India is playing with their full strength as they are looking for the spot into WTC final 2023.

 In last five matches here on this ground SHERE BANGLA NATIONAL STADIUM, MIRPUR, DHAKA they have no good result last match lost against Sri Lanka by 10 wickets and before this also lost against Pakistan by an inning mean not good for Bangladesh with India surely looking for positive end of 2022 because they also have few bad results in this year but still things are going good for them in near future.

[Naficopa]

This is confirmed because current authorities are not happy with his aggressive approach against India specially while he talks about not sending team to India for the world cup and now another thing gone against him with his new comments about Peshawar which create mess up and many other peoples also feeling not happy about his these comments and third reason Pakistan have first whitewash in their test cricket history which is also going against his poor policies even he was not engaged in pitches but mostly feeling things are not going good specially change of government is also having big impact.
 
Here I agreed with you this change could be not positive with this change because he is not the best administrator, just puppet for the many peoples those are involved in PCB and was feeling not good in presence of Ramiz Raja's presidency.

-Losing 2 back to back historic series
-Creating mediocre pitches for a majority of matches and making retarded excuses every time.
-Going in front of English media and complaining Pindi administrators were responsible for poor pitches and he didn't know anything.

But yeah his rant against BCCi was responsible for his removal, not Pak Gov-PCB politics. 

The new PCB chairman, Najam Sethi, is a journalist and is given this position just because of his services to the current ruling party. Ramiz Raja may rightly be removed, but appointing Sethi as new PCB chairman will do no good to Pakistan cricket. Ramiz should have resigned by the time government was changed in April this year.

Yea Najam sethi is totally political person and he's not at all suitable for this post as politics destroys cricket spirit and players.
Pakistan cricket team needs someone to boost thier morale and improve their weaknesses because Pakistan is a very strong team and just poor batting is ruining everything for them as we have seen in recent test series.

[fuguebtc]

India VS Bangladesh

I am looking forward to Bangladesh vs India's second test match. Undoubtedly, India is a much stronger team than Bangladesh in the Test format. But since Bangladesh won the ODI series, they are very confident now. And the important thing is that the match will be held in Mirpur. Mirpur pitch is lucky for Bangladesh. And Bangladesh always performs well in Mirpur.
If India wants to win the second Test match, they will have to be very careful with their squad selection. The squad should be formed keeping in mind the pitch conditions. If they dominate the pace bowlers on a spin-friendly pitch they will not be able to beat Bangladesh.

In this test match, I do not expect anything special from Bangladesh in terms of their performance. My belief is that Bangladesh is not at the level where they can actually challenge India on the field because they just aren't there yet. In the context of test cricket, at least. In the first match that they played, they lost pretty badly.

In fact, I kind of expect them to do something similar in their next match as well. Additionally, I believe that it is absolutely pointless to anticipate any improvement from them at all at this point in time as well. It is clear that if they had any desire to improve, they would have improved by now. It is an absolute joke to expect anything from Bangladesh in terms of test cricket at this point in time.

[posi]

The changing of the chairman of PCB, I think this should not effect on team performance.
By the way you are right on some points. The only one person can't do everything. If every player will play his role than the team will give a good performance at all. The management has some weak points which should be fxed as soon as possible.

Is this confirmed? I heard rumors that Rameez Raja may be replaced with Najam Sethi as the chairman of the PCB. It will have no immediate impact on the performance of the Pakistan team, but in the long term I don't think that it will be beneficial for the growth of grassroots cricket in Pakistan. Sethi is like old wine in new bottle. He will once again bring nepotism and bias to Pakistani cricket. Rameez on the other hand was the one who rescued the finances of PCB, by coming up with deals with various media corporations.

This is confirmed because current authorities are not happy with his aggressive approach against India specially while he talks about not sending team to India for the world cup and now another thing gone against him with his new comments about Peshawar which create mess up and many other peoples also feeling not happy about his these comments and third reason Pakistan have first whitewash in their test cricket history which is also going against his poor policies even he was not engaged in pitches but mostly feeling things are not going good specially change of government is also having big impact.
 
Here I agreed with you this change could be not positive with this change because he is not the best administrator, just puppet for the many peoples those are involved in PCB and was feeling not good in presence of Ramiz Raja's presidency.

Najam Sethi is the new chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board. At least that’s what I am hearing from Google. And obviously, Pakistan is not willing to keep someone in authority who is consistently taking a stand against India.

I just don’t understand why the Pakistan Cricket Board does not show any balls. If you don’t have any authority over anything, how can you expect to be respected? If you tolerate everything, you stand for nothing. They did try to make a name for themselves and they were getting some success when Imran Khan was president of Pakistan. However, things are not looking very positive for them.

[dezoel]

This is confirmed because current authorities are not happy with his aggressive approach against India specially while he talks about not sending team to India for the world cup and now another thing gone against him with his new comments about Peshawar which create mess up and many other peoples also feeling not happy about his these comments and third reason Pakistan have first whitewash in their test cricket history which is also going against his poor policies even he was not engaged in pitches but mostly feeling things are not going good specially change of government is also having big impact.
 
Here I agreed with you this change could be not positive with this change because he is not the best administrator, just puppet for the many peoples those are involved in PCB and was feeling not good in presence of Ramiz Raja's presidency.

-Losing 2 back to back historic series
-Creating mediocre pitches for a majority of matches and making retarded excuses every time.
-Going in front of English media and complaining Pindi administrators were responsible for poor pitches and he didn't know anything.

But yeah his rant against BCCi was responsible for his removal, not Pak Gov-PCB politics. 

If I understand correctly about Pakistan and PCB then there is no PCB politics because in last three decades we have PCB is one of the worst sports organization in ICC because they were one of the most powerful boards but due to inner politics they never achieve this again even losing their power and respect as well because mostly governments have their own peoples which have no enough knowledge and understanding of game which bring down them badly even all sports in Pakistan are going down in last few decades which is surely due to corruption and their inner politics now here in PCB things were looking better.

But, sudden change of government having their own agenda which is now going to create another drama even this could be for some time, but things could be reverse, and many positive things could be ignored by new management which is surely never been idea thing.

Ramiz Raja's strong comments against India was surely one of the main reason because Shahbaz Sharif and his brother former prime minister have personal links in India and these both not like things like these which were started by Ramiz Raja.

[kro55]

India VS Bangladesh

I am looking forward to Bangladesh vs India's second test match. Undoubtedly, India is a much stronger team than Bangladesh in the Test format. But since Bangladesh won the ODI series, they are very confident now. And the important thing is that the match will be held in Mirpur. Mirpur pitch is lucky for Bangladesh. And Bangladesh always performs well in Mirpur.
If India wants to win the second Test match, they will have to be very careful with their squad selection. The squad should be formed keeping in mind the pitch conditions. If they dominate the pace bowlers on a spin-friendly pitch they will not be able to beat Bangladesh.

In this test match, I do not expect anything special from Bangladesh in terms of their performance. My belief is that Bangladesh is not at the level where they can actually challenge India on the field because they just aren't there yet. In the context of test cricket, at least. In the first match that they played, they lost pretty badly.
In fact, I kind of expect them to do something similar in their next match as well. Additionally, I believe that it is absolutely pointless to anticipate any improvement from them at all at this point in time as well. It is clear that if they had any desire to improve, they would have improved by now. It is an absolute joke to expect anything from Bangladesh in terms of test cricket at this point in time.

Bangladesh is a weak team in the Test format. And when they perform against a giant team like India, they are even weaker. I know this. However, the Bangladesh team is very lucky in Mirpur. Bangladesh has defeated many big teams in this field in the past. And it is very difficult to dominate Bangladesh in this field. Because Bangladeshi players are very familiar with this pitch.

I am not expecting much from the Bangladesh team. But if the Bangladeshi batsmen can perform well then they will be able to challenge India. It is very difficult to win against India. But Bangladesh defeated India in the ODI series. The young players of Bangladesh are very confident now.

[ilovealtcoins]

Pakistan batsmen are good enough. But the batsmen cannot perform well against the big teams in the national team. At the end of the day the entire Pakistan team depends on Babar Azam's performance. If Babar Azam does not perform well, it becomes very difficult for Pakistan to collect big. And if Pakistan can't reduce such dependence on Babar then they will face bigger problems in future. They will also lose against teams like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka or Afghanistan.

What's the point of having good batsmen in the team when they can't perform against the big teams?
In the upcoming NewZealand tour of Pakistan, they have a good opportunity to compete or even win the series as Kiwis performance and overall trajectory is going down. Let's hope Pakistan wins the next series.

The problem is the players in Pakistan have made good names for themselves. But they are often failing to perform consistently and also fail to perform against bigger opponents. That is not good enough for them. I don’t know if Pakistan is going to play well against New Zealand. I think New Zealand is superior compared to Pakistan in test cricket. Especially the way Pakistan has played test cricket in this series, they have made it hard for people to trust themselves.

[Sithara007]

The problem is the players in Pakistan have made good names for themselves. But they are often failing to perform consistently and also fail to perform against bigger opponents. That is not good enough for them. I don’t know if Pakistan is going to play well against New Zealand. I think New Zealand is superior compared to Pakistan in test cricket. Especially the way Pakistan has played test cricket in this series, they have made it hard for people to trust themselves.

Pakistan is a team that is stronger in the limited overs format, when compared to the test format. The case with New Zealand is just the opposite. They are one of the strongest test teams in the world right now and were the winners of the inaugural ICC World Test Championship. Pakistan will be having the home advantage and that may prove to be the deciding factor. The two test matches will be played in Karachi and Multan, where the surfaces are more conductive to spin bowling. And New Zealand doesn't have a quality spin bowler, ever since the retirement of Daniel Vettori.

[pakhitheboss]

Bangladesh VS India

The second test match of this triangular series starts today. Already India has won the first test match and I am expecting them to repeat the same performance in this one too. Virat Kohli! Can he hit another century in this match to stop those who are questioning his form is a big question at the moment. The Indian bowlers have done a pretty good job till now only issue is with the batting order.

Bangladesh would want to win this match in order to level the series. Seeing them struggling on thier homeground in the first match makes me doubtfull. Niether the bowlers nor the batters were able to dent india.

At the moment according to ICC WTC India is ranked second but South Africa are not that behind that means this series and particularly today's match is very important for India if they want to maintain that rank and qualify for the finals.

[rojan]

Bangladesh vs India 2nd Test match between these two countries has been tossed.  Now Bangladesh has come to the field to bat.  The match is being held at Sher Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka.  We have to see how Bangladesh will play on their own ground.  It seems that Bangladesh will not be able to win this match with India in any way. We have seen many matches before that Bangladesh never performed well in those matches between India and Bangladesh.

[Rigon]

Bangladesh vs India 2nd Test match between these two countries has been tossed.  Now Bangladesh has come to the field to bat.  The match is being held at Sher Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka.  We have to see how Bangladesh will play on their own ground.  It seems that Bangladesh will not be able to win this match with India in any way. We have seen many matches before that Bangladesh never performed well in those matches between India and Bangladesh.

Bangladesh won the toss and went into bat in the second Test of the Bangladesh vs India series. Bangladesh lost the first match with India by a huge margin of 188 runs and Bangladesh is trailing in the series. To save the series, there is no option for the Tigers to win the second Test.  Bangladesh has scored 32 runs in 12 overs so far. Nazmul Hasan santo collected 17 runs off 44 balls. And Zakir Hasan scored 15 runs off 31 balls. But let's see if Bangladesh can win today's series.