Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[ibuddy122505]

Pakistan has been surviving since the start of this match. According to the position Pakistan may try to draw the match rather than to win. Pakistan could not play up to the expectations with having reliable squad, they have to stay in wicket to keep the match at least draw. The game of 59 overs has just ended. At this time, Pakistan managed to score 176 runs. They do not care much about scoring runs at this time.

125 runs needed in 25 overs, and I am sure Pakistan is looking to draw this game rather than going for it. Saud Shakeel has scored 27 runs on 139 balls and tells the story of Pakistan strategy. New Zealand know they only need to break this partnership, and the rest of the wickets will come easily. Time is running out for New Zealand.

As time keeps running the pressure is getting built on New Zealand, because mistakes can cause them loss the match. With four wickets in hand Pakistan need 77 runs in 17 overs. Sarfaraz Ahmed is in good form scoring 106* and Agha Salman at 15*. It looks like the match have taken a turn and come into the hands of Pakistan team. Breaking partnership will increase the chance for New Zealand, particularly Sarfaraz Ahmed's wicket is more important for now.

Fortunately, Sarfaraz Ahmed hit a ton for Pakistan when it mattered the most. Sarfaraz Ahmed made a great comeback! As a result, he paid back the trust of the management that gave him a second chance. A winning approach to test cricket is called test cricket. Pakistan has no choice but to win, no other option is available at the moment. For NZ bowlers, it's too late to make a comeback.

[UmerIdrees]

The drama never ends with this Pakistan team and they have lost two wickets in their 2nd innings without putting a single run on the board. How often do we see this happening before in a test match where a team is 2-0 ?

Both Abdullah Shafique  and Mir Hamza were bowled by Sodhi and now it is almost impossible for the Pakistan team to save this test match. I don't know how Babar Azam can alone take them to victory  

I am baffled with the tactics from New Zealand. If they wanted to declare early, then they should have scored runs quickly. They declared their innings with a lead of just 319 runs. Kane Williamson had a strike rate of less than 40 and Henry Nicholls was even worse, although Michael Bracewell in the end spiked the scoring rate. Luckily for them, the bowlers did well yesterday and now Pakistan need that many runs with just 8 wickets in hand. But Babar Azam is yet to come and there is still a good chance for a Pakistani win.

Both teams are playing thakela game, so far no one actually showed any intent to win and just looking for draw due to the slow pitch.

Those late 2 wickets helped Kiwis but the pitch is still way too good to bat on. Pakistan could have been in a better place if Sarfaraz was a bit more accurate behind the wickets, he's having a pathetic test match as wk.

Pakistan is in a very good position to win this test match. Still, 11 overs left in the match and we have to score only 50 runs.
This is surely an achievable target if Pakistan does not lose wickets.

69 runs partnership between Salman and Sarfraz. The momentum is with Pakistan.

I would say that New Zealand underestimated Pakistan and declared a bit early. Maybe they had some security issues

[noormcs5]

The drama never ends with this Pakistan team and they have lost two wickets in their 2nd innings without putting a single run on the board. How often do we see this happening before in a test match where a team is 2-0 ?

Both Abdullah Shafique  and Mir Hamza were bowled by Sodhi and now it is almost impossible for the Pakistan team to save this test match. I don't know how Babar Azam can alone take them to victory  

I am baffled with the tactics from New Zealand. If they wanted to declare early, then they should have scored runs quickly. They declared their innings with a lead of just 319 runs. Kane Williamson had a strike rate of less than 40 and Henry Nicholls was even worse, although Michael Bracewell in the end spiked the scoring rate. Luckily for them, the bowlers did well yesterday and now Pakistan need that many runs with just 8 wickets in hand. But Babar Azam is yet to come and there is still a good chance for a Pakistani win.

Both teams are playing thakela game, so far no one actually showed any intent to win and just looking for draw due to the slow pitch.

Those late 2 wickets helped Kiwis but the pitch is still way too good to bat on. Pakistan could have been in a better place if Sarfaraz was a bit more accurate behind the wickets, he's having a pathetic test match as wk.

Pakistan is in a very good position to win this test match. Still, 11 overs left in the match and we have to score only 50 runs.
This is surely an achievable target if Pakistan does not lose wickets.

69 runs partnership between Salman and Sarfraz. The momentum is with Pakistan.

I would say that New Zealand underestimated Pakistan and declared a bit early. Maybe they had some security issues

The match is not as easy for Pakistan as it seems. New Zealand have taken a new ball and Pakistan have lost 2 wickets in the process.  New Zealand now need only 2 wickets while Pakistan needs 33 runs.

Lets see who will win this match, Would it be Pakistan, or New Zealand or the bad light will win the match ?

[YinShuiSiYuan]

The drama never ends with this Pakistan team and they have lost two wickets in their 2nd innings without putting a single run on the board. How often do we see this happening before in a test match where a team is 2-0 ?

Both Abdullah Shafique  and Mir Hamza were bowled by Sodhi and now it is almost impossible for the Pakistan team to save this test match. I don't know how Babar Azam can alone take them to victory  

I am baffled with the tactics from New Zealand. If they wanted to declare early, then they should have scored runs quickly. They declared their innings with a lead of just 319 runs. Kane Williamson had a strike rate of less than 40 and Henry Nicholls was even worse, although Michael Bracewell in the end spiked the scoring rate. Luckily for them, the bowlers did well yesterday and now Pakistan need that many runs with just 8 wickets in hand. But Babar Azam is yet to come and there is still a good chance for a Pakistani win.

Both teams are playing thakela game, so far no one actually showed any intent to win and just looking for draw due to the slow pitch.

Those late 2 wickets helped Kiwis but the pitch is still way too good to bat on. Pakistan could have been in a better place if Sarfaraz was a bit more accurate behind the wickets, he's having a pathetic test match as wk.

Pakistan is in a very good position to win this test match. Still, 11 overs left in the match and we have to score only 50 runs.
This is surely an achievable target if Pakistan does not lose wickets.

69 runs partnership between Salman and Sarfraz. The momentum is with Pakistan.

I would say that New Zealand underestimated Pakistan and declared a bit early. Maybe they had some security issues

The match is not as easy for Pakistan as it seems. New Zealand have taken a new ball and Pakistan have lost 2 wickets in the process.  New Zealand now need only 2 wickets while Pakistan needs 33 runs.

Lets see who will win this match, Would it be Pakistan, or New Zealand or the bad light will win the match ?

Pakistan has come a long way which was not expected from batting at all but thanks to Sarfaraz for saving Pakistan from miserable defeat .
Pakistan can win this match so Is Newzealand both have same chances of winning  now.

[WatChe]

Pakistan is not in a very good position to win this test match. Still, 11 overs left in the match and we have to score only 50 runs.
This is surely an achievable target if Pakistan does not lose wickets.

69 runs partnership between Salman and Sarfraz. The momentum is with Pakistan.

I would say that New Zealand underestimated Pakistan and declared a bit early. Maybe they had some security issues

Pakistan have lost 8 wickets the only positive thing is Sarfraz is still on the crease. Pakistan need 32 runs to win or 7 overs to survive. They have lost all test series last year and if they man3age to win this test it will be a big win. Pakistan have a decent team but they don't have much focus on test.

[YinShuiSiYuan]

With the fall of Sarfaraz wicket I think that's all for Pakistan, New Zealand finally took over the game and took 3 wickets with the new ball .
Naseem Shah and abrar Ahmed is on crease now let's see what they can do.
Newzealand will win this match now .

[JSRAW]

15 runs to win and 3 overs in the bank.

But who cares for results? Umpires bring the light rule and politely say that's enough for today and handshakes!

4.5 days of boring cricket and when things got interesting, here came another freaking draw. 1-0 or 0-1 to either team looks much better than 0-0.

[onecall123]

The match is drawn. A draw results in the second test match between Pakistan and New Zealand in Karachi. This is not what was expected, but once again, poor lighting ruined the game. There are only three overs left, but we will have to be satisfied with this dramatic draw.  

I am so grateful to have been able to witness such an entertaining test match. Congratulations to both teams.

[Vaskiy]

15 runs to win and 3 overs in the bank.

But who cares for results? Umpires bring the light rule and politely say that's enough for today and handshakes!

4.5 days of boring cricket and when things got interesting, here came another freaking draw. 1-0 or 0-1 to either team looks much better than 0-0.

The light rule stopped the match and the series end without result. Somehow it is a lucky day for both the teams. The match that was in the hands of Pakistan missed when they lost the wicket of Salman. He went for the wrong shot at the unwanted time. If not the match could've ended earlier.

[UmerIdrees]

15 runs to win and 3 overs in the bank.

But who cares for results? Umpires bring the light rule and politely say that's enough for today and handshakes!

4.5 days of boring cricket and when things got interesting, here came another freaking draw. 1-0 or 0-1 to either team looks much better than 0-0.

I don't know which team got the advantage of this bad light. Pakistan needed just 15 runs but they could still have made it if luck was with them.
New Zealand needed one good ball and it was a win for them.

Well, actually it was the umpires who saved their face as the win for any team at that time, the other team would have blamed the umpire for not stopping the match and continued in the bad light. 

To be fair to both teams, they had no option but to declare the end of the day.

[John Abraham]

I don't know which team got the advantage of this bad light. Pakistan needed just 15 runs but they could still have made it if luck was with them. New Zealand needed one good ball and it was a win for them.

Yep. Both teams had a chance to win this game. While Naseem shah showed his batting capability. He played a match-winning knock before. Did you guys forget that? I wouldn't be surprised if Naseem hit couple of sixes.

[BobK71]

The match is drawn. A draw results in the second test match between Pakistan and New Zealand in Karachi. This is not what was expected, but once again, poor lighting ruined the game. There are only three overs left, but we will have to be satisfied with this dramatic draw.  

I am so grateful to have been able to witness such an entertaining test match. Congratulations to both teams.

Different types of calculations were done throughout the test. Most of the time, New Zealand was placed above. Moreover, when the New Zealand team decided to stop batting after scoring 277 , they were confident that they were enough runs. Pakistan team also fallen in danger. They have come to this stage so far that many did not imagine. In the first Test, almost lost match turned into a draw and the same situation in the last Test as well. Above all, I think the two Test matches have created the spectators a lot of excitement. Congratulations to Pakistan & New Zealand teams. Although no team has been able to accept the winner in this series, the ODI match will start a few days later we will get who will be the winner.

[pakhitheboss]

15 runs to win and 3 overs in the bank.

But who cares for results? Umpires bring the light rule and politely say that's enough for today and handshakes!

4.5 days of boring cricket and when things got interesting, here came another freaking draw. 1-0 or 0-1 to either team looks much better than 0-0.

Lol! Classic phucked up happening in Karachi. They as in PCB wanted to win, they went ahead and created or rather designed pitches as a highway in the first and then in this match they tried but again got a highway pitch but, they forgot that they have a unreliable batters. Now, umpires pitch in and believe what batters state about lights. As Karachi is a port city,  it is unable to digest why light factor was raised. Maybe their was another attack from TTP that caused bad light due to smoke clouds ot it was something else.  

[JSRAW]

15 runs to win and 3 overs in the bank.

But who cares for results? Umpires bring the light rule and politely say that's enough for today and handshakes!

4.5 days of boring cricket and when things got interesting, here came another freaking draw. 1-0 or 0-1 to either team looks much better than 0-0.

Lol! Classic phucked up happening in Karachi. They as in PCB wanted to win, they went ahead and created or rather designed pitches as a highway in the first and then in this match they tried but again got a highway pitch but, they forgot that they have a unreliable batters. Now, umpires pitch in and believe what batters state about lights. As Karachi is a port city,  it is unable to digest why light factor was raised. Maybe their was another attack from TTP that caused bad light due to smoke clouds ot it was something else.  

Draw tests due to bad light are more of an ICC problem because of their lack of flexibility in the rules.

Broadcasters also play some part in it because everybody knew that in the end bad light is going to play its part, it happened in the first test too. Match could've been started 15-30 mins early.

PCB too share some responsibility as they introduce a long lunch break on Friday due to Namaz prayers, no one will raise this question because of political correction but I don't remember Bangladesh implementing such rules.

[Mahdirakib]

The pitch will be really difficult to bat and Pakistan already lost 2 wickets without even scoring any runs and it will be a really difficult period for the batsman if they are planning to defend and slow down the match and Babar Azam needs to play a longer innings. I already placed a bet on draw no bet on New Zealand winning the match and will see how this one turns out .

You have made a good choice by placing your bets on draw no bet on New Zealand. Pakistan was close to victory, but New Zealand was close to the victory as well. Only two overs were left for the end of the day 5, but umpires had stopped the game for the low light issue. The match has ended dramatically. Pakistan has narrowly escaped the defeat in this test match. I have lost my bet by placing it on New Zealand win.

[noormcs5]

PCB too share some responsibility as they introduce a long lunch break on Friday due to Namaz prayers, no one will raise this question because of political correction but I don't remember Bangladesh implementing such rules.

I didn't knew that there was a prolonged break in this match due to religious prayers. If this was pre planned, then the match could have been started 30 minutes earlier to cover up for this loss time. If this was implemented, then surely we would had the result.

From spectator's point of view, the worst thing they want to see a test match with so close to a result but ended in a draw because of external factors such as bad light.

[eaLiTy]

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Draw tests due to bad light are more of an ICC problem because of their lack of flexibility in the rules.

PCB getting a much longer lunch break is a flexible move by the ICC  . The umpires asked New Zealand not to bowl their fast bowlers when the light started to dip and either team could have won when the umpires called off the match after discussing with the players.

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You have made a good choice by placing your bets on draw no bet on New Zealand. Pakistan was close to victory, but New Zealand was close to the victory as well. Only two overs were left for the end of the day 5, but umpires had stopped the game for the low light issue. The match has ended dramatically. Pakistan has narrowly escaped the defeat in this test match. I have lost my bet by placing it on New Zealand win.

The odds were moving in huge numbers during the final sessions, there was a time when the odds for Pakistan to win were above 85 and when Pakistan started to near the target, the odds came down drastically to 3.5 and anyone placing those bets and cashing out would have made a good amount of money.

3 overs left in the match before they called it a match and one wicket for New Zealand to win and 15 runs for Pakistan to win the match, final session was interesting and was surprised that Pakistan was able to survive in this horrible pitch.

[Naficopa]

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Draw tests due to bad light are more of an ICC problem because of their lack of flexibility in the rules.

PCB getting a much longer lunch break is a flexible move by the ICC  . The umpires asked New Zealand not to bowl their fast bowlers when the light started to dip and either team could have won when the umpires called off the match after discussing with the players.

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You have made a good choice by placing your bets on draw no bet on New Zealand. Pakistan was close to victory, but New Zealand was close to the victory as well. Only two overs were left for the end of the day 5, but umpires had stopped the game for the low light issue. The match has ended dramatically. Pakistan has narrowly escaped the defeat in this test match. I have lost my bet by placing it on New Zealand win.

The odds were moving in huge numbers during the final sessions, there was a time when the odds for Pakistan to win were above 85 and when Pakistan started to near the target, the odds came down drastically to 3.5 and anyone placing those bets and cashing out would have made a good amount of money.

3 overs left in the match before they called it a match and one wicket for New Zealand to win and 15 runs for Pakistan to win the match, final session was interesting and was surprised that Pakistan was able to survive in this horrible pitch.

Umpires shouldn't have stop the match as it was about to end just 3 overs left and 15 runs to chase. Pakistan could have won this one or Newzealand could have taken 1 wicket but atleast results should be announced.
Anyways good batting by Sarfaraz Ahmed he literally saved Pakistan today and at the end naseem Shah did some good batting.

[Haunebu]

Umpires shouldn't have stop the match as it was about to end just 3 overs left and 15 runs to chase. Pakistan could have won this one or Newzealand could have taken 1 wicket but atleast results should be announced.
Anyways good batting by Sarfaraz Ahmed he literally saved Pakistan today and at the end naseem Shah did some good batting.

You can thank ICC for these shitty rules which the umpires are simply following to the best of their abilities. This match could have easily produced a result in either team's favor, but draw messed it all up.

Tired of all these draws in test cricket which is one of the primary reasons as to why my interest in them keeps decreasing over time.

[JSRAW]

PCB too share some responsibility as they introduce a long lunch break on Friday due to Namaz prayers, no one will raise this question because of political correction but I don't remember Bangladesh implementing such rules.

I didn't knew that there was a prolonged break in this match due to religious prayers. If this was pre planned, then the match could have been started 30 minutes earlier to cover up for this loss time. If this was implemented, then surely we would had the result.

From spectator's point of view, the worst thing they want to see a test match with so close to a result but ended in a draw because of external factors such as bad light.

Guess it was for home series only and a voluntary decision from the PCB. I hardly noticed this when Pakistan toured SL or Bangladesh.

Yeah, no problem with the extra 20 mins breaks but at least make up for this lost time or at least try to pretend lol.