Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[rojan]

In the ongoing match between these two teams India vs Australia, India is far behind in both bowling and batting. India did not bowl very well and the batting scored very few runs. Accordingly, Australia played very well. Australia some  There is excellent bowling and batting who have started to perform very well. It is not possible to say which team will win this match in the end. But I expect to see a very good game in this match.

[ZAINmalik75]

In the ongoing match between these two teams India vs Australia, India is far behind in both bowling and batting. India did not bowl very well and the batting scored very few runs. Accordingly, Australia played very well. Australia some  There is excellent bowling and batting who have started to perform very well. It is not possible to say which team will win this match in the end. But I expect to see a very good game in this match.

No doubt the way indian player lose his wicket it show us that pitch is completely dominated by spinner because due to low bounce and extra swing bowler get a little edge on batter but I didn't expect such a shameful performance from them but anyway it happen with any team. Now tomorrow inning will be fully depends on Indian spinner because if they take early on wicket then may be it will be exciting match to watch because defending such a small target of 75 against the strongest Australian batting lineup is look impossible but anyway anything can happen.

[Sithara007]

In the ongoing match between these two teams India vs Australia, India is far behind in both bowling and batting. India did not bowl very well and the batting scored very few runs. Accordingly, Australia played very well. Australia some  There is excellent bowling and batting who have started to perform very well. It is not possible to say which team will win this match in the end. But I expect to see a very good game in this match.

India maybe on backfoot now. But there is still a chance. If you remember, the highest score by Australia in second innings so far is 113. There is no guarantee that they will be able to chase down the target of 76. Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja are in great form and Usman Khawaja is not going to rescue them everytime. Suddenly the series has become alive, after two one sided matches in the beginning. I would rather prefer Australia winning this match, which would restore the equilibrium in test cricket.

[JSRAW]

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India maybe on backfoot now. But there is still a chance. If you remember, the highest score by Australia in second innings so far is 113. There is no guarantee that they will be able to chase down the target of 76. Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja are in great form and Usman Khawaja is not going to rescue them everytime. Suddenly the series has become alive, after two one sided matches in the beginning. I would rather prefer Australia winning this match, which would restore the equilibrium in test cricket.

Nah match is almost gone. Our bowlers are good but it's too much to ask IMO. Target is not big and there would be no scorecard pressure on Australia, they only need one quick burst from the bat so no matter how good your bowlers are, it's tough to defend. There might be a slight chance if Australia are 4 down in 10 odd runs.

It would be much better if Australia level the series.

[BobK71]

In the ongoing match between these two teams India vs Australia, India is far behind in both bowling and batting. India did not bowl very well and the batting scored very few runs. Accordingly, Australia played very well. Australia some  There is excellent bowling and batting who have started to perform very well. It is not possible to say which team will win this match in the end. But I expect to see a very good game in this match.

No doubt the way indian player lose his wicket it show us that pitch is completely dominated by spinner because due to low bounce and extra swing bowler get a little edge on batter but I didn't expect such a shameful performance from them but anyway it happen with any team. Now tomorrow inning will be fully depends on Indian spinner because if they take early on wicket then may be it will be exciting match to watch because defending such a small target of 75 against the strongest Australian batting lineup is look impossible but anyway anything can happen.

From India's batting disaster, I don't expect much from them in this (3rd) Test. Although in cricket unexpected can happen at any event. The pitch condition is not good all and it will probably be difficult to score too many runs on this pitch. Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin all lost wickets by lbw. If Indian bowling action is able to disrupt Australia's batting tomorrow, India will have an opportunity. However, it would be very difficult task for India.

[Haunebu]

Looks like Australia will comfortably defeat India since the target is small, but a collapse would screw them royally which is completely possible thanks to the bad pitch, spinners like Ashwin and Jadeja etc.

Just like Agarkar, Johnson etc, I have no clue as to why Rohit thought that it was a good idea to send Ashwin to bowl so late who is the number one test bowler currently. Hope he doesn't make the same mistake in the 2nd innings.

Also, South Africa defeating West Indies in such a one-sided manner was 100% predictable.

[DanWalker]

In the ongoing match between these two teams India vs Australia, India is far behind in both bowling and batting. India did not bowl very well and the batting scored very few runs. Accordingly, Australia played very well. Australia some  There is excellent bowling and batting who have started to perform very well. It is not possible to say which team will win this match in the end. But I expect to see a very good game in this match.

No doubt the way indian player lose his wicket it show us that pitch is completely dominated by spinner because due to low bounce and extra swing bowler get a little edge on batter but I didn't expect such a shameful performance from them but anyway it happen with any team. Now tomorrow inning will be fully depends on Indian spinner because if they take early on wicket then may be it will be exciting match to watch because defending such a small target of 75 against the strongest Australian batting lineup is look impossible but anyway anything can happen.

From India's batting disaster, I don't expect much from them in this (3rd) Test. Although in cricket unexpected can happen at any event. The pitch condition is not good all and it will probably be difficult to score too many runs on this pitch. Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin all lost wickets by lbw. If Indian bowling action is able to disrupt Australia's batting tomorrow, India will have an opportunity. However, it would be very difficult task for India.

I am actually sad about the performance of Australia's lower middle order and lower order. I thought Australia could easily cross the 200 mark. I also thought Australia might actually reach 250 which could have been great for them to win the test match. But Australia was unable to. And now India is batting. Actually, India is all out for 163. And Australia now only needs 76 to win. So this should be easy for Australia. But if Australia has collapsed as they did in the last innings towards the end, India might have a chance.

[fullhdpixel]

These day test cricket is getting to be more interesting than the ODI and T20 format cricket. Most of the matches are getting over by the third day. Some seems like ending on the second day itself. With the ongoing South Africa vs West Indies 1^st Test match, on the third day South Africa have ended its second innings for just 116 runs. Now West Indies need to reach the target of 247 runs to win the match.

In the other match on the second day Australia have ended its first innings and India is at 141/7 with Pujara and Axar Patel on the crease. Possibly India will score a maximum of 200 runs. If that happens India will be leading around 120 runs and the same will be reached by Australia by the first session of day 3.

I am also feeling very good with now we have mostly test matches ending in three or four days, but I read many former test cricketers are not happy with this all and BCCI and other boards which are having results like these are also going to suffer badly because they already sell media rights for the five-day game but things looking not good which is surely needs to be settled before we have any other problem with this all in this third test match which is playing at Indore I am shocked with the Indian batting they completely fail to have any positive specially veteran Aussie Nathan Lyon have 11 wickets hauls which is surely picked of his bowling career because having bowling figures like this in India is dream for any spin bowler now we have just 76 runs which are looking easy task for the Aussies but how they play and what will be Indian strategy this is going to be important in tomorrow days play and most chances we will have result in first session of this day.

[teosanru]

Looks like Australia will comfortably defeat India since the target is small, but a collapse would screw them royally which is completely possible thanks to the bad pitch, spinners like Ashwin and Jadeja etc.

Just like Agarkar, Johnson etc, I have no clue as to why Rohit thought that it was a good idea to send Ashwin to bowl so late who is the number one test bowler currently. Hope he doesn't make the same mistake in the 2nd innings.

Also, South Africa defeating West Indies in such a one-sided manner was 100% predictable.

I am now scared about the possibility of India playing the WTC final. Even a draw will make things risky for India if Sri Lanka beats new Zealand by 2-0 obviously which looks a bit unlikely to me. However I would not want India to fall in those bit of possibilities. But let's see I hope India is able to win the next match for sure. But this match obviously it's far from gone right now.

[Mahdirakib]

I am now scared about the possibility of India playing the WTC final. Even a draw will make things risky for India if Sri Lanka beats new Zealand by 2-0 obviously which looks a bit unlikely to me. However I would not want India to fall in those bit of possibilities. But let's see I hope India is able to win the next match for sure. But this match obviously it's far from gone right now.

Either India or Australia will go down to the 3rd position if Sri Lanka can win against New Zealand by 2-0. But the chance is pretty low for this to happen. I thought that Australia will be whitewashed by India, but the performance of Indian team was completely unexpected in this match. They have no chance to win this as the target is too low. I can't recall when I have such pathetic performance from India in test format at their home ground.

[JSRAW]

Looks like Australia will comfortably defeat India since the target is small, but a collapse would screw them royally which is completely possible thanks to the bad pitch, spinners like Ashwin and Jadeja etc.

Just like Agarkar, Johnson etc, I have no clue as to why Rohit thought that it was a good idea to send Ashwin to bowl so late who is the number one test bowler currently. Hope he doesn't make the same mistake in the 2nd innings.

Also, South Africa defeating West Indies in such a one-sided manner was 100% predictable.

I am now scared about the possibility of India playing the WTC final. Even a draw will make things risky for India if Sri Lanka beats new Zealand by 2-0 obviously which looks a bit unlikely to me. However I would not want India to fall in those bit of possibilities. But let's see I hope India is able to win the next match for sure. But this match obviously it's far from gone right now.

Yeah, overall kiwis are on a downtrend but Sri Lanka winning 2-0 would be almost impossible but I won't mind if that happens 

India and Australia are the most likely candidates for the finals, followed by Aussie winning the Test Mace lol.

If India wins 1 more test in BGT and SL whitewashes the Kiwis then Australia could be out too.

[n0ne]

Looks like Australia will comfortably defeat India since the target is small, but a collapse would screw them royally which is completely possible thanks to the bad pitch, spinners like Ashwin and Jadeja etc.

Just like Agarkar, Johnson etc, I have no clue as to why Rohit thought that it was a good idea to send Ashwin to bowl so late who is the number one test bowler currently. Hope he doesn't make the same mistake in the 2nd innings.

Also, South Africa defeating West Indies in such a one-sided manner was 100% predictable.

I am now scared about the possibility of India playing the WTC final. Even a draw will make things risky for India if Sri Lanka beats new Zealand by 2-0 obviously which looks a bit unlikely to me. However I would not want India to fall in those bit of possibilities. But let's see I hope India is able to win the next match for sure. But this match obviously it's far from gone right now.

Yeah, overall kiwis are on a downtrend but Sri Lanka winning 2-0 would be almost impossible but I won't mind if that happens 

India and Australia are the most likely candidates for the finals, followed by Aussie winning the Test Mace lol.

If India wins 1 more test in BGT and SL whitewashes the Kiwis then Australia could be out too.

With the similar performance in the upcoming match it is impossible for India to win the match. The match will be in favour of Australia or it will end as a draw. No team have got the stability in the performance. For that reason it is Sri Lanka, Australia, India or the Kiwis, we just can watch the match. Unexpected results always makes the audience get disappointed. Lets the match result come.

[NicNacCoin]

Looks like Australia will comfortably defeat India since the target is small, but a collapse would screw them royally which is completely possible thanks to the bad pitch, spinners like Ashwin and Jadeja etc.

India's spinners on the pitch (Ashwin, Jadeja, Lyon Trodd Murphy, Kuhnemann) performed brilliantly in the third Test match. But compared to India's first innings, in the second innings Nathan Lyon brilliantly threw the Indian team into a great disaster by dropping 8 wickets and the Indian team gave a target of only 75 runs which is a very easy target.

Just like Agarkar, Johnson etc, I have no clue as to why Rohit thought that it was a good idea to send Ashwin to bowl so late who is the number one test bowler currently. Hope he doesn't make the same mistake in the 2nd innings.

Yes, it was a common mistake during Rohit Sharma's captaincy, as the spinner assisted pitch, Rohit Sharma could have bowled Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin in quick succession. Rohit Sharma will not make this mistake again in the second innings, he knows there is no better bowler than Jadeja and Ashwin on the spinner pitch.

[KennyR]

Looks like Australia will comfortably defeat India since the target is small, but a collapse would screw them royally which is completely possible thanks to the bad pitch, spinners like Ashwin and Jadeja etc.

Just like Agarkar, Johnson etc, I have no clue as to why Rohit thought that it was a good idea to send Ashwin to bowl so late who is the number one test bowler currently. Hope he doesn't make the same mistake in the 2nd innings.

Also, South Africa defeating West Indies in such a one-sided manner was 100% predictable.

I am now scared about the possibility of India playing the WTC final. Even a draw will make things risky for India if Sri Lanka beats new Zealand by 2-0 obviously which looks a bit unlikely to me. However I would not want India to fall in those bit of possibilities. But let's see I hope India is able to win the next match for sure. But this match obviously it's far from gone right now.

Atleast in the second innings the team should've given some performance same as what New Zealand did in the second innings against England. Anyhow things have gone out of hands and now its the opportunity for Australia to confirm its win by tomorrow's morning session. India with this performance unlikely to win the upcoming test match. Everytime the team depending on specific players and the combined outcome from the team isn't recorded throughout this series.

[Nrcewker]

Atleast in the second innings the team should've given some performance same as what New Zealand did in the second innings against England. Anyhow things have gone out of hands and now its the opportunity for Australia to confirm its win by tomorrow's morning session. India with this performance unlikely to win the upcoming test match. Everytime the team depending on specific players and the combined outcome from the team isn't recorded throughout this series.

Yup very poor performance by the Indian team. The batting have just become worse. And everyone is claiming that the pitch is bad. If the pitch is bad, then how did the Aussies managed to get a 100 wicket partnership for the first wicket? Moreover I am disappointed with KS Bharath’s batting. I mean this guy is completely useless. Instead of him, take KL Rahul or Ishan Kishan in the team. Both players can bat well and are good keepers too. At least more experienced than KS Bharat. Now only some miracle can make India win this test match. Let’s see if they can comeback or not.

[Sithara007]

Yup very poor performance by the Indian team. The batting have just become worse. And everyone is claiming that the pitch is bad. If the pitch is bad, then how did the Aussies managed to get a 100 wicket partnership for the first wicket? Moreover I am disappointed with KS Bharath’s batting. I mean this guy is completely useless. Instead of him, take KL Rahul or Ishan Kishan in the team. Both players can bat well and are good keepers too. At least more experienced than KS Bharat. Now only some miracle can make India win this test match. Let’s see if they can comeback or not.

Australians also struggled against the Indian bowlers, but their advantage was that Axar Patel was not in good form and leaked plenty of runs. And then that knock from Usman Khawaja was very valuable. He made a half-century in this difficult track and it is as good as a double century in any of the other sub-continental tracks. In the end, basics were poor for the Indians. Captaincy from Rohit Sharma was disappointing, and on the other hand tactics from Steven Smith of Australia worked really well. And this time the Indians can't even blame the toss. They won the toss and opted to bat first.

[n0ne]

Yup very poor performance by the Indian team. The batting have just become worse. And everyone is claiming that the pitch is bad. If the pitch is bad, then how did the Aussies managed to get a 100 wicket partnership for the first wicket? Moreover I am disappointed with KS Bharath’s batting. I mean this guy is completely useless. Instead of him, take KL Rahul or Ishan Kishan in the team. Both players can bat well and are good keepers too. At least more experienced than KS Bharat. Now only some miracle can make India win this test match. Let’s see if they can comeback or not.

Australians also struggled against the Indian bowlers, but their advantage was that Axar Patel was not in good form and leaked plenty of runs. And then that knock from Usman Khawaja was very valuable. He made a half-century in this difficult track and it is as good as a double century in any of the other sub-continental tracks. In the end, basics were poor for the Indians. Captaincy from Rohit Sharma was disappointing, and on the other hand tactics from Steven Smith of Australia worked really well. And this time the Indians can't even blame the toss. They won the toss and opted to bat first.

Toss have played an important role in this match. Even if Indian batsmen have played same as the Australian players India could've reached good score. We don't know how the pitch will turn, and from the very first innings of the match it looks like the ground is bowling favourable. This time Australian bowlers have outperformed Indian bowlers performance. Lyon have took 8 wickets for 64 runs. Does anything big happens today.

[Vaskiy]

India vs Australia - 3^rd Test, Holkar Stadium

India won the toss and decided to bat.
India 1^st innings - 109 runs
Australia 1^st innings - 197 runs
India Trail by 88 runs.
India 2^nd innings - 163 runs
Australia 2^nd innings - 78/1

Australia won by 9 wickets
Man of the Match - Nathan Lyon (3/35)&(8/64)

[Sithara007]

Toss have played an important role in this match. Even if Indian batsmen have played same as the Australian players India could've reached good score. We don't know how the pitch will turn, and from the very first innings of the match it looks like the ground is bowling favourable. This time Australian bowlers have outperformed Indian bowlers performance. Lyon have took 8 wickets for 64 runs. Does anything big happens today.

One of those rare occasions when India lost a match on a turning track. Credit should be given to the captaincy of Steve Smith. His tactics worked perfectly and he made the bowling changes at the right occasion. Indian batsmen failed to get adjusted to the track, and on many occasions, they got out playing unnecessary strokes. Anyway, Australia will be having the momentum going to the 4th test match, which will be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in  Ahmedabad. If they can win that one, then the series will be tied 2-2.

[JSRAW]

Toss have played an important role in this match. Even if Indian batsmen have played same as the Australian players India could've reached good score. We don't know how the pitch will turn, and from the very first innings of the match it looks like the ground is bowling favourable. This time Australian bowlers have outperformed Indian bowlers performance. Lyon have took 8 wickets for 64 runs. Does anything big happens today.

One of those rare occasions when India lost a match on a turning track. Credit should be given to the captaincy of Steve Smith. His tactics worked perfectly and he made the bowling changes at the right occasion. Indian batsmen failed to get adjusted to the track, and on many occasions, they got out playing unnecessary strokes. Anyway, Australia will be having the momentum going to the 4th test match, which will be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in  Ahmedabad. If they can win that one, then the series will be tied 2-2.

3rd missed opportunity in this decade.

2017 1st match of BGT - Ashwin-Jaddu didn't score with the bat and our batters failed as usual.
2021  Against England - No Jaddu and Axar, batsmen failed.
2023  Again BGT - Same story as 2017

Smudge as a captain is very aggressive, I really hope that he gets to captain his side. Bit unfair to Patty but Smudge is indeed a better choice.