Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Essential10]

South Africa VS India  1st Test
And shortly after, the first match of the two-match Test series is going to start at Centurion where India will be the opponent of South Africa. Rohit Sharma-led Indian team wants to win this Test match as India have never won a Test series in South Africa. Along with experienced players like Kohli and Sharma, there will be an eye on young talents like Jaiswal who can make an impact in this series. Sami is out of the team due to an ankle injury, but Prasidh Krishna, who got a place in the team as his replacement, may make his debut in today's match. The threat of rain has added an element of uncertainty to the much-anticipated Test series. It's a frustrating situation for players and fans, though.

[Sithara007]

Match delayed due to rain now. Pakistan collected first wicket at 90 runs. And second at 108 runs. If they will continue like this so I think they will restrict the Australian team below 350 runs.
But the batting line of Pakistan was little weak. Like we have seen in the first test match. If they made a come back in the bowling line so I hope the batsman will also make a comeback in their inning.
If they will perform like they performed in the first match so Pakistan will lose this match too.

Pakistan bowlers were in great momentum, and if there was no rain interruption, then they would have probably taken a few more wickets. And also, two out of form batsmen are at the crease now - Marnus Labuschagne and Steven Smith. The break will give them time to get adjusted and to prepare their strategy against the Pakistani pacers. And rain came at a time when two of the young pacers were bowling beautifully - Mir Hamza and Aamer Jamal. So far these guys are bowling so well, that the absence of Khurram Shahzad is not being felt. 

[WatChe]

Pakistan bowlers were in great momentum, and if there was no rain interruption, then they would have probably taken a few more wickets. And also, two out of form batsmen are at the crease now - Marnus Labuschagne and Steven Smith. The break will give them time to get adjusted and to prepare their strategy against the Pakistani pacers. And rain came at a time when two of the young pacers were bowling beautifully - Mir Hamza and Aamer Jamal. So far these guys are bowling so well, that the absence of Khurram Shahzad is not being felt. 

Australians are today slow in scoring runs. In 58 overs they have scored 158 runs with scoring rate of 2.8 runs per over. After losing 2 quick wickets, there is 50 runs partnership between Marnus Labuschagne and Smith which just got broken. Pakistani bowlers are getting wickets but they should keep an eye on runs. With this rate, Australians may be able to score 300+ runs which wont be easy to chase. Shaheen Shah is wicket less so far and this is not a good sign for Pakistan.

[virasog]

Pakistan bowlers were in great momentum, and if there was no rain interruption, then they would have probably taken a few more wickets. And also, two out of form batsmen are at the crease now - Marnus Labuschagne and Steven Smith. The break will give them time to get adjusted and to prepare their strategy against the Pakistani pacers. And rain came at a time when two of the young pacers were bowling beautifully - Mir Hamza and Aamer Jamal. So far these guys are bowling so well, that the absence of Khurram Shahzad is not being felt. 

Australians are today slow in scoring runs. In 58 overs they have scored 158 runs with scoring rate of 2.8 runs per over. After losing 2 quick wickets, there is 50 runs partnership between Marnus Labuschagne and Smith which just got broken. Pakistani bowlers are getting wickets but they should keep an eye on runs. With this rate, Australians may be able to score 300+ runs which wont be easy to chase. Shaheen Shah is wicket less so far and this is not a good sign for Pakistan.

The  2nd test between Australia and Pakistan is in progress and till now Australia has made 143 runs with only 2 wickets down. This means that again Australia have started well and they are on the top in this match.
Both the openers David Warner  and Usman Khawaja started well but could not make a big score and were out in their 40s. Marnus Labuschagne is looking at 35 along with Steven Smith.

Agha Salman and Hassan Ali were able to take one wicket each, however the main strike bowlers for Pakistan Shaheen Shah Afridi remains wicketless bowling 18 overs. Let us see what target the Australian team will give to Pakistan on this Melbourne test.

[noormcs5]

Pakistan bowlers were in great momentum, and if there was no rain interruption, then they would have probably taken a few more wickets. And also, two out of form batsmen are at the crease now - Marnus Labuschagne and Steven Smith. The break will give them time to get adjusted and to prepare their strategy against the Pakistani pacers. And rain came at a time when two of the young pacers were bowling beautifully - Mir Hamza and Aamer Jamal. So far these guys are bowling so well, that the absence of Khurram Shahzad is not being felt.  

Australians are today slow in scoring runs. In 58 overs they have scored 158 runs with scoring rate of 2.8 runs per over. After losing 2 quick wickets, there is 50 runs partnership between Marnus Labuschagne and Smith which just got broken. Pakistani bowlers are getting wickets but they should keep an eye on runs. With this rate, Australians may be able to score 300+ runs which wont be easy to chase. Shaheen Shah is wicket less so far and this is not a good sign for Pakistan.

The test match of Australia and Pakistan was started with a long time and right now, and Pakistan team is playing well but also Australian players played very well.

Australian players make runs fast, and Pakistan's bowling is also very well but Shaheen Shah Afridi didn't took any wicket, and he also cannot pick a good speed, actually, his one knee is injured and due to this injury he cannot run faster he took the burden on both knees but cannot touch a huge speed. He should need rest from this test series but let's see what happen.

[wiss19]

Appears Jaiswal and Rohit will open for India today, Jaiswal usually plays aggressive let's see what's his tempo in tests. Dunno if it's already mentioned but Gaikwad was ruled out of series due to finger injury and Abhimanyu Easwaran has replaced him.

Abhimanyu Easwaran has been one of the consistent performers in Ranji Trophy for quite some time. While the media whines about the case of Sarfaraz Khan, they ignore that of others like Abhimanyu. There are a few others like him in domestic cricket, such as Manisankar Murasingh of Tripura, Rex Singh of Manipur and Aniket Choudhary of Rajasthan. Bengal's poor recent form hasn't helped him either. Even in this series, he has been called up as a backup player and there is no chance that he will get to play. 

No doubt we have too many players in Ranji Trophy those are doing impressive performance for the long time but here I want to say we also have to understand Indian playing pool is too big, and we can allow only 11 players for the team with currently we have some good players and with this now from new pool they can bring just few players so from these few will be ignored, and we will be face other issues which will not allow them to have chance selectors can bring all players and having them into squad.

But as things are going, and we have players it's good news for the BCCI, but now it's time for them as well to bring changes into their domestic system which will help players for having more finances and other things which will help them to staying at better level for the long time.

[AirtelBuzz]

Appears Jaiswal and Rohit will open for India today, Jaiswal usually plays aggressive let's see what's his tempo in tests. Dunno if it's already mentioned but Gaikwad was ruled out of series due to finger injury and Abhimanyu Easwaran has replaced him.

Yes already they are opening test match against South Africa. At the moment Rohit Sharma and Jaswal have collected nine runs in their opening pair.
As time wore on, the Indian batting would settle into the crease and continue to score runs at a fast pace.
India's Test team squad is very strong with many experienced players added to their squad who were not in the ODI series. The inclusion of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will inspire and give courage to the Indian team.

[Cheema02]

Australia VS Pakistan 2nd Test

The second Test of the Pakistan vs Australia Test series has already started. Pakistan won the toss and decided to bowl. A total of three matches will be played in this Test series. Australia put in a great performance on their home turf to win the first match, taking a 1-0 lead. Pakistan did not perform well in the first test due to which they lost by a huge margin. Pakistan has to perform well in this test otherwise there is a possibility of losing this test too. If Australia can win this test then the series will be won. It is expected that Pakistan will try to do well in this match. So far Australia has collected 11 runs in 4 overs. Let's see how many runs Pakistan can stop Australia at the end.

Pakistan decision of bowling first is not good beacuse if Australia arr successful to score a big total in first inning then Pakistan bastem will be under pressure and lost early wickets as happened in frist test match. Australia current score is 95 runs with loss of only 1 wickets in 30 overs first session of 2nd test match. Usman khawaja and Marnus Labuschagne is playing very good after first wickets down of David Warner at score of 38 runs. Salman ali agha picked the opening first big wicket of david Warner who is playing good. Pakistan  needs early wickets but the fast bowlers didn't perform well in first session of match.

Australia won their first test match by 360 runs and today in the second test match Australia bats first for the first innings.  Both Pakistan and Australia are good enough for cricket and they have a lot of reputation in the game of cricket but for test match Australia is much better than Pakistan and again they can beat Pakistan by a big price margin. Because Pakistan can't play well in Test matches, they lose wickets quickly.

Australia dominating performance at the end of day 1 scored 166 runs loss of 3 wickets in 66 overs. Australia bastmen Marnus Labuschagne is playing at 44 runs not out and travis Head is playing at 9 runs. Pakistani bowlers Salman ali agha picked 1 important wicktes of David Warner and Hassan alo also picked 1 crucial wicket of Usman khawaja who is playing well and out in 42 runs, just missed his half century by 8 runs short. Pakistan bowlers didn't perform well only picked 3 wickets and dropped catches would helped Australia to set a big total in 1st innings of second test match.

[noormcs5]

Appears Jaiswal and Rohit will open for India today, Jaiswal usually plays aggressive let's see what's his tempo in tests. Dunno if it's already mentioned but Gaikwad was ruled out of series due to finger injury and Abhimanyu Easwaran has replaced him.

India are struggling in the first test match at Centurion against the South African. They have lost 3 wickets for 58 runs. None of the top order batsmen was able to make any good runs.

The good news for the Indian team is that Virat Kohli is still at the crease and batting on 19. He needs to play a big innings along with Shreyas Ilyas and other batsmen to come, if India needs to give a reasonable total.

In case, they lost one or more quick wickets, then India team may be all out under 200 runs and from this situation it will be hard for the them to recover in this test match. Still a lot more time to go in the test though.

[UmerIdrees]

Appears Jaiswal and Rohit will open for India today, Jaiswal usually plays aggressive let's see what's his tempo in tests. Dunno if it's already mentioned but Gaikwad was ruled out of series due to finger injury and Abhimanyu Easwaran has replaced him.

Yes already they are opening test match against South Africa. At the moment Rohit Sharma and Jaswal have collected nine runs in their opening pair.
As time wore on, the Indian batting would settle into the crease and continue to score runs at a fast pace.
India's Test team squad is very strong with many experienced players added to their squad who were not in the ODI series. The inclusion of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will inspire and give courage to the Indian team.

At this time, the 18 overs have been passed and the Indian team is batting first and I think that the Indian team will lose this match because now just 18 overs were passed and they lost their 3 main wickets of Shumbman Gill, Jaiswal, and the captain Rohit Sharma.

This is the first match between Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli after the World Cup, but maybe Virat Kohli and Sheryas Lyer will set the game, and if you know this same situation held on World Cup final against Australia where's sheryas Lyer and Virat Kohli were on strike but both can't make partnership.

[Sithara007]

India is slowly recovering, thanks to the partnership between Shreyas Iyer and Virat Kohli. South Africa went with an all seam attack (Gerald Coetzee, Kagiso Rabada, Nandre Burger and Marco Jansen). This was the right thing to do and the strategy was validated when they got India at 24/3. Good news for the Indian pacers is that the pitch at SuperSport Park in Centurion seems to be offering a lot of support for pace bowling. Prasidh Krishna is making his test debut today, while Nandre Burger and David Bedingham are debuting from the other side. And also, we have Keegan Petersen playing his first test after almost one year interval.

[synchronym]

Appears Jaiswal and Rohit will open for India today, Jaiswal usually plays aggressive let's see what's his tempo in tests. Dunno if it's already mentioned but Gaikwad was ruled out of series due to finger injury and Abhimanyu Easwaran has replaced him.

Yes already they are opening test match against South Africa. At the moment Rohit Sharma and Jaswal have collected nine runs in their opening pair.
As time wore on, the Indian batting would settle into the crease and continue to score runs at a fast pace.
India's Test team squad is very strong with many experienced players added to their squad who were not in the ODI series. The inclusion of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will inspire and give courage to the Indian team.

At this time, the 18 overs have been passed and the Indian team is batting first and I think that the Indian team will lose this match because now just 18 overs were passed and they lost their 3 main wickets of Shumbman Gill, Jaiswal, and the captain Rohit Sharma.

This is the first match between Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli after the World Cup, but maybe Virat Kohli and Sheryas Lyer will set the game, and if you know this same situation held on World Cup final against Australia where's sheryas Lyer and Virat Kohli were on strike but both can't make partnership.

In the first Test of India vs South Africa, India lost 3 wickets for 40 runs in the beginning and the Indian batsmen are under a lot of pressure. India's top-order batsman could not build a good partnership. Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer are playing very well. If the partnership between Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer develops well then South Africa can be a big target. I think if these two batsmen can score fifty runs then they will score a century. The current score of the Indian team is 91 runs for 3 wickets.

[Z_MBFM]

India is slowly recovering, thanks to the partnership between Shreyas Iyer and Virat Kohli. South Africa went with an all seam attack (Gerald Coetzee, Kagiso Rabada, Nandre Burger and Marco Jansen). This was the right thing to do and the strategy was validated when they got India at 24/3. Good news for the Indian pacers is that the pitch at SuperSport Park in Centurion seems to be offering a lot of support for pace bowling. Prasidh Krishna is making his test debut today, while Nandre Burger and David Bedingham are debuting from the other side. And also, we have Keegan Petersen playing his first test after almost one year interval.

Yes India played very badly for some time they have a lot of reputation in cricket game but they were going to fail to maintain that reputation but they started to recover again.  Virat Kohli has helped them recover a lot so having a relationship with him has been a plus point for India.  If India starts playing well again, they will be able to bring their prices back to the top position. India is a bordering country of my country so I must take their support because my country has a friendly relationship with them. Good luck for them

[fuguebtc]

Australia won their first test match by 360 runs and today in the second test match Australia bats first for the first innings.  Both Pakistan and Australia are good enough for cricket and they have a lot of reputation in the game of cricket but for test match Australia is much better than Pakistan and again they can beat Pakistan by a big price margin. Because Pakistan can't play well in Test matches, they lose wickets quickly.

Australia dominating performance at the end of day 1 scored 166 runs loss of 3 wickets in 66 overs. Australia bastmen Marnus Labuschagne is playing at 44 runs not out and travis Head is playing at 9 runs. Pakistani bowlers Salman ali agha picked 1 important wicktes of David Warner and Hassan alo also picked 1 crucial wicket of Usman khawaja who is playing well and out in 42 runs, just missed his half century by 8 runs short. Pakistan bowlers didn't perform well only picked 3 wickets and dropped catches would helped Australia to set a big total in 1st innings of second test match.

The play of the first day has been completed and Australia seems to be in a good position. They have only lost 3 wickets but at the same time, they have not been able to score as many runs as they should have in my opinion. They have only been able to get 183 in 66 overs which is not much honestly. But Pakistan has to start picking up quick wickets as well. No one from Australia has a strike rate of 50 or more so far and Pakistan will have to keep putting pressure on them to get wickets. Fielding of Pakistan has to improve.

[libert19]

In the first Test of India vs South Africa, India lost 3 wickets for 40 runs in the beginning and the Indian batsmen are under a lot of pressure. India's top-order batsman could not build a good partnership. Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer are playing very well. If the partnership between Virat Kohli and Shreyas Iyer develops well then South Africa can be a big target. I think if these two batsmen can score fifty runs then they will score a century. The current score of the Indian team is 91 runs for 3 wickets.

As long as Kohli is on the crease, team and his partner on the other end will have confidence and they will make a good score. Ashwin is also a good batter, I'd rate him above Shardul.

[noormcs5]

India is slowly recovering, thanks to the partnership between Shreyas Iyer and Virat Kohli. South Africa went with an all seam attack (Gerald Coetzee, Kagiso Rabada, Nandre Burger and Marco Jansen). This was the right thing to do and the strategy was validated when they got India at 24/3. Good news for the Indian pacers is that the pitch at SuperSport Park in Centurion seems to be offering a lot of support for pace bowling. Prasidh Krishna is making his test debut today, while Nandre Burger and David Bedingham are debuting from the other side. And also, we have Keegan Petersen playing his first test after almost one year interval.

The great thing for the Indian group is that Virat Kohli is batting against South African bowlers and he can make some runs that help India to win, and if Virat Kohli and Sheryas Lyer had a success in building a huge partnership so they could easily win but if they don't make a partnership or one more wicket hit so Indian winning chances has been too low.

Virat Kohli and Sheryas Lyer play too much slowly which is good for standing and partnership in the ground for a long time. Let's see will they stand for a long time in the ground or not.

[Sithara007]

The 4th wicket partnership is already worth 67 runs. And more importantly these two (Shreyas Iyer and Virat Kohli) are scoring runs at a brisk pace. Nandre Burger have been outstanding so far, but other bowlers need to step in and pick a few wickets. And for India, they went to this match with 5 bowlers. That means that if they lose two more wickets, then the tail starts with Ravichandran Ashwin. And they have 3 genuine tailenders in Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna and Mohammed Siraj. I don't expect these three to add a lot of runs. 

[UmerIdrees]

Pakistan bowlers were in great momentum, and if there was no rain interruption, then they would have probably taken a few more wickets. And also, two out of form batsmen are at the crease now - Marnus Labuschagne and Steven Smith. The break will give them time to get adjusted and to prepare their strategy against the Pakistani pacers. And rain came at a time when two of the young pacers were bowling beautifully - Mir Hamza and Aamer Jamal. So far these guys are bowling so well, that the absence of Khurram Shahzad is not being felt. 

Australians are today slow in scoring runs. In 58 overs they have scored 158 runs with scoring rate of 2.8 runs per over. After losing 2 quick wickets, there is 50 runs partnership between Marnus Labuschagne and Smith which just got broken. Pakistani bowlers are getting wickets but they should keep an eye on runs. With this rate, Australians may be able to score 300+ runs which wont be easy to chase. Shaheen Shah is wicket less so far and this is not a good sign for Pakistan.

Today was the first day  (concluded) of the Pakistan and Australia test match, and in this test, what pathetic bowling by all the pacers of the Pakistan team that played this match.

Shaheen Shah Afridi didn't take any wickets but in the early, Shaheen almost out David Warner but Abdullah Shafique dropped easy catch of David Warner and same this type of catch dropped by Babar Azam in the 2017 Champions Trophy of Virat Kohli, where Amir is bowling and Virat Kohli was on strike he tip the ball and the was gone on slip but Babar Azam dropped the catch.

[WatChe]

The play of the first day has been completed and Australia seems to be in a good position. They have only lost 3 wickets but at the same time, they have not been able to score as many runs as they should have in my opinion. They have only been able to get 183 in 66 overs which is not much honestly. But Pakistan has to start picking up quick wickets as well. No one from Australia has a strike rate of 50 or more so far and Pakistan will have to keep putting pressure on them to get wickets. Fielding of Pakistan has to improve.

Pakistani bowlers have done a decent job not allowing Australians to score freely today. Even then Australia manage to score 187 runs on day 1. First day play was interrupted by rain and a draw here due to rain will be welcomed by Pakistan. Shaheen need to find his form back as he is the main bowler and its not good for Pakistan that Shaheen is showing such poor performance. Pakistan should try to bowl out Australia before 300 to remain in the contest. If Australia surpass 300 then it will be difficult for Pakistan to make a come back.  

[Swordsoffreedom]

The 4th wicket partnership is already worth 67 runs. And more importantly these two (Shreyas Iyer and Virat Kohli) are scoring runs at a brisk pace. Nandre Burger have been outstanding so far, but other bowlers need to step in and pick a few wickets. And for India, they went to this match with 5 bowlers. That means that if they lose two more wickets, then the tail starts with Ravichandran Ashwin. And they have 3 genuine tailenders in Jasprit Bumrah, Prasidh Krishna and Mohammed Siraj. I don't expect these three to add a lot of runs. 

Indian batsmen are batting very badly in the first test match. A more responsible performance I expected from the Indian batsmen. Because in the ODI series Indian players showed excellent dominance.

The Indian top order crumbled badly today. Apart from Virat Kohli and Iyer's partnership of 38 and 31 runs, no other batsman in the top order batted well. India lost 6 of their top order batsmen for just 121 runs. Rahul and Shardul Thakur are batting now. India is likely to lose all wickets before 200 runs if Kl Rahul fails to play a big innings.