Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Sithara007]

This is expected to be the earnings of respective cricket boards in the 2024-27 cycle.

So fascinating to see how much Indian board is dominating but it doesn't look good for the future of cricket right? Franchise sports are more of a business than sport so if it starts to take over the international games then we may not see the cricket to be seen as a real sport.

The joke is that India doesn't need this much funds. Most of their revenues are sourced from the IPL and ICC funds comprise only around 15% of their total revenue. However for boards such as CSA and PCB, ICC funds represent a lion's share of the revenues. Now what happens is that in due course smaller teams like CSA and WICB fail to compete with the Indians because of this huge discrepancy in funding. And international matches will become one-sided and boring. This in turn, will further strengthen franchise T20 cricket.

[Essential10]

Australia won the third test by 8 wickets. Starting at 67/7 on the fourth day, Pakistan, Rizwan and Amir Jamal tried hard to prolong the match. But when Rizwan was dismissed for 109 runs, Pakistan's score stalled at 115 runs. Chasing an easy target of 130 runs, despite the loss of Usman Khawaja's wicket in the first over, David Warner's 57 and Labuchange unbeaten 62 saw Australia on the brink of victory. In the third Test, Pakistan performed well in the first innings, but could not find their performance in the second innings. Australia whitewashed Pakistan by winning the series 3-0.

[Sithara007]

Australia won the third test by 8 wickets. Starting at 67/7 on the fourth day, Pakistan, Rizwan and Amir Jamal tried hard to prolong the match. But when Rizwan was dismissed for 109 runs, Pakistan's score stalled at 115 runs. Chasing an easy target of 130 runs, despite the loss of Usman Khawaja's wicket in the first over, David Warner's 57 and Labuchange unbeaten 62 saw Australia on the brink of victory. In the third Test, Pakistan performed well in the first innings, but could not find their performance in the second innings. Australia whitewashed Pakistan by winning the series 3-0.

I was hoping that David Warner would remain not out, and thereby get his test average above 45. But that never happened, as he got out to Sajid Khan. He ended his test career with a total of 8786 runs, with an average of 44.59 (used to be above 50, but during the later phase of his career, it dipped below 45). Played a total of 112 tests for Australia and his absence will be felt in the test team. And also, it was nice to see Labuschagne hitting the ball with such confidence. Too early to say whether he has regained his form though.   

[JahriMeayer]

Australia vs Pakistan, 3rd Test is just ended and Australia won the match once again by 8 wkts and thus they won the series by leading 3-0. In first inning, Pakistan was suffering at 96-5 when their top ordered batsman got out but 88 runs from Mohammad Rizwan and 84 runs from Aamer Jamal, help Pakistan to reached 313 score. What an extra ordinary performance by Aamer Jamal, he just made a impossible to become possible. And Pat Cummins got 5 wickets in 1st innings which was epic & became PLAYER OF THE SERIES. well Australia also bat well , scored samilar as Pakistan and Aamer Jamal got 6 wickets lol. In 2nd inning, Pakistan got down with 115-10 which was the reason Australia won the match easily But PLAYER OF THE MATCH goes to Aamer Jamal, he is incredible

[Publictalk792]

Australia vs Pakistan, 3rd Test is just ended and Australia won the match once again by 8 wkts and thus they won the series by leading 3-0. In first inning, Pakistan was suffering at 96-5 when their top ordered batsman got out but 88 runs from Mohammad Rizwan and 84 runs from Aamer Jamal, help Pakistan to reached 313 score. What an extra ordinary performance by Aamer Jamal, he just made a impossible to become possible. And Pat Cummins got 5 wickets in 1st innings which was epic & became PLAYER OF THE SERIES. well Australia also bat well , scored samilar as Pakistan and Aamer Jamal got 6 wickets lol. In 2nd inning, Pakistan got down with 115-10 which was the reason Australia won the match easily But PLAYER OF THE MATCH goes to Aamer Jamal, he is incredible

Like the previous test matches again Pakistan team disappointed me. I was thinking that Pakistan will win this test match. When they managed 313 runs in the first inning. But Australia is a strong team and they made 299 runs. After that Pakistan disappointed me in second inning and they just collected 115 runs. And the target was 130 runs. And Australia chased the target easily.
That was a pride moment when Aamer Jamal get the player of the match reward. Of course his performance was admirable he collected 6 wickets and 82 runs in the first inning.

[Bureau]

Pakistan should be blamed for the last test loss. Their batting was been an issue which needs to be worked on. The only good thing that happened with Pakistan in this series is that they found a good player Aamer Jamal. Mohmmad Hafiz wanted to beat Australia in Australia, end up getting defeated 3 - 0. A total failure of Pakistan batting can be blamed for the whitewash.

[Bitcoin_people]

Australia vs Pakistan, 3rd Test is just ended and Australia won the match once again by 8 wkts and thus they won the series by leading 3-0. In first inning, Pakistan was suffering at 96-5 when their top ordered batsman got out but 88 runs from Mohammad Rizwan and 84 runs from Aamer Jamal, help Pakistan to reached 313 score. What an extra ordinary performance by Aamer Jamal, he just made a impossible to become possible. And Pat Cummins got 5 wickets in 1st innings which was epic & became PLAYER OF THE SERIES. well Australia also bat well , scored samilar as Pakistan and Aamer Jamal got 6 wickets lol. In 2nd inning, Pakistan got down with 115-10 which was the reason Australia won the match easily But PLAYER OF THE MATCH goes to Aamer Jamal, he is incredible

Like the previous test matches again Pakistan team disappointed me. I was thinking that Pakistan will win this test match. When they managed 313 runs in the first inning. But Australia is a strong team and they made 299 runs. After that Pakistan disappointed me in second inning and they just collected 115 runs. And the target was 130 runs. And Australia chased the target easily.
That was a pride moment when Aamer Jamal get the player of the match reward. Of course his performance was admirable he collected 6 wickets and 82 runs in the first inning.

Pakistan team had the most chances to win this test match but unfortunately due to poor performance of Pakistan batsmen they lost. The way Pakistan team batted in the first innings was really interesting, it was possible that they could have won this match but in the second innings they had one of the worst performances. When Pakistan were bowled out for 115 runs in the second innings, it disappointed everyone, because no one expected it from Pakistan. However, Australia stormed out to meet the 130-run target and won the match brilliantly with the loss of just two wickets, and a huge win by 8 wickets. Aamer Jamal of Pakistan team had a great bowling performance in the first innings but not so good in the second innings however his bowling performance is really commendable. However, the Australian team batted brilliantly to win their second innings, which led to an 8-wicket victory over Pakistan.

[Haunebu]

Australia whitewashed Pakistan as expected and they won 17 test matches against them in a row without a single draw in between which goes to show how pathetic Pakistan has been performing over the years on Australian soil.

Also, I will miss watching David freaking Warner in tests and ODIs since he is irreplaceable if you ask me. Legend!

[MusaPk]

Pakistan should be blamed for the last test loss. Their batting was been an issue which needs to be worked on. The only good thing that happened with Pakistan in this series is that they found a good player Aamer Jamal. Mohmmad Hafiz wanted to beat Australia in Australia, end up getting defeated 3 - 0. A total failure of Pakistan batting can be blamed for the whitewash.

For the very first time in this series Pakistan batting clicked in first innings of last test and there bowlers did a good job to restrict Aussies to 299. Now in second innings Pakistan should have scored 250 if they can't make another 300. The whole batting line up collapsed on just 115 runs. Pakistan should take some serious actions against its so called best bowlers who either abstained from participating in this series or got unfit in the series.

[noormcs5]

1 st inning of Pakistan team, Pakistan team scored 313 runs in 77.1 overs and all wickets dismissed. In 1 st inning, Pakistan team performance was outstanding but in 2 nd inning they lost 7 wickets and scored only 82 runs. Australia team chase down 299 runs in their 1 st inning and after their 1 st inning. Pakistan lead by 14 runs but I think they did not make good runs in 2 nd inning almost 2 more wickets are left for bat. M.Rizwan performance was brilliant in 1 st inning, he scored 88 runs in 103 balls and he hitted ten 4s and two 6s. S.Agha also achieved half century and he scored 53 runs in 67 balls and he hitted eight 4s. A.jamal scored 82 runs in 94 balls and he hitted nine 4s and four 6s.

When Saim Ayub was batting on 33, Lyon came to the ball to him and Babar, and the ball was good and Saim Ayub could easily play it but he wanted to tip in this ball and considered it as a dot but it was hit on his pad and after touching the pads the ball went in the hands of the fielder, the umpire gave his decision out by seeing both of them and Saim Ayub thought that is it not out so after a long session of Saim Ayub with Babar, Saim Ayub took the review, and in the review he was clearly out with the rule of leg before wicket so he was should need to go back.

Due to the bad batting performances by the Pakistan team they were all out at 115 in the 2nd innings and Australia won this test match by 8 wickets. Another strong victory by the Australian team at Sydney today.

[Cheema02]

Australia vs Pakistan, 3rd Test is just ended and Australia won the match once again by 8 wkts and thus they won the series by leading 3-0. In first inning, Pakistan was suffering at 96-5 when their top ordered batsman got out but 88 runs from Mohammad Rizwan and 84 runs from Aamer Jamal, help Pakistan to reached 313 score. What an extra ordinary performance by Aamer Jamal, he just made a impossible to become possible. And Pat Cummins got 5 wickets in 1st innings which was epic & became PLAYER OF THE SERIES. well Australia also bat well , scored samilar as Pakistan and Aamer Jamal got 6 wickets lol. In 2nd inning, Pakistan got down with 115-10 which was the reason Australia won the match easily But PLAYER OF THE MATCH goes to Aamer Jamal, he is incredible

Like the previous test matches again Pakistan team disappointed me. I was thinking that Pakistan will win this test match. When they managed 313 runs in the first inning. But Australia is a strong team and they made 299 runs. After that Pakistan disappointed me in second inning and they just collected 115 runs. And the target was 130 runs. And Australia chased the target easily.
That was a pride moment when Aamer Jamal get the player of the match reward. Of course his performance was admirable he collected 6 wickets and 82 runs in the first inning.

Australia won by 8 wickets against Pakistan in 3rd test match. Australia chase diwn the target 130 runs in loss of just 2 wickets and Australia whitewash Pakistan by beating 3 match in a row. The Player of the Match is Aamir Jamal fot his amazing all round batting and bowling performance picked 6 wickets by giving 69 runs and also scored 82 runs. The Player of the Series is Pat Cummins for his outstanding bowling performance and played an important role of winning and whitewash Pakistan by 3-0.

[Bureau]

For the very first time in this series Pakistan batting clicked in first innings of last test and there bowlers did a good job to restrict Aussies to 299. Now in second innings Pakistan should have scored 250 if they can't make another 300. The whole batting line up collapsed on just 115 runs. Pakistan should take some serious actions against its so called best bowlers who either abstained from participating in this series or got unfit in the series.

You are right the innings of Pakistan was far better than the second innings. They lost because of poor batting otherwise they could have either draw the match if they had good lead. Pakistan bowling has not been as it was earlier. I am not sure taking action against the bowler will be the right thing to do who opted out of the test series.

[HelliumZ]

For the very first time in this series Pakistan batting clicked in first innings of last test and there bowlers did a good job to restrict Aussies to 299. Now in second innings Pakistan should have scored 250 if they can't make another 300. The whole batting line up collapsed on just 115 runs. Pakistan should take some serious actions against its so called best bowlers who either abstained from participating in this series or got unfit in the series.

You are right the innings of Pakistan was far better than the second innings. They lost because of poor batting otherwise they could have either draw the match if they had good lead. Pakistan bowling has not been as it was earlier. I am not sure taking action against the bowler will be the right thing to do who opted out of the test series.

Pakistan's batting performance was so poor that both the innings suffered a massive batting disaster at the start. Especially in the second innings too, the first wicket fell for zero runs and the second wicket fell for one run. The fall of three wickets in a row for 67 runs goes without saying how badly it affects a Test match. The fall of two consecutive wickets for 109 runs was largely due to Pakistan's batting disaster. However, even if the bowling is relatively good, if the batting disaster cannot be overcome, then nothing but defeat in Tests can be expected.

[Popkon6]

Pakistan should be blamed for the last test loss. Their batting was been an issue which needs to be worked on. The only good thing that happened with Pakistan in this series is that they found a good player Aamer Jamal. Mohmmad Hafiz wanted to beat Australia in Australia, end up getting defeated 3 - 0. A total failure of Pakistan batting can be blamed for the whitewash.

Pakistan team performed poorly in both innings due to which Australia team managed to win easily in the last stage. Warner scored a half century between the two entering the field as the first opening batsman. Labuschagne scored 62 runs in this match, the performance of the Australian team was very good. Australia won by 8 wickets at the last minute, the best performance in all three test matches. But unfortunately Pakistan team could not win a single match.

[MusaPk]

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You are right the innings of Pakistan was far better than the second innings. They lost because of poor batting otherwise they could have either draw the match if they had good lead. Pakistan bowling has not been as it was earlier. I am not sure taking action against the bowler will be the right thing to do who opted out of the test series.

This is not something new, Pakistan team is always having a whitewash at Australia. They are not able to manage pressure when playing at Australia. See they have good advantage in first innings but were not able to capitalise that advantage in second innings. Babar Azam who is backbone of Pakistan batting was not able to score even a fifty in his six innings, his highest score was 41. Players like Babar Azam need some break they are over hyped. 

[laurenB7742]

Pakistan should be blamed for the last test loss. Their batting was been an issue which needs to be worked on. The only good thing that happened with Pakistan in this series is that they found a good player Aamer Jamal. Mohmmad Hafiz wanted to beat Australia in Australia, end up getting defeated 3 - 0. A total failure of Pakistan batting can be blamed for the whitewash.

Pakistan team performed poorly in both innings due to which Australia team managed to win easily in the last stage. Warner scored a half century between the two entering the field as the first opening batsman. Labuschagne scored 62 runs in this match, the performance of the Australian team was very good. Australia won by 8 wickets at the last minute, the best performance in all three test matches. But unfortunately Pakistan team could not win a single match.

With a target of just 130 runs, victory was not possible against an experienced team like Australia. Australian team reached the target of victory by losing two wickets. Second innings Warner scored 57 runs and Labuschagne scored 62 runs.
Pakistan collected a decent one in their first innings. A collection of 313 runs was good enough to fight back. If they could have batted a bit better in the second innings and were able to collect 200-250 then maybe they could have won this match. The Australian team won all three of the three test match series by big margins. The overall condition of the Pakistan team is very bad now.

[synchronym]

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You are right the innings of Pakistan was far better than the second innings. They lost because of poor batting otherwise they could have either draw the match if they had good lead. Pakistan bowling has not been as it was earlier. I am not sure taking action against the bowler will be the right thing to do who opted out of the test series.

This is not something new, Pakistan team is always having a whitewash at Australia. They are not able to manage pressure when playing at Australia. See they have good advantage in first innings but were not able to capitalise that advantage in second innings. Babar Azam who is backbone of Pakistan batting was not able to score even a fifty in his six innings, his highest score was 41. Players like Babar Azam need some break they are over hyped.  

From the beginning of Pakistan vs Australia test match, Pakistan team is performing very badly and Pakistan team is not able to get out of that bad performance. Pakistan's bowling line is very good but we understand their batting disaster against Australia very well. Pakistan batted brilliantly in the first innings of the third Test match. Great batting gave Australia a lead of 313 runs. Pakistan bowlers attacked Australia with a lead of 313 runs and Australia batsmen were all out for just 299 runs. If the Pakistan batsmen could bat in the second innings like the first innings in the third test, then Pakistan could have won the third test match. But as if Pakistan's bad luck is not leaving anything behind. Because of Pakistan's batting failure again in the second innings, Australia easily won the third test due to their batting failure. Pakistan batsmen must focus on batting otherwise they will not be able to perform very well in upcoming 2025 championship.

[ZAINmalik75]

This is not something new, Pakistan team is always having a whitewash at Australia. They are not able to manage pressure when playing at Australia. See they have good advantage in first innings but were not able to capitalise that advantage in second innings. Babar Azam who is backbone of Pakistan batting was not able to score even a fifty in his six innings, his highest score was 41. Players like Babar Azam need some break they are over hyped. 

Yeh you are right paksitani team were mostly in trouble especially in test series against Australia at thier home ground and the only guy who mostly punished Australian and put his team out of danger zone is baber Azam and we have seen some quality innings from him at previous test series too so if he manage to score decent then paksitan will be on a driving seat to be victorious but recently baber is going with one of his worst time and without his contribution none of our player can Handel Australian quality bowler.
Anyway paksitan lose his last match too and give a handsome gift to warner on his last match of his test career. I taught paksitan will give them tough time as still they have Rizwan and Jamal on crease at start of the day but unfortunately they unable to make any difference.

[Bitcoin Smith]

So fascinating to see how much Indian board is dominating but it doesn't look good for the future of cricket right?

Wrong. The Indian board is dominating because their country has the highest population in the world and many of them watch cricket on a regular basis which is why they deserve the high percentile share.

Maybe I can answer this better because I am from India, where cricket is considered as religion, and it has always been the case and the high population too, but I remember the 1983 world cup winning team doesn't even have money for their allowances and the things were changed due to the introduction of T20 which later applied well by BCCI in 2008.

T20 is great and we see more people are watching it but look at what it is doing, to the traditional cricket form which is test cricket and we witnessed the shortest test match recently between IND vs SA and the last record was in 19th century.

Franchise sports are more of a business than sport so if it starts to take over the international games then we may not see the cricket to be seen as a real sport.

Wrong again. Firstly, which major sport isn't a business? Secondly, franchise leagues helped cricket as a sport immensely recently. Leagues like the IPL rank among top NBA, NFL, FIFA leagues these days.

Exactly, all these leagues are more money than the actual sport which uses the fanactics drive their business and try to reach new heights.

[cryptoWODL]

This is not something new, Pakistan team is always having a whitewash at Australia. They are not able to manage pressure when playing at Australia. See they have good advantage in first innings but were not able to capitalise that advantage in second innings. Babar Azam who is backbone of Pakistan batting was not able to score even a fifty in his six innings, his highest score was 41. Players like Babar Azam need some break they are over hyped.  

In the third Test match, Pakistan batted well in the first innings but could not win the match due to poor batting in the second innings.Basically, one of the reasons why Pakistan lost the match with Australia was their batting failure. But their mental strength is also lacking, they have been nervous in every match against Australia. Babar Azam is the best batsman of Pakistan team but he is performing very poorly at present. Looking at his batting, it seems that he has never batted well. Aamer Jamal gave the best performance in the third Test match for Pakistan due to which he was named Man of the Match. On the other hand, Pat Cummins has been named Man of the Series for the Australian team due to his impeccable performance in this Test series.