Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Sithara007]

Ben is not bowling in this test because he is recovering from knee operation. Now England is playing with only one fast bowler which is Mark wood. England have done quite good in second innings because of Ollie Pope 148 runs innings. England lead is 126 runs on completion of day 3. England avoided innings defeat but test defeat is still inevitable.

While India was bowling, Jasprit Bumrah picked up a few crucial wickets. If England had one more pacer apart from Mark Wood, then they could have been more successful. Even Stokes's part-time pace would have made an impact. In India's innings, out of the 121 overs, only 17 overs were bowled by pacers. The pitch at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad may be supportive of spin, but England lacked any variety in spin department. And then Indians are among the world's best while facing spin bowling.

[JahriMeayer]

West indies develop themselves a lot and as a result they did more than 300+ run in 1st inning of 2nd test match with Australia. Although top batsman can't do score as excepted but Kavem Hodge(71) & Joshua Da Silva (79) change the whole game with their extra ordinary performance. Even Kevin Sinclair did hald century. I wondered where bowlers did best batting instead of top batsman. Mitchell Starc got 4wickts. And Australia batsman Pat Cummins, alex Carey, Usman Khawaja all scored half century in 1st inning as did nearest score. 2nd inning also started but this time wi can't do well like 1st inning. Australia stopped wi within 193runs only as before. And Australia started batting to beat west indies team. 2 wickets gone but  I think it'll be another easy victory for Australia like 1st test match

[SATWAT]

West indies develop themselves a lot and as a result they did more than 300+ run in 1st inning of 2nd test match with Australia. Although top batsman can't do score as excepted but Kavem Hodge(71) & Joshua Da Silva (79) change the whole game with their extra ordinary performance. Even Kevin Sinclair did hald century. I wondered where bowlers did best batting instead of top batsman. Mitchell Starc got 4wickts. And Australia batsman Pat Cummins, alex Carey, Usman Khawaja all scored half century in 1st inning as did nearest score. 2nd inning also started but this time wi can't do well like 1st inning. Australia stopped wi within 193runs only as before. And Australia started batting to beat west indies team. 2 wickets gone but  I think it'll be another easy victory for Australia like 1st test match

I am not agreed about this they are developing themselves in batting because in last four innings they were able to cross 200+ just once which is clearly showing how things are going for them with their top order completely fail to give anything positive against quality bowling which is also the biggest failure for them, they need to work on their batting if they want to have better things in their future as currently their bowling is doing good, but their batting is completely down or out of the touch which is needed for the test format.
Now we have last day of this test series with most chances they will lose this test and series as well with 2–0, but they need to improve their all structure and performance otherwise they are already having nothing positive into their team and into this game with they are falling down badly.

[libert19]

The fact that they avoided an innings defeat by itself is an achievement. They had only two experienced bowlers with them - Mark Wood and Jack Leach. And I don't consider Leach as a world class bowler. And most of the heavy lifting was done by the two inexperienced spinners - Rehan Ahmed and Tom Hartley. If experienced bowlers like Anderson and Woakes were playing in this match, then I suspect that England would have been in a better position. And why Ben Stokes is not bowling in this match? Is he injured?

Rehan and Hartley were rather expensive for test cricket, don't you think? While Leach and Wood were significantly inexpensive, only Root was one who was good both economically and also took wickets.

[Patrol69]

While England have not been able to score well in the first innings, they have been able to collect well in the second innings so far. India scored 436 runs in the first innings in reply, so far England has managed to score 316 runs in the second innings, so far England is 126 runs ahead of India. The way India batted yesterday, it looked like they could score some more runs on the third day, but they were all out early in the third day, which led to England going into bat again in the second innings.  

With 4 wickets still in hand, England must take this collection to a bigger level. If India is given a target below 300 then that target is not safe for England at all. With time still in hand, England's batsmen will have to be patient and get some more runs on the scoreboard if they are to have a competitive battle with India in this Test.

[Sithara007]

Rehan and Hartley were rather expensive for test cricket, don't you think? While Leach and Wood were significantly inexpensive, only Root was one who was good both economically and also took wickets.

Being expensive is OK. But it is important to take wickets. My issue is that both these bowlers had combined figures of 49-4-236-4. If not for Joe Root, India could have easily made a total of 500-550. England tried the same tactic used by Australia when they toured India last time. They included inexperienced spinners such as Todd Murphy and Matthew Kuhnemann in the playing XI and actually it worked quite well. But Rehan and Hartley were unable to repeat the success of Murphy/Kuhnemann. They just don't have the same quality. 

[synchronym]

In the first test match of India vs England, the England team performed very poorly in the first innings due to which the England batsmen were all out against India for just 246 runs. India's batsmen gave England a lead of 246 runs with great batting, every player of India played well and due to good runs, the Indian batsmen were all out for 436 runs. In the second innings, the batsmen of the England team are batting fairly well, if they could have batted like this in the first innings, then there would have been a chance to win the first test match. But England is batting very well but if they can't target India above 300 runs then England won't be able to win the first test match. Because India has great batsmen who have the ability to score 300 runs so if they are to be targeted they need to score 300 plus runs otherwise it is not possible to win the first test match against India.

[noormcs5]

Tagenarine Chanderpaul is a total failure in this series. He is struggling to give performance like his father Shivnarine Chanderpaul. In his 17 test innings he has scored only 1 century and 1 fifty.
West Indies were going good today but they lost the track once they lost wicket of Kavem Hodge. This time there is no one who did the repair work for Windies. 9 wickets have gone down and WI lead is 211 runs, they are short of 100 runs of what could be a winning target. Aussies won’t find it difficult to chase something around 225.

I am going to tell you how Tagenarine Chanderpaul was out in the second innings. He was safe but Hazlewood convinced to Pat Cummins to take a review and he took and I think it was a very good judgement for them.

It was an out swing + air swing and this type of ball can't be played by Tagenarine Chanderpaul. He tried to hit on the leg side because he thought it was a wide yorker but when the balls came closer so he judged that it was not a wide yorker so he fastly moved back his foot and forward to the bat but the bat's edge touched and went to keeper's hands but the umpire did not see that it was out , so for this they took a review.

[kro55]

While England have not been able to score well in the first innings, they have been able to collect well in the second innings so far. India scored 436 runs in the first innings in reply, so far England has managed to score 316 runs in the second innings, so far England is 126 runs ahead of India. The way India batted yesterday, it looked like they could score some more runs on the third day, but they were all out early in the third day, which led to England going into bat again in the second innings.  

With 4 wickets still in hand, England must take this collection to a bigger level. If India is given a target below 300 then that target is not safe for England at all. With time still in hand, England's batsmen will have to be patient and get some more runs on the scoreboard if they are to have a competitive battle with India in this Test.

If you want to win against India, you need to give at least a target of more than 230. Because the pitch is spin friendly. And the spin bowlers in England's squad are not experienced enough. England's spin bowlers did not do well in the first innings. It is also unlikely that they will do much better in the second innings. So if England wants to stay in the safe zone, at least more than 230 targets should be provided.

Ollie Pope is batting very responsibly today. Now Pope is unbeaten with 157 runs. Rehan Ahmed is also batting very well. Unbeaten Rehan collected 28 runs. England team managed to collect 338 runs. England has taken a lead of 148 runs.

[noormcs5]

We close the day and England is leading with 126 runs, brilliant innings from Ollie Pope, everytime I hear this name, Lollypop comes to the mind, anyway he's unbeaten at 148 and with 4 wickets in hand I like to hope they'll be able to give 200 runs lead minimum tomorrow, 250 the better, and we see India on crease somewhere in second session.

Never hit a swipe shot to Lyon because whenever any batsmen tried to hit swipe to hit to him so he always got LBW, Kirk McKenzie made this mistake in today's match against Australia, and this is the biggest mistake of Kirk McKenzie because Lyon made the balls near the pad and if you trying to hit swipe to hit will swing and go in the side or outside but it took your wicket, and this same mistake did by Pakistani players when Pakistan was on the tour of Australia.
He was out by making 41 runs at 50 balls. He hit 6 fours, but cant complete his 50.

[Sithara007]

I am going to tell you how Tagenarine Chanderpaul was out in the second innings. He was safe but Hazlewood convinced to Pat Cummins to take a review and he took and I think it was a very good judgement for them.

It was an out swing + air swing and this type of ball can't be played by Tagenarine Chanderpaul. He tried to hit on the leg side because he thought it was a wide yorker but when the balls came closer so he judged that it was not a wide yorker so he fastly moved back his foot and forward to the bat but the bat's edge touched and went to keeper's hands but the umpire did not see that it was out , so for this they took a review.

Luck was with the Australians. But that doesn't mean that Tagenarine Chanderpaul performed decent enough. So far in this series, he has been pathetic. A lot was expected from him, given his recent form and family background. But it seems now that this series may put his career at risk. And that doesn't mean that other West Indian batsmen performed any better. None of them could get to a century. Only Kavem Hodge and Joshua Da Silva in the first innings and Kirk McKenzie in the second made decent contributions with the bat. 

[Bureau]

Pope going strong, he is on 158 and the way he is batting he might get to his double 100. While batters on the non striker end are getting out the latest one was Rehan Ahmed. England has now a lead of 156 runs but they have lost 7 wickets. Not much batting left except Pope who is still on the pitch. A lead of leads than 250 won't help England. They need more than 250 runs to defend their lead against the Indian batting.

[Minor Miner]

I am going to tell you how Tagenarine Chanderpaul was out in the second innings. He was safe but Hazlewood convinced to Pat Cummins to take a review and he took and I think it was a very good judgement for them.

It was an out swing + air swing and this type of ball can't be played by Tagenarine Chanderpaul. He tried to hit on the leg side because he thought it was a wide yorker but when the balls came closer so he judged that it was not a wide yorker so he fastly moved back his foot and forward to the bat but the bat's edge touched and went to keeper's hands but the umpire did not see that it was out , so for this they took a review.

Luck was with the Australians. But that doesn't mean that Tagenarine Chanderpaul performed decent enough. So far in this series, he has been pathetic. A lot was expected from him, given his recent form and family background. But it seems now that this series may put his career at risk. And that doesn't mean that other West Indian batsmen performed any better. None of them could get to a century. Only Kavem Hodge and Joshua Da Silva in the first innings and Kirk McKenzie in the second made decent contributions with the bat. 

None of the West Indies batsmen performed very well. Hodge, Silva and Sinclair batted somewhat well in the first innings. But in the second innings these three batsmen collected 29,7 and 14 runs respectively. If they were able to bat with some responsibility even in the second innings, then maybe West Indies could have defeated the Australian team.

A target of 216 runs cannot be called a very big target. While Usman Khawaja and Labuschagne are not playing well, Smith and Cameroon Green are batting very carefully. Smith is unbeaten with 45 runs from 78 balls. Australia collected 89 runs after losing 2 wickets. Australia need 127 more runs.

[FinePoine0]

Pope going strong, he is on 158 and the way he is batting he might get to his double 100. While batters on the non striker end are getting out the latest one was Rehan Ahmed. England has now a lead of 156 runs but they have lost 7 wickets. Not much batting left except Pope who is still on the pitch. A lead of leads than 250 won't help England. They need more than 250 runs to defend their lead against the Indian batting.

Ollie Pope has scored 163 runs so far, the biggest support for the England team. The biggest problem is that the batsmen opposite to Ollie Pope are not able to support him. Now Tom Hartley has entered the crease anew. I respect Ollie Pope because he is a hardworking player and his efforts are the reason why the England team is still performing today.

[cryptoWODL]

Pope going strong, he is on 158 and the way he is batting he might get to his double 100. While batters on the non striker end are getting out the latest one was Rehan Ahmed. England has now a lead of 156 runs but they have lost 7 wickets. Not much batting left except Pope who is still on the pitch. A lead of leads than 250 won't help England. They need more than 250 runs to defend their lead against the Indian batting.

Yes, Ollie Pop alone is keeping England's batting line-up strong and he is currently unbeaten on 166 runs. As time passes he is inching towards his double century. It has become imperative for the Indian bowlers to get Ollie Pop out as he is slowly becoming a threat.

England have given India a lead of 162 runs so far and if they can make it 270 plus then it could be a fighting score with India. And if they can score 250 I think India will easily win this test match because they have a very big and strong batting line-up.

[Out of mind]

Pope going strong, he is on 158 and the way he is batting he might get to his double 100. While batters on the non striker end are getting out the latest one was Rehan Ahmed. England has now a lead of 156 runs but they have lost 7 wickets. Not much batting left except Pope who is still on the pitch. A lead of leads than 250 won't help England. They need more than 250 runs to defend their lead against the Indian batting.

The way Ollie Pope is batting, he may be able to score a double century because his batting performance is very difficult in today's match. The way England have lost seven wickets on the fourth day, the way they have scored so far, has the potential to give India a 250-plus run lead on the night. If a big score can give a lead then India is likely to lose, although Ollie Pope is having a great moment of Test playing in today's match, where no other team's batsmen have scored so many runs in the current season. At the moment Ollie Pope has collected 167 runs off 233 balls, and he has managed to hit 18 boundaries, currently England have given India a lead of 163 runs.

[Bureau]

Ollie Pope is just short of 25 runs for reaching his double century. Hartley is playing well against the spin attack and I do not see the ball spinning anymore. It does stay low sometimes which is very rare. Looks like the pitch is not giving any support to the Indian bowlers and only if the batter hits a bad ball he may get out. Hartley is batting like a pro batter, he has hit a few boundaries while batting. The current lead for England is 195 runs and it is gradually growing up, a lead of 250 runs as of now looks possible.

[FinePoine0]

Only 20 runs left so ollie Pope gets a century. Ollie Pope has collected 180 runs so far, if the batsman pair can hold on for time then surely England team can give India a target of 250 to 300 runs today. England team performed much better in the second innings than in the first innings, Ollie Pope has the most role for the good performance, he proved himself as the best batsman of the team.

[Essential10]

Ollie Pope is just short of 25 runs for reaching his double century. Hartley is playing well against the spin attack and I do not see the ball spinning anymore. It does stay low sometimes which is very rare. Looks like the pitch is not giving any support to the Indian bowlers and only if the batter hits a bad ball he may get out. Hartley is batting like a pro batter, he has hit a few boundaries while batting. The current lead for England is 195 runs and it is gradually growing up, a lead of 250 runs as of now looks possible.

Ollie Pope is still in the field and needs just 13 runs to complete his double century. Batting on the fourth day, Ollie Pope and Rehan Ahmed scored 64 runs for the seventh wicket. Tom Hartley and Ollie Pope have put on 58 runs so far at the eighth wicket and their partnership continues. England already lead by 207 runs, I think 280+ lead is possible if eighth wicket holds this session. If India can't bowl well then the match will go out of their control.

[FinePoine0]

Pope going strong, he is on 158 and the way he is batting he might get to his double 100. While batters on the non striker end are getting out the latest one was Rehan Ahmed. England has now a lead of 156 runs but they have lost 7 wickets. Not much batting left except Pope who is still on the pitch. A lead of leads than 250 won't help England. They need more than 250 runs to defend their lead against the Indian batting.

Yes, Ollie Pop alone is keeping England's batting line-up strong and he is currently unbeaten on 166 runs. As time passes he is inching towards his double century. It has become imperative for the Indian bowlers to get Ollie Pop out as he is slowly becoming a threat.

England have given India a lead of 162 runs so far and if they can make it 270 plus then it could be a fighting score with India. And if they can score 250 I think India will easily win this test match because they have a very big and strong batting line-up.

England team is still under wicket pressure as 7 wickets have fallen, but for a long time Ollie Pope has been performing since the first day of the second innings, he has collected 195 runs so far. Ollie Pope's partner Tom Hartley scored 33 runs. If Ollie Pope can perform patiently then he can surely meet the target of 200 runs. Ollie Pope can perform well as a reliable player in the team.