Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[noormcs5]

First test between Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan which is currently playing at Colombo SSC after winning toss Sri Lanka bowling first and having good success with just Rahmat Shah done some resistance and have 91 runs which is impressive from him against these Sri Lankan spinners which are doing good job and Fernando and Jayasuriya having 6 wickets between them after A Fernando strike in first over of the match and took Ibrahm Zardan.

Most chances we will have around 200 from the Afghanistan but still this could be not enough for them to avoid big defeat because they have no quality bowlers for this test match as well which is surely going to be big problem for them now we have 30 overs left in today's play and things are looking for the early end of this test match.

The first day was the match Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka tour match and at the end of the day Sri Lankan trial by 118 runs but this was a very good day for Sri Lanka because in this they all out the team Afghanistan by under 200 runs and they also made 80 runs while they lost zero wickets and maybe they can chase it without losing any wicket, and they didn't play it like a test, they want to be playing like a one day that's why they made 80 runs in 14 overs and tomorrow they make more runs than target and then they declare the innings or all out.

Looking at the Afghanistan innings, the opener Rahmat Shah made 91 runs but he was not able to complete his century. Ok this was acceptable but then none of the other players were able to score any runs and the whole team was out making 198 runs. With this performance of Afghanistan batting and they also unable to take any wickets in the srilankan team, i see an easy win for the Sri Lanka team in this test match at Colombo.

[Sithara007]

Apart from Rahmat Shah, none of the other Afghan batsmen could adjust themselves to the test format and with the conditions at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground in Colombo. Other batsmen simply didn't had the patience and were playing in T20/ODI style. And it failed against the experienced Lankan attack which was spearheaded by Asitha Fernando and Vishwa Fernando. And in return, Afghan bowlers failed to get any breakthroughs in the first day, as both Nishan Madushka and Dimuth Karunaratne dug in and played in an organized manner.

[JSRAW]

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Still, I don't understand why team management added one extra bowler when one of your premium all-rounder is not available to play. Gill probably has one more inning to bring his form, or he will be dropped and need to find his spot again with other performances.

Everybody had a start but none of them converted which is a worrying sign and this is what will happen when we have an inexperienced team.

At the time of tea, India were in really strong position but losing three wickets in the session 3 changed the way.

Only the Dravid-Rohit duo can answer that. I think for Gill and Iyer writing is on the wall and both need a break now, they don't even look hungry for runs nowadays which is surprising.

Anyway, we are just 1 wicket away and we are royally fucked. I hope Ash Anna brings his A game with the bat today and gives some support to Jaiswal.

Gill looked good to me, couldn't make it big. On note, every batter seemed to have trouble with Anderson, Gill got one free life and next out.

IMO Looking good is not enough at this level when you are only scoring a couple of extra runs from your career average.

[Bd officer]

There is another test match js going on between Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan. It started today, in Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo. SL opt bowl and Afg was sent for bat. And Ibrahim Zadran out on 2nd bowl with zero. And then the main match was start. Rahmat Shah did 91 runs but unfortunately he out by catch. Afghanistan total scored 198 runs and its a very low score for test format. Vishwa Fernando got 4 wickets and Fernando got 3 wickets. SL openers Dimuth Karunaratne and nishan Madushka doing well and they made 80 runs as partnership. It looks good startup for SL and if they can keep continue batting with patient then its possible to come a good amount of runs from their bat

The batsmen could not perform well in Afghanistan yesterday, due to which they were all out for 198 runs. Rahmat Shah batted well which allowed Afghanistan to score 198 runs, he was dismissed for 91 runs but unfortunately missed the century by 9 runs. However, Sri Lanka went into bat with a lead of 198 runs, they have so far collected 80 runs without losing a wicket in 14 overs. Sri Lankan batsmen batting seems like they are playing an ODI match, they should bat patiently. Dimuth Karunaratn remained unbeaten on 42 off 37 balls and Nishan Madushka on 36 off 48 balls. Sri Lanka trail 118 runs, which will chase easily. If Sri Lanka can give a lead of 250 plus runs then they can win by an innings margin. Let's see how many runs Sri Lanka can score.

[Patrol69]

Yashasvi Jaiswal's brilliant innings has seen India post 336 for 6 so far in the first innings of the second Test. Yashasvi Jaiswal stands like a wall at one end of the wicket and single-handedly tries to lead the entire India team forward. In the first test match we saw that India batted brilliantly in the first innings but in the second innings they batted opposite to the first innings due to which the host India failed to win the first test despite creating a chance to win. The two batsmen who are still at the wicket are capable of batting well and if this partnership is a bit bigger India's score will be around 450. But if India lose wickets in the beginning then it will be difficult for them to score 400 runs because the batting skills of those who will bat later are not very good. India's large collection depends on this partnership.

[HelliumZ]

Jaiswal is something else in all formats these days. On the other hand, Gill keeps underperforming as usual. Wonder when Pujara will replace him.

The youngster, Yashasvi Jaiswal is holding the rudder of Indian team alone where the other batters performance was below average. I think Indian will have advantages in this test match for his good batting performance. Gill performance is average in my opinion. Most of the fans have a high hope from him, that's why his average contribution doesn't satisfy the fans.

Yashsasvi Jaiswal is going to make an important record with just six Test experience. Only 21 runs will touch his desired 200 runs. Apart from Yashsasvi Jaiswal (179*), no Indian batsman has touched triple figures so far. Subman Gill is the second highest scorer after Yashsasvi Jaiswal with 34 runs. Although I expected a better innings from Subman Gill but he did not perform much better than that. But if Yashsasvi Jaiswal had not played this wonderful innings, it is doubtful whether India would have collected 250.

[synchronym]

There is another test match js going on between Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan. It started today, in Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo. SL opt bowl and Afg was sent for bat. And Ibrahim Zadran out on 2nd bowl with zero. And then the main match was start. Rahmat Shah did 91 runs but unfortunately he out by catch. Afghanistan total scored 198 runs and its a very low score for test format. Vishwa Fernando got 4 wickets and Fernando got 3 wickets. SL openers Dimuth Karunaratne and nishan Madushka doing well and they made 80 runs as partnership. It looks good startup for SL and if they can keep continue batting with patient then its possible to come a good amount of runs from their bat

The batsmen could not perform well in Afghanistan yesterday, due to which they were all out for 198 runs. Rahmat Shah batted well which allowed Afghanistan to score 198 runs, he was dismissed for 91 runs but unfortunately missed the century by 9 runs. However, Sri Lanka went into bat with a lead of 198 runs, they have so far collected 80 runs without losing a wicket in 14 overs. Sri Lankan batsmen batting seems like they are playing an ODI match, they should bat patiently. Dimuth Karunaratn remained unbeaten on 42 off 37 balls and Nishan Madushka on 36 off 48 balls. Sri Lanka trail 118 runs, which will chase easily. If Sri Lanka can give a lead of 250 plus runs then they can win by an innings margin. Let's see how many runs Sri Lanka can score.

Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka 1st Test match when Afghanistan scored 100 runs and lost only two wickets. Looking at the state of the game at that time, it seemed that maybe if they play well in Afghanistan, they will be able to score roughly 300 plus runs. But due to Afghanistan's batting failure, they could not give a big run lead against Sri Lanka in the first Test match. The batsmen lost one wicket after another while playing in a hurry which resulted in the Afghanistan batsmen being bowled out for just 198 all out. However, the Afghanistan team performed well in the T20 and played fairly well in the ODI matches, but due to lack of test experience, they are in such a situation. Of course, the Afghanistan team will play the test format well in the future. But now the Afghanistan bowlers have to bowl well because the run lead is very less so if they have to put pressure on the Sri Lankan batsmen then the Afghanistan bowlers must bowl well otherwise they will not be able to stop the Sri Lankan batsmen.

[Sithara007]

James Anderson is really troubling the Indian batsmen. So far, he has returned figures of 20-4-33-1. And bowling under hostile Indian conditions by itself is an achievement. Anderson looked like the pick of bowlers for England, and he is just 9 wickets away from the magical figure of 700 test wickets. Only Muttiah Muralitharan and Shane Warne are ahead of him. However, the England spinners have failed to make an impact so far. Tom Hartley was expensive, while Shoaib Bashir and Rehan Ahmed struggled to take wickets.

[libert19]

Jaiswal crosses much covered 200 mark, 6 and 4 back to back to make required 9 runs, it was real hard work on his part to survive from Anderson onslaught. First Test heroes, Hartley and Root haven't add any impact in this match.

[Bureau]

Jaiswal crosses much covered 200 mark, 6 and 4 back to back to make required 9 runs, it was real hard work on his part to survive from Anderson onslaught. First Test heroes, Hartley and Root haven't add any impact in this match.

At last he was able gets his name permanently written in the cricket history books. A well deserved double century which requires a lot of hard work and patience. I still remember a time when he was begging on mainstream media asking hitman to give him a chance in the national team. After his selection he has been unstoppable.

After 8 wickets gone India are still not over the 400 runs mark. They still would need 5 more runs to reach to 400 runs. A target such big is can be defended by the Indian bowlers.

[Haunebu]

All hail Jaiswal! Scoring a double century while the rest of his compatriots couldn't even score a 50 says everything by itself. The rest of the Indian top and middle order should be ashamed of their medicore performances.

Also, Jimmy freaking Anderson! He's 41 and is still one of the most diabolical bowlers in the test format. What a player!

[Bitcoin_people]

India team has lost 9 wickets coming into the second day and currently their team score is 395 runs. The second Test match is going to be really exciting especially with Indian batsmen batting with excitement. Indian batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 209 runs off 290 balls and was dismissed for India's huge score today. Yashasvi Jaiswal's reputation will not end as his batting performance was so great that India would be able to build such a big score because of his score. However, with India all out for 396 at the moment, the target set by India today will leave England with a lot of frustration to meet. I think England team will not be able to collect such a big score in the second innings.

[HelliumZ]

Jaiswal crosses much covered 200 mark, 6 and 4 back to back to make required 9 runs, it was real hard work on his part to survive from Anderson onslaught. First Test heroes, Hartley and Root haven't add any impact in this match.

Congratulations Yashsasvi Jaiswal to cover 200+ innings.
After getting out for 209 runs, no one could take the score to 400 for the team. But if Yashsasvi Jaiswal had not led the innings today, India would have been all out long before 396 runs.
Mukesh Kumar has been replaced in place of Mohammad Siraj, he was dismissed for only 0 runs in India's first innings today but no other batsman got out.

[MusaPk]

Congratulations Yashsasvi Jaiswal to cover 200+ innings.
After getting out for 209 runs, no one could take the score to 400 for the team. But if Yashsasvi Jaiswal had not led the innings today, India would have been all out long before 396 runs.
Mukesh Kumar has been replaced in place of Mohammad Siraj, he was dismissed for only 0 runs in India's first innings today but no other batsman got out.

Big applause for Jaiswal for scoring his maiden double century, he is just 22 years old and can become vital asset for Indian team if he maintain his performance. James Anderton, despite 41 years old is still bowling well and got three wickets. Shoaib Bashir who is playing his first test also got 3 wickets. Now it's English batsmen turn to chase 396 and don't allow India to take lead in first innings.

[Bureau]

Congratulations Yashsasvi Jaiswal to cover 200+ innings.
After getting out for 209 runs, no one could take the score to 400 for the team. But if Yashsasvi Jaiswal had not led the innings today, India would have been all out long before 396 runs.
Mukesh Kumar has been replaced in place of Mohammad Siraj, he was dismissed for only 0 runs in India's first innings today but no other batsman got out.

Out of 396 runs that India got Jaiswal contributed 209 runs, imagine how effective Indian batting has been without good players. Mukesh replaced Shiraj but now he has become the costliest bowler as he gave 22 runs in 2 overs. While other bowlers from the Indian side are trying to stop the runs he is busy bowling to only leak out runs. This is the problem that the Indian team has been facing with new bowlers, they are very inconsistent and unpredictable.

[tbterryboy]

With time Afghanistan will learn more about how to handle the test format. They are new to this format and that's why they can be given leverage of not performing well in this format.
When Afghanistan score was 100 they have lost just 2 wickets and it was expected that they will give some decent target. But wickets keep falling once Afghanistan score crossed 100.
At the end of day 1 play, Sri Lanka trail by 118 runs and they still have whole team to bat. To me this match has slipped away from Afghanistan and they need some extraordinary bowling tomorrow to made a come back in the game.  

As cricket is developing, I want ICC to revoke test status of Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and Ireland because they can't improve and this is going to be worst for the rest of the teams with if they are not interested then we need to have tier system which can bring some better competition and improvement in teams.

Today when I check Afghanistan were at 155 for 5 then I have feeling they can touch 200 figure but nothing happen and all gone cheaply after this poor batting now their bowling is worse because they have no first choice bowler all interested in white-ball format which is creating more problems for them and things can go down most chances now we will have 400 from Sri Lanka and then an inning defeat for the Afghanistan.

[synchronym]

Congratulations Yashsasvi Jaiswal to cover 200+ innings.
After getting out for 209 runs, no one could take the score to 400 for the team. But if Yashsasvi Jaiswal had not led the innings today, India would have been all out long before 396 runs.
Mukesh Kumar has been replaced in place of Mohammad Siraj, he was dismissed for only 0 runs in India's first innings today but no other batsman got out.

Out of 396 runs that India got Jaiswal contributed 209 runs, imagine how effective Indian batting has been without good players. Mukesh replaced Shiraj but now he has become the costliest bowler as he gave 22 runs in 2 overs. While other bowlers from the Indian side are trying to stop the runs he is busy bowling to only leak out runs. This is the problem that the Indian team has been facing with new bowlers, they are very inconsistent and unpredictable.

You are right because India's top order batsmen did not bat that well if Jaiswal could not have scored 202 runs in the first innings of India's second test then India would never have given England a lead of 396 runs. India's 396 must have played an important role. We saw great batting in the second innings in the first test from England. Of course we will expect England batsmen to bat well in the second test if they can bat well then maybe they can overcome the lead of 396 runs given by India. Of course, England's batsmen must bat responsibly.

[noormcs5]

Jaiswal is something else in all formats these days. On the other hand, Gill keeps underperforming as usual. Wonder when Pujara will replace him.

The youngster, Yashasvi Jaiswal is holding the rudder of Indian team alone where the other batters performance was below average. I think Indian will have advantages in this test match for his good batting performance. Gill performance is average in my opinion. Most of the fans have a high hope from him, that's why his average contribution doesn't satisfy the fans.

Yashsasvi Jaiswal is going to make an important record with just six Test experience. Only 21 runs will touch his desired 200 runs. Apart from Yashsasvi Jaiswal (179*), no Indian batsman has touched triple figures so far. Subman Gill is the second highest scorer after Yashsasvi Jaiswal with 34 runs. Although I expected a better innings from Subman Gill but he did not perform much better than that. But if Yashsasvi Jaiswal had not played this wonderful innings, it is doubtful whether India would have collected 250.

Jaiswal destroyed all the records, he made 209 runs and when he was out so on that time, this was a wonderful achievement for him. All the players and crowd stood and clapped for him in his wonderful output.

Now, I hope that he will be a part of the World Cup from the Indian team. India needed this type of player in the squad of the World Cup, but we can't say about this thing because the Indian team is very unique.
In the Champions Trophy, when Pakistan's chance is 0 to win and on the other side India is a most powerful team with MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Jasprit Bumrah, and you have another example of the last World Cup.

[cryptoWODL]

Out of 396 runs that India got Jaiswal contributed 209 runs, imagine how effective Indian batting has been without good players. Mukesh replaced Shiraj but now he has become the costliest bowler as he gave 22 runs in 2 overs. While other bowlers from the Indian side are trying to stop the runs he is busy bowling to only leak out runs. This is the problem that the Indian team has been facing with new bowlers, they are very inconsistent and unpredictable.

I thought maybe India could score 500 runs in this match but they failed to do that as most of their batsmen did not play well except Jaiswal who batted well. Jaiswal gave an impeccable batting performance in this match as he single-handedly scored 209 runs which was the highest run by any Indian batsman in this match. In this match India batted first and scored 396 runs for 10 wickets.

Now the England team came out to bat and they scored 34 runs without losing any wicket in 7 overs which is a good start.They are currently scoring runs at 4.86 per over. Indian bowlers will have to bowl very well in this match as this match is very important for India as they have already lost the first test match.

[Popkon6]

Congratulations Yashsasvi Jaiswal to cover 200+ innings.
After getting out for 209 runs, no one could take the score to 400 for the team. But if Yashsasvi Jaiswal had not led the innings today, India would have been all out long before 396 runs.
Mukesh Kumar has been replaced in place of Mohammad Siraj, he was dismissed for only 0 runs in India's first innings today but no other batsman got out.

Out of 396 runs that India got Jaiswal contributed 209 runs, imagine how effective Indian batting has been without good players. Mukesh replaced Shiraj but now he has become the costliest bowler as he gave 22 runs in 2 overs. While other bowlers from the Indian side are trying to stop the runs he is busy bowling to only leak out runs. This is the problem that the Indian team has been facing with new bowlers, they are very inconsistent and unpredictable.

You are right because India's top order batsmen did not bat that well if Jaiswal could not have scored 202 runs in the first innings of India's second test then India would never have given England a lead of 396 runs. India's 396 must have played an important role. We saw great batting in the second innings in the first test from England. Of course we will expect England batsmen to bat well in the second test if they can bat well then maybe they can overcome the lead of 396 runs given by India. Of course, England's batsmen must bat responsibly.

Indian team performed very well in this first test match scoring 396 runs. The Indian team has reliable batsmen whose performance is very good and skillful. Yashasvi Jaiswal entered the field as the opening batsman and performed almost till the last of the match and managed to score 209 runs. But England team has started batting today so England team has performed poorly throughout this season. Test play is mainly about keeping wickets and performing for a long time and the experience of the batsmen can ensure victory. But the England team has collected 32 runs so far without the fall of any wicket.