Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Bitcoin Smith]

He became the third youngest India batter to get his double century. Before him Sachin and Shastri hot thier double hundred in test cricket at a young age.

Where do you get this from? They showed Vinod Kambli and Sunil Gavaskar as first two.

Yes, Vinod Kambli and Sunil Gavaskar still holds the respective position and he became the third youngest Indian better to score double ton in the test format.


Again Bumrah pulled things off and very good support from Kuldeep now put India in a commanding position but Stokes hanging around there hope Indian bowlers will dismiss soon to keep things great or he is a capable batter to score big daddy hundreds too.

Edit: Bumrah bowled Stokes too in the very next ball I posted this.

[libert19]

^ Stokes bites the dust to Bumrah, his reaction showed it all. Bumrah has been torment to England batsmen as was Anderson to Indians, hopefully Rohit will continue to have him bowl so he can get the fifer, looks good on stats.

On other side, Mukesh has been very expensive today, he's having 8 economy rate from 5 overs bowled so far, that's just bad and that too in test cricket.

[synchronym]

Sri Lanka's batsmen are batting brilliantly in Afghanistan's lead of 198 runs, but Afghanistan's bowlers are not bowling well. In the first test match against Sri Lanka, the Afghanistan team did not bat much and they are not able to bowl well. If the bowlers of Afghanistan could have controlled bowling then the Sri Lankan batsmen could not have scored so many runs. The way the Sri Lankan batsmen are taking the game forward, it seems that the Sri Lankan team will give Afghanistan a big run lead. The current score of the Sri Lanka team is 340 runs for 3 wickets in 83 overs. Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews are batting well. If the partnership of these two continues, Sri Lanka will give a big run lead to Afghanistan. So Afghanistan's bowlers should break the partnership of these two very quickly if they can take wickets then the Sri Lankan team will be under pressure. Angelo Mathews is unbeaten with 109 runs from 200 balls and Dinesh Chandimal has scored 90 runs from 158 balls.

[FinePoine0]

Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan players are performing well against Afghanistan. And in this match Sri Lanka team is favorite. Because most of the important players of Afghanistan's squad are missing in this match.

Afghanistan could only muster 198 runs in their first innings. This is a very small collection on this pitch. Along with the batsmen, Afghanistan's bowlers are also not playing well. Afghanistan is likely to be defeated by an innings margin in this match. Sri Lanka lost only 3 wickets and collected 225 runs. Sri Lanka team has managed to take a lead of 27 runs.
Dimuth Karunaratne scored 77 runs. Mathews was unbeaten with 51 runs and Chandimal 35 runs. Sri Lanka looks set to collect more than 400 in the first innings.

Afghanistan bowlers are not doing well. So the Sri Lankan team is moving towards the big collection very easily. Sri Lanka collected 287 runs for the loss of 3 wickets. The Sri Lankan team has already managed to take a lead of 89 runs. And they lost just 3 wickets. Afghanistan is trailing by a big margin in the first innings itself.

Angelo Mathews scored 79 off 152 balls and Chandimal was unbeaten on 68 off 116 balls. Experienced batsmen like Dhananjaya De Silva will still bat. I guess Sri Lanka team can take a lead of at least 200 runs. And given how bad Afghanistan's bowling is, Sri Lanka might be able to muster more than 450.

Afghanistan is perhaps ready to concede yet another humiliating defeat. This is the first match of this tour. And Afghanistan is going to start with defeat in the first match. Several key players in the Afghanistan squad are now playing in various franchise leagues. If these players were with the squad, maybe Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka match would have been competitive.

Mathews-Chandimal Sri Lanka team scored 171 runs. Sri Lanka collected 319 runs after losing 3 wickets. And the team managed to take a big lead of 121 runs. I think the match will end in three days. Afghanistan will lose this match by an innings.

The Sri Lankan team players are performing very well, so far the Sri Lankan team has collected 410 runs by losing 6 wickets. Sri Lanka team performed better today as they had three reliable batsmen who performed very well. Among these three batsmen, two have scored a century and one has a half century. Mathews was the top scorer in today's match with 141 alone which is the best performance by a SriLankan team. In comparison, the Afghanistan team performed so poorly that they managed to collect only 198 runs and lost ten wickets. Afghanistan players performed the worst in this match and could not put any pressure on the Sri Lankan team in terms of bowling.

[Essential10]

Sri Lanka's batsmen are batting brilliantly in Afghanistan's lead of 198 runs, but Afghanistan's bowlers are not bowling well. In the first test match against Sri Lanka, the Afghanistan team did not bat much and they are not able to bowl well. If the bowlers of Afghanistan could have controlled bowling then the Sri Lankan batsmen could not have scored so many runs. The way the Sri Lankan batsmen are taking the game forward, it seems that the Sri Lankan team will give Afghanistan a big run lead. The current score of the Sri Lanka team is 340 runs for 3 wickets in 83 overs. Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews are batting well. If the partnership of these two continues, Sri Lanka will give a big run lead to Afghanistan. So Afghanistan's bowlers should break the partnership of these two very quickly if they can take wickets then the Sri Lankan team will be under pressure. Angelo Mathews is unbeaten with 109 runs from 200 balls and Dinesh Chandimal has scored 90 runs from 158 balls.

Sri Lanka going for big collection, Afghanistan bowlers got only six wickets on day 2. I think experienced bowlers were definitely needed in this important test match. Especially experience bowlers like Rashid Khan, Mujibur Rahman were needed in this test match. Sri Lanka's biggest surprise today was the 232-run partnership of middle order between chandimal and Mathews. Chandimal was dismissed for 107 when Dhananjaya de Silva was run out in the same over. Mathews was dismissed for 141 just before the Stamps declared on the second day. Sri Lanka ended the second day with a lead of 212 runs and their team score was 410/6. The match is now fully under Sri Lanka's control, I think tomorrow Sri Lanka can declare an innings only if they lead by 250+ runs.

[synchronym]

Sri Lanka's batsmen are batting brilliantly in Afghanistan's lead of 198 runs, but Afghanistan's bowlers are not bowling well. In the first test match against Sri Lanka, the Afghanistan team did not bat much and they are not able to bowl well. If the bowlers of Afghanistan could have controlled bowling then the Sri Lankan batsmen could not have scored so many runs. The way the Sri Lankan batsmen are taking the game forward, it seems that the Sri Lankan team will give Afghanistan a big run lead. The current score of the Sri Lanka team is 340 runs for 3 wickets in 83 overs. Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews are batting well. If the partnership of these two continues, Sri Lanka will give a big run lead to Afghanistan. So Afghanistan's bowlers should break the partnership of these two very quickly if they can take wickets then the Sri Lankan team will be under pressure. Angelo Mathews is unbeaten with 109 runs from 200 balls and Dinesh Chandimal has scored 90 runs from 158 balls.

Sri Lanka going for big collection, Afghanistan bowlers got only six wickets on day 2. I think experienced bowlers were definitely needed in this important test match. Especially experience bowlers like Rashid Khan, Mujibur Rahman were needed in this test match. Sri Lanka's biggest surprise today was the 232-run partnership of middle order between chandimal and Mathews. Chandimal was dismissed for 107 when Dhananjaya de Silva was run out in the same over. Mathews was dismissed for 141 just before the Stamps declared on the second day. Sri Lanka ended the second day with a lead of 212 runs and their team score was 410/6. The match is now fully under Sri Lanka's control, I think tomorrow Sri Lanka can declare an innings only if they lead by 250+ runs.

Afghanistan team had a batting failure in the first test match against Sri Lanka. Afghanistan bowling line is very good maybe because they don't have some experienced players maybe they are bowling so badly. If Rashid Khan or Mohammad Nawi were there, maybe there would have been a little change in their pace of play. The way Afghanistan are bowling, it looks like they are going to lose their first Test match very badly against Sri Lanka. If Afghanistan's bowlers don't take wickets very quickly in the second innings then it will give Afghanistan more runs lead so Afghanistan should play very controlled bowling so that Sri Lankan batsmen are under a lot of pressure and can get all out very quickly. Afghanistan have done pretty well in T20 but they are doing so badly in Test matches due to their lack of experience.

[Haunebu]

Boom boom Bumrah! What a bowler. Him and Afridi are two of the best pace bowlers across all formats these days in my opinion. As expected, England are getting screwed in the 2nd test comfortably by the Indians.

Also, Angelo? This dude is such a good player, but he keeps getting out in the weirdest of ways these days.

[Popkon6]

Boom boom Bumrah! What a bowler. Him and Afridi are two of the best pace bowlers across all formats these days in my opinion. As expected, England are getting screwed in the 2nd test comfortably by the Indians.

Also, Angelo? This dude is such a good player, but he keeps getting out in the weirdest of ways these days.

Indian team player Bumrah has performed very well in recent times, great. He single handedly took six wickets of England team. Today's performance is very good. England team basically lost to Bumrah, bowled about 16 overs today out of which five medal overs were scored where no runs were scored by England team batsmen. The second innings has just started but the Indian team is ahead by 171 runs.

[Patrol69]

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.

Yashsasvi Jaiswal played a brilliant innings of 209 runs in the first innings against England. In the first innings India totaled 396 where Yashsasvi Jaiswal collected 209remaining 9 batsmen collected 187. One's personal collection is 209 and all others have collected 187. It is said that cricket does not require 10 players to bat well.  

On the second day, India were all out and England were out to bat in their first innings and on the same day England were all out and India were out to bat again. That means we are almost halfway through the game on the third day. India started to perform badly in the first test match but from this position it must be kept in the mind of the Indian batsmen. With no wickets lost so far, India will try to keep wickets at the start of the third day and build a big partnership which will set a big target for England.

[MusaPk]

Afghanistan team had a batting failure in the first test match against Sri Lanka. Afghanistan bowling line is very good maybe because they don't have some experienced players maybe they are bowling so badly. If Rashid Khan or Mohammad Nawi were there, maybe there would have been a little change in their pace of play. The way Afghanistan are bowling, it looks like they are going to lose their first Test match very badly against Sri Lanka. If Afghanistan's bowlers don't take wickets very quickly in the second innings then it will give Afghanistan more runs lead so Afghanistan should play very controlled bowling so that Sri Lankan batsmen are under a lot of pressure and can get all out very quickly. Afghanistan have done pretty well in T20 but they are doing so badly in Test matches due to their lack of experience.

Sri Lanka got 212 runs lead in first and the game is very much over for Afghanistan. Afghans are very good in short format like T20 but they yet to display some good performance in Test format. Today there is 232 runs partnership between Angelo Mathews and Dinesh Chandimal that took the game away from Afghanistan. The best Afghanistan can do in this game is to avoid a defeat by innings because Sri Lanka may extend there lead to 300 tomorrow.

[Bitcoin Smith]

^ Stokes bites the dust to Bumrah, his reaction showed it all. Bumrah has been torment to England batsmen as was Anderson to Indians, hopefully Rohit will continue to have him bowl so he can get the fifer, looks good on stats.

On other side, Mukesh has been very expensive today, he's having 8 economy rate from 5 overs bowled so far, that's just bad and that too in test cricket.

Bumrah got six wickets when everyone thought spinners will bag most wickets, that itself a proof of skill levels.

Mukesh is an excellent bowler but as I said previously he is a wrong pick for this venue, and he has no job to do and he got hit by the openers and his lack of pace is the reason why batsmen choose him to attack.

[onecall123]

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.

Yashsasvi Jaiswal played a brilliant innings of 209 runs in the first innings against England. In the first innings India totaled 396 where Yashsasvi Jaiswal collected 209remaining 9 batsmen collected 187. One's personal collection is 209 and all others have collected 187. It is said that cricket does not require 10 players to bat well.  

On the second day, India were all out and England were out to bat in their first innings and on the same day England were all out and India were out to bat again. That means we are almost halfway through the game on the third day. India started to perform badly in the first test match but from this position it must be kept in the mind of the Indian batsmen. With no wickets lost so far, India will try to keep wickets at the start of the third day and build a big partnership which will set a big target for England.

Yashasvi Jaiswal's impressive 209 runs came against England, putting India in a dominant position by the end of Day 2. Jasprit Bumrah's excellent bowling performance on Day 2, especially his special spell of reverse swing, played a crucial role. India's dependency on Bumrah is evident, as he nullified the pitch's influence today.
For India, their focus should be on building a good partnership and setting a good total. England tends to perform better in the second innings, and with Bazzball, a target of less than 400 may not be secure.

[synchronym]

In the second test match between India vs England, India batted brilliantly in the first innings in the second test, giving England a lead of 396 runs. England's opener Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley got off to a great start when India were given a lead of 396 runs. But Ben Duckett did not bat that well and got out for just 21 runs. But Zak Crawley batted great for the England team. Zak Crawley got out after scoring 76 runs off 78 balls. No other England batsman could score such good runs. India's bowlers bowled very well. Under the pressure of India's bowlers, England's batsmen could score such a run, the England team was bowled out for only 256 runs. India's player Bhomra took England's important five wickets with great bowling.

[Bitcoin Smith]

For India, their focus should be on building a good partnership and setting a good total. England tends to perform better in the second innings, and with Bazzball, a target of less than 400 may not be secure.

Any target over 300 -350 is a difficult task to chase down in the fourth innings, and the story of the previous test is completely different because they batted first there but here second. And more to that, the day 4 and day 5 pitch will break down a lot and bring the turns from spin attack into play. India had one foot over the line as of now unless we have some dramatic turn around that can become another history.

[tsaroz]

For India, their focus should be on building a good partnership and setting a good total. England tends to perform better in the second innings, and with Bazzball, a target of less than 400 may not be secure.

Any target over 300 -350 is a difficult task to chase down in the fourth innings, and the story of the previous test is completely different because they batted first there but here second. And more to that, the day 4 and day 5 pitch will break down a lot and bring the turns from spin attack into play. India had one foot over the line as of now unless we have some dramatic turn around that can become another history.

Nice turn of events on the 2nd day itself and we are going to see another test game with a result. India has a lot of time to bat but holding the wickets is what's harder now. India is currently leading with 171 runs and they need to put on 300+ tomorrow to give a good target for England to follow whether they be able to keep the wickets or loose it all. We've seen England recover from the 1st inning and bat impressively at 2nd in the 1st test. So, anything below 400 could be chaseable for England.

[Minecache]

Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan players are performing well against Afghanistan. And in this match Sri Lanka team is favorite. Because most of the important players of Afghanistan's squad are missing in this match.

Afghanistan could only muster 198 runs in their first innings. This is a very small collection on this pitch. Along with the batsmen, Afghanistan's bowlers are also not playing well. Afghanistan is likely to be defeated by an innings margin in this match. Sri Lanka lost only 3 wickets and collected 225 runs. Sri Lanka team has managed to take a lead of 27 runs.
Dimuth Karunaratne scored 77 runs. Mathews was unbeaten with 51 runs and Chandimal 35 runs. Sri Lanka looks set to collect more than 400 in the first innings.

Afghanistan bowlers are not doing well. So the Sri Lankan team is moving towards the big collection very easily. Sri Lanka collected 287 runs for the loss of 3 wickets. The Sri Lankan team has already managed to take a lead of 89 runs. And they lost just 3 wickets. Afghanistan is trailing by a big margin in the first innings itself.
Angelo Mathews scored 79 off 152 balls and Chandimal was unbeaten on 68 off 116 balls. Experienced batsmen like Dhananjaya De Silva will still bat. I guess Sri Lanka team can take a lead of at least 200 runs. And given how bad Afghanistan's bowling is, Sri Lanka might be able to muster more than 450.

Afghanistan is perhaps ready to concede yet another humiliating defeat. This is the first match of this tour. And Afghanistan is going to start with defeat in the first match. Several key players in the Afghanistan squad are now playing in various franchise leagues. If these players were with the squad, maybe Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka match would have been competitive.
Mathews-Chandimal Sri Lanka team scored 171 runs. Sri Lanka collected 319 runs after losing 3 wickets. And the team managed to take a big lead of 121 runs. I think the match will end in three days. Afghanistan will lose this match by an innings.

The Sri Lankan team players are performing very well, so far the Sri Lankan team has collected 410 runs by losing 6 wickets. Sri Lanka team performed better today as they had three reliable batsmen who performed very well. Among these three batsmen, two have scored a century and one has a half century. Mathews was the top scorer in today's match with 141 alone which is the best performance by a SriLankan team. In comparison, the Afghanistan team performed so poorly that they managed to collect only 198 runs and lost ten wickets. Afghanistan players performed the worst in this match and could not put any pressure on the Sri Lankan team in terms of bowling.

Sri Lanka's middle order batsmen Angelo Mathews and Chandimal managed to score 410 runs at the end of the second day, losing 6 wickets. These two batsmen played brilliantly. Mathews was dismissed with 141 runs and Chandimal scored 107 runs.

However, the performance of Afghanistan's batsmen as well as bowlers is also very poor. Next day Sri Lanka will probably be able to collect 40-50 runs very easily. Sri Lanka team has already taken a big lead of 212 runs. If the Sri Lanka team takes a lead of more than 250 then it is likely that Afghanistan will be defeated by an innings margin. However, it will be difficult for Afghanistan to collect 200 runs in the second innings.

[Nanga Parbat]

Sri Lanka's batsmen are batting brilliantly in Afghanistan's lead of 198 runs, but Afghanistan's bowlers are not bowling well. In the first test match against Sri Lanka, the Afghanistan team did not bat much and they are not able to bowl well. If the bowlers of Afghanistan could have controlled bowling then the Sri Lankan batsmen could not have scored so many runs. The way the Sri Lankan batsmen are taking the game forward, it seems that the Sri Lankan team will give Afghanistan a big run lead. The current score of the Sri Lanka team is 340 runs for 3 wickets in 83 overs. Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews are batting well. If the partnership of these two continues, Sri Lanka will give a big run lead to Afghanistan. So Afghanistan's bowlers should break the partnership of these two very quickly if they can take wickets then the Sri Lankan team will be under pressure. Angelo Mathews is unbeaten with 109 runs from 200 balls and Dinesh Chandimal has scored 90 runs from 158 balls.

Sri Lanka played their first innings very well and scored 410 runs and overall Sri Lankan players performed very well in batting and Afghanistan scored only 194 runs.

 Now let's see how Afghanistan performs in the next innings

[WatChe]

Any target over 300 -350 is a difficult task to chase down in the fourth innings, and the story of the previous test is completely different because they batted first there but here second. And more to that, the day 4 and day 5 pitch will break down a lot and bring the turns from spin attack into play. India had one foot over the line as of now unless we have some dramatic turn around that can become another history.

Indians have got a good lead of 143 runs, all they need is to score 200 runs in second innings and give a target of 350 to England team. If you see first innings batting of India then 209 runs are made by Yashasvi Jaiswal alone while rest of batsmen were not able to score runs. If English team can restrict India from giving a target of 300 then they have chance to win the game otherwise as you say pitch wont be friendly on day 4 and 5 to chase a big target.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Any target over 300 -350 is a difficult task to chase down in the fourth innings, and the story of the previous test is completely different because they batted first there but here second. And more to that, the day 4 and day 5 pitch will break down a lot and bring the turns from spin attack into play. India had one foot over the line as of now unless we have some dramatic turn around that can become another history.

Indians have got a good lead of 143 runs, all they need is to score 200 runs in second innings and give a target of 350 to England team. If you see first innings batting of India then 209 runs are made by Yashasvi Jaiswal alone while rest of batsmen were not able to score runs. If English team can restrict India from giving a target of 300 then they have chance to win the game otherwise as you say pitch wont be friendly on day 4 and 5 to chase a big target.

India team has taken a big lead of 143 runs. The team played very well in the first innings. I wouldn't say they are in the safe zone though. Because in the first match we saw that India failed to win the match even after taking a big lead of 190 runs. So the result of this match will also depend on the performance of the Indian batsmen in the second innings.

Jaiswal scored 209 runs in the first innings, and India's total was 390 runs. Apart from Jiaswal, other batsmen's performances were not very good. If the Indian batsmen cannot bat responsibly in the second innings, they will not be able to provide a big target. If India wants to win, they have to give at least more than 300 targets. Now India has managed to take a lead of 171 runs.

[Nazmul012]

New Zealand vs South Africa, 1st Test already started meanwhile in Bay Oval Cricket ground in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand. South Africa luckily won the toss and they opt to Bowling. New Zealand already started batting and Devon Conway and Tom Latham both are out by Dane Paterson and Tshepo Moreki. It suppose to be, SA nicely bowling on a good length as well as holding its line. Till now, team new Zealand total runs are 58-2. Currently Rachin Ravindra and Kane Williamson are on batting. They both are excellent players and people have expection from youngster Rachin Ravindra. Hope they both will make decent score.