Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

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India Women showed their incredible performance in test match against South Africa Women. After winning the ODI Matches, Indian women proved that they also strong in Test Format. It wasn't easy to cross more than 600+ runs. Whatever, i expected South Africa Women to make more than 400 runs in 1st innings but they failed to collected 300 runs and all out badly and same thing repeated in 2nd inngins too. This is Sneh Rana from Indian women team who took 8 wickets alone in 1st inngins and 2 wickets in 2nd inngins. Although in 2nd Inngins, they were about to score 400 runs something. I expected India Women team to won this match With an inngins but they needed to bat for some runs and won the match with 10 wickets. Shafali Verma(205) did double century and Sneh Rana took 10 wickets in total. Both are best player in this match but Sneh Rana declared as player of the match. Well this match was one of the greatest match and undoubtedly a big archivement yet for indian Women team in my opinion

Basically I think India is much better in cricket means in Men and Women in both sides India is better. Like we can see how the India Women team performed in the ODI series and also in the test match too. And they have T20 series ahead and I think they will perform well in upcoming series too.
And in the Men cricket we can see that how Indian team performed and how they won the T20 World Cup. Which we all know that, that was a precious moment for India. So in both sides India is better. And I think they will make much better in the future.

[Popkon6]

India Women showed their incredible performance in test match against South Africa Women. After winning the ODI Matches, Indian women proved that they also strong in Test Format. It wasn't easy to cross more than 600+ runs. Whatever, i expected South Africa Women to make more than 400 runs in 1st innings but they failed to collected 300 runs and all out badly and same thing repeated in 2nd inngins too. This is Sneh Rana from Indian women team who took 8 wickets alone in 1st inngins and 2 wickets in 2nd inngins. Although in 2nd Inngins, they were about to score 400 runs something. I expected India Women team to won this match With an inngins but they needed to bat for some runs and won the match with 10 wickets. Shafali Verma(205) did double century and Sneh Rana took 10 wickets in total. Both are best player in this match but Sneh Rana declared as player of the match. Well this match was one of the greatest match and undoubtedly a big archivement yet for indian Women team in my opinion

Basically I think India is much better in cricket means in Men and Women in both sides India is better. Like we can see how the India Women team performed in the ODI series and also in the test match too. And they have T20 series ahead and I think they will perform well in upcoming series too.
And in the Men cricket we can see that how Indian team performed and how they won the T20 World Cup. Which we all know that, that was a precious moment for India. So in both sides India is better. And I think they will make much better in the future.

Basically, in the Test match, the players of the Indian women's team were very patient, the opening batsmen, they performed very well. The opening batsmen of the first innings and the opening batsmen of the second innings must have performed patiently. But mainly the weak South African team players, because they could not put pressure on the Indian women's team players in terms of bowling. 

Due to which these valuable runs have been collected, India has carefully developed the players of the country's mainly men's and women's teams. Because the men also performed very well in the T20 matches and the women also beat the South Africa women's team by a huge margin in the test matches and the Indian team won by 10 wickets.

[dezoel]

Basically I think India is much better in cricket means in Men and Women in both sides India is better. Like we can see how the India Women team performed in the ODI series and also in the test match too. And they have T20 series ahead and I think they will perform well in upcoming series too.
And in the Men cricket we can see that how Indian team performed and how they won the T20 World Cup. Which we all know that, that was a precious moment for India. So in both sides India is better. And I think they will make much better in the future.

In last two decades we are having huge improvement in cricket with fan base is also gone on new highs for the India and their revenue is also touching new records in every season with this all we have thankful IPL which bring these revolutionary changes, and we are able to watch some good development in all formats with now Indian w are also having good chance of giving their best as we have in last few months some good things are happening and teams from Australia, England and South Africa are visiting regularly which will surely bring good development for the Indian w cricket.

Quality is already good, but now we need to work on domestic setup which will surely increase pool and this will also help them for having significant success for them even now it's time for having some good work on domestic system because if they are able to bring good changes this can bring good success for the long run.

[noormcs5]

Basically, in the Test match, the players of the Indian women's team were very patient, the opening batsmen, they performed very well. The opening batsmen of the first innings and the opening batsmen of the second innings must have performed patiently. But mainly the weak South African team players, because they could not put pressure on the Indian women's team players in terms of bowling. 

No doubt, the Indian women's team is getting better day by day but they still have a long way to go before they can compete with the Australian women and England women. I think other Asian countries are very much behind and may not be able to cope up with these three nations.

Coming to the men's cricket, there is a tour match that we have to see today which is playing between West Indies and FCC XI. In this match, we have seen a bad start by the opener and the captain too who is Kraigg Brathwaite.
By the way, after listening to their captain's name just a name to mind which Carlos Brathwaite, who hit back to back 4 sixes in the 2016 World Cup final match against the England team when he was on strike and Ben Stokes was bowling then West Indies needed 20 runs in 4 balls then Carlos Brathwaite hit back to back four sixes and West Indies won the final match. 

[hafiztalha]

Coming to the men's cricket, there is a tour match that we have to see today which is playing between West Indies and FCC XI. In this match, we have seen a bad start by the opener and the captain too who is Kraigg Brathwaite.
By the way, after listening to their captain's name just a name to mind which Carlos Brathwaite, who hit back to back 4 sixes in the 2016 World Cup final match against the England team when he was on strike and Ben Stokes was bowling then West Indies needed 20 runs in 4 balls then Carlos Brathwaite hit back to back four sixes and West Indies won the final match. 

Tour to England, today 1 st test game was started between West Indies and FCCX1 team. In 1 st day of this game, West indies team full played their 1 st Inning and their team ended bat Inning. K.Hodge played very well after losing many wickets Kraigg leader of West indies was dismissed for 4 runs only McCaskie also made only 2 runs and lose wicket. F.Ahmed from FccX1 team bowled very well and he took down total 4 wickets and he dismissed these wickets Athanaze, Holder, Silva and Kevin, gave 48 runs. I expected from West indies team to more runs and good trail of runs but their team was dismissed at 339 runs only. Louis made half century and but got out, Kirk also batted good and scored 74 runs and hitted two 6s and eleven 4s. Athanaze was dismissed by F.Ahmed and he scored 74 runs. After losing wicket of Hodge other for wickets did not grab runs and lost wickets afor only fewer runs. Now FccX1 batsman entered in pitch for chasing 1 st Inning target of West indies and now and was delayed due to poor light.

[virasog]

Coming to the men's cricket, there is a tour match that we have to see today which is playing between West Indies and FCC XI. In this match, we have seen a bad start by the opener and the captain too who is Kraigg Brathwaite.

In the start of the game when Kraigg Brathwaite and Zachary McCaskie were out early in today’s match then Mikyle Louis came in and gave some stability to the innings by hitting fifty, but after he got 50 runs, he lost his wicket too. Also the same time with him Kirk McKenzie also played a good knock and he hit 73 runs.

From that time, we are seeing that West Indies team is leading the game. When the top order batting finished then middle order first two players played very well and help the innings grow. These players were near to hitting 100 but only one of them was able to do so. Alick Athanaze made 74 while Kavem Hodge iscored 112 runs.

[Compromise me]

Coming to the men's cricket, there is a tour match that we have to see today which is playing between West Indies and FCC XI. In this match, we have seen a bad start by the opener and the captain too who is Kraigg Brathwaite.
By the way, after listening to their captain's name just a name to mind which Carlos Brathwaite, who hit back to back 4 sixes in the 2016 World Cup final match against the England team when he was on strike and Ben Stokes was bowling then West Indies needed 20 runs in 4 balls then Carlos Brathwaite hit back to back four sixes and West Indies won the final match. 

we will see the match against England and West Indies. England team is more favorite for test cricket because they like to play test cricket but West Indies players want to play only T20. Because they are only hard hitters and there is no technically sound player in the West Indies team . West Indies team will lose this series if one match draw.
Because I know West Indies team and they could not play long inning and test cricket is long inning and players should have patience to play test cricket otherwise they will face hardships and they will face hard time . Because England team is tough team with excellent bowlers which are top of the World. West Indies should play with responsibility to win these match . I know England is favorite and they will win this series easily.

[Sithara007]

I could hardly find any familiar names in the First-Class Counties Select XI. And despite that West Indies could make only 339. John Turner and Farhan Ahmed picked up 4 wickets each. Apart from Kavem Hodge, there were good knocks from Mikyle Louis, Kirk McKenzie and Alick Athanaze. Now the FCCS XI has started their innings, with Alzarri Joseph and Jayden Seales opening the bowling for West Indies. I would expect the West Indian quicks to bowl out their opponents for less than 200.   

[WatChe]

I could hardly find any familiar names in the First-Class Counties Select XI. And despite that West Indies could make only 339. John Turner and Farhan Ahmed picked up 4 wickets each. Apart from Kavem Hodge, there were good knocks from Mikyle Louis, Kirk McKenzie and Alick Athanaze. Now the FCCS XI has started their innings, with Alzarri Joseph and Jayden Seales opening the bowling for West Indies. I would expect the West Indian quicks to bowl out their opponents for less than 200.   

Majority of players in First-Class Counties Select XI are teenagers or are in there early twenties. Farhan Ahmed who picked 4 wickets in first innings is just 16 years old and it's a good sign for England test cricket that they have talented players to replace James Anderson. Six West Indies batsmen were not able to make it to double figures which is remarkable achievement from young blowers of First-Class Counties Select XI. At stumps day 2,  FCC XI have scored 15 runs without losing any wicket.

[Compromise me]

Majority of players in First-Class Counties Select XI are teenagers or are in there early twenties. Farhan Ahmed who picked 4 wickets in first innings is just 16 years old and it's a good sign for England test cricket that they have talented players to replace James Anderson. Six West Indies batsmen were not able to make it to double figures which is remarkable achievement from young blowers of First-Class Counties Select XI. At stumps day 2,  FCC XI have scored 15 runs without losing any wicket.

Yes ,you are right. England coaches are working on team building. They want best cricketers for the country. I am satisfied from the selectors of England. England team  . England team performance is at top and they are performing well and they are champions and that team players will play in the International team also. The players of England  team are young and they are picked because they are famous at city level and they have thousands of fans and thats why they are in the cricket team . If they play bad ,they are many players that to waiting for the chance and play in united team.England U19 players are more confident than any other United team because they are  selected on the merit.

[hafiztalha]

I could hardly find any familiar names in the First-Class Counties Select XI. And despite that West Indies could make only 339. John Turner and Farhan Ahmed picked up 4 wickets each. Apart from Kavem Hodge, there were good knocks from Mikyle Louis, Kirk McKenzie and Alick Athanaze. Now the FCCS XI has started their innings, with Alzarri Joseph and Jayden Seales opening the bowling for West Indies. I would expect the West Indian quicks to bowl out their opponents for less than 200.   

2 nd day ended today and according to runs dashboard, again West indies team lead thus game by 23 runs. But effort of England team Country Select XI is going very good and West indies was only scored 339 runs in 1 st Inning and next now their 2 nd inning has started. F.Ahmed is very good player and bowlers and his age is also very low but his struggle, his bowling skill is very wonderful and amazing. He took down 4 wickets in 12 runs gave 48 runs. Other bowlers  J.Turner also bowled out 4 wickets in 12.1 overs Gave 60 runs. Now England XI also completed their 1 st Inning and their Batsman chased all 339 runs and trail 34 runs. W.Luxton made a outstanding century in 1 st Inning and other batsman also played well like hH.Shaikh scored 84 runs, T.Prest also made 53 runs. I think England XI team will win this test game if both Farhan and Turner again showed wonderful bowling lineup in 2 nd Inning.

[WatChe]

Yes ,you are right. England coaches are working on team building. They want best cricketers for the country. I am satisfied from the selectors of England. England team  . England team performance is at top and they are performing well and they are champions and that team players will play in the International team also. The players of England  team are young and they are picked because they are famous at city level and they have thousands of fans and thats why they are in the cricket team . If they play bad ,they are many players that to waiting for the chance and play in united team.England U19 players are more confident than any other United team because they are  selected on the merit.

After bowling CS XI have done a good job in batting also. In reply to West Indies 339, CS XI have scored 373 runs and declared there innings. Only 4 CS XI players got out in first innings. The 21 year old William Luxton scored a century while Hamza Shaikh was able to score 84 runs. It's good satisfactory performance from CS XI in first inning. West Indies have lost 2 wickets in there second innings and we have final day left for play tomorrow.

[justdimin]

I could hardly find any familiar names in the First-Class Counties Select XI. And despite that West Indies could make only 339. John Turner and Farhan Ahmed picked up 4 wickets each. Apart from Kavem Hodge, there were good knocks from Mikyle Louis, Kirk McKenzie and Alick Athanaze. Now the FCCS XI has started their innings, with Alzarri Joseph and Jayden Seales opening the bowling for West Indies. I would expect the West Indian quicks to bowl out their opponents for less than 200.   

Majority of players in First-Class Counties Select XI are teenagers or are in there early twenties. Farhan Ahmed who picked 4 wickets in first innings is just 16 years old and it's a good sign for England test cricket that they have talented players to replace James Anderson. Six West Indies batsmen were not able to make it to double figures which is remarkable achievement from young blowers of First-Class Counties Select XI. At stumps day 2,  FCC XI have scored 15 runs without losing any wicket.

Strength of West Indian bowling is exposed by these teenagers of these first class English players as at the end of the second day play we have 347 for 4 which is surely matter of shame for their bowling attack which is having all their first choice bowlers which are going to have bowling against English batting lineup which is much better than these teenagers with Tom Prest 53 Hamza Sheikh 84 and William Luxton 100 still on crease.

Tomorrow is last day of the game, and we are going to have no more batting practice for the West Indian batting lineup which also needs to work on their technique for these conditions and decent England bowlers which can destroy them in coming series; things are looking not good for them.

[fuguebtc]

Majority of players in First-Class Counties Select XI are teenagers or are in there early twenties. Farhan Ahmed who picked 4 wickets in first innings is just 16 years old and it's a good sign for England test cricket that they have talented players to replace James Anderson. Six West Indies batsmen were not able to make it to double figures which is remarkable achievement from young blowers of First-Class Counties Select XI. At stumps day 2,  FCC XI have scored 15 runs without losing any wicket.

Yes ,you are right. England coaches are working on team building. They want best cricketers for the country. I am satisfied from the selectors of England. England team  . England team performance is at top and they are performing well and they are champions and that team players will play in the International team also. The players of England  team are young and they are picked because they are famous at city level and they have thousands of fans and thats why they are in the cricket team . If they play bad ,they are many players that to waiting for the chance and play in united team.England U19 players are more confident than any other United team because they are  selected on the merit.

Is it just me or the under-19 team from almost every country actually play more fearless cricket compared to the national team of every country? 

Well, I guess they are teenagers and they are supposed to be fearless. You know, they say that in the eyes of an amateur, there are endless possibilities but in the eye of an expert there are few. But at this teenage, they actually believe that there are endless possibilities and that’s why they are sometimes capable of doing incredible things. When people grow up, a lot of problems arise with the aging of the body. But experience comes in handy at that age.

Anyway, I think England will be in a very good spot if they can actually properly nurture this under-19 team.

[Nalain420]

I could hardly find any familiar names in the First-Class Counties Select XI. And despite that West Indies could make only 339. John Turner and Farhan Ahmed picked up 4 wickets each. Apart from Kavem Hodge, there were good knocks from Mikyle Louis, Kirk McKenzie and Alick Athanaze. Now the FCCS XI has started their innings, with Alzarri Joseph and Jayden Seales opening the bowling for West Indies. I would expect the West Indian quicks to bowl out their opponents for less than 200.   

Majority of players in First-Class Counties Select XI are teenagers or are in there early twenties. Farhan Ahmed who picked 4 wickets in first innings is just 16 years old and it's a good sign for England test cricket that they have talented players to replace James Anderson. Six West Indies batsmen were not able to make it to double figures which is remarkable achievement from young blowers of First-Class Counties Select XI. At stumps day 2,  FCC XI have scored 15 runs without losing any wicket.

The bowlers and batsmen are of any age.  The only difference is perform. Because the player who work hard and struggle to win will be more famous in the game. If this 16 year old boy can perform well. One can be a question of his hobby and the other can be a question of his perform.  Because he would have out with a good perform then he would have put his pressure which has taken the wickets. West Indies batsmen score 339 runs. In hindsight this is a very easy target. CS batsmen need 13 runs to win.  And these matches will be easily won.

[ThemePen]

Two unofficial tests are coming between England U19 and Srilanka U19. They have played the ODI series and in this series Srilanka U19 team was good. And they won the first two matches but in the last match they played really well and won the last match and series finished at 2-1.
Well the first test match will start from 8 july and the second test match will start from 16 july. At this time this is really hard to predict that which team can perform well. But I hope tgat Srilanka U19 team will perform well.

[noormcs5]

2 nd day ended today and according to runs dashboard, again West indies team lead thus game by 23 runs. But effort of England team Country Select XI is going very good and West indies was only scored 339 runs in 1 st Inning and next now their 2 nd inning has started. F.Ahmed is very good player and bowlers and his age is also very low but his struggle, his bowling skill is very wonderful and amazing. He took down 4 wickets in 12 runs gave 48 runs. Other bowlers  J.Turner also bowled out 4 wickets in 12.1 overs Gave 60 runs. Now England XI also completed their 1 st Inning and their Batsman chased all 339 runs and trail 34 runs. W.Luxton made a outstanding century in 1 st Inning and other batsman also played well like hH.Shaikh scored 84 runs, T.Prest also made 53 runs. I think England XI team will win this test game if both Farhan and Turner again showed wonderful bowling lineup in 2 nd Inning.

West Indies' second innings has started and once again they had a loss of their first two wickets early as it has happened in the first innings of West Indies in the same match.

However, at this time, England has completed their one inning and West Indies starting their second innings, I hope this time West Indies will make more than 400 runs because we have seen the County Select XI team make good scores and lead the runs. West Indies got lead of 61 runs but they have lost 4 wickets already. They should try not to lose any further wickets as then the game can easily tilt in the favor of County Select XI team.

[virasog]

2 nd day ended today and according to runs dashboard, again West indies team lead thus game by 23 runs. But effort of England team Country Select XI is going very good and West indies was only scored 339 runs in 1 st Inning and next now their 2 nd inning has started. F.Ahmed is very good player and bowlers and his age is also very low but his struggle, his bowling skill is very wonderful and amazing. He took down 4 wickets in 12 runs gave 48 runs. Other bowlers  J.Turner also bowled out 4 wickets in 12.1 overs Gave 60 runs. Now England XI also completed their 1 st Inning and their Batsman chased all 339 runs and trail 34 runs. W.Luxton made a outstanding century in 1 st Inning and other batsman also played well like hH.Shaikh scored 84 runs, T.Prest also made 53 runs. I think England XI team will win this test game if both Farhan and Turner again showed wonderful bowling lineup in 2 nd Inning.

West Indies' second innings has started and once again they had a loss of their first two wickets early as it has happened in the first innings of West Indies in the same match.

However, at this time, England has completed their one inning and West Indies starting their second innings, I hope this time West Indies will make more than 400 runs because we have seen the County Select XI team make good scores and lead the runs. West Indies got lead of 61 runs but they have lost 4 wickets already. They should try not to lose any further wickets as then the game can easily tilt in the favor of County Select XI team.

The West Indies team is lead now with the score of 176/5 and I hope this time they will make a little better score otherwise as we have seen England can easily make 300+ runs against their bowlers. That is why I think they have to try to bat as long as possible and give too good target that also helps their bowlers.

Right now Alick Athanaze and Joshua Da Silva are playing and Alick Athanaze is not out on 60 runs. Rest of the batsmen
have to play with the minds and also try to read the minds of their opponent side bowlers  In short, just play with the minds of the other team players.

[Sithara007]

The match between West Indies and County Select XI has ended up in a draw. West Indies was unable to schedule a warmup match against one of the first-class teams, because all of them are busy in county championship. So they arranged a match with a team mostly made up of county second XI teams. And even in this match, they conceded the first innings lead, and failed to perform credibly. The only plus point was the 112 from Kavem Hodge. For the County Select XI Farhan Ahmed and John Turner performed with the ball, and then William Luxton scored a century in their first innings.

[UmerIdrees]

Ireland play first test against Pakistan and second against Afghanistan both lost now playing third test here is link for score card against Pakistan https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/18025/scorecard/1127284/ireland-vs-pakistan-only-test-pak-in-ire-eng-scot-2018

I stopped here only to know why Pakistan name is mentioned here   For a moment,i thought it was because Pakistan lost to Ireland, but after checking the scorecard it was other way around  

By the way, Pakistan to host Tests against Bangladesh, England and WI in packed 2024-25 season, meaning we are going to be busy with a lot of Internation matches being played in Pakistan before the big Champions Trophy. Going to be a busy season this one for the Host Pakistan. I will surely be going to watch some of these matches which are to be played in my city.