Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[noormcs5]

Yes, the Third session of the day is continuing England currently scored 294 runs in a loss of 5 wickets. Ben Duckett played well and scored 71 runs from just 59 balls playing like T20 cricket with a strike rate of 120. Ollie Pope also played an outstanding inning of 121 runs with 15 four and 1 six in his inning and reached the England total near 300 runs. Ben Stokes is playing now at 48 runs not out very close to half-century his inning is very important for England if they set a huge total for west indies in Frist inning. from West Indies Alzarri Joseph bowl well so far picked 2 important wickets. Joseph and Sinclair also picked 1, 1 wicket but didn't bowl some extraordinary spell that put pressure on England batters. I think England will set a total of 450 plus runs in the first inning of the second test match against the West Indies.

At the start of this test match. when Zak Crawley lost his wicket then West Indies team got a good start but they could not capitalize on it. They has not focused to put pressure on the opponent and playing calm down that is why Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope  played amazing innings and made such a gorgeous partnership



Even after Ben Duckett lost his wicket some overs before while on the other side the Ollie Pope was still present in the game and making partnership with Harry Brook . By the way, I think Harry Brook wanted to play like Ben Duckett too fast and he's playing like this such a fast play. Chris Woakes and Jamie Smith also made good runs and everyone chipped in and England made a very good total of 416 runs at the end of the Day 1.

[ZAINmalik75]

The second Test match between England and West Indies has started shortly. Between these two teams, England proved that they are stronger in the first match as they defeated West Indies miserably in that match and are already ahead in the series. We saw in the first test match that the England team fielded first but in the second test match they decided to bat first. At the moment they have collected 21 runs for a wicket today with their first wicket falling within a few runs at the start. If the West Indies bowlers are going to bowl well today, maybe they will learn from their failure in the first Test and try to bowl well in the second Test match.

I am not expecting some well performance from west indies especially after thier previous performances where they perform like deadly a****s, I know Thier behaviour and aggressive play style didn't match one of the longest format of the cricket and that's why there were one of danger in T20 but when it come to test things goes changed 180°. Anyway according to current score board where England bat first after losing toss and scored more than 400 runs before the inning stump with the huge contribution of Duckett, pope and the Thier magnificent captain stokes. I know from start of the match that it gona be another victory for England as I am sure west indies will not even goes near the Target and England will nailed it easily.

[Publictalk792]

England lost a few quick wickets and that means that they will end up somewhere near 400 rather than my earlier prediction of 450-500. The partnership between Ben Stokes and Jamie Smith was looking very threatening, but then part-timer Kavem Hodge removed both of them. At this point, Chris Woakes and Mark Wood are adding some valuable runs and the partnership between them is already worth 34 runs. Shoaib Bashir is to come next at no.11, and I am not expecting much from him (with the bat, that is).

First of all Zak Crawley got out on first three balls. Which was showing that England would pressurized due to this but. Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope partnership pulled the match in exciting phase. But when they got out so we saw Ben Stockes who played little well and collected 69 runs. Otherwise there is no better performance. So in total England has made 416 runs.
And if we take a look on the previous test match so according to that match this is an enough score for West Indies team. And I don't think so the West Indies will give any lead to England team.

[3kpk3]

England's bazball approach is clearly working wonders in this particular series. Pope and Duckett smashed 50 freaking runs in just 4.2 overs setting a new scintillating record in test cricket and broke their own record in the process.

West Indies are a league away in literally every department when compared to this English team. They should just focus on the T20 format.

[noormcs5]

First of all Zak Crawley got out on first three balls. Which was showing that England would pressurized due to this but. Ben Duckett and Ollie Pope partnership pulled the match in exciting phase. But when they got out so we saw Ben Stockes who played little well and collected 69 runs. Otherwise there is no better performance. So in total England has made 416 runs.
And if we take a look on the previous test match so according to that match this is an enough score for West Indies team. And I don't think so the West Indies will give any lead to England team.

The first wicket at the first innings was the wicket of  their important, main and good player one and the only the great opener Zak Crawley and when he was out then the full West Indies team shout with this hope that today they would do good but that was just hope. After that wicket they played good for some time and then back in routine. Hard luck for them.
Also after that was the wicket which was picked by West Indies on the third ball. This is how the legendary greatest batsmen  Zak Crawley  out in this match against West Indies.

[dezoel]

England's bazball approach is clearly working wonders in this particular series. Pope and Duckett smashed 50 freaking runs in just 4.2 overs setting a new scintillating record in test cricket and broke their own record in the process.

West Indies are a league away in literally every department when compared to this English team. They should just focus on the T20 format.

As expected things are well under control for the England even we have good start for West Indies in first hour of day, but Shoaib Bashir bring his team back in business as he takes two wickets and Gus Atkinson is also following him after having dream start of his career in last game of the legendary James Anderson.

West Indies in trouble with just before lunch they lost their third wicket and now having 90 runs for 3 wickets which is clearly giving advantage to England at this point look like we will be having good lead for the England because now West Indian batting losing their confidence and having not good deal to face English bowlers.

Mark Wood is not effective bowler as he needed to be in this lineup after the retirement of the James Anderson look like we will have another change in coming match.

[noormcs5]

West Indies in trouble with just before lunch they lost their third wicket and now having 90 runs for 3 wickets which is clearly giving advantage to England at this point look like we will be having good lead for the England because now West Indian batting losing their confidence and having not good deal to face English bowlers.

Mark Wood is not effective bowler as he needed to be in this lineup after the retirement of the James Anderson look like we will have another change in coming match.

This time it seems that the West Indies team is doing very hard struggle because they lost their first three wickets and now those players who are at the crease, Alick Athanaze and Kavem Hodge, will have to play very cautiously and not lose any further wickets.

Also at the same time not only they have to protect their wickets but try to make runs too, Have to balance the. Kavem Hodge has just joined in while  Alick Athanaze is playing on 15. let’s see what will they do in the next some overs. 68 overs are remaining right now and after that today’s day will also finished, I hope the West Indies will do good here so we can have some excitement in the match.

[Webetcoins]

This time it seems that the West Indies team is doing very hard struggle because they lost their first three wickets and now those players who are at the crease, Alick Athanaze and Kavem Hodge, will have to play very cautiously and not lose any further wickets.

Also at the same time not only they have to protect their wickets but try to make runs too, Have to balance the. Kavem Hodge has just joined in while  Alick Athanaze is playing on 15. let’s see what will they do in the next some overs. 68 overs are remaining right now and after that today’s day will also finished, I hope the West Indies will do good here so we can have some excitement in the match.

Second session has completely belonged to West Indies with they are now bazballing to England we have 117 runs partnership between these batsmen Kavem Hodge playing on 53 and Alick Athanaze 59 things are interesting because we are having 201 runs in just 50 overs and match is well-balanced.

If we have more aggressive batting like this most chances we will have good end of the second day of the second match for the West Indies even still trailing by 213 runs but look like now it's difficult time for the England as well because their pace attack is not effective in this game and bowlers fail to give any impression off spinner Shoaib Bashir is doing his best for taking wickets, but he still needs more experience and time for having things favourable.

[Compromise me]

England's bazball approach is clearly working wonders in this particular series. Pope and Duckett smashed 50 freaking runs in just 4.2 overs setting a new scintillating record in test cricket and broke their own record in the process.

West Indies are a league away in literally every department when compared to this English team. They should just focus on the T20 format.

In second match of test series, West Indian International cricket team is playing well and  all batters have good mindset. In last match ,we saw them as hitters but test cricket is not of hitters and that's why they lose last match. In today match they are playing well and only 3 batters are in pavilion and they are not out on 242 runs with fall of 3 wickets.Hodge and Athanaze are set batters on the crease and they will play centuries for the country. This match will be draw because both teams are playing well and England team gave good target and they made  416 runs in the first inning of match . Pope is top performance of first inning of match si far because he made century for his country and made  excellent 121 runs and collected important runs for the country.

[Haunebu]

West Indies really surprised me and many others with this particular performance from out of nowhere. Hodge and Athanaze were brilliant together and Hodge got great hang time after reaching his maiden test century.

Athanaze deserved a century too. On the other hand, Hodge was dropped on 16 by Root which turned out to be a game-changing moment. WI are actually trying to draw this one now.

[virasog]

England's bazball approach is clearly working wonders in this particular series. Pope and Duckett smashed 50 freaking runs in just 4.2 overs setting a new scintillating record in test cricket and broke their own record in the process.

West Indies are a league away in literally every department when compared to this English team. They should just focus on the T20 format.

In second match of test series, West Indian International cricket team is playing well and  all batters have good mindset. In last match ,we saw them as hitters but test cricket is not of hitters and that's why they lose last match. In today match they are playing well and only 3 batters are in pavilion and they are not out on 242 runs with fall of 3 wickets.Hodge and Athanaze are set batters on the crease and they will play centuries for the country. This match will be draw because both teams are playing well and England team gave good target and they made  416 runs in the first inning of match . Pope is top performance of first inning of match si far because he made century for his country and made  excellent 121 runs and collected important runs for the country.

Wow, some good performances by the West Indies team and batsmen today as they made 351 runs right now and also 10 overs are still remaining in the day.
This time they are trailing by the 75 runs hopefully by the end of the day, the trail would come to less than 30 from 75 but I think they have to bat tomorrow too and then on the fourth day, they will bowl after giving too much high target to the England team (difficult to happen with only 5 wickets in hand).
However if they will use major portion of tomorrow day then there are chances that this match could be drawn, let’s see what will happen on the 3rd day.

[noormcs5]

This time it seems that the West Indies team is doing very hard struggle because they lost their first three wickets and now those players who are at the crease, Alick Athanaze and Kavem Hodge, will have to play very cautiously and not lose any further wickets.

Also at the same time not only they have to protect their wickets but try to make runs too, Have to balance the. Kavem Hodge has just joined in while  Alick Athanaze is playing on 15. let’s see what will they do in the next some overs. 68 overs are remaining right now and after that today’s day will also finished, I hope the West Indies will do good here so we can have some excitement in the match.

Second session has completely belonged to West Indies with they are now bazballing to England we have 117 runs partnership between these batsmen Kavem Hodge playing on 53 and Alick Athanaze 59 things are interesting because we are having 201 runs in just 50 overs and match is well-balanced.

If we have more aggressive batting like this most chances we will have good end of the second day of the second match for the West Indies even still trailing by 213 runs but look like now it's difficult time for the England as well because their pace attack is not effective in this game and bowlers fail to give any impression off spinner Shoaib Bashir is doing his best for taking wickets, but he still needs more experience and time for having things favourable.

As we are all looking that how in a very amazingly style and good style the West Indies team changed the game from where we were and where we are now.   We are here in for a real twist in this game.



I can’t even imagine, this all happened just because of a player who hit a century Kavem Hodge. He made 120 in 171. At the start of this match, we all thought that once again the England prime bowling will out the West Indies team but when Kavem Hodge entered in the ground the English bowlers are looking helpless right now. If he would not done this type of batting then the West Indies team would have been all out by now. He is a game changer for WI.

[ZAINmalik75]

England lost a few quick wickets and that means that they will end up somewhere near 400 rather than my earlier prediction of 450-500. The partnership between Ben Stokes and Jamie Smith was looking very threatening, but then part-timer Kavem Hodge removed both of them. At this point, Chris Woakes and Mark Wood are adding some valuable runs and the partnership between them is already worth 34 runs. Shoaib Bashir is to come next at no.11, and I am not expecting much from him (with the bat, that is).

To be honest I wasn't expecting West Indies will even scored around 200 especially after thier previous defeat which was like a horrible dream for them because they totally scored around 250 throughout both innings but surprisingly toady they changed everyone mindset about them and for that things fully credit goes to those middle order batters Hodge and Athanaze as because through thier partnership not only they hold big number of wickets in hand but scored huge according to number of wickets they lose, and I am expecting they will easily scored around 450 if these current batters played sensibly and build as much as possible partnership in order to reduce pressure from his team and execute as much as possible pressure on England. Anyway England scored decent too but unable to deliver quality bowling and here they lose dominance. At the end it will be not be a surprising results for me if west indies beat them

[Farhan99]

England lost a few quick wickets and that means that they will end up somewhere near 400 rather than my earlier prediction of 450-500. The partnership between Ben Stokes and Jamie Smith was looking very threatening, but then part-timer Kavem Hodge removed both of them. At this point, Chris Woakes and Mark Wood are adding some valuable runs and the partnership between them is already worth 34 runs. Shoaib Bashir is to come next at no.11, and I am not expecting much from him (with the bat, that is).

Yeah, England made 416 runs in first innings and westindies team is 351/5 and day 2 stumps off excellent batting by Alick Athanaze played 82 runs innings while Kavem Hodge made 120 runs while other players contributed few runs to team's total and west indies 65 runs behind now from England side Shoaib Bashir takes two wickets. West indies team played well today they made good score with lose of five wickets Jason Holder and Joshua Da Silva are on the crease and they will start the morning session of 3rd day if they get stability in first session then they will lead on England team and pressure shifted on England side. West indies team failed to make 150 runs in both innings of first test but now they showed excellent performance

[UmerIdrees]

This time it seems that the West Indies team is doing very hard struggle because they lost their first three wickets and now those players who are at the crease, Alick Athanaze and Kavem Hodge, will have to play very cautiously and not lose any further wickets.

Also at the same time not only they have to protect their wickets but try to make runs too, Have to balance the. Kavem Hodge has just joined in while  Alick Athanaze is playing on 15. let’s see what will they do in the next some overs. 68 overs are remaining right now and after that today’s day will also finished, I hope the West Indies will do good here so we can have some excitement in the match.

Second session has completely belonged to West Indies with they are now bazballing to England we have 117 runs partnership between these batsmen Kavem Hodge playing on 53 and Alick Athanaze 59 things are interesting because we are having 201 runs in just 50 overs and match is well-balanced.

If we have more aggressive batting like this most chances we will have good end of the second day of the second match for the West Indies even still trailing by 213 runs but look like now it's difficult time for the England as well because their pace attack is not effective in this game and bowlers fail to give any impression off spinner Shoaib Bashir is doing his best for taking wickets, but he still needs more experience and time for having things favourable.

As we are all looking that how in a very amazingly style and good style the West Indies team changed the game from where we were and where we are now.   We are here in for a real twist in this game.



I can’t even imagine, this all happened just because of a player who hit a century Kavem Hodge. He made 120 in 171. At the start of this match, we all thought that once again the England prime bowling will out the West Indies team but when Kavem Hodge entered in the ground the English bowlers are looking helpless right now. If he would not done this type of batting then the West Indies team would have been all out by now. He is a game changer for WI.

The second test match between the England and West Indies team has entered in a very interesting stage and this time no more we are looking to the England team as one sided match.

Today we see how the West Indies team bat  for how long in the day and level the score and then take the lead. However, at this time, we are seeing that the England bowlers are unable to take contol of the WI innings as they did in the first test match.Although West Indies had lost their first five wickets mean the top order has played thier part and now its upto the middle and lower order to take the game further from here and Hopefull this time the West Indies team may take lead of 100 or more runs.

[Cheema02]

The second test match between the England and West Indies team has entered in a very interesting stage and this time no more we are looking to the England team as one sided match.

Today we see how the West Indies team bat  for how long in the day and level the score and then take the lead. However, at this time, we are seeing that the England bowlers are unable to take contol of the WI innings as they did in the first test match.Although West Indies had lost their first five wickets mean the top order has played thier part and now its upto the middle and lower order to take the game further from here and Hopefull this time the West Indies team may take lead of 100 or more runs.

Yes of course, this test match was not boring like the first test match, in this match West Indies played aggressive cricket. The third day of the test match has started and I hope the West Indies will lead some good runs for England in the second inning of the match. West Indies current score is 355 runs five wickets are remaining and trail by only 61 runs i think in first session they will lead the score. England Bowlers didn't bowl well in first inning so far and if they didn't picked an early wicket then the match will be gown from their hands.
West Indies middle order batsman Jason holder is playing at 27 runs not out and Da Silva is playing at 32 runs this partnership is very important between Jason holder and Da Silva if West Indies lead 100 or more then they good chance of winning the test match.

[dezoel]

Kavem Hodge and Alick Athanaze are hero for the West Indian team on second day play what a comeback by them in second test of the series after having humiliating defeat in first game which was clearly failure of batting, but things are completely change, and they are learning from their mistakes.

England bowlers are also not effective on this flat pitch which is completely favourable for batting West Indian batting is also giving good reply to bazball with over 4 run rate throughout their inning currently they are trailing by 59 runs and having 4 wickets two set batsmen will start day for them which is interesting because this partnership can make things easier for them, and they can go for the little lead as well.

[fullhdpixel]

The second test match between the England and West Indies team has entered in a very interesting stage and this time no more we are looking to the England team as one sided match.

Today we see how the West Indies team bat  for how long in the day and level the score and then take the lead. However, at this time, we are seeing that the England bowlers are unable to take contol of the WI innings as they did in the first test match.Although West Indies had lost their first five wickets mean the top order has played thier part and now its upto the middle and lower order to take the game further from here and Hopefull this time the West Indies team may take lead of 100 or more runs.

Yes of course, this test match was not boring like the first test match, in this match West Indies played aggressive cricket. The third day of the test match has started and I hope the West Indies will lead some good runs for England in the second inning of the match. West Indies current score is 355 runs five wickets are remaining and trail by only 61 runs i think in first session they will lead the score. England Bowlers didn't bowl well in first inning so far and if they didn't picked an early wicket then the match will be gown from their hands.
West Indies middle order batsman Jason holder is playing at 27 runs not out and Da Silva is playing at 32 runs this partnership is very important between Jason holder and Da Silva if West Indies lead 100 or more then they good chance of winning the test match.

We have first session with quality cricket from the 9th and 10th number batsmen from the West Indies which added 71 runs and now West Indies having 41 runs lead which is surely huge moral booster for them because they were able to spend 111 overs at the crease which were not expected from them in these conditions.

After having poor batting in first test now they have done amazing stuff, and we are ended their first inning with the score of 457 Josh Da Silva and Shamar Joseph smashed all bowlers all around the ground which was good entertainment for the fans we have two centuries for English bowlers as Shoaib Saqib and Gus Atkinson concede too many runs.

Now in second inning we have early breakthrough for the West Indies as Crawly who is having bad time gone without having any good number against his name with just 3 runs and England is now having after 3 overs 15 for 1.

[noormcs5]

Kavem Hodge and Alick Athanaze are hero for the West Indian team on second day play what a comeback by them in second test of the series after having humiliating defeat in first game which was clearly failure of batting, but things are completely change, and they are learning from their mistakes.

England bowlers are also not effective on this flat pitch which is completely favourable for batting West Indian batting is also giving good reply to bazball with over 4 run rate throughout their inning currently they are trailing by 59 runs and having 4 wickets two set batsmen will start day for them which is interesting because this partnership can make things easier for them, and they can go for the little lead as well.

In this innings, West Indies just finished their trail but I think they would not able to lead this test match by a big margin because at that time they were trail by the six runs and they were on the last wicket, mean while the English bowlers are doing batting.
This time the West Indian team played good more than the expectations and hopefully now in bowling we will see the same performance by them because it is important to be good in the all departments especially for West Indies team to win this match or even have a draw.

[Haunebu]

West Indies were something else in the first innings, but I doubt they can replicate such a good performance in the 2nd innings if they are unable to restrict the English side below 300 in the 2nd innings.

England are all set to score above 300 yet again thanks to WI bowling like crap which should help them win unless rain interferes or if there is some other issue.