Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[UmerIdrees]

Yesterday we saw the second day of test match between Pakistan and Bangladesh team, it is the matches of  A teams from both teams.
From the Paistan team Sahibzada Farhan is leading this series and in this first match, he made 66 in 88, good performance by him as the capain of the Pakistan A team.

Sahibzada Farhan ios a very good player, he also performed amazing at the Pakistan Super League but after that he was not selected for any series but this time he is leading and hopefully, he will make his place in the national team. Sahibzada Farhan the best player ever produce by
Pakistan team.

By the way, this test match was ended in a draw. Pakistan A team made 467 runs for 3 wickets down and then they declared the innings. After that Bangladesh made 203 for four wickets down and the match was ended with no results.

[noormcs5]

The England team is leading the score by 207 runs, I think this is a time where West Indies have to pick back to back wickets tomorrow. They have to pick early wickets on day 4 because whenever England players start to make partnership in test then to stop them is very difficult. It seems Harry Brook had a mood to hit the century so let's see just tomorrow West Indies team have to try their best and do good bowling. This time, Shamar Joseph is not playing well in bowling but instead of him Alzzari Joseph playing well.

Well said. Am not expecting West Indies to win this one, but they could draw it if they somehow manage to restrict England under 300 which seems really tough thanks to Brook and Root who are on a roll.

Also, Shamar Joseph hasn't taken any wickets, but is not conceding many runs either while Alzarri has been their best bowler across both innings.

Also Shamar Joseph is always a key player for the West Indies team, eh is an bowler and batting on the last number but today he is playing right with full effort, even he made 33  in 27 n which he hit two sixes and three fours even in this test match. These were the curuical runs for the West Indies right at the end of their innings.

As we are all know, in Australia, what type of work he has done. “Remember the name ‘Shamar Joseph.’” As he did wonderful performance and West Indies won the test match against Australia after 28 years just because of Shamar Joseph. This time, he has done his work in batting and that time he has done his work on to the bowling.

West Indies cricket alive and kicking

[Farhan99]

Yesterday we saw the second day of test match between Pakistan and Bangladesh team, it is the matches of  A teams from both teams.
From the Paistan team Sahibzada Farhan is leading this series and in this first match, he made 66 in 88, good performance by him as the capain of the Pakistan A team.

Sahibzada Farhan ios a very good player, he also performed amazing at the Pakistan Super League but after that he was not selected for any series but this time he is leading and hopefully, he will make his place in the national team. Sahibzada Farhan the best player ever produce by
Pakistan team.

By the way, this test match was ended in a draw. Pakistan A team made 467 runs for 3 wickets down and then they declared the innings. After that Bangladesh made 203 for four wickets down and the match was ended with no results.

The game is not drawn yet day three is stumped and Bangladesh made only 20 runs. Pakistan A made 467 runs loss three wickets and declared the first innings and Bangladesh A team all out in 266 runs. Pakistan A Setting big total of 428 runs for Bangladesh A team to win first unofficial test game. day 3 stumps off excellent batting by Omair Yousuf Scored a brilliant hundred and out after scoring 100 runs while Mubasir Khan made 95 runs and contributed a few runs to miss his hundred. 

Bangladesh A team played seven over today they made 20 scores without lose of any wicket. Bangladesh A openers are on the crease and they will start the morning session of the 4th day if they save their wickets in first session then they will put pressure on Pakistan A side. Bangladesh A team that failed to deliver in the first inning of the game now needs 408 runs to win this game.

[noormcs5]

The game is not drawn yet day three is stumped and Bangladesh made only 20 runs. Pakistan A made 467 runs loss three wickets and declared the first innings and Bangladesh A team all out in 266 runs. Pakistan A Setting big total of 428 runs for Bangladesh A team to win first unofficial test game. day 3 stumps off excellent batting by Omair Yousuf Scored a brilliant hundred and out after scoring 100 runs while Mubasir Khan made 95 runs and contributed a few runs to miss his hundred. 

Bangladesh A team played seven over today they made 20 scores without lose of any wicket. Bangladesh A openers are on the crease and they will start the morning session of the 4th day if they save their wickets in first session then they will put pressure on Pakistan A side. Bangladesh A team that failed to deliver in the first inning of the game now needs 408 runs to win this game.

Now, only there is one chance for the Bangladesh team to win this test match if they would not lose any wicket for long time period and play the remain day calmly but also have to focus on to make runs as fastest as possible.

By the way, last time in the Pakistan innings, Omair Yousuf  didn’t had chance to bat for big innings because the captain decided to declare the innings. But this time, he has decided to play for long and he hit a century as well. Also with him another player Mubasir Khan was in the mood to hit century but he just hit 95 score before he was out by Rejaur Rahman.

[dezoel]

England leading by 172 runs at this point, and they have 7 wickets in hand. So far the bowlers have struggled from both the teams. And even if England can get to a lead of around 350, it won't guarantee a win for them. And I hope that they realize the value of Jimmy Anderson after this match. When he was spearheading the bowling attack, the other bowlers had a lot of room for maneuvering, as he was very miserly when it comes to conceding runs. But in this match, the England pace trio of Woakes/Atkinson/Wood has conceded plenty of runs.

I am feeling excited about this game as both teams are good job even now with the lead of 350+ now England is having good advantage because now we are having two days left in this test match and today England will be tried to achieve 500+ runs which will give good support to their bowlers and things will be also well-balanced on this flat pitch which is not helping bowlers.

Joe Root and Harry Brook had 180+ runs partnership which bring their team in strong position and things are now well-balanced because last day batting is never been ideal for any team and West Indies which is having good performance in first inning will try their best for having better result and fight back into this series after losing first game badly at the Lord's.

But, I started feel like suddenly England bowling is on back foot after forced retirement of James Anderson and their bowlers were leaking runs frequently which helps West Indian batting to have 457 runs in their inning things will be tricky for them because they have done poor thing for forcing legendary bowler for retirement.

[Compromise me]

This match could be go anywhere, maybe West Indies could win this or England. The two days after this day and as we have seen West Indies can make more than 400 so this time, England is also in danger (only if WI can repeat their performance).

England are now lead by 110 runs and they have to try as much score they can make today because tomorrow half day, they have to bat and then give chance to West Indies batting else there will be less time left in the match and may this test match will drawn. That is why don’t have to focus on wickets and play freely because this time, it is good for England. The more lead they pile up, it will put pressure on the West Indies bowlers and batsmen too.

Now ,both teams are fighting but  this match is going towards draw because both teams are playing well and England team is batting in second inning and today is  4th day of second test match and we will see fifth day tomorrow of that test match.

West Indies team played well and showed unexpected performance because all team played well and chased the target with full confidence. Hodge made century for his country and he saved the country from white wash because England team has Intention to clean sweap the West Indies team because West Indies players are not made of test matches and these players are basically made for T20 cricket and they like to play T20 cricket and they are big hitters.West Indies came to back and now West Indies team is in good condition and they can equal this series by Winning next match of series.

[Farhan99]

England leading by 172 runs at this point, and they have 7 wickets in hand. So far the bowlers have struggled from both the teams. And even if England can get to a lead of around 350, it won't guarantee a win for them. And I hope that they realize the value of Jimmy Anderson after this match. When he was spearheading the bowling attack, the other bowlers had a lot of room for maneuvering, as he was very miserly when it comes to conceding runs. But in this match, the England pace trio of Woakes/Atkinson/Wood has conceded plenty of runs.

I am feeling excited about this game as both teams are good job even now with the lead of 350+ now England is having good advantage because now we are having two days left in this test match and today England will be tried to achieve 500+ runs which will give good support to their bowlers and things will be also well-balanced on this flat pitch which is not helping bowlers.

Joe Root and Harry Brook had 180+ runs partnership which bring their team in strong position and things are now well-balanced because last day batting is never been ideal for any team and West Indies which is having good performance in first inning will try their best for having better result and fight back into this series after losing first game badly at the Lord's.

In the second innings England made 425 runs and gave the target of 385 runs excellent batting by England batsman in both innings they scored 400 plus in both innings. Joe root scored 122 runs and Herry Brook played 109 runs innings. Herry brook and Joe root played 4th wicket partnership of 189 runs which shifted pressure on west indies team both players made centuries which helped the England team by giving a good total west indies team also bowls well Jayden Seales took four wickets. Now West indies team is chasing the target they scored 56 without losing any wicket and last session of day 4 is going west indies team needs to play smoothly without taking any king of pressure to chase the target because they have 10 wickets in hand and 5th day remains. It will be difficult for West Indies team to chase on last day and pressure will be on west indies team

[Sithara007]

WTF!!! It is the same story again and again. After West Indies got a lead in the first innings, I thought that their batsmen may be able to take advantage of the absence of Jimmy Anderson. Chris Woakes has picked up two wickets, but then it was Shoaib Bashir who wrecked the West Indian middle order. So far he has figures of 3-1-8-3, and has picked up the wickets of Kirk McKenzie, Alick Athanaze and Kavem Hodge. Jason Holder and Kevin Sinclair are at the crease and I am not sure whether these two can survive for much longer.

 

[JahriMeayer]

I must say, in this 2nd test Match, west indies improved themselves a lot and they showed good batting performance against England. West Indies won the toss & opted to fielding. So England went to bat first & did good performance as usual in their 1st inngins. Ben Duckett(71) & captain Ben Stokes(69) able to scored decent amount of runs. Specially Ollie Pope(121) showed legendary performance and done his century. And total they scored 416-10 runs in 1st inngins. And as a response of this targeted runs, West Indies also hold the bat tightly and made 457-10 which is good amount of runs, where captain Kraigg Brathwaite (48) did good start up, specially Kavem Hodge(120) did his century behalf of west indies and their performance was impressive enough. 2nd inngins started already where England is doing batting. 425-10 runs is already scored where Ben Duckett(76) and Ollie Pop(51) showed good batting again, besides Joe Root(122) and Harry Brook(109) is doing good partnership. Now west indies is on the bat and 6 wickets gone at 92-6 runs. Maybe they are going to lose again.

[Haunebu]

West collapsing Indies! Damn. They just threw away all their effort from the first innings pointlessly in a matter of minutes. Did not expect them to win after England score above 300, but I thought they could try to draw the match at the very least.

Shoaib Bashir was on fire along with Woakes and Atkinson. They won the series just like that and Root keeps climbing up the test greats charts. 1 test remaining.

[ZAINmalik75]

This match could be go anywhere, maybe West Indies could win this or England. The two days after this day and as we have seen West Indies can make more than 400 so this time, England is also in danger (only if WI can repeat their performance).

I was expecting some good results from west indies as because they have shown really good performance in his previous innings and I taught may be it will be drawn results or may be west indies victory because they have to just chased 350 around run in 800+ balls which wasn't looking impossible if they has repeat his previous innings performance but in matter of minutes they thrown away all of his important wickets against a single spinner and out of no where England make a comeback after brutally exposing thier batting order to be honest I am still in shock because till 60 they hasn't lose a single wickets and then suddenly lose entire match 😂lol. Anyway a big congratulations to England for thier important victory hope West Indies will improve more with passage of time

[hafiztalha]

I must say, in this 2nd test Match, west indies improved themselves a lot and they showed good batting performance against England. West Indies won the toss & opted to fielding. So England went to bat first & did good performance as usual in their 1st inngins. Ben Duckett(71) & captain Ben Stokes(69) able to scored decent amount of runs. Specially Ollie Pope(121) showed legendary performance and done his century. And total they scored 416-10 runs in 1st inngins. And as a response of this targeted runs, West Indies also hold the bat tightly and made 457-10 which is good amount of runs, where captain Kraigg Brathwaite (48) did good start up, specially Kavem Hodge(120) did his century behalf of west indies and their performance was impressive enough. 2nd inngins started already where England is doing batting. 425-10 runs is already scored where Ben Duckett(76) and Ollie Pop(51) showed good batting again, besides Joe Root(122) and Harry Brook(109) is doing good partnership. Now west indies is on the bat and 6 wickets gone at 92-6 runs. Maybe they are going to lose again.

2 nd test game between West Indies and England was concluded today and West indies lost this game because of 2 nd Inning poor effort and in this inning, West indies team only scored 143 runs. But in 1 st Inning, West indies team made total 457 runs and England made 416 runs in this inning with difference of 41 runs. But West indies made poor struggle in 2 nd Inning and led to lost this game. Back to back West indies team lost their wicket and their Batsman made only few runs and lost wicket. Kraigg only played well and but other batsman made 1 and 0 runs mostly and team did not chase the target of England inning runs and lost game by 241 runs. O.Pipe got a player of game award because he played very great in both innings and in 1 st Inning, he scored 121 runs and made brilliant century and in 2 nd Inning, he scored 51 runs. But some other batsman also helped a lot to win this game like J.Root made brilliant century with other batsman H.Brook also made 109 runs and complete century. Congratulations to England team to win this game and was 2 nd win of England team.

[Rustam Meraj]

WTF!!! It is the same story again and again. After West Indies got a lead in the first innings, I thought that their batsmen may be able to take advantage of the absence of Jimmy Anderson. Chris Woakes has picked up two wickets, but then it was Shoaib Bashir who wrecked the West Indian middle order. So far he has figures of 3-1-8-3, and has picked up the wickets of Kirk McKenzie, Alick Athanaze and Kavem Hodge. Jason Holder and Kevin Sinclair are at the crease and I am not sure whether these two can survive for much longer.

I was thinking just like you. I was expecting too that West Indies will perform like first inning. But they didn't do that. By the team way here I appreciate the bowling of Shoaib Bashir who collected 5 wickets and he is only one who destroyed the West Indies team.
By they way I admire West Indies team they improved little and I hope they will improve themselves more in the next match. And again I congratulate the England team who continued their winning streak.

[ThemePen]

I was expecting some good results from west indies as because they have shown really good performance in his previous innings and I taught may be it will be drawn results or may be west indies victory because they have to just chased 350 around run in 800+ balls which wasn't looking impossible if they has repeat his previous innings performance but in matter of minutes they thrown away all of his important wickets against a single spinner and out of no where England make a comeback after brutally exposing thier batting order to be honest I am still in shock because till 60 they hasn't lose a single wickets and then suddenly lose entire match 😂lol. Anyway a big congratulations to England for thier important victory hope West Indies will improve more with passage of time

Hahaha! I was thinking too. Because in their first inning Kavem Hodge played well and with him Joshua Da Silva and Alick Athanaze help the team to make 400+ runs. But when they were playing the second inning Alick Athanaze made only 1 run. Kavem Hodge didn't break the egg. And third one was little better means Joshua Da Silva  made 14 runs. And West Indies got out at 143 runs in the second inning and England won by 241 runs. West Indies needs more consistency. If they want to beat England.

[Unknown Op]

The game is not drawn yet day three is stumped and Bangladesh made only 20 runs. Pakistan A made 467 runs loss three wickets and declared the first innings and Bangladesh A team all out in 266 runs. Pakistan A Setting big total of 428 runs for Bangladesh A team to win first unofficial test game. day 3 stumps off excellent batting by Omair Yousuf Scored a brilliant hundred and out after scoring 100 runs while Mubasir Khan made 95 runs and contributed a few runs to miss his hundred. 

Bangladesh A team played seven over today they made 20 scores without lose of any wicket. Bangladesh A openers are on the crease and they will start the morning session of the 4th day if they save their wickets in first session then they will put pressure on Pakistan A side. Bangladesh A team that failed to deliver in the first inning of the game now needs 408 runs to win this game.

Right, this match was not drawn but Pakistan A squad emerged victorious by defeating the Bangladesh A sqaud and today this outcome was declared and Pakistan A sqaud performance in their first inning was super amazing with this batter strength Muhammad Hurraira, he made a double century century in first inning and fully supported their sqaud to secure victory with the help of Kamran Ghulam batter, he also achieved the century with collecting 100 scorer after playing 161 deliveries. If we see the score dashboard of Bangladesh A sqaud of first inning, their sqaud only achieved 256 scores but Pakistan A sqaud trailed 467 scores with declaring their inning.

Same performance Bangladesh A squad displayed in their second inning performance and their squad almost achieved 279 scored with lost this test match by 148 scores. After failure of starter batter of Pakistan A squad in second inning, next batters Mubasir Khan and Omair Yousuf both played very amazingly with amazing scores both collected 95 and 100 scores respectively. Congratulations Pakistan A squad for first big achievement to win Test match and Bangladesh A squad needs more hard work for future matches.

[Farhan99]

WTF!!! It is the same story again and again. After West Indies got a lead in the first innings, I thought that their batsmen may be able to take advantage of the absence of Jimmy Anderson. Chris Woakes has picked up two wickets, but then it was Shoaib Bashir who wrecked the West Indian middle order. So far he has figures of 3-1-8-3, and has picked up the wickets of Kirk McKenzie, Alick Athanaze and Kavem Hodge. Jason Holder and Kevin Sinclair are at the crease and I am not sure whether these two can survive for much longer.

Yeah, the West Indies team falling wickets like water falling from a mountain. at start of the second innings West Indies didn't lose a single wicket by scoring 55 runs and i imagine that West Indies will fight till the last ball of the game and level the series after winning it because they give a lead to England in the first inning of the game but at the start of day four west indies starting losing wickets. In the second innings West Indies All team Out in just 143 runs while chasing a target of 385 runs. All credit to England spin bowler Shoaib Bashir who took 5 wickets and broke the spine of West Indies middle order and won the second test match by a big margin 241 runs.

[savetheFORUM]

WTF!!! It is the same story again and again. After West Indies got a lead in the first innings, I thought that their batsmen may be able to take advantage of the absence of Jimmy Anderson. Chris Woakes has picked up two wickets, but then it was Shoaib Bashir who wrecked the West Indian middle order. So far he has figures of 3-1-8-3, and has picked up the wickets of Kirk McKenzie, Alick Athanaze and Kavem Hodge. Jason Holder and Kevin Sinclair are at the crease and I am not sure whether these two can survive for much longer.

Even West Indian collapse was not expected specially when they have 61 for no I was excited about the result of this match because we were going for England and West Indies win with no draw chance and this is really beauty of test match which I love, but suddenly we have collapse which ruin the West Indian batting, and they fall out like crap. Shoaib Bashir have first 5 wickets haul at home which is impressive this will bring good confidence for this young spinner.

After having good start then things gone into wrong way and all team bundled out on 143 which is really shameful score after having 457 in first inning having defeat of 241 runs mean now things could be not favourable for them in second inning, and they are going to have another whitewash in this series which could be disastrous for many youngsters those are trying to give their best but still fail to keep consistency.

[noormcs5]

WTF!!! It is the same story again and again. After West Indies got a lead in the first innings, I thought that their batsmen may be able to take advantage of the absence of Jimmy Anderson. Chris Woakes has picked up two wickets, but then it was Shoaib Bashir who wrecked the West Indian middle order. So far he has figures of 3-1-8-3, and has picked up the wickets of Kirk McKenzie, Alick Athanaze and Kavem Hodge. Jason Holder and Kevin Sinclair are at the crease and I am not sure whether these two can survive for much longer.

I was thinking just like you. I was expecting too that West Indies will perform like first inning. But they didn't do that. By the team way here I appreciate the bowling of Shoaib Bashir who collected 5 wickets and he is only one who destroyed the West Indies team.
By they way I admire West Indies team they improved little and I hope they will improve themselves more in the next match. And again I congratulate the England team who continued their winning streak.

This match too has won by the England team but at the start we though it could win by the West Indies too or at least they can draw the test as we saw that on the second day the West Indies team gave too amazing performances.

But today they has done nothing good on their batting line up. The England team has fully prepared for this day while on the other side, West Indies team just motivates to themselves and doesn't dong preparation for the match day and this is the main reason of West Indies lose. As we have seen in the first innings of West Indies, a player hit century so it doesn't mean he will hit again.  Play better West Indies else they can't win matches against England.

[Farhan99]

WTF!!! It is the same story again and again. After West Indies got a lead in the first innings, I thought that their batsmen may be able to take advantage of the absence of Jimmy Anderson. Chris Woakes has picked up two wickets, but then it was Shoaib Bashir who wrecked the West Indian middle order. So far he has figures of 3-1-8-3, and has picked up the wickets of Kirk McKenzie, Alick Athanaze and Kavem Hodge. Jason Holder and Kevin Sinclair are at the crease and I am not sure whether these two can survive for much longer.

Even West Indian collapse was not expected specially when they have 61 for no I was excited about the result of this match because we were going for England and West Indies win with no draw chance and this is really beauty of test match which I love, but suddenly we have collapse which ruin the West Indian batting, and they fall out like crap. Shoaib Bashir have first 5 wickets haul at home which is impressive this will bring good confidence for this young spinner.

After having good start then things gone into wrong way and all team bundled out on 143 which is really shameful score after having 457 in first inning having defeat of 241 runs mean now things could be not favourable for them in second inning, and they are going to have another whitewash in this series which could be disastrous for many youngsters those are trying to give their best but still fail to keep consistency.

West indies team while chasing 385 runs they failed to chased and west indies made only 143 runs for all out in start of the inning west indies on 60 runs without lose of any wicket after that their openers gone they losing wickets consistently and pressure increased on batting side. Excellent bowling by England bowlers they destroyed west indies batting line very badly brilliant spell by Shoaib Bashir takes 5 wickets while Gus Atkinson and chris woakes takes two two wickets All credit goes to England bowlers who dominated on west indies team and restricted them on 143 score. West indies team played well in first innings but totally bad batting in second innings not a single player stood on crease for long time and took benefit of this moment and created pressure on west indies team from the start of the innings and won this game very big margin of 241 runs

[dezoel]

West collapsing Indies! Damn. They just threw away all their effort from the first innings pointlessly in a matter of minutes. Did not expect them to win after England score above 300, but I thought they could try to draw the match at the very least.

Shoaib Bashir was on fire along with Woakes and Atkinson. They won the series just like that and Root keeps climbing up the test greats charts. 1 test remaining.

Shoaib Bashir is promising talent for the England as he takes his second 5 wickets haul in 5 matches with this performance we can expect good future for this spinner in this country and this could be also huge motivation for the Asian origin players as well.

Joe Root is surely one of the best batsman which England produce in last few years, and now he is going to lead in many ways with his total runs and consistency which is amazing he is just 33, and I am expecting he will be on good way like James Anderson for having many records in front of his name in coming years.

West Indian collapse is surely nothing new because we all know about Pakistan and West Indies these countries can produce performance like this with one day they are hero and just second day they are going down like crap this is beauty of their quality and game with having end of this match like this is not good but still test cricket was at his best.