Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Sithara007]

^^^ West Indies committed two mistakes in this match. First, after having South Africa down to 97/9, they allowed them to recover. Dane Piedt and Nandre Burger added 63 precious runs for the 10th wicket partnership. Then while batting they were clueless against the seam and swing of Nandre Burger and Wiaan Mulder. Jason Holder and Gudakesh Motie tried to stabilize the innings, but then Keshav Maharaj struck and got Motie out. The first aim for West Indies today would be to reduce the South African lead in first innings as much as possible.

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It is a completely bowling friendly pitch. The batsmen are not able to make any advantage on this pitch. South Africa's batsmen batted very badly. However, after losing 9 wickets for 97 runs, the South African team was able to collect up to 160 runs. South Africa are not playing well, and now we are not seeing good batting from the West Indies batsmen either. At the end of the first day, West Indies managed to collect 97 runs after losing 7 wickets.

Like South Africa, West Indies also lost wickets very quickly. Jason Holder remains unbeaten with 33 runs. Besides, Carty got out after collecting 26 runs. And no batsman could bat better. Failed to score even 10 runs. Wiaan Mulder bowled just 6 overs and took four wickets. Burger also picked up two wickets. West Indies players are likely to lose all wickets before reaching 140 runs.

I didn't know that the pitch was bowling friendly however all test matches pitch were made for the bowling friendly pitch. But even then I think the performance of the both teams bowlers did good but the batting performance of the both team is very low effort in this match.

Yes is true that SOuth Africa done 160 even then were in 9 wicket but I think the case of west indies can be different here because in test format South Africa have form better than the West Indies team. Now let's see what is going to be happening by West Indies team batters.

[Popkon6]

^^^ West Indies committed two mistakes in this match. First, after having South Africa down to 97/9, they allowed them to recover. Dane Piedt and Nandre Burger added 63 precious runs for the 10th wicket partnership. Then while batting they were clueless against the seam and swing of Nandre Burger and Wiaan Mulder. Jason Holder and Gudakesh Motie tried to stabilize the innings, but then Keshav Maharaj struck and got Motie out. The first aim for West Indies today would be to reduce the South African lead in first innings as much as possible.

After South Africa lost all wickets in today's match, I was very worried because West Indies team gave a very good bowling performance. But this match was completely turned around by the players of the South African team, collecting 97 runs and losing 7 wickets of the West Indies team in 28.2 balls. Although Alick Athanaze performed well in the first match but in this match he got out early, I have never seen such a bad performance. 
However, this pitch of today's match is famous for bowling, because the ball swings and goes to the stumps, so the batsmen are definitely under pressure.

[Mahdirakib]

I find it hard to believe that South Africa scored just 160 runs in the first innings. The South African team is more experienced and stronger than the West Indies in the Test format. So we had very high expectations from South Africa. But the South African batsmen batted like fools today. 4 batsmen of the squad could not add any runs to the scoreboard today.

The condition of the pitch is difficult for batting. This is why South Africa ended with a low score. I won't blame the batsmen a lot, but they could have indeed shown some responsibilities instead of losing the wickets frequently. West Indies has already lost their 7 wickets by scoring 97 runs only. We might see the result of this match within first two and a half days.

[Out of mind]

On the first day of the second Test match between South Africa and West Indies, South Africa batted for 160 and lost all their wickets. In the 1st innings, the West Indies team went into bat to meet the target, they have already lost seven wickets, but comparatively they have not collected many runs, yet they need to collect 63 runs. The bowling performance of South Africa team is excellent at the moment, so it is not sure whether West Indies team will be able to meet the target as they are already lacking good batsmen. Wiaan Mulder did a great job bowling for the South African team. They had an outstanding bowling performance and took four wickets. Due to this, the test match is very tight between the two teams due to which neither team is able to play very well, yet it cannot be said for sure whether the West Indies will be able to fulfill the target in this match.

[noormcs5]

On the first day of the second Test match between South Africa and West Indies, South Africa batted for 160 and lost all their wickets. In the 1st innings, the West Indies team went into bat to meet the target, they have already lost seven wickets, but comparatively they have not collected many runs, yet they need to collect 63 runs. The bowling performance of South Africa team is excellent at the moment, so it is not sure whether West Indies team will be able to meet the target as they are already lacking good batsmen. Wiaan Mulder did a great job bowling for the South African team. They had an outstanding bowling performance and took four wickets. Due to this, the test match is very tight between the two teams due to which neither team is able to play very well, yet it cannot be said for sure whether the West Indies will be able to fulfill the target in this match.

The last pair of West Indies team is batting at the moment and if by chance one more wicket falls here, then the West Indies innings will finish. This one wicket can fall at any time as the last batsman Shamar Joseph is batting on 19 runs.
After seeing the South Africa  first innings, we thought they performed so badly but remember it is South Africa. the loser of the last World Cup (By the way, they have always been losing World Cups in history). However, until the final match, they were unbeaten and if on that day Hardik Pandya’s delivery David Miller had not been out and Surya Kumar dropped the catch then the South African team would have won that game.

In this innings only Jason Holder made 50 from the West Indies and is looking to battle the South African bowlers but he has been losing wickets at the other end.

[Farhan99]

On the first day of the second Test match between South Africa and West Indies, South Africa batted for 160 and lost all their wickets. In the 1st innings, the West Indies team went into bat to meet the target, they have already lost seven wickets, but comparatively they have not collected many runs, yet they need to collect 63 runs. The bowling performance of South Africa team is excellent at the moment, so it is not sure whether West Indies team will be able to meet the target as they are already lacking good batsmen. Wiaan Mulder did a great job bowling for the South African team.

Yeah, South Africa made only 160 runs in first inning south Africa team could not deliver their players failed to play long innings Shamar Joseph shown excellent bowling he sent fiver South African batsman into the pavilion which created pressure on them. Credit goes to the west indies bowlers. They dominated on South African team Jayden Seales took three wickets westindies bowlers put pressure on the opposite team from the start of the innings. The reason that the South African team lost wickets early. West indies team also failed to deliver they scored fewer runs then south Africa west indies could made only 106 runs and only one wicket remained Jason Holder with 42 runs is on the crease west indies trail by 54 runs and first session going on off day 2 the way west indies team playing pressure will be on them and it will very difficult for west indies team to give the lead to South Africa

[Sithara007]

At times the West Indian team gives an impression that there is still some hope left with them. But we realize without much delay that it is just a mirage, and no one can save them from the inevitable. They had South Africa down to 97/9 when Kyle Verreynne was bowled by Shamar Joseph. But then they allowed Dane Piedt and Nandre Burger to add 63 valuable runs, and in the end South Africa managed to put up a total of 160. And then, the real horror started. West Indies themselves got bowled out for just 144 runs. Now I am convinced that no one can save this team. 

[Bitcoin_people]

West Indies scored only 144 runs to meet the target of 160 runs. Since the West Indies could not meet this low score today, I believe they may not be able to match South Africa in the next innings. South Africa are batting the ball in the second innings and they have collected 30 at the moment if they can give a good lead today they will definitely have more chances to win. Although the first test match was tied between the two teams, I think South Africa team will try their best to win the second test match against West Indies.

[tsaroz]

The first innings between South Africa and West indies nearly canceled each other. As we are still in early phase of the 5 day match, Today being the second day, we can expect this game to provide a result unlike the last one. And as both teams performed poorly on the 1st innings, the better batting team on 2nd inning would win. South Africa is currently at 51/0 which is already a good start. They'd try to play as long as they can as 2 days would be more than enough for the West Indies innings to finish.

[Cheema02]

^^^ West Indies committed two mistakes in this match. First, after having South Africa down to 97/9, they allowed them to recover. Dane Piedt and Nandre Burger added 63 precious runs for the 10th wicket partnership. Then while batting they were clueless against the seam and swing of Nandre Burger and Wiaan Mulder. Jason Holder and Gudakesh Motie tried to stabilize the innings, but then Keshav Maharaj struck and got Motie out. The first aim for West Indies today would be to reduce the South African lead in first innings as much as possible.

Poor cricket by West Indies. West Indies Poor performance in First inning of second test match All out in just 144 runs. from the West Indies Jason Holder scored a half-century and remain unbeaten. South Africa outstanding bowling performance especially Wiaan Mulder picked 4 crucial wickets by just giving 32 runs and help his team to bowled out west indies. South Africa started their second inning with 16 16-run lead and is currently playing at 67 runs without a loss of any wicket. South Africa led by 88 runs and looked very confident after all out in West Indies under 150 runs. South Africa's opening batter de Zorzi is playing aggressively at 36 runs not out from 46 balls and Markram is playing at 27 runs. South Africa will try to scored a big target for West Indies and easily win this test match.

[Sithara007]

Poor cricket by West Indies. West Indies Poor performance in First inning of second test match All out in just 144 runs. from the West Indies Jason Holder scored a half-century and remain unbeaten. South Africa outstanding bowling performance especially Wiaan Mulder picked 4 crucial wickets by just giving 32 runs and help his team to bowled out west indies. South Africa started their second inning with 16 16-run lead and is currently playing at 67 runs without a loss of any wicket. South Africa led by 88 runs and looked very confident after all out in West Indies under 150 runs. South Africa's opening batter de Zorzi is playing aggressively at 36 runs not out from 46 balls and Markram is playing at 27 runs. South Africa will try to scored a big target for West Indies and easily win this test match.

South Africa are now leading by 93 runs. In the second innings, both the openers (Tony de Zorzi and Aiden Markram) have added runs at a brisk pace and they have employed an aggressive strategy. And the most surprising thing is that out of the 18 overs so far in the South African second innings, 17 were bowled by the three pacers (Jayden Seales, Jason Holder and Shamar Joseph). That strategy worked in the first innings. But now the pitch has slowed down and the West Indian captain need to employ both Gudakesh Motie and Jomel Warrican without much delay.

[Webetcoins]

After South Africa lost all wickets in today's match, I was very worried because West Indies team gave a very good bowling performance. But this match was completely turned around by the players of the South African team, collecting 97 runs and losing 7 wickets of the West Indies team in 28.2 balls. Although Alick Athanaze performed well in the first match but in this match he got out early, I have never seen such a bad performance. 
However, this pitch of today's match is famous for bowling, because the ball swings and goes to the stumps, so the batsmen are definitely under pressure.

After having bat first by South African things were completely under West Indian control for two hours because their bowlers take 6 wickets and mostly were feeling today we have wrong decision by the South African captain but as we have West Indian collapse in batting now feeling is wicket is seam friendly and South African bowlers Wiaan Mulder and Nandre Burger were on target for troubling West Indies Kagiso Rabada is wicketless, but now things are completely under South African control.

West Indian batting has never been good in last few years so they bring down their team after having impressive bowling from their bowlers now Jason Holder is key for the West Indies if he is able to stuck for few hours then we can expect both teams on level otherwise South African will steal the show and can win this match and series as well.

[Unknown Op]

On the first day of the second Test match between South Africa and West Indies, South Africa batted for 160 and lost all their wickets. In the 1st innings, the West Indies team went into bat to meet the target, they have already lost seven wickets, but comparatively they have not collected many runs, yet they need to collect 63 runs. The bowling performance of South Africa team is excellent at the moment, so it is not sure whether West Indies team will be able to meet the target as they are already lacking good batsmen. Wiaan Mulder did a great job bowling for the South African team. They had an outstanding bowling performance and took four wickets. Due to this, the test match is very tight between the two teams due to which neither team is able to play very well, yet it cannot be said for sure whether the West Indies will be able to fulfill the target in this match.

After first match was drawn and not both sqauds West indies and south Africa joined for second test match. Two days of this test match was passed and I feel sad of South Africa sqaud when their first inning was finished and their sqaud just managed 160 scores which seem low quality scores and I did expect their sqaud for such performance. These batters Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Wiaan Mulder and captain Temba Bavuma were really expressed worst ever performance in first inning and all these wickets were finished at zore score. If last two wickets not played good South Africa just collected 100 scores. But their bowlers took great revenge in bowling inning and fulfill their weak batting Inning performance. Their bowlers restricted the batter of West indies at 144 scored just. Now South Africa squad have a good chance to secure victory by managing high scores in second inning by displaying their best ever performance.

[Compromise me]

On the first day of the second Test match between South Africa and West Indies, South Africa batted for 160 and lost all their wickets. In the 1st innings, the West Indies team went into bat to meet the target, they have already lost seven wickets, but comparatively they have not collected many runs, yet they need to collect 63 runs. The bowling performance of South Africa team is excellent at the moment, so it is not sure whether West Indies team will be able to meet the target as they are already lacking good batsmen. Wiaan Mulder did a great job bowling for the South African team. They had an outstanding bowling performance and took four wickets. Due to this, the test match is very tight between the two teams due to which neither team is able to play very well, yet it cannot be said for sure whether the West Indies will be able to fulfill the target in this match.

After first match was drawn and not both sqauds West indies and south Africa joined for second test match. Two days of this test match was passed and I feel sad of South Africa sqaud when their first inning was finished and their sqaud just managed 160 scores which seem low quality scores and I did expect their sqaud for such performance. These batters Kagiso Rabada, Keshav Maharaj, Wiaan Mulder and captain Temba Bavuma were really expressed worst ever performance in first inning and all these wickets were finished at zore score. If last two wickets not played good South Africa just collected 100 scores. But their bowlers took great revenge in bowling inning and fulfill their weak batting Inning performance. Their bowlers restricted the batter of West indies at 144 scored just. Now South Africa squad have a good chance to secure victory by managing high scores in second inning by displaying their best ever performance.

In the first innings, South Africa had given a very low runs target, but they defeated  West India in the first innings due to their bowling and now South Africa is batting in the second innings.  At this time they mad  168 runs with  the loss of five wickets, South Africa were doing very well in the start they scored 107 runs that too for the loss of one wicket and in this 50 runs they have lost their four wickets now they need a strong partnership.  And now Verreynne is batting  the pitch he has played 27 balls and on the other side Mulder is batting with him and he has also played only 9 balls they both have to  will made good partnership.

[Crypto Library]

In the first innings, South Africa had given a very low runs target, but they defeated  West India in the first innings due to their bowling and now South Africa is batting in the second innings.  At this time they mad  168 runs with  the loss of five wickets, South Africa were doing very well in the start they scored 107 runs that too for the loss of one wicket and in this 50 runs they have lost their four wickets now they need a strong partnership.  And now Verreynne is batting  the pitch he has played 27 balls and on the other side Mulder is batting with him and he has also played only 9 balls they both have to  will made good partnership.

I have already predicted in a previous post of mine that West Indies will not going to able to do more than 130 run but they did they cross the 130 but couldn't make much score.

Anyways as expected South African doing good than the first innings batting performance right now they are in 185 and they lost their five wicket till now.

And South African team lead by 201 run now. And what I think about this innings if they can continue their performance like this then it could be possible to cross the 250 run in this match and which could be a big pressure to West Indies team.

[add1ct3dd]

Shamar Joseph and Jayden Seales collected 8 wickets together for West Indies team. And in the second match they got all out in the first innings, I never expected such a poor performance from the South African team.  But I thank the players of West Indies team for bowling performance which I never imagined. However, the West Indies team can easily fulfill this target today and give the lead to the South African team. If the batting performance is patient then I think West Indies team can definitely win this second test match.

Shamar Joseph has been performing well ever since he made his debut early this year. During the second test match during West Indies tour of Australia, in the second innings he returned exceptional figures of 11.5-0-68-7, to gift West Indies a very rare test win against Australia. And in this match he has given West Indies a rare opportunity to go for another test win against a quality opponent. But now it is in doubt, as a result of the West Indian batting collapse. Anyway, second day is going to be crucial.

No doubt this young bowler Shamar Joseph is the new hero for the West Indian team in bowling, but things are not favourable in batting because they are having worst ever performance in last few test matches with most chances if South Africa able to have taken lead into this first inning we can expect troubling time for the West Indies Jason Holder is always last man standing but no one giving him support which is the biggest problem for them.

Pitch is seam friendly and West Indian bowlers done good job, but South African bowlers were also on mark in their bowling and bring back their team into game through having 7 wickets under 100 runs now today first five overs are going to be important for both sides if South African bowlers able to have take wickets then we can say West Indies is out of the game.

[ZAINmalik75]

I find it hard to believe that South Africa scored just 160 runs in the first innings. The South African team is more experienced and stronger than the West Indies in the Test format. So we had very high expectations from South Africa. But the South African batsmen batted like fools today. 4 batsmen of the squad could not add any runs to the scoreboard today. I would say only Dane Piedt batted slightly better today. But I expected better performance from Zorzi. Zorzi was in pretty good form.

Oh baby it's shamer Joseph supremacy, he took one of most important south African batter and restrict them below a very low target according to south African team potential, they hardly just scored 160 despite having far away better and experience player then West Indies but while second innings just like as usually west indies failed and not even match the required which is an strong indication of bowling friendly track.
But now in south African second innings things are looking under his control despite some unexpected collapse in thier middle order but still they mange things and now a very important partnership of more than 80 runs between Kyle Verreynne and his partner will really alive South Africa team hope to be in the game and divert results in thier favor. Now let see how long they will continue that partnership and how bigger lead they will get