Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[noormcs5]

No one were expecting performance like this from them because recently they are having poor performance but today first day of Rawalpindi test they have done good job after win of toss and having good use of these after rain conditions, but sadly we have good recovery from the Saud Shakeel and Saim Ayub which bring back Pakistan in this game now at the end of first day play we have just 41 overs game 158 runs for the lost of 4 wickets Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel are on crease hopefully we will have 300+ runs from Pakistan which could be enough for them to have in these conditions.

Saim Ayub played so well today as he balanced the pressure and has not lost wicket until he reached 56 runs. He stabled the game after the wicket of Babar Azam and also the time when the team has too muhc pressure, he help the team on that time when Abdullah Shafique was out. By the way before the match Shan Masood said as the captain “We want to give Saim Ayub the fair chance.” Today in this day we have seen such an amazing effort by the Saim Ayub. A good decision was taken by the Shan Masood as captain but I think in the next match Abrar Ahmed also have to play and show similiar performance.

[GigaBit]

When Sri Lanka performed poorly in their warmup match, I predicted that it is going to be a tough tour for them. And my prediction is now validated. Sri Lanka are 132/7, with Chris Woakes and Gus Atkinson so far sharing 5 wickets between them. Apart from these two, England selectors opted for two more pacers in the XI - Matthew Potts and Mark Wood. BTW, spinner Shoaib Bashir also picked up the important wicket of Dinesh Chandimal. Anyway, Dhananjaya de Silva is still at the crease and batting on 65. England needs to get him out quickly. 

England team is promising in Test cricket so to do well against them is not expected with this poor performance of Sri Lanka team. Early fall of 5 wickets of the top order it was easy to guess at the start that their total would not be much and that was the case in the end. But if a few players like Dhananjaya de Silva and Milan Rathnayake were able to score the same, the match could have changed. They have no chance to compete with this small collection. Your prediction was correct and going by the current performance we can easily be sure that Sri Lanka will lose the 1st Test by a big margin. Now it remains to be seen how much the Sri Lankan bowlers will be able to do for the team.

[virasog]

Bangladesh has started their bowling pretty well. The current score is 107/3. They got the huge wickets of Babar Azam, Shaan Masood, and Abdullah Shafique, each of them has a good average, and the fact that Bangladesh got them out early is pretty good. But Saim Ayub is looking pretty solid and might be dangerous for Bangladesh. Either way, their Bowling side is performing. But what I am worried most about is their batting side. Their batting side has been very very inconsistent. None of them are performing up to their expectations.

Why Shan Masood is the captain when he has no ability to take responsibility when the game comes under pressure for the Pakistan team but remember when he was coming to the ground then he came with full confidence and attitude but after playing the first delivery, he was starting to shiver.

When he was out then started to argue with the Umpire but remember he was out by the DRS method. The ball which he was out there was no swing and not too hard speed but his bat placement was wrong and also I forget to tell one thing after his dismissal, in the dressing room, he was arguing with the coach and doing point towards the screen.

[Mahdirakib]

Sri Lanka has made a decent recovery till now. Dhananjaya de Silva just got out after making a significant contribution of 74, but Milan Rathnayake is still batting there with 32 along with Vishwa Fernando. Shoaib Bashir got the crucial breakthrough when he got de Silva out. Now the England pacers should be able to clean up the tail without much effort. The track at Old Trafford is offering a lot of support for the pacers, and therefore a total of around 200 should be decent enough.

Sri Lanka made a good recovery in the 8th and 9th wicket partnership. Their first innings ended at 236 runs. Although it is early to make the judgement, but I think England will take a good lead in the first innings. Perhaps, England will go with their Bazball strategy. The top orders of Sri Lanka have failed very badly. Now the betting odds is completely in favour of England.

[Sithara007]

Sri Lanka made a good recovery in the 8th and 9th wicket partnership. Their first innings ended at 236 runs. Although it is early to make the judgement, but I think England will take a good lead in the first innings. Perhaps, England will go with their Bazball strategy. The top orders of Sri Lanka have failed very badly. Now the betting odds is completely in favour of England.

Yeah... England bowlers just lost it towards the end. They had Sri Lanka at 113/7. At this point, they should have wrapped up the innings at 130. But then they allowed Dhananjaya de Silva and Milan Rathnayake to build the partnership. Matthew Potts in particular was very ineffective, and Shoaib Bashir was also unable to get the breakthrough. And even after de Silva got out, Rathnayake added valuable runs with Vishwa Fernando. Now England is in a spot of bother, as they still need more than 200 runs to take the first innings lead.

[JunaidAzizi]

The test match between Bangladesh team and Pakistan is going to be very nice indeed, but very sad for Bangladesh.  Because in test matches usually the players of Bangladesh team fail to perform for a long time.
 Although Nazmul Hasan will be calm in this match, he is very useful for Test matches, but he failed to bat for long the most. Therefore, Bangladesh team will be more likely to lose in this disguised way, because the squad of Bangladesh team is much weaker than the Pakistani team.

Yes , you are right. Today test cricket will start and which team will win the toss,it will batting first and it will try to apply pressure on opponent team. Pakistani team is favorite for thar series because Bangladeshi are facing the crises and country political conditions are not good. Pakistani International test cricket team will win this easily because we are watching Bangladeshi team a long time ago they are losing matches and they didn't win any match and they are not working on their skills and all players are low quality and referenced players and BCB could not become successful to choose good team and we will see the result of that in this series.That is two match series and I think Pak team will win this series by 2 in 0 if rain didn't interrupt in this match.

The match started? The schedule was at noon today.

The reason for the delay may be the weather, as nowadays the weather in Islamabad and Rawalpindi is rainy, which may have wet the pitch and caused the delay. The match has now ended, and day one is completed, with Pakistan having played 41 overs on this first day. Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bat, and now Pakistan has lost four wickets for 158 runs. The batsmen's performance, in my view, is very poor because they did not perform well and got out early; they should have completed at least 200 runs or more on the first day, but they lost 4 wickets and only scored 158 runs. If these two batsmen are out tomorrow, their target will be 250 or possibly less. The bowlers of the Bangladesh team also performed well; Islam and Mahmud each took two wickets, showcasing their best performance.

[Sithara007]

The reason for the delay may be the weather, as nowadays the weather in Islamabad and Rawalpindi is rainy, which may have wet the pitch and caused the delay. The match has now ended, and day one is completed, with Pakistan having played 41 overs on this first day. Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bat, and now Pakistan has lost four wickets for 158 runs. The batsmen's performance, in my view, is very poor because they did not perform well and got out early; they should have completed at least 200 runs or more on the first day, but they lost 4 wickets and only scored 158 runs. If these two batsmen are out tomorrow, their target will be 250 or possibly less. The bowlers of the Bangladesh team also performed well; Islam and Mahmud each took two wickets, showcasing their best performance.

158/4 is a poor score, considering the fact that the match is being played in Pakistan. Pitches are in general supportive of the batsmen and top order as well as half of the middle order is now back in pavilion. Babar Azam got out for a duck. The inexperienced Hasan Mahmud surprised me, as he took two crucial wickets. He gave good support for Shoriful Islam at the other end. The real test for Bangladesh may come tomorrow, when their batsmen need to face the raw pace of Naseem Shah and Shaheen Shah Afridi. 

[Bitcoin_people]

In the first test match of Bangladesh vs Pakistan, Pakistan team is batting in the first innings on the first day. Pakistan team scored 158 runs today and lost four wickets but they batted well. Saim Ayub scored 56 runs off 98 balls, Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Rizwan played a great partnership but if they had this pair they would have scored big. Hasan Mahmud and Shoriful Islam got two wickets each in the bowling line of the Bangladesh team although their bowling was good. However, if the Pakistan team can give a big lead to Bangladesh on the second day, it will definitely be difficult for Bangladesh. And both the teams will try to play well enough to win this test match.

[fullhdpixel]

When Sri Lanka performed poorly in their warmup match, I predicted that it is going to be a tough tour for them. And my prediction is now validated. Sri Lanka are 132/7, with Chris Woakes and Gus Atkinson so far sharing 5 wickets between them. Apart from these two, England selectors opted for two more pacers in the XI - Matthew Potts and Mark Wood. BTW, spinner Shoaib Bashir also picked up the important wicket of Dinesh Chandimal. Anyway, Dhananjaya de Silva is still at the crease and batting on 65. England needs to get him out quickly. 

Quality difference is widening between few teams in test format with Sri Lanka is also having serious decline just because of these things are getting the worst day by day in test format for them first session completely belong to England which destroy Sri Lankan badly now they are trying to have something positive in these conditions but nothing going to be happened positive with most chances we will have another big win for the England because their batting line is good.

Chris Woakes, Gus Atkinson and Shoaib Bashir enjoying their spells hopefully today we will have some good entertainment through bazball and England end this day with good lead as well because Sri Lankan in batting and bowling both departments are having terrible time now in SENA countries we have India can compete with them all others are going down with no chance of recovery in near future.

[Farhan99]

In the first test match of Bangladesh vs Pakistan, Pakistan team is batting in the first innings on the first day. Pakistan team scored 158 runs today and lost four wickets but they batted well. Saim Ayub scored 56 runs off 98 balls, Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Rizwan played a great partnership but if they had this pair they would have scored big. Hasan Mahmud and Shoriful Islam got two wickets each in the bowling line of the Bangladesh team although their bowling was good. However, if the Pakistan team can give a big lead to Bangladesh on the second day, it will definitely be difficult for Bangladesh. And both the teams will try to play well enough to win this test match.

Yeah, Pakistan made 158 runs and first day stumps off due to bad weather 41 overs bowled today rain disturbed play no more over could bowl on first day Saim Ayub and Saud Shakeel both scored fifties pakistan team lost their three wickets on just 16 runs and the pressure was on new batsmen then 4th wicket partnership of 98 runs played between saim ayub and saud shakeel which shifted pressure on Bangladesh bowlers. Babar azam failed to scored and got out on duck Muhammad rizwan and Saud Shakeel are on the crease they will start morning session of second day and will try their best to add more runs in the team's total score From Bangladesh side Shoriful Islam and Hasan Mahmud took two two wickets Bangladesh bowlers needed to out early on next day to put back pressure on Pakistan team if Pakistan team scores upto 300 in first innings then it will be difficult task for Bangladesh to trail these runs

[Nalain420]

Bangladesh team has enough opportunities today because three wickets have already fallen in the beginning of the game, if Bangladesh team can have good bowling performance for a long time in this match, then there will be a chance to win. Masood, Babur Azam, Shafiq are the three reliable batsmen of Pakistan team. They got out early in this match and collected only a few, positive points here for the Bangladesh team. But if the Bangladesh team can perform well in terms of bowling and batting, then there will definitely be a good chance of winning. And I think there is enough chance to give a befitting reply in this match, and come out of the shell of losers.

Yes, they can benefit and win if they continue to perform like this throughout the game.  Currently, 158 runs have been scored in 41 overs and 4 wickets have fallen.  If Pakistan plays with similar performance in both innings then Pakistan will definitely lose the match.  Because Pakistan's speed and performance have not been good.  I don't think these batsmen are good.  Because whenever I have seen their performance, I have seen it like this.  They may have first records but their performance doesn't seem impressive to me.  And I think Pakistan will lose this match because these Pakistan batsmen are not able to make a tough and big target.  And so I don't expect them.  And if Bangladesh continues to play with such performance, they will definitely win the match. If Pakistan starts performing well from now, they can give the target well.  But the result will be known in the end.

[ZAINmalik75]

In the first test match of Bangladesh vs Pakistan, Pakistan team is batting in the first innings on the first day. Pakistan team scored 158 runs today and lost four wickets but they batted well. Saim Ayub scored 56 runs off 98 balls, Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Rizwan played a great partnership but if they had this pair they would have scored big. Hasan Mahmud and Shoriful Islam got two wickets each in the bowling line of the Bangladesh team although their bowling was good. However, if the Pakistan team can give a big lead to Bangladesh on the second day, it will definitely be difficult for Bangladesh. And both the teams will try to play well enough to win this test match.

Really is it pindi stadium I don't believe it because mostly pindi track were known graveyard of bowlers where they don't really get any turn or support from pitch but now PCB change entire condition and now we have huge greenery on track and that's why Bangladesh took decision to bowl because they know pitch will heavily support them and things will be easy for them.  But as a result Pakistani batting lineup were in huge trouble, to be honest I was really shocked when they lose his Three important wicket at a very early stage but thank to saim who really showed his skills and played brilliantly alongside with his partner saud and thus through their significant partnership Pakistan were now looking in decent stage, hope now saud and Rizwan partnership will pushed the total target above 300.

[JahriMeayer]

Pakistan vs Bangladesh, 1st Test match already started at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Pakistan. In that match, Bangladesh won the toss and let Pakistan to bat first. After starting of 1st Innings, Pakistan team was supposed to disaster by their performance as they lost 3 wickets at 16-3 runs only when it's a test match!! Babar Azam(0), Shan Masood(6) and Abdullah Shafique(2), all of them are very talented player but inspite of that, they just out with lowers runs. But Saud Shakeel(57) and Saim Ayub(56) both of them manage to did half century as well as hold the team tightly. 158-4 runs was scored already in the 1st day. Hope they could score more than 250 runs+  in their 1st inngins. Besides bangladesh team bowling performance was impressive enough From beginning. Hasan Mahmud and Shoriful Islam both of them hunted 2 wickets each. Sakib still got no wicket but he is a talented all-rounder, hope he'll perform well in this match. Let's see

[HelliumZ]

Sakib still got no wicket but he is a talented all-rounder, hope he'll perform well in this match. Let's see

Shakib may have been a good all-rounder before he entered politics and had a lot of performances in his game but currently I can't see any good past performance in Shakib. Earlier batting and bowling saw plenty of action but the all-rounder's decline in the rankings has begun as has his political career. Earlier in all formats Shakib Al Hasan used to be the top all rounder but now Shakib Al Hasan has lost his position in all formats.  Ranked third as an all-rounder in Tests, second all-rounder in ODIs, and third in T20I all-rounders. Shakib is in no way able to retain his past position only because of his political decline.  If Shakib had not entered politics, his cricket career would have been in a better position than before.

[ThemePen]

Pakistan vs Bangladesh, 1st Test match already started at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Pakistan. In that match, Bangladesh won the toss and let Pakistan to bat first. After starting of 1st Innings, Pakistan team was supposed to disaster by their performance as they lost 3 wickets at 16-3 runs only when it's a test match!! Babar Azam(0), Shan Masood(6) and Abdullah Shafique(2), all of them are very talented player but inspite of that, they just out with lowers runs. But Saud Shakeel(57) and Saim Ayub(56) both of them manage to did half century as well as hold the team tightly. 158-4 runs was scored already in the 1st day. Hope they could score more than 250 runs+  in their 1st inngins. Besides bangladesh team bowling performance was impressive enough From beginning. Hasan Mahmud and Shoriful Islam both of them hunted 2 wickets each. Sakib still got no wicket but he is a talented all-rounder, hope he'll perform well in this match. Let's see

Such a bad performance by top tier players made a lot of pressure on Pakistan team. Saim Ayub played little well and now there is a bound between Muhammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel. If this bound will break I don't think so the otger players will play well. For now they are at 158/4. Hasan Mahmud and Shoriful Islam both collected 2,2 wickets and I think they will out all the team of Pakistan soon. I don't know what will the Bangladesh do in their inning but I hope they will do better as compare to Pakistan team.

[Publictalk792]

Such a bad performance by top tier players made a lot of pressure on Pakistan team. Saim Ayub played little well and now there is a bound between Muhammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel. If this bound will break I don't think so the otger players will play well. For now they are at 158/4. Hasan Mahmud and Shoriful Islam both collected 2,2 wickets and I think they will out all the team of Pakistan soon. I don't know what will the Bangladesh do in their inning but I hope they will do better as compare to Pakistan team.

Yes you are right they are in home ground and still they are not playing well. Especially the openers players. Like Abdullah Shafiq and Shan Masood and especially Baba Azam. This is a test match and they can play easily and in this format a player remain easy because he has not limit for overs. But I don't know what they were doing. Well I appreciate the Bangladesh team bowling they are playing well. Let's wait for the finishing of first inning of Pakistan and let's what will Bangladesh do I think they will do better as compare to Pakistan and they will make a good lead for them and may be they will win at the end.

[noormcs5]

Yes you are right they are in home ground and still they are not playing well. Especially the openers players. Like Abdullah Shafiq and Shan Masood and especially Baba Azam. This is a test match and they can play easily and in this format a player remain easy because he has not limit for overs. But I don't know what they were doing. Well I appreciate the Bangladesh team bowling they are playing well. Let's wait for the finishing of first inning of Pakistan and let's what will Bangladesh do I think they will do better as compare to Pakistan and they will make a good lead for them and may be they will win at the end.

I think Babar Azam should not have to play that ball in which he has out. The ball was going to the outside but he touched the ball. The ball went on the behind and keeper does not dropped that chance, he had to catch by taking a hard and long dive but he picked it up.

Babar Azam out on the zero score. Hasan and Shoriful Islam started the bowling for Bangladesh and they both players destroyed the Pakistan batting line up at the start and gave a huge lead to their team, after Abdullah Shafique and Shan Masood, there was the last hope of Babar Azam at that time but he has out too.

[Fuso.hp]

Bangladesh won the toss against Pakistan and decided to field first and initially it looked like Bangladesh made the right decision as Bangladesh managed to pick up three wickets in the first 16 runs of Pakistan but the later batsmen took Pakistan's lead. So far Pakistan has collected 158 runs for four wickets. Bangladesh picked up the first three wickets where there were obvious weaknesses in the batsmen. It cannot be said that Pakistan lost three wickets because of the unusual behavior of the wicket. The state of the match so far, if Pakistan does not lose any wickets at the beginning of the second day, then at the end of the first innings, they will be able to put up a good collection against Bangladesh. The match got off to a late start yesterday due to rain which resulted in the first day's play being declared over after only 41 overs were bowled.

[Bd officer]

Pakistan vs Bangladesh, 1st Test match already started at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Pakistan. In that match, Bangladesh won the toss and let Pakistan to bat first. After starting of 1st Innings, Pakistan team was supposed to disaster by their performance as they lost 3 wickets at 16-3 runs only when it's a test match!! Babar Azam(0), Shan Masood(6) and Abdullah Shafique(2), all of them are very talented player but inspite of that, they just out with lowers runs. But Saud Shakeel(57) and Saim Ayub(56) both of them manage to did half century as well as hold the team tightly. 158-4 runs was scored already in the 1st day. Hope they could score more than 250 runs+  in their 1st inngins. Besides bangladesh team bowling performance was impressive enough From beginning. Hasan Mahmud and Shoriful Islam both of them hunted 2 wickets each. Sakib still got no wicket but he is a talented all-rounder, hope he'll perform well in this match. Let's see

Bangladesh's bowling line was good yesterday. Abdullah Shafique, Shan Masood, Babar Azam, they got out quickly and Pakistan were under pressure. Both Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel are still unbeaten, both of them need to perform well to increase the score. If Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel both get out early today, it will not be possible for Pakistan to score big. So Bangladesh bowlers have to bowl aggressively and try to get Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel out quickly. Let's see how many runs Pakistan can score.

Sakib still got no wicket but he is a talented all-rounder, hope he'll perform well in this match. Let's see

Shakib may have been a good all-rounder before he entered politics and had a lot of performances in his game but currently I can't see any good past performance in Shakib. Earlier batting and bowling saw plenty of action but the all-rounder's decline in the rankings has begun as has his political career. Earlier in all formats Shakib Al Hasan used to be the top all rounder but now Shakib Al Hasan has lost his position in all formats.  Ranked third as an all-rounder in Tests, second all-rounder in ODIs, and third in T20I all-rounders. Shakib is in no way able to retain his past position only because of his political decline.  If Shakib had not entered politics, his cricket career would have been in a better position than before.

You are right, it is difficult to manage both politics and sports as a player. If the focus is on the game, it will be difficult to do politics. If you focus on politics, the game will deteriorate. Currently, the game has deteriorated a lot due to Shakib Al Hasan's involvement in politics. No batsman is afraid of the world's best all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan anymore, because he cannot bowl as well as before. However, Shakib Al Hasan's politics are gone as Bangladesh government fell, now Shakib Al Hasan should focus more on sports.

[Bitcoin_people]

Bangladesh won the toss against Pakistan and decided to field first and initially it looked like Bangladesh made the right decision as Bangladesh managed to pick up three wickets in the first 16 runs of Pakistan but the later batsmen took Pakistan's lead. So far Pakistan has collected 158 runs for four wickets. Bangladesh picked up the first three wickets where there were obvious weaknesses in the batsmen. It cannot be said that Pakistan lost three wickets because of the unusual behavior of the wicket. The state of the match so far, if Pakistan does not lose any wickets at the beginning of the second day, then at the end of the first innings, they will be able to put up a good collection against Bangladesh. The match got off to a late start yesterday due to rain which resulted in the first day's play being declared over after only 41 overs were bowled.

However, Pakistan team lost only 4 wickets and scored 158 runs in the first innings. In the beginning, the batting performance of the Pakistan team was not very good. Bangladesh team had a good bowling line due to which they were able to put pressure easily, Pakistan will have to play harder and bowl better on the second day anyway. Pakistan still have six wickets in the first innings on the second day so if they can bat well today they can put up a better score. However, Pakistan team will try hard enough to make a big score, Bangladesh team must bowl well. On the second day, however, Pakistan team will want to play for wickets, in which case Bangladesh team will have to follow suit and bowl well.