Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[virasog]

Today, I think the Pakistan team are playing with responsibility and all the players were looking to stay on the batting crease and make runs. First of all, Shan Masood played very good innings, he made early fifty. The Pakistan team reached to the 100 score before 25 overs that was really good and also not losing the wickets.

After the wickets of Abdullah and Shan Masood, Babar Azam and Saud Shakeel started to make partnership but they both were slow. Which means that Babar Azam always used some balls and then start to play the game and especially in test, he used to play a lot of dot balls but at the same time he had focus on his strike rate and also hitting boundaries but in the gap of 4 overs. On the other hand, Saud Shakeel was playing slow because already the team reached at high score. He didn't lose his wicket. He was playing with tricks as for 3 or 4 balls he played no boundary then after some balls, he hit quick 2 or 3 boundaries.

[Cheema02]

If Pakistan team performs well against England at their home ground in today's match, it will surely be an exciting game. Also we had some terrible defeats against Bangladesh by Pakistan team so if the management takes strategy to improve the performance of Pakistan team then today match against England will be tough. Also, if England put up a strong performance in today's match like they did against Australia, then Pakistan's chances of winning will be slim. Anyway I think Pakistan will definitely try to play well in today's match at their home ground and win the first test match also I have Pakistan as favorite team. However, Pakistan team is very strong for home ground so if every player can play a good role in today's match then Pakistan team will be ahead in the result.

Yes you are right trilling match is expected if Pakistan plays well against England on their home ground today. After recently losing to Bangladesh Pakistan team management needs to make plan to improve and need too much practice if they really want to compete with England. By the way England strong performance against Australia will make it difficult for Pakistan to win. Even so Pakistan will likely use their home advantage to try and win but chances are low. By the way being a Pakistani I still believe on my team. I hope they will play well. I may be wrong but that is my team so I hope that they will perform well.

In the start, the Pakistan team was facing trouble as they lost Saim Ayub early. All the people thought that once again Pakistan would not perform good as they played against Bangladesh but after that, Abdullah Shafique and Shan Masood played long innings and also hit many fours.

They both took out the Pakistan team from the pressure. In the 10th over, Shan Masood was almost out but Shan used good decision that time and decided to took review in which we can clearly see, the ball was outside the pitch and Shan Masood was save at that time. Shan Masood is batting on 45 and he will surely complete his century today.

By the way, I think today Siam Ayub should come in the number of 5 or 6, as he is very good player in T20 and One day, he has ability to play in pressure and fast that is why I think if he would come later on the 5 or 6 then it would be great.



Saim Ayub always just focus on the boundaries that is why in the start, he has out. Anyway, after Saim Ayub, Shan Masood and Abdullah Shafique played great innings and made many runs. Today Ben Stokes also arrived at the ground but was not playing the game, may he will play the next game or the game after that.

Saim Ayub is not a test player I don't think he has a place in test because he plays very aggressively he should play in t20 and Odi format only.  The way Abdullah Shafiq and Captain Shah Masood played the partnership after Sam Ayub got out I think this could be a match winning 250 plus partnership for Pakistan tam. Pakistan team captain Shan Masood played a extraordinary inning of 151 rins and Abdullah Sheikh has scored a well deserved century. Babar Azam didn't get back in his form out after scoring just 30 runs. Soud Shakeel is playing at 35 runs and Pakistan current score is 328 runs in a loss of four wickets at the end of day one. English bowlers tried their best to get out Pakistan team under 400 runs but Pakistan needs to scores 500 plus runs if they want to win this test match.

[Bitcoin_people]

Pakistan lost only four wickets in the first day's play and they scored 328 runs. The most interesting and excellent batting performance in today's match was Shan Masood and Abdullah Shafique both scored brilliant centuries which helped the team to score big. I think going into the second day, Pakistan team will perform better batting performance, although we have seen that Pakistan played badly against Bangladesh earlier, but against England, they improved their game tremendously. Since England couldn't put Pakistan under that much pressure, they must play strong enough to win at Pakistan's home ground and win the series.

[Out of mind]

The duo played brilliantly today, forming a partnership that was really interesting to watch.
Abdullah Shafique scored 105 runs, 184 balls he batted with great patience and succeeded in scoring a century.
On the other hand, Pakistan captain Shan Masood has to be praised for his batting performance, he scored 151 runs off 177 balls which is really commendable.
However, as Pakistan scored 328/4 runs on the 1st day, Saud Shakeel and Naseem Shah will bat patiently on the 2nd day.
If these two batsmen can form a great pair, then it is possible for Pakistan to put up a bigger score.

[Mahdirakib]

It's a bit early to say as it's just 1st day of the test but So far it looks like an absolute road and If Multan's deck fails to deteriorate after 3 days then it will receive the same treatment as Pindi's pitch.

The first session of day 2 is going to be important. Pakistan batting line-up may collapse in the early morning of day two. Pakistan may get all out within 400 runs in the first innings. I think Pakistan will be able to destroy the batting line-up of England within the day 3 if England play in the Bazball mode. Only the partnership of Shafique and Masood has boosted the run for Pakistan.

[noormcs5]

The duo played brilliantly today, forming a partnership that was really interesting to watch.
Abdullah Shafique scored 105 runs, 184 balls he batted with great patience and succeeded in scoring a century.
On the other hand, Pakistan captain Shan Masood has to be praised for his batting performance, he scored 151 runs off 177 balls which is really commendable.
However, as Pakistan scored 328 runs on the first day, Saud Shakeel and Naseem Shah will bat patiently on the 2nd day.
If these two batsmen can form a great pair, then it is possible for Pakistan to put up a bigger score.

Back to back two wickets were gone, as Shan Masood and Abdullah Shafique was playing wonderful innings but when Abdullah was gone, after few balls, Shan Masood was gone too. Then Babar Azam and Saud Shakeel come in, the new partnership pair came in and also Babar Azam opened his innings with four which is why Pakistan were still looking strong and aggressive.

At the same time, no pressure is here on the players because the previous players made a good score. By the way, Noman Ali can't be a part of the first test match and instead of his place, we are seeing Abrar Ahmed in the game. If Abrar will play good in this game then he will be nominated for the next match as well and drop on the third match to check Noman Ali's form.

[Unknown Op]

Pakistan vs England
Well tomorrow we have Pakistan first match against england at home ground which is looking really excited as Pakistani team face terrible defeats in his recent test series again Bangladesh for a first time and that why management really done a lot work on them and also shuffle some of thier player which can deliver decent results.so to be honest currently everyone will expect and believe england Gona smashed them but believe me Pakistan team just need a click to get back into his right track also they have home ground advantage so may be this time they will divert results in thier favor.

If Pakistan team performs well against England at their home ground in today's match, it will surely be an exciting game. Also we had some terrible defeats against Bangladesh by Pakistan team so if the management takes strategy to improve the performance of Pakistan team then today match against England will be tough. Also, if England put up a strong performance in today's match like they did against Australia, then Pakistan's chances of winning will be slim. Anyway I think Pakistan will definitely try to play well in today's match at their home ground and win the first test match also I have Pakistan as favorite team. However, Pakistan team is very strong for home ground so if every player can play a good role in today's match then Pakistan team will be ahead in the result.

In comparison of Bangladesh squad, England squad is much hard and challenging squad and also very difficult to defeat England squad. All know that Pakistan squad was not displayed their best performance against Bangladesh squad in Test format competition. First official test Match Pakistan squad against England squad live now and Pakistan squad batters already came on crease for playing their first batting inning by winning toss task. Pakistan squad seem very strong and their batters displayed amazing performance in first day and in think they fix their previous mistakes and now they managed 328 scores with lost of 4 batter wickets and playing 86 overs and now first day was fully played. Abdullah Shafique  lost their wicket but he had collected amazing scores of total 102 scores and achieved fanatics century. Saim ayub unable to destroy England with their strong performance and lost wicket for 4 scores. Shan Maqsood also expressed their strong strength and power to England bowlers by managing 151 scores. This match will be going very hard and thrilling among them and both gave hard time to each other for emerging victory.

[Compromise me]

Pakistan vs England
Well tomorrow we have Pakistan first match against england at home ground which is looking really excited as Pakistani team face terrible defeats in his recent test series again Bangladesh for a first time and that why management really done a lot work on them and also shuffle some of thier player which can deliver decent results.so to be honest currently everyone will expect and believe england Gona smashed them but believe me Pakistan team just need a click to get back into his right track also they have home ground advantage so may be this time they will divert results in thier favor.

If Pakistan team performs well against England at their home ground in today's match, it will surely be an exciting game. Also we had some terrible defeats against Bangladesh by Pakistan team so if the management takes strategy to improve the performance of Pakistan team then today match against England will be tough. Also, if England put up a strong performance in today's match like they did against Australia, then Pakistan's chances of winning will be slim. Anyway I think Pakistan will definitely try to play well in today's match at their home ground and win the first test match also I have Pakistan as favorite team. However, Pakistan team is very strong for home ground so if every player can play a good role in today's match then Pakistan team will be ahead in the result.

Pakistan team batting performance is very good as Masood and Shafique started the best and lasting batting performance. Pakistan's Shafique and Masood's partnership has become so strong that the reverse team England's bowlers are unable to break their partnership in any way. Although Siam Ayub entered the field as the opening batsman, he played a game full of failures, but the fall of one wicket in the beginning did not see the fall of any more wickets. 
Among them, Masood scored 133 off 148 balls, the most aggressive batsman for the match, and his partnership with Shafique, who scored 94 off 161 balls, is also very close to a century. However, in this match, Pakistan team can give the most target to England team, and England team is not able to create pressure in any way from the bowling side. It is a very challenging full game we will enjoy.

After losing badly the last test series against Bangladesh, Pakistani International test cricket team is performing well and they have 40 percent chances of win. When we are taking about Pakistani team then we can't take Pakistani team as a favorite team because Pakistani team can lose the match at any time and it can do anything at anytime. We were not expect that Pakistani team will lose the series against Bangladesh but Pakistani team surprised us when Bangladeshi team white wash Pakistani team. Now Bangladeshi team is also like past and they are losing consistently against India and Bangladeshi performance is not good but Pakistani cricket has lose their level and there are no quality players in the team of Pakistan because reference system is common in Pakistan abd that destroy our country.

[noormcs5]

After losing badly the last test series against Bangladesh, Pakistani International test cricket team is performing well and they have 40 percent chances of win.

Today we will see just two names everywhere, in news, in cricket sites, in Pakistan, on social media and these are the names of Abdullah Shafique and Shan Masood, they both also deserve this as they both made centuries, and stood a high and great run. They were both playing this game as one day as in the first fifty overs, Pakistan reached more than 230 that is really a lot of runs when we consider this is a test match. What a performance by Pakistan. They would want this type of opening pair in every single game then no one can beat easily. Bangladesh lost gave Pakistan the confidence to do great in further matches and they must have worked on their mistakes after the loss in the Bangladesh series.

[virasog]

Gus Atkinson picked up the first wicket of Saim Ayub and in that time, I thought England could win this game very easily as they started very good. After that for the long time there was no wicket lost by the Pakistan and their two batsmen, Shan Masood and Abdullah Shafique were playing incredible and stood a high score of 150 in just around 30 to 35 overs that was really great.



The good thing of today match was that Abdullah Shafique was back in form otherwise for many matches, his performance was not going good in test, T20 and in the other leagues. But now, his performance is back hopefully. He made a 100 today and this will boost his confidence to a great extent.

I noticed that Gus Atkinson was the most successful bowler from the England team today as far as the first 35 overs were concerned. He was the only who picked wicket and also the Pakistani batsmen had fear to faced him. No doubt, Gus Atkinson was also affording boundaries but at least batsmen had fear of his bowling and Gus Atkinson also used to bowl bouncers and short balls. He was doing all this stuff so the batsmen remain under his pressure but always at the end of the over, he had a boundary and all the effort of his in the first 5 balls of each of his overs gone wasted.

[Tony116]

After losing badly the last test series against Bangladesh, Pakistani International test cricket team is performing well and they have 40 percent chances of win. When we are taking about Pakistani team then we can't take Pakistani team as a favorite team because Pakistani team can lose the match at any time and it can do anything at anytime. We were not expect that Pakistani team will lose the series against Bangladesh but Pakistani team surprised us when Bangladeshi team white wash Pakistani team. Now Bangladeshi team is also like past and they are losing consistently against India and Bangladeshi performance is not good but Pakistani cricket has lose their level and there are no quality players in the team of Pakistan because reference system is common in Pakistan abd that destroy our country.

Against Bangladesh we saw very bad batting from Pakistani batsmen. But against a big team like England, Pakistani batsmen are batting with responsibility. At the end of the first day, the Pakistani batsmen managed to make a big collection of 328. I am very surprised to see Pakistan's batting like this. Because I thought England would not face any big problem to win this match. But now Pakistan's chances of victory are increasing.

The partnership of Abdullah Shafique and Shan Masood was very important. Pakistan collected 253 runs from this pair. Shafiqu collected 102 runs and Masood collected 151 runs. Pakistan will collect 450+ in the first innings very easily. As Pakistan lost just 4 wickets.

[Lidger]

Pakistan managed to score big in the first innings of the first test match against England. At the end of the first day, Pakistan collected 328 runs for four wickets. Pakistan has lost the last two Test matches at their home ground to Bangladesh, so considering that performance, I thought that the series against England might be difficult for Pakistan, but it can be said that Pakistan has done well there. 

As Pakistan have lost only four wickets at the end of the first day, they will be able to score a good score on the second day as well and will be able to score big runs against England on the 2nd day. But the matches where runs are high are usually drawn, let's see if something like that happens in the Test match between England and Pakistan.

[ThemePen]

Pakistan managed to score big in the first innings of the first test match against England. At the end of the first day, Pakistan collected 328 runs for four wickets. Pakistan has lost the last two Test matches at their home ground to Bangladesh, so considering that performance, I thought that the series against England might be difficult for Pakistan, but it can be said that Pakistan has done well there. 

As Pakistan have lost only four wickets at the end of the first day, they will be able to score a good score on the second day as well and will be able to score big runs against England on the 2nd day. But the matches where runs are high are usually drawn, let's see if something like that happens in the Test match between England and Pakistan.

Yes Pakistan strong start in first Test match against England is pleasant surprise especially after losing two test matches from Bangladesh at home recently. Scoring 328 runs and losing only four players on first day is impressive move. This puts Pakistan in good position to score even more runs on day two. By the way Pakistan is doing very well and you are right past experience shows that matches with many runs mostly end with no winner. It will be interesting to see if Pakistan can keep their advantage and challenge England or if match will end with no clear result.

[Rustam Meraj]

Yes Pakistan strong start in first Test match against England is pleasant surprise especially after losing two test matches from Bangladesh at home recently. Scoring 328 runs and losing only four players on first day is impressive move. This puts Pakistan in good position to score even more runs on day two. By the way Pakistan is doing very well and you are right past experience shows that matches with many runs mostly end with no winner. It will be interesting to see if Pakistan can keep their advantage and challenge England or if match will end with no clear result.

Yes you are right Pakistan strong start in first Test against England is big surprise. We have seen that how Pakistan performed against Bangladesh but scoring 328 runs and losing only four players on first day against England is very impressive. This good start puts Pakistan in good position to score even more runs on day two. Just like you I also think that this match can drawn if Pakistan will perform well again in second inning. By the way it will be interesting to see if Pakistan can keep their advantage and challenge England and win the match from them.

[cryptoWODL]

Yes Pakistan strong start in first Test match against England is pleasant surprise especially after losing two test matches from Bangladesh at home recently. Scoring 328 runs and losing only four players on first day is impressive move. This puts Pakistan in good position to score even more runs on day two. By the way Pakistan is doing very well and you are right past experience shows that matches with many runs mostly end with no winner. It will be interesting to see if Pakistan can keep their advantage and challenge England or if match will end with no clear result.

Pakistan's team score at the end of the first day's play was impressive to watch. Especially yesterday for Pakistan, their team captain led from the front and led the team towards a big collection. Shan Masood, the captain of the team, has the biggest credit behind Pakistan's 328 runs at the end of the first day's play. But besides him, another batsman Abdullah Shafiq was able to complete his desired goal i.e. hundred runs. With so many batsmen I expected only one batsman to give a breakthrough performance and that is Babar Azam. However, he played well for a while but was unable to extend his innings as a result of which he was dismissed without touching any milestone. Such excellent performances by the Pakistan team in recent times must have given them hope to overcome their disappointment.

[JSRAW]

It's a bit early to say as it's just 1st day of the test but So far it looks like an absolute road and If Multan's deck fails to deteriorate after 3 days then it will receive the same treatment as Pindi's pitch.

The first session of day 2 is going to be important. Pakistan batting line-up may collapse in the early morning of day two. Pakistan may get all out within 400 runs in the first innings. I think Pakistan will be able to destroy the batting line-up of England within the day 3 if England play in the Bazball mode. Only the partnership of Shafique and Masood has boosted the run for Pakistan.

Pitch is looking more flatter now, even Naseem who came as the night watchman seems to be set. Only braindead 3rd-4th inning could produce a result or maybe Poms forcing a result.

English comms are not hesitating at all and are giving belt treatment to pitch conditions. There is a lot to think about when the likes of Naseer Hussain start criticizing you.

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PS: Call it irony but Rambo was sitting next to Naseer.

[hafiztalha]

Pakistan managed to score big in the first innings of the first test match against England. At the end of the first day, Pakistan collected 328 runs for four wickets. Pakistan has lost the last two Test matches at their home ground to Bangladesh, so considering that performance, I thought that the series against England might be difficult for Pakistan, but it can be said that Pakistan has done well there. 

As Pakistan have lost only four wickets at the end of the first day, they will be able to score a good score on the second day as well and will be able to score big runs against England on the 2nd day. But the matches where runs are high are usually drawn, let's see if something like that happens in the Test match between England and Pakistan.

Big game arrived and Pakistan vs England first test game is continuing playing at pitch and 1 st day was played by Pakistan batsman and their effort in this day was brilliant and their batsman showed good struggle and in last series they beated quite poorly with opponent Bangladesh team. B.Azam effort was poor in this game and he made 30 runs in 70 balls and hitted five 4s. Two batsman of Pakistan team played very well and both made excellent century in game Abdulla and leader Shan. Abdullah made 102 runs in 184 balls and hitted ten 4s and two 6s before dismissal. Maqsood also dismissed but he helped a lot team and he scored 151 runs in 177 balls and hitted thirteen 4s and two 6s. Pakistan winning chance in this test game is so good if they continue performing like this till last overs and also in next inning.

[Nanga Parbat]

Pakistan lost only four wickets in the first day's play and they scored 328 runs. The most interesting and excellent batting performance in today's match was Shan Masood and Abdullah Shafique both scored brilliant centuries which helped the team to score big. I think going into the second day, Pakistan team will perform better batting performance, although we have seen that Pakistan played badly against Bangladesh earlier, but against England, they improved their game tremendously. Since England couldn't put Pakistan under that much pressure, they must play strong enough to win at Pakistan's home ground and win the series.

The first test match  is being played in Multan. Pakistan batsmen have scored 508 runs in 136 overs and have lost 8 wickets.  England team is stronger than Pakistan team.For which Pakistan batsmen should score maximum runs as it will be beneficial for them.  Because a more difficult target would weaken England.  If their bowlers also try to stop the runs, they can win this match.Pakistan batsman Salman scored 79 runs off 92 balls while Shaheen Afridi who scored 13 runs off 18 balls.  If these two batsmen are together, a lot of runs can be accumulated.Salman can score his century if he plays calmly and well.  But he will be out soon due to his poor shots which will make it difficult to score runs.So far, Pakistan's target is stuck at 515 runs which is made up of 138 overs.  In which he will score more runs by playing well and create problems for the England batsmen.

[tsaroz]

Pakistan lost only four wickets in the first day's play and they scored 328 runs. The most interesting and excellent batting performance in today's match was Shan Masood and Abdullah Shafique both scored brilliant centuries which helped the team to score big. I think going into the second day, Pakistan team will perform better batting performance, although we have seen that Pakistan played badly against Bangladesh earlier, but against England, they improved their game tremendously. Since England couldn't put Pakistan under that much pressure, they must play strong enough to win at Pakistan's home ground and win the series.

The first test match  is being played in Multan. Pakistan batsmen have scored 508 runs in 136 overs and have lost 8 wickets.  England team is stronger than Pakistan team.For which Pakistan batsmen should score maximum runs as it will be beneficial for them.  Because a more difficult target would weaken England.  If their bowlers also try to stop the runs, they can win this match.Pakistan batsman Salman scored 79 runs off 92 balls while Shaheen Afridi who scored 13 runs off 18 balls.  If these two batsmen are together, a lot of runs can be accumulated.Salman can score his century if he plays calmly and well.  But he will be out soon due to his poor shots which will make it difficult to score runs.So far, Pakistan's target is stuck at 515 runs which is made up of 138 overs.  In which he will score more runs by playing well and create problems for the England batsmen.

Pakistan made a good 556 at decent amount of time. Abdulla Shafique, Shan Mashood and Salman Agha each scoring a century. England are out batting on the third session of second day. They already have lost Ollie Pope. There's still about 19bovers of gameplay remaining for today. All Pakistan needs to focus is to all out the English team within the third day even if that means spending some runs. England would be looking to play longer so that there's a chance of draw if not a win for England. The result mostly depends on the batting at second innings. If Pakistan maintains it's batting performance, they have a better chance at this test.

[Out of mind]

Pakistan team ended their first innings with a score of 556 runs, Pakistan succeeded in putting up a great batting performance in the first Test match. Anyway, we saw the second day's play with an amazing batting performance by Agha Salman, who succeeded in scoring a brilliant century. Anyway England team is batting at the moment Ollie Pope is out for zero runs he didn't play well today due to which England lost some energy today. Joe Root and Zak Crawley have formed a partnership at the moment and if Pakistan can't break their partnership then England will surely be expected to collect a big score.