Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[noormcs5]

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.

This is very good batting pitch but still I can't understand why England lost their player early, how Ollie Pope lost his wicket after playing just two balls and scoring no run. He was an important player for the England team and also a big name in test matches, he always led the team in bad condition but not this time, he has out early on the flat pitch like Highway.

However, England still have very good batsmen and they could chase the game very easily in the further days of this test matches, Three days are still left. Let's see what more interesting things we will find in the next days.

[Ayers]

This is very good batting pitch but still I can't understand why England lost their player early, how Ollie Pope lost his wicket after playing just two balls and scoring no run. He was an important player for the England team and also a big name in test matches, he always led the team in bad condition but not this time, he has out early on the flat pitch like Highway.

However, England still have very good batsmen and they could chase the game very easily in the further days of this test matches, Three days are still left. Let's see what more interesting things we will find in the next days.

The pitch was batting friendly, but I didn't expect Pakistan to collect that big. Because in the last series against Bangladesh, Pakistan's batsmen could not play well even on a batting friendly pitch. But Pakistani batsmen have performed brilliantly against England.

Three batsmen of the squad scored centuries. Saud Shakeel scored 82 runs and Shan Masood scored 151 runs. Pakistan team made a huge collection of 556 in 149 overs.

But England's top order is playing very well. Pope could not add any runs to the scoreboard. But Zak Crawley and Root are batting responsibly. England team collected 96 runs after losing 1 wicket in 20 overs.

[Popkon6]

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.

Pakistan team they have done the best batting performance, Shafique, Masood, Soud Shaakel, Agha Salman these four batsmen are performing the best. That is why the Pakistan team is ready to collect 556 runs, but the target of such a big run is very challenging for the England team. An important batsman of the England team is already out, England team still have to make a big target of 460 runs in today's match.
But the most important thing is that the Pakistan players should go forward the most from the bowling side, only the bowling line is possible to put the England team under the most pressure then there will be a good performance in the first innings. Because the England team's run-rate gives the impression of victory, the Pakistan team is likely to be under a lot of pressure if the partnership lasts for a long time.

[noormcs5]

Pakistan team they have done the best batting performance, Shafique, Masood, Soud Shaakel, Agha Salman these four batsmen are performing the best. That is why the Pakistan team is ready to collect 556 runs, but the target of such a big run is very challenging for the England team. An important batsman of the England team is already out, England team still have to make a big target of 460 runs in today's match.
But the most important thing is that the Pakistan players should go forward the most from the bowling side, only the bowling line is possible to put the England team under the most pressure then there will be a good performance in the first innings. Because the England team's run-rate gives the impression of victory, the Pakistan team is likely to be under a lot of pressure if the partnership lasts for a long time.

The last wicket of the Pakistan innings was the wicket of Abrar Ahmed and on that wicket, there was wonderful performance by Ben Duckett as he picked very great catch. Root did the short ball, Abrar Ahmed can't understand what to do, he moved his steps back and just touched the ball, the ball went through the keeper, but the keeper by chance dropped it but before touching the ground Ben Duckett located at the slip and picked an wonderful catch that caused the end of the Pakistan first innings. The target for England is 566 runs that is on the higher side and if Pakistan bowlers will work good then they may don't have to bat again.

It was a tough and long day for the England bowlers. In fact the first two days of this match, tested the England bowlers and fielders in this hot weather at Multan.

[UmerIdrees]

This is very good batting pitch but still I can't understand why England lost their player early, how Ollie Pope lost his wicket after playing just two balls and scoring no run. He was an important player for the England team and also a big name in test matches, he always led the team in bad condition but not this time, he has out early on the flat pitch like Highway.

However, England still have very good batsmen and they could chase the game very easily in the further days of this test matches, Three days are still left. Let's see what more interesting things we will find in the next days.

No douth the pitch is flat and every batsmen should have to play long in this pitch. I have a feeling that England will also bat well and may end up making runs close the the Pakistan team.

Also due to pitch conditions we saw four centuries in the Pakistan innings, Shan Masood, Saud Shakeel, Abdullah Shafique and Salman Agha all made the centuries. At the same time, the players from what we expect that they will perform (in Pakistan innings) played the most worst game as Babar Azam made some runs but with so bad strike rate and out while Muhammad Rizwan out on zero, I was excepting very much with him but he has out early on zero after playing 12 dot balls.

[Bitcoin_people]

Pakistan team scored 556 runs, I would say it is a huge target for England, but England will bat well. We saw the loss of just one wicket today though later they batted responsibly. Moreover, England are also ready to bat well in the batting piece, the England team's current pairing will play the game strongly. Zak Crawley has scored great runs, Joe Root will score big if they can survive yesterday. But the Pakistan team needs to be tougher and if they can't improve their bowling performance, they can't put England under pressure, that's why the bowling needs to be improved for the Pakistan team.

[virasog]

Pakistan team scored 556 runs, I would say it is a huge target for England, but England will bat well. We saw the loss of just one wicket today though later they batted responsibly. Moreover, England are also ready to bat well in the batting piece, the England team's current pairing will play the game strongly. Zak Crawley has scored great runs, Joe Root will score big if they can survive yesterday. But the Pakistan team needs to be tougher and if they can't improve their bowling performance, they can't put England under pressure, that's why the bowling needs to be improved for the Pakistan team.

The first two days has passed, and I think the game is going good for the Pakistan so far and just three days are left now. Imagine if tomorrow full 90 overs England will use these all overs in batting and get the lead then they will try to get the lead of at least 200 which means they have to make 750+ that will not be easy for them, it is like impossible which means if England get lead, then they had low lead of around 70 or max to max 90 runs that will chase by Pakistan easily. But then it will end up in a draw.

Otherwise, I think if Pakistan bowlers will do some more effort then they could allow Pakistan not to bat again. This means that they have to bowl England out twice in three remaining days but this will be difficult too on a batting wicket.

[noormcs5]

Pakistan team scored 556 runs, I would say it is a huge target for England, but England will bat well. We saw the loss of just one wicket today though later they batted responsibly. Moreover, England are also ready to bat well in the batting piece, the England team's current pairing will play the game strongly. Zak Crawley has scored great runs, Joe Root will score big if they can survive yesterday. But the Pakistan team needs to be tougher and if they can't improve their bowling performance, they can't put England under pressure, that's why the bowling needs to be improved for the Pakistan team.

Abrar Ahmed was searching for the wickets as last time two year before, he played his first match against England and was named as the player of the match as he picked around 8 or 7 wickets that is why he was trying to repeat it again but now he can't do it, tried every single thing to get wicket at the start, doing different balls and trick the batsmen with different tricks but he has not get any wicket.

I think Pakistan have to pick wickets quickly as fast as they can because they had very bad record recently in the last test matches against Bangladesh and against Australia that is why they have to win this game at any cost to get back their reputation.

[UmerIdrees]

Where are you guys watching Pak vs Eng?

Any live stream? For some reason, it's not working on Tamasha's site.

Does Tamasha's app work outside Pakistan too ? I never knew that. I thought it was for the the Pakistan only.

Anyways i have taken subsrcition of the IPTV and it is really cheap, just cost around a dollar for a month and i get the opplex server. Being myself in Pakistan, i get access to all the Star sports channels and all other sporting channels world wide and it is really useful to watch IPL  

If IPTV is avaible in your region, you may give it a try and then you may watch the Pak/Eng matches on PTV Sports.

[Sithara007]

Looks like Pakistan has once again resorted to flat tracks against visiting SENA nations. Fortunately for them, they won the toss and thereby elected to bat first. And thanks to centuries from Abdullah Shafique, Shan Masood and Salman Agha, they got to 556, which is a very decent total in any type of pitch. But then, England is also looking quite strong. They lost Ollie Pope early on, but then Zak Crawley and Joe Root stabilized the innings. And in all probability, this is going to be yet another boring draw.

 

[Compromise me]

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.

Pakistani team played well in first inning and that team scored 556 runs in the first inning of match . Three players of Pakistani team made centuries for the team and they made match interesting because we saw Pakistani team against Bangladesh when they played very bad but they did good come back and I think that match will be draw because England team is also powerful and they will not lose this match and So far they played well and made 96 runs with fall of 1 wicket.Root and Crawley are present on the crease and Crawley  have made half century in this match and he is going towards century. And I think there are 60 percent chances of draw the match and 20 percent chances of win of Pak and 20 percent win of England team.

[Sithara007]

Apart from the Pakistan vs England match, one more test match is ongoing at international level. India Under-19s and Australia Under-19s are playing the 2nd youth test in the series at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. India made 492, with Harvansh Pangalia making 117 and Nitya Pandya making 94. But the attention grabber was the leg spinner from Kerala, Mohamed Enaan. He is continuing with his great form, and picked up 2 quick wickets when Australia came to bat. Anyway, now Oliver Peake and Alex Lee Young have stabilized the innings for Australia.

[ZAINmalik75]

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.

Pakistan bat really well and I think that what we expect from them, I know it's really hard time for them because they are under a huge pressure while batting due to huge criticism and degradation from world wide due to performance against Bangladesh but I think now they healed thier team and due to flat track they were phenomenal we have three magnificent centries from vital player which really now out them ahead of danger situation, in my view they scored a huge target and now took important wicket of thier captain too at very early stage also duckett is injury too so my believe is things can divert easily in thier favor if they took two more quick wickets at that time then they will easily get dominance against them and may be england goes for follow on too if some kind of huge trouble created by Pakistani bowlers. Let's see how they come out of that stage.

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Pakistan team scored 556 runs, I would say it is a huge target for England, but England will bat well. We saw the loss of just one wicket today though later they batted responsibly. Moreover, England are also ready to bat well in the batting piece, the England team's current pairing will play the game strongly. Zak Crawley has scored great runs, Joe Root will score big if they can survive yesterday. But the Pakistan team needs to be tougher and if they can't improve their bowling performance, they can't put England under pressure, that's why the bowling needs to be improved for the Pakistan team.

Before the start of this Test series I could only remember Bangladesh's Test series with Pakistan and accordingly I was thinking that Pakistan's performance is likely to be worse here but no here I see Pakistan have set a target of 556 runs which we have set. I can easily say a Hughes target score in test format. I actually did not understand today's pitch was a batting friend list? Because even with England, such a good batting performance at England's home ground was very unexpected for me. Although I think England is a team capable of beating this target of 557 runs, still Pakistan will be ahead in this match.

[Minecache]

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.

Pakistan bat really well and I think that what we expect from them, I know it's really hard time for them because they are under a huge pressure while batting due to huge criticism and degradation from world wide due to performance against Bangladesh but I think now they healed thier team and due to flat track they were phenomenal we have three magnificent centries from vital player which really now out them ahead of danger situation, in my view they scored a huge target and now took important wicket of thier captain too at very early stage also duckett is injury too so my believe is things can divert easily in thier favor if they took two more quick wickets at that time then they will easily get dominance against them and may be england goes for follow on too if some kind of huge trouble created by Pakistani bowlers. Let's see how they come out of that stage.

Despite not performing well against Bangladesh, Pakistani batsmen proved their ability against England. 556 have been able to collect a huge amount. Shafique, Masood, Shakeel and Salman batted well. Salman was unbeaten with 102 runs.

However, there is no doubt that the Pakistani batsmen played very well. But if the batsmen as well as the bowlers do not perform well, there is no chance for Pakistan to win. England's top order is also playing very well. At the end of the second day, England collected 96 runs after losing 1 wicket. Zak Crawley and Joe Root are batting well. The match is more likely to be a draw than a win for Pakistan.

[Rustam Meraj]

Before the start of this Test series I could only remember Bangladesh's Test series with Pakistan and accordingly I was thinking that Pakistan's performance is likely to be worse here but no here I see Pakistan have set a target of 556 runs which we have set. I can easily say a Hughes target score in test format. I actually did not understand today's pitch was a batting friend list? Because even with England, such a good batting performance at England's home ground was very unexpected for me. Although I think England is a team capable of beating this target of 557 runs, still Pakistan will be ahead in this match.

I also was wrong about Pakistan chances in this Test series. After struggling against Bangladesh I thought they will find it tough with England. But Pakistan excellent batting set huge target of 556 runs difficult score to beat. I was also got surprised pitch was good for batting. Well the current situation is that Pakistan has finished their turn and England is playing so today is the third day. And they have made 96 runs and they lost only one wicket. I think this match will be drawn if Pakistan will continue this performance so definitely this match will be drawn.

[noormcs5]

I also was wrong about Pakistan chances in this Test series. After struggling against Bangladesh I thought they will find it tough with England. But Pakistan excellent batting set huge target of 556 runs difficult score to beat. I was also got surprised pitch was good for batting. Well the current situation is that Pakistan has finished their turn and England is playing so today is the third day. And they have made 96 runs and they lost only one wicket. I think this match will be drawn if Pakistan will continue this performance so definitely this match will be drawn.

I do not know if we can appraise the Pakistan team for coming back into form or if this pitch is batting friendly and it's easy to get runs here. If England can score 500+ runs (this is likely to happen as they are 96-1), then we can safely say that it is due to the pitch that Pakistan's team is able to score big. Another thing to consider is that Multan Stadium is also known for its flat and dry pitch especially in this part of the year.



From England's point of view, both Zak Crawley and Joe Root are set batsmen and they will start the innings on the 3rd day. If they do not lose wickets in the first hour or so, then we are looking to have a long day for the Pakistan bowlers on the field.

[virasog]

From England's point of view, both Zak Crawley and Joe Root are set batsmen and they will start the innings on the 3rd day. If they do not lose wickets in the first hour or so, then we are looking to have a long day for the Pakistan bowlers on the field.

England has resumed the innings on the morning of the third day and they have not lost any wicket. Zak Crawley is looking good on 77 and most probably he is the one who will hit the first century for England in this test match. Remember three of the Pakistan batsmen hit the century and now its time for the England to do the same.

They are on 112 runs for only a wicket down trailing by 443 runs. Abrar Ahmed and others bowlers aren’t able to get any break through till now. If things continue like this we shall only see some records breaking in the match but with no result in the end.

[IvugeoEvolutionCoin]

Pakistan team came out to bat in 1st Innings and scored 556 runs losing 10 wickets in 149 overs.England team came out to bat in 1st Innings and set a target of 232 runs losing 2 wickets in 45 overs.England team batsman Zak Crawley got out with 78 runs off 85 balls.  .Ollie Pope got out with 0 runs off 2 balls.Ollie Pope did not bat well in this match for which some of the England team may have to wear under pressure.

[BALIK]

Pakistan team came out to bat in 1st Innings and scored 556 runs losing 10 wickets in 149 overs.England team came out to bat in 1st Innings and set a target of 232 runs losing 2 wickets in 45 overs.England team batsman Zak Crawley got out with 78 runs off 85 balls.  .Ollie Pope got out with 0 runs off 2 balls.Ollie Pope did not bat well in this match for which some of the England team may have to wear under pressure.

The pitch is batting friendly. So Pakistani batsmen have batted very well. Pakistan's batsmen have collected a huge score of 556 runs. England's bowlers can not do any advantage in this match. Jack Leach picked up three wickets, Atkinson and Carse picked up two wickets each. Pakistan played well on a batting friendly pitch. This is no great achievement. The match is more likely to be a draw.

Pakistani batsmen are doing well but Pakistani bowlers are not able to do well. England team lost only 2 wickets. And collected 234 runs. Zak Crawley returned to the dressing room with 78 runs. Joe Root is still unbeaten with 77 runs. Ben Duckett's batting looked like it was an ODI match as he scored 80 runs from just 68 balls. Ben Duckett is batting very aggressively. Ben Duckett has hit 11 boundaries so far. If Pakistan can bat well in their second innings then the match will be a draw.