Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[UmerIdrees]

After seeing poor batting of Zimbabwe in first innings its now clear that they won't be able to avoid an innings defeat. Zimbabwe score is 51/1 in second innings while in first innings they lost four wickets when score was 51 runs. If Sean Williams has not scored 83 runs in first innings then Zimbabwe won't be able to score even 100 runs in first innings. Zimbabwe batsmen must try to stay on pitch and try to score as many runs as possible to boost their confidence against top test teams. This series is going to be 2-0 and SA unlucky that this series is not part of WTC.  

As South Africa gave huge target of 626 runs, then surely Zimbabwe were struggling to chase it and in the first innings, they were all out at just 170 runs and then they are coming to bat once again and at 51 runs they were already batting at the loss of one wicket.

I think till tomorrow this match will finish and South Africa will win it one-sidedly according to the current condition. However, if we look at the Zimbabwe team level then we can see quite progress this time as they were trying to build a partnership, but as we all know, this would not change the momentum of the game.

[libert19]

Lol, Mulder, he had chance to have his name etched into history books but he did stupid. Such 'generous' acts never helped anyone, I have watched some Virat's videos, where he willingly competed to make his hundred, that's how he got more hundreds — it's record that counts at the end of day, and this retarded act will be forgotten soon enough.

[Sithara007]

Lol, Mulder, he had chance to have his name etched into history books but he did stupid. Such 'generous' acts never helped anyone, I have watched some Virat's videos, where he willingly competed to make his hundred, that's how he got more hundreds — it's record that counts at the end of day, and this retarded act will be forgotten soon enough.

It is a mockery of test cricket. The ICC need to grow a pair of balls, and prohibit Zimbabwe from playing against tier-1 test nations. What is the purpose of matches such as this one? Do we really want Brian Lara's record (made against England at St John's) broken by someone like Wiaan Mulder? I have nothing personal against Mulder. But this was one of his easiest innings. Even South African domestic cricket has better quality bowlers when compared to what he faced in this match.

[Bitcoinsummoner]

It is a mockery of test cricket. The ICC need to grow a pair of balls, and prohibit Zimbabwe from playing against tier-1 test nations. What is the purpose of matches such as this one? Do we really want Brian Lara's record (made against England at St John's) broken by someone like Wiaan Mulder? I have nothing personal against Mulder. But this was one of his easiest innings. Even South African domestic cricket has better quality bowlers when compared to what he faced in this match.

Wiaan Mulder is a cricketer who hasn't gotten a century in an ODI. His highest score in an ODI was 64 from playing 25 matches. On the other hand, he couldn't reach the figure of fift in his T20 career from playing 11 matches. But here we see his best score of 367 runs from Zimbabwe. Here is highlighted the quality of Zimbabwe's test career. How can he get these huge runs from Zimbabwe? The ICC should stop the test cricket performance of Zimbabwe. 400* - Brian Lara, West Indies v England, 2004. He was legendary. He got this score from the top cricket-playing team, England. I think the ICC will restrict Zimbabwe from test cricket.

[Cheema02]

Lol, Mulder, he had chance to have his name etched into history books but he did stupid. Such 'generous' acts never helped anyone, I have watched some Virat's videos, where he willingly competed to make his hundred, that's how he got more hundreds — it's record that counts at the end of day, and this retarded act will be forgotten soon enough.

It is a mockery of test cricket. The ICC need to grow a pair of balls, and prohibit Zimbabwe from playing against tier-1 test nations. What is the purpose of matches such as this one? Do we really want Brian Lara's record (made against England at St John's) broken by someone like Wiaan Mulder? I have nothing personal against Mulder. But this was one of his easiest innings. Even South African domestic cricket has better quality bowlers when compared to what he faced in this match.

Yes, Zimbabwe is week team in test cricket they didn't have quality player after retirement of Skanadar raza. Zimbabwe needs to added player like Skanadar Raza in playing Eleven if they want to play test matches against strong side. South Africa's captain wlaan mulder did not break Brian Lara record because he believed that Brian Lara is legend cricketer. wlaan mulder played aggressive and only 34 runs short from breaking the record of lara, but he declared the inning. Corbin Bosch picked one important wicket at start of Zimbabwe second inning. South Africa is going to win the second match very easily because Zimbabwe still have 405 runs trail by After that, they can give a lead and give a target but it doesn't seem like that will happen.

[Nanga Parbat]

Yes, Zimbabwe is week team in test cricket they didn't have quality player after retirement of Skanadar raza. Zimbabwe needs to added player like Skanadar Raza in playing Eleven if they want to play test matches against strong side. South Africa's captain wlaan mulder did not break Brian Lara record because he believed that Brian Lara is legend cricketer. wlaan mulder played aggressive and only 34 runs short from breaking the record of lara, but he declared the inning. Corbin Bosch picked one important wicket at start of Zimbabwe second inning. South Africa is going to win the second match very easily because Zimbabwe still have 405 runs trail by After that, they can give a lead and give a target but it doesn't seem like that will happen.

Just as the South African batsmen have set a target in the first innings, their bowling is also playing hard, due to which their hope of winning is full because their opponents Zimbabwe are not playing with any effort and neither will they win the match. Because they have played the first innings in which they scored 170 runs and even if they play well in the second innings and achieve the first innings target, they will lose this match because South Africa will play their second innings while Zimbabwe will not have any innings to score runs again. Due to which they have got a very bad defeat, which is because of their bowler, if they played hard in bowling, then they could have had a lot of chance and hope in winning. South Africa is becoming a very good team that plays hard and also wins the match.

[noormcs5]

You are saying it is difficult for Zimbabwe to chase this score, i would say it is close to impossible for them. Although they had a decent start to the batting in the 2nd innings with Takudzwanashe Kaitano still batting on 34, but they still trail by 405 runs. It is almost impossible for them to first level the score and then take the lead with just 9 wickets in hand.

It is just a matter of how long the Zimbabwe team can survive. Sean Williams had a good innings in the last innings and also some batting were shown by the middle order. It would be interesting to see how Zimbabwe starts the game tomorrow.

After seeing poor batting of Zimbabwe in first innings its now clear that they won't be able to avoid an innings defeat. Zimbabwe score is 51/1 in second innings while in first innings they lost four wickets when score was 51 runs. If Sean Williams has not scored 83 runs in first innings then Zimbabwe won't be able to score even 100 runs in first innings. Zimbabwe batsmen must try to stay on pitch and try to score as many runs as possible to boost their confidence against top test teams. This series is going to be 2-0 and SA unlucky that this series is not part of WTC.  

Zimbabwe team performed very badly in the first innings, mainly South Africa batsman Mulder scored 367 runs alone. Zimbabwe team is not able to keep wickets, Zimbabwe team is going to lose this match safely. In the second innings, Zimbabwe team lost 1 wicket for 51 runs, so there is a possibility of losing more wickets.
If we observe in the first innings of Zimbabwe team, then they started losing wickets quickly, if the same situation happens in the second innings, then the players of Zimbabwe team will definitely be forced to lose by a huge margin. Due to losing wickets, Zimbabwe team is only facing huge pressure, due to which Zimbabwe team lacks patient batsmen.

For the supporter of the Zimbabwe team, I think that Zimbabwe is not to win the game, that is 100 percent true but they could come closer, they have to make partnership here as we have seen that Takudzwanashe Kaitano played at 40 off 76 balls that is good performance especially as compare to the previous innings where he score less than 10 runs.

He is out early so let's see what is going to be happen further, just hopping that at least they come close and it would be so great and big achievement even if they just come to lead and that is it, still losing the game in that condition but it made them feel motivate and confident for the further games against low teams.

[ZAINmalik75]

As South Africa gave huge target of 626 runs, then surely Zimbabwe were struggling to chase it and in the first innings, they were all out at just 170 runs and then they are coming to bat once again and at 51 runs they were already batting at the loss of one wicket.

I think till tomorrow this match will finish and South Africa will win it one-sidedly according to the current condition. However, if we look at the Zimbabwe team level then we can see quite progress this time as they were trying to build a partnership, but as we all know, this would not change the momentum of the game.

South African were looking really ahead of thier opponent Zimbabwen at current situation, I taught mudler at first inning before innings declare will level the great vivian Richard record of 400 in tes.t but surprisingly 43 runs before the record broke they declare thier innings and thus runied the vital opportunity to be the part of history for a long long time. Anyway it's clear from current situation that may be south African won the match by an innings and few runs or may be if Zimbabwe hardly match the required then may be it will be 10 or 9 wicket in hand victory for South African. Morever with that victory they will officially seal the series too by 2-0.

[dezoel]

Wiaan Mulder is a cricketer who hasn't gotten a century in an ODI. His highest score in an ODI was 64 from playing 25 matches. On the other hand, he couldn't reach the figure of fift in his T20 career from playing 11 matches. But here we see his best score of 367 runs from Zimbabwe. Here is highlighted the quality of Zimbabwe's test career. How can he get these huge runs from Zimbabwe? The ICC should stop the test cricket performance of Zimbabwe. 400* - Brian Lara, West Indies v England, 2004. He was legendary. He got this score from the top cricket-playing team, England. I think the ICC will restrict Zimbabwe from test cricket.

Man no one care about what you have done in past because always peoples remember your present and in today cricket Wiaan Mulder is the biggest start in South African cricket history as he achieved many records which are not going to be stayed with them for long time.

531 runs in just 3 innings having all new blood players and thrash minor team like Zimbabwe which is already down and out but no one care because ICC love to have them in their list they fail to achieve anything positive from this useless test series but now South African have few good youngsters like Codi Yusuf, Carbin Bosch and Lhuan-dre Pretorius. Hopefully someone from Zimbabwe or ICC after watching this useless series doing something for future and have some changes even I am not sure about this due to their corrupt mind and good funds which are coming into their pockets.

[Cheema02]

As South Africa gave huge target of 626 runs, then surely Zimbabwe were struggling to chase it and in the first innings, they were all out at just 170 runs and then they are coming to bat once again and at 51 runs they were already batting at the loss of one wicket.

I think till tomorrow this match will finish and South Africa will win it one-sidedly according to the current condition. However, if we look at the Zimbabwe team level then we can see quite progress this time as they were trying to build a partnership, but as we all know, this would not change the momentum of the game.

As Expected South Africa won the second test match by huge 236 runs and one inning remaining, won the series with 2-0. While chasing down a huge total Zimbabwe team bowled out at just 220 runs. The bowling performance of South Africa bowlers is outstanding especially Corbin Bosch picked four crucial wickets in second innig and Senuran Muthusamy pick up three wickets and assisted South Africa to win this test match by huge margin. The man of The Match is Wiaan Mulder for his incredible betting performance scored tripple century and remian unbeaten after scoring 367 runs. Wiaan Mulder is proper all rounder he also picked 2 wickets in first inning and picked one important wicket in second inning. Zimbabwe needs to make some changes in playing XI if they want to perform well in upcoming matches.

[Farhan99]

As South Africa gave huge target of 626 runs, then surely Zimbabwe were struggling to chase it and in the first innings, they were all out at just 170 runs and then they are coming to bat once again and at 51 runs they were already batting at the loss of one wicket.

I think till tomorrow this match will finish and South Africa will win it one-sidedly according to the current condition. However, if we look at the Zimbabwe team level then we can see quite progress this time as they were trying to build a partnership, but as we all know, this would not change the momentum of the game.

South African were looking really ahead of thier opponent Zimbabwen at current situation, I taught mudler at first inning before innings declare will level the great vivian Richard record of 400 in tes.t but surprisingly 43 runs before the record broke they declare thier innings and thus runied the vital opportunity to be the part of history for a long long time. Anyway it's clear from current situation that may be south African won the match by an innings and few runs or may be if Zimbabwe hardly match the required then may be it will be 10 or 9 wicket in hand victory for South African. Morever with that victory they will officially seal the series too by 2-0.

Yep, In the 2nd Test game the first innings of South Africa became a graphite wall against the two innings of Zimbabwe. South Africa opened the innings with Zorzi and Senokwane who couldn't give a strong start as they lost 2 wickets till 24 runs. No words for the fabulous and mindblowing performance by one down player Wiaan Mulder who scored 367 and the more impressive thing is that he remained not out till the end. Salute to his tremendous performance and his teammates who didn't left him alone making huge partnerships with him and leading the score to 626 runs for 5 wickets. Zimbabwe couldn't imagine how this huge target is going to throw them back in this test game.
 
Zimbabwe opened the innings with zero runs partnership as they were under a high pressure situation which destroyed their senses. Zimbabwe kept losing wickets at short intervals without a major runs contribution and finally it ended up at 170 runs far behind from the target. South Africa let Zimbabwe played follow on and still it failed to make a big difference. The top order score some runs while rest of the batsmen struggled losing wickets at 220 runs. South Africa's played Wiaan Mulder just shocked the world with his fabulous performance.

[As-Soon-As]

Tanjid Hasan and Nazmul Hasan Shanto, these two players, got out very easily and put a lot of pressure on the next batsmen of the Bangladesh team. The fall of 2 wickets in the power play has made the Bangladesh team perform badly, now these two batsmen Parvez Hossain and Towhid Hridoy are at the crease. The players of the Bangladesh team must be patient, because if they win this match, the Bangladesh team will win the ODI series.

The victory of the Bangladesh team depends on the next batsmen of the Bangladesh team, today the Sri Lanka team performed well in batting and gave the Bangladesh team a target of 285 runs. It is easy for the Bangladesh team to meet the target of 285 runs but they have to perform with patience, let's see how much the Bangladesh team is able to snatch the victory in the end?

[virasog]

It is a mockery of test cricket. The ICC need to grow a pair of balls, and prohibit Zimbabwe from playing against tier-1 test nations. What is the purpose of matches such as this one? Do we really want Brian Lara's record (made against England at St John's) broken by someone like Wiaan Mulder? I have nothing personal against Mulder. But this was one of his easiest innings. Even South African domestic cricket has better quality bowlers when compared to what he faced in this match.

I think Wiaan Mulder and the South Africa missed the golden chance to take down the record of Brain Lara in this match. He was not out and the South African team management decided to declare the innings. Had he been allowed to continue, who knows the Brain Lara record would have been broken. Mulder was not far away from the Lara's Record of 400 not out runs.

Anyways, South Africa won this test by an innings and 236 runs. This is not the end as South Africa will be playing T20 match series with Zimbabwe and we may see chances of some records being broken there as well.

[Compromise me]

You are saying it is difficult for Zimbabwe to chase this score, i would say it is close to impossible for them. Although they had a decent start to the batting in the 2nd innings with Takudzwanashe Kaitano still batting on 34, but they still trail by 405 runs. It is almost impossible for them to first level the score and then take the lead with just 9 wickets in hand.

It is just a matter of how long the Zimbabwe team can survive. Sean Williams had a good innings in the last innings and also some batting were shown by the middle order. It would be interesting to see how Zimbabwe starts the game tomorrow.

After seeing poor batting of Zimbabwe in first innings its now clear that they won't be able to avoid an innings defeat. Zimbabwe score is 51/1 in second innings while in first innings they lost four wickets when score was 51 runs. If Sean Williams has not scored 83 runs in first innings then Zimbabwe won't be able to score even 100 runs in first innings. Zimbabwe batsmen must try to stay on pitch and try to score as many runs as possible to boost their confidence against top test teams. This series is going to be 2-0 and SA unlucky that this series is not part of WTC.  

Zimbabwe team performed very badly in the first innings, mainly South Africa batsman Mulder scored 367 runs alone. Zimbabwe team is not able to keep wickets, Zimbabwe team is going to lose this match safely. In the second innings, Zimbabwe team lost 1 wicket for 51 runs, so there is a possibility of losing more wickets.
If we observe in the first innings of Zimbabwe team, then they started losing wickets quickly, if the same situation happens in the second innings, then the players of Zimbabwe team will definitely be forced to lose by a huge margin. Due to losing wickets, Zimbabwe team is only facing huge pressure, due to which Zimbabwe team lacks patient batsmen.

For the supporter of the Zimbabwe team, I think that Zimbabwe is not to win the game, that is 100 percent true but they could come closer, they have to make partnership here as we have seen that Takudzwanashe Kaitano played at 40 off 76 balls that is good performance especially as compare to the previous innings where he score less than 10 runs.

He is out early so let's see what is going to be happen further, just hopping that at least they come close and it would be so great and big achievement even if they just come to lead and that is it, still losing the game in that condition but it made them feel motivate and confident for the further games against low teams.

South Africa International test cricket team performance was very well in the second test also and they won the match by an inning and 236 score. Zimbabwe International test cricket team could make only 220 runs in the second inning and we saw first inning in which they made only 170 runs . No batter could be successful to draw this match. We know that score was big but they should try to stay on pitch which could make them best team . Mulder was best player of the match because he made 367 runs in this match which is very big inning and that team is very lucky in which that kind of big players exist and Zimbabwe cricket team has no that kind of players which was the reason of their loss in this match.

[Tipstar]

As predicted by many, South Africa won the 2nd test match against Zimbabwe with 1 innings and 236 runs. i.e. they made 236 runs more in a single innings than Zimbabwe made in two innings. Zimbabwe is no match for South Africa and it is going to be a long humiliating series for them. Zimbabwe might be happy playing against a strong team but with such large difference in playing style and capacity, they are not going to learn much from South Africa. They should have chose easier test teams like Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan to play with.

[Just Common]

Currently, Zimbabwe is performing much worse in cricket than South Africa. At one time, Zimbabwe had the ability to defeat any team. But due to their political situation, cricket is being destroyed in a way. Since then, Zimbabwe has been trying to turn around. And South Africa is currently the Test champion team. And South Africa's cricket structure is much better from which the next players are being produced. Wiaan Mulder was great as a captain in this series. And he did a lot of good as a player, which is why he was named man of the match and man of the series.

[Nalain420]

Yes, Zimbabwe is week team in test cricket they didn't have quality player after retirement of Skanadar raza. Zimbabwe needs to added player like Skanadar Raza in playing Eleven if they want to play test matches against strong side. South Africa's captain wlaan mulder did not break Brian Lara record because he believed that Brian Lara is legend cricketer. wlaan mulder played aggressive and only 34 runs short from breaking the record of lara, but he declared the inning. Corbin Bosch picked one important wicket at start of Zimbabwe second inning. South Africa is going to win the second match very easily because Zimbabwe still have 405 runs trail by After that, they can give a lead and give a target but it doesn't seem like that will happen.

Just as the South African batsmen have set a target in the first innings, their bowling is also playing hard, due to which their hope of winning is full because their opponents Zimbabwe are not playing with any effort and neither will they win the match. Because they have played the first innings in which they scored 170 runs and even if they play well in the second innings and achieve the first innings target, they will lose this match because South Africa will play their second innings while Zimbabwe will not have any innings to score runs again. Due to which they have got a very bad defeat, which is because of their bowler, if they played hard in bowling, then they could have had a lot of chance and hope in winning. South Africa is becoming a very good team that plays hard and also wins the match.

We have got the result of the performance of this Test match in which Zimbabwe played the game with great struggle and won. The Zimbabwe team could not stop them due to which they got a very bad defeat which they did not even imagine. The Zimbabwe team got lost by an innings and 236 runs and it is very sad for them that they played so badly. The players of the Zimbabwe team have improved a little in the second innings compared to their first innings. South Africa has played this game with a lot of struggle and thinking about this victory weakens Zimbabwe. South Africa is very happy with this victory because they have played a lot of pressure and won.The Zimbabwean team has played badly and has weakened itself so much that they are still learning to play.

[Sithara007]

Yes, Zimbabwe is week team in test cricket they didn't have quality player after retirement of Skanadar raza. Zimbabwe needs to added player like Skanadar Raza in playing Eleven if they want to play test matches against strong side. South Africa's captain wlaan mulder did not break Brian Lara record because he believed that Brian Lara is legend cricketer. wlaan mulder played aggressive and only 34 runs short from breaking the record of lara, but he declared the inning. Corbin Bosch picked one important wicket at start of Zimbabwe second inning. South Africa is going to win the second match very easily because Zimbabwe still have 405 runs trail by After that, they can give a lead and give a target but it doesn't seem like that will happen.

First of all, Sikandar Raza was born in Pakistan. He moved to Zimbabwe at an age of 16 years. He spent his childhood in Pakistan and that's where he learnt his game. Zimbabwe Cricket doesn't have much to claim on grooming him. Apart from Raza, the other top performers in Zimbabwe are Nick Welch, Craig Ervine, Sean Williams and Blessing Muzarabani. Apart from Muzarabani, all others are dual citizens and reside outside Zimbabwe most of the time. And this gives an idea about the state of cricket in that country. 
 

[Mahdirakib]

Wiaan Mulder is a cricketer who hasn't gotten a century in an ODI. His highest score in an ODI was 64 from playing 25 matches. On the other hand, he couldn't reach the figure of fift in his T20 career from playing 11 matches. But here we see his best score of 367 runs from Zimbabwe. Here is highlighted the quality of Zimbabwe's test career. How can he get these huge runs from Zimbabwe? The ICC should stop the test cricket performance of Zimbabwe.

I wouldn't say that he was able to score such runs as Zimbabwe was the opponent. Wiaan Mulder hasn't really played a great innings before this match. But we should judge him by observing his performances in the next few series. This match could be the turning point of his career. If he can't perform well in upcoming matches, then we can only say that he was able to score big as the opponent was Zimbabwe.

Wiaan Mulder is in the squad of South Africa as a bowling all-rounder. His batting position was lower middle order in most of the matches (in all formats). You can't expect a lot of runs, fifties and centuries from such position.

[Olatundespo]

Wiaan Mulder is a cricketer who hasn't gotten a century in an ODI. His highest score in an ODI was 64 from playing 25 matches. On the other hand, he couldn't reach the figure of fift in his T20 career from playing 11 matches. But here we see his best score of 367 runs from Zimbabwe. Here is highlighted the quality of Zimbabwe's test career. How can he get these huge runs from Zimbabwe? The ICC should stop the test cricket performance of Zimbabwe.

I wouldn't say that he was able to score such runs as Zimbabwe was the opponent. Wiaan Mulder hasn't really played a great innings before this match. But we should judge him by observing his performances in the next few series. This match could be the turning point of his career. If he can't perform well in upcoming matches, then we can only say that he was able to score big as the opponent was Zimbabwe.

Wiaan Mulder is in the squad of South Africa as a bowling all-rounder. His batting position was lower middle order in most of the matches (in all formats). You can't expect a lot of runs, fifties and centuries from such position.

Such talented players can play a very important role for every team as Wiaan Mulder has done. When the top players of the team fail and cannot score runs, talented players like him take the team's lead and take the team to a respectable position by batting responsibly. Zimbabwe, who are already a weak team in Test cricket, played relatively well against South Africa but they were mostly behind in terms of experience. This match may be an important turning point for Wiaan Mulder and his name will be written brightly in the history of Test cricket but he should try to continue his concentration and hard work to maintain his personal performance.

The next matches are very important for him to keep going his ability and prove how strong he can maintain his position next to the legends. Playing well against weak opponents was a good thing for him but he should be praised for taking the team to a good position from a position where the top position batsmen failed.