Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Nothingtodo]

The way New Zealand are batting against Zimbabwe, if they bat for a full day without declaring their innings, their first innings total will be more than 700 runs. I think if New Zealand try to take their first innings total to over 1000 runs, I think it is possible for them because their batting looks like they are under no pressure and they are seeing every ball of Zimbabwe very well, which is why they are able to score runs easily against Zimbabwe. It is certain that Zimbabwe will lose this match by an innings and a big margin. However, Zimbabwe should have performed better in batting and bowling in the second Test match because they are not that bad a team.

There is no authority in playing such an innings of 602 runs against a weak opponent. If it was against a strong team, then it would certainly have deserved applause. Three New Zealand players have scored more than 150 runs so far, meaning they should have declared their innings with 500 runs. In fact, no Zimbabwean player managed to score even fifty runs in their first innings, while New Zealand had three batsmen score 150 runs on the same wicket.

[noormcs5]

105 overs 463 runs with the lost of just 3 wickets Rachin Ravindra is heading for century most chances this match is going to be end tomorrow before tea they have no depth in batting which can bring themselves on level with New Zealand hopefully now ICC will be gone ahead with their new plan of bringing tier system which will increase some entertainment in this format and these teams will also try to bring improvement.

New Zealand have made 600 runs and only lost three wickets. Henry Nicholls is batting on 150 while Rachin Ravindra is batting on 165. Although NZ can declare the innings now and win the match easily but i guess they should give both of these batsmen a chance to make 200 runs. There is still plenty of time left in the game. We are still on day 02 of this match, so New Zealand can bat the whole day tomorrow also and make new records for themselves.  

[tsaroz]

105 overs 463 runs with the lost of just 3 wickets Rachin Ravindra is heading for century most chances this match is going to be end tomorrow before tea they have no depth in batting which can bring themselves on level with New Zealand hopefully now ICC will be gone ahead with their new plan of bringing tier system which will increase some entertainment in this format and these teams will also try to bring improvement.

New Zealand have made 600 runs and only lost three wickets. Henry Nicholls is batting on 150 while Rachin Ravindra is batting on 165. Although NZ can declare the innings now and win the match easily but i guess they should give both of these batsmen a chance to make 200 runs. There is still plenty of time left in the game. We are still on day 02 of this match, so New Zealand can bat the whole day tomorrow also and make new records for themselves.  

Rachin Ravindra Came later, faced fewer balls than Henry Nicholls but with his T20 like batting has made 165 with a strike rate of 118.7. They know they have won it and they are now going for individual records. They have made a score of 601 and I won't be surprised if they plan to take the score to 1000 which is possible against Zimbabwe as both of these players would come rested tomorrow and they'd still have 7 more wickets. And even if they played whole day tomorrow, they would easily win the game. The largest score in an innings till date is 952 and the highest for New Zealand is 715. We might see it breaking tomorrow.

[WatChe]

There is no authority in playing such an innings of 602 runs against a weak opponent. If it was against a strong team, then it would certainly have deserved applause. Three New Zealand players have scored more than 150 runs so far, meaning they should have declared their innings with 500 runs. In fact, no Zimbabwean player managed to score even fifty runs in their first innings, while New Zealand had three batsmen score 150 runs on the same wicket.

New Zealand batsmen are only improving their batting stats in this test. The lead of New Zealand in first innings is 476 runs at the end of day 2. It's now clear that an innings defeat is waiting for Zimbabwe in this test match because their batting is not good enough to score that much runs. It's also time for ICC to think whether Zimbabwe be given test matches against top test sides. Zimbabwe has been given so many chances but quality of their cricket is not improving.

[JSRAW]

Henry Nicholls and Rachin Ravindra already touched 150 runs milestone and it was a 2nd day, now kiwi skipper has a chance of doing something funny and bat long, very long. People will call it statpadding but who cares?

Give their batters a chance to break individual records. Would be funny if both not out batters goes to score 400.

[Nothingtodo]

There is no authority in playing such an innings of 602 runs against a weak opponent. If it was against a strong team, then it would certainly have deserved applause. Three New Zealand players have scored more than 150 runs so far, meaning they should have declared their innings with 500 runs. In fact, no Zimbabwean player managed to score even fifty runs in their first innings, while New Zealand had three batsmen score 150 runs on the same wicket.

New Zealand batsmen are only improving their batting stats in this test. The lead of New Zealand in first innings is 476 runs at the end of day 2. It's now clear that an innings defeat is waiting for Zimbabwe in this test match because their batting is not good enough to score that much runs. It's also time for ICC to think whether Zimbabwe be given test matches against top test sides. Zimbabwe has been given so many chances but quality of their cricket is not improving.

Already have a lead of 476 runs with just two days of the Test having been played. There are still three days left in this Test, and if New Zealand can bat on the third day, it can definitely be said that the run rate will reach 1000-1100 runs. However, New Zealand is likely to declare by batting until the first session of the third day. However, it is 100% certain that Zimbabwe is looking forward to another one-innings defeat.

[Nalain420]

The way New Zealand are batting against Zimbabwe, if they bat for a full day without declaring their innings, their first innings total will be more than 700 runs. I think if New Zealand try to take their first innings total to over 1000 runs, I think it is possible for them because their batting looks like they are under no pressure and they are seeing every ball of Zimbabwe very well, which is why they are able to score runs easily against Zimbabwe. It is certain that Zimbabwe will lose this match by an innings and a big margin. However, Zimbabwe should have performed better in batting and bowling in the second Test match because they are not that bad a team.

Zimbabwe is a mediocre team due to which they are not succeeding in the match. If they play an innings with good performance and weaken New Zealand, then it can be easy for them to win. At this time, New Zealand players have scored 601, which is actually playing with a very strong performance and struggle. If Zimbabwe remains weak in the same way, then they will have to lose this entire series, which will make them unsuccessful and very weak. There is no pressure on New Zealand's performance. Even if they do not score that many scores, looking at the 601 score, we are seeing their 3 wickets out, which shows that they are not under pressure from Zimbabwe's bowling. If New Zealand plays, then more than 1000 scores can be made, which can be a shame for Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe should end the match before that, so that they can prepare for the next match with a better performance.

[Haunebu]

Henry Nicholls and Rachin Ravindra already touched 150 runs milestone and it was a 2nd day, now kiwi skipper has a chance of doing something funny and bat long, very long. People will call it statpadding but who cares?

Give their batters a chance to break individual records. Would be funny if both not out batters goes to score 400.

At this rate, Zimbabwe will end up declaring and quitting instead of waiting for the Kiwis to do it themselves since this is just absurd. The ICC is trying hard to reduce test cricket popularity through these sort of matchups.

The only cricket matches that I am interested in these days are T20 ones and big team test matches. I couldn't care less about ODIs and these ridiculous test matchups.

[dezoel]

Henry Nicholls and Rachin Ravindra already touched 150 runs milestone and it was a 2nd day, now kiwi skipper has a chance of doing something funny and bat long, very long. People will call it statpadding but who cares?

Give their batters a chance to break individual records. Would be funny if both not out batters goes to score 400.

476 runs lead on board with three batsmen score big centuries now what more you want I have strong feeling tomorrow Zimbabwe will start their second inning and New Zealand will finish this match before tea and try to take some good off the field enjoyment.

They already punish minor Zimbabwe with iron hammer and this is enough for them in last few weeks they already have enough punishment for their desire to play test against big countries like South Africa and New Zealand they have their lesson. Now it's good time for accepting their apologizes and allowing them to do their stuff on domestic level with play some good T20is as well because with this quality and performance they have not deserved to be had test status and done things like these.

[Swordsoffreedom]

476 runs lead on board with three batsmen score big centuries now what more you want I have strong feeling tomorrow Zimbabwe will start their second inning and New Zealand will finish this match before tea and try to take some good off the field enjoyment.

New Zealand should declare their innings now. New Zealand have scored 601 runs for the loss of just 3 wickets. New Zealand are leading by 476 runs. And Zimbabwe have no chance of scoring 476 runs in the second innings. It can be said for sure that New Zealand is going to win this match by an innings.

Opener Devon Conway has scored 153 runs. Zimbabwe bowlers have also failed to take the wickets of Rachin Ravindra and Henry Nicholls. Both are unbeaten at the crease with 165 and 150 runs respectively. Interestingly, Rachin Ravindra is unbeaten with 165 runs off 139 balls. He is batting at a strike rate of 118. New Zealand have scored 257 runs from this pair. This is a very boring Test match. Both Zimbabwe's batting and bowling order have performed poorly.

[virasog]

Henry Nicholls and Rachin Ravindra already touched 150 runs milestone and it was a 2nd day, now kiwi skipper has a chance of doing something funny and bat long, very long. People will call it statpadding but who cares?

Give their batters a chance to break individual records. Would be funny if both not out batters goes to score 400.

I think when we expect too much from these two batsmen, they may get out early tomorrow morning. 

However, I also think that the New Zealand camp should not declare the innings unless these two batsmen lose their wickets. Who knows if some records get broken. Whatever the records get broken, the credit should not go to the NZ batsmen but to the weak Zimbabwe bowlers who looks no better than the club bowlers.

[Mahdirakib]

Henry Nicholls and Rachin Ravindra already touched 150 runs milestone and it was a 2nd day, now kiwi skipper has a chance of doing something funny and bat long, very long. People will call it statpadding but who cares?
Give their batters a chance to break individual records. Would be funny if both not out batters goes to score 400.

New Zealand players, coaches and team managers know it very well that they have enough lead already to win the match by an innings. They are still batting to add a new milestone to their highest run club. But I doubt that they will be able to take it above 300 runs. Rachin Ravindra is playing a quick innings though. New Zealand should declare their innings if both Henry Nicholls and Rachin Ravindra get out.

There isn't really anything to proud of after making records against the current Zimbabwean team. South African players Wiaan Mulder was close to 400 runs against them a few weeks ago. They had declared the innings instead of breaking the records.

[Cheema02]

New Zealand have made 600 runs and only lost three wickets. Henry Nicholls is batting on 150 while Rachin Ravindra is batting on 165. Although NZ can declare the innings now and win the match easily but i guess they should give both of these batsmen a chance to make 200 runs. There is still plenty of time left in the game. We are still on day 02 of this match, so New Zealand can bat the whole day tomorrow also and make new records for themselves.  

Yes, There is good chances of New Zealand scores 1000 runs total in first inning because they have 7 wickets in hands. New Zealand lead by more then 470 runs. New Zealand played very outstanding three New Zealand batsmen scored one hundred and fifty runs. From Zimbra Blessing Muzarabani bowl good but only picked one crucial wicket of Devon Conway.Trevor Gwandu also pick up one wicket of will Young at 74 runs, unfortunately they missed a well deserved century by few runs short. Now the fourth wickets partnership between Rachin Ravindra and Henry Nicholls is more them 250 runs. I think New Zealand should declare their inning because its very different for Zimbabwe to get back in this test match

[Bitcoin Smith]

Henry Nicholls and Rachin Ravindra already touched 150 runs milestone and it was a 2nd day, now kiwi skipper has a chance of doing something funny and bat long, very long. People will call it statpadding but who cares?

Give their batters a chance to break individual records. Would be funny if both not out batters goes to score 400.

At this rate, Zimbabwe will end up declaring and quitting instead of waiting for the Kiwis to do it themselves since this is just absurd. The ICC is trying hard to reduce test cricket popularity through these sort of matchups.

The only cricket matches that I am interested in these days are T20 ones and big team test matches. I couldn't care less about ODIs and these ridiculous test matchups.

Playing test match itself a pride and Zimbabwe attainted the status so they deserved to play as long as it needs. And yeah it looks pretty absurd to watch but for the Zimbabwe's perspective they should be happy with more game time and it also comes with a top team and that's how they can gain experience and progress to the next level.

We have T20 all round the year and definitely the dynamics of changing and in a decade or two we may have more competition than just 6 or 8 teams.

[ZAINmalik75]

New Zealand batsmen are only improving their batting stats in this test. The lead of New Zealand in first innings is 476 runs at the end of day 2. It's now clear that an innings defeat is waiting for Zimbabwe in this test match because their batting is not good enough to score that much runs. It's also time for ICC to think whether Zimbabwe be given test matches against top test sides. Zimbabwe has been given so many chances but quality of their cricket is not improving.

As expected new Zealand able to scored 500+ and now it's enough lead for them to beat Zimbabwe by and innings and few runs, as we have seen they hardly able to scored 200 around so kiwi should windup things to declare thier innings and allow thier opponent to bat in order to get the expected results. Now lead has raised to 450+ and still three more days to go for new Zealand to bat and make some handosme records, they way proteas done against Zimbabwe back at thier recent billtral series. Now that's completely shit to watch such one side matches hope things will be ended as soon as after black caps declare thier innings after 800.

[Crypto Library]

As expected new Zealand able to scored 500+ and now it's enough lead for them to beat Zimbabwe by and innings and few runs, as we have seen they hardly able to scored 200 around so kiwi should windup things to declare thier innings and allow thier opponent to bat in order to get the expected results. Now lead has raised to 450+ and still three more days to go for new Zealand to bat and make some handosme records, they way proteas done against Zimbabwe back at thier recent billtral series. Now that's completely shit to watch such one side matches hope things will be ended as soon as after black caps declare thier innings after 800.

I think this match does not need to continue. Considering that New Zealand has already scored 601 runs and they have 7 more wickets left in their hand, I also believe that they can score 800 runs. Rather, they could have scored more if they had time.

I think this game is just a waste of time for both teams. It is almost guaranteed that New Zealand will win the entire series, and that too through this kind of performance.  However, for the New Zealand team and their players, this match could be a means of recording a lot. Even the unbelievers can record a run score.

[Farhan99]

The way New Zealand are batting against Zimbabwe, if they bat for a full day without declaring their innings, their first innings total will be more than 700 runs. I think if New Zealand try to take their first innings total to over 1000 runs, I think it is possible for them because their batting looks like they are under no pressure and they are seeing every ball of Zimbabwe very well, which is why they are able to score runs easily against Zimbabwe. It is certain that Zimbabwe will lose this match by an innings and a big margin. However, Zimbabwe should have performed better in batting and bowling in the second Test match because they are not that bad a team.

Yeah day 2 in the second test game, Zimbabwe got knocke dout at 125 runs while the New Zealand scored 601 runs with the loss of just 3 wickets and still playing. Zimbabwe lost first wicket at 1 runs then wickets loss kept going at 83 runs Mew Zealand knocked out 5 players which shwos the powerful howling by new zealand. New zealand wiped out Zimbabwe at 125 runs knocking all players at just small target. New Zeland is stronger many timess than zimbabwe so they hitted zimbabwe boundaries at short itnervsls. Zimbabwe couldn't knock out players in the start so new zealand set a aprtnership of 162 runs at first wicket lossz the second wikcet down was at 235 rusn which show the disciplined batting by new zealand. New Zealand lost 3 wickets and scored. A tremendous huge score of 601 runs.

[hafiztalha]

The way New Zealand are batting against Zimbabwe, if they bat for a full day without declaring their innings, their first innings total will be more than 700 runs. I think if New Zealand try to take their first innings total to over 1000 runs, I think it is possible for them because their batting looks like they are under no pressure and they are seeing every ball of Zimbabwe very well, which is why they are able to score runs easily against Zimbabwe. It is certain that Zimbabwe will lose this match by an innings and a big margin. However, Zimbabwe should have performed better in batting and bowling in the second Test match because they are not that bad a team.

Zimbabwe is a mediocre team due to which they are not succeeding in the match. If they play an innings with good performance and weaken New Zealand, then it can be easy for them to win. At this time, New Zealand players have scored 601, which is actually playing with a very strong performance and struggle. If Zimbabwe remains weak in the same way, then they will have to lose this entire series, which will make them unsuccessful and very weak. There is no pressure on New Zealand's performance. Even if they do not score that many scores, looking at the 601 score, we are seeing their 3 wickets out, which shows that they are not under pressure from Zimbabwe's bowling. If New Zealand plays, then more than 1000 scores can be made, which can be a shame for Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe should end the match before that, so that they can prepare for the next match with a better performance.

No chance for Zimbabwe team to beat this 600+ big scores and they already played their 1 st turn very poorly and they made only 125 runs. Today 2 nd day of 2 nd test game was completed and New Zealand team made total 601 runs and lost only 3 wickets. Devon, Henry and Rachin these batsmen completed brilliant century from New Zealand and Devon wicket was lost and he made 153 runs in 245 balls and hitted eighteen 4s. Henry and Rachin both is still playing their line and both showing good help to make very good runs. Henry scored 150 runs in 245 balls and hitted fifteen 4s. Rachin is also making good progress and he scored 165 runs in 139 runs ans hitting twenty one 4s and two 6s. This game will win easily New Zealand team with big margin.

[fuguebtc]

No chance for Zimbabwe team to beat this 600+ big scores and they already played their 1 st turn very poorly and they made only 125 runs. Today 2 nd day of 2 nd test game was completed and New Zealand team made total 601 runs and lost only 3 wickets. Devon, Henry and Rachin these batsmen completed brilliant century from New Zealand and Devon wicket was lost and he made 153 runs in 245 balls and hitted eighteen 4s. Henry and Rachin both is still playing their line and both showing good help to make very good runs. Henry scored 150 runs in 245 balls and hitted fifteen 4s. Rachin is also making good progress and he scored 165 runs in 139 runs ans hitting twenty one 4s and two 6s. This game will win easily New Zealand team with big margin.

Since Zimbabwe scored only 125 runs in the first innings. I would say that the team can score up to 250 in the second innings. However, I think Zimbabwe will lose all their wickets before they score 200.

New Zealand scored 601 runs. And the team lost only 3 wickets. New Zealand should have declared the innings. Probably New Zealand will not declare the innings until they lose the wickets of Rachin Ravindra and Henry Nicholls. Rachin Ravindra is at the crease with 165 runs and Nichollss has scored 150 runs. Rachin Ravindra's batting looks like this is an ODI match. Ravindra is batting quite aggressively. Let's see how New Zealand starts the third day. I will not be surprised if both Nichols and Ravindra score double centuries.

[Just Common]

New Zealand's batting will be eye-catching. Because everyone is getting runs and 3 players are touching 3 figures. I can say that they have a great batting line-up. Zimbabwe's chances of winning this match are very low. Zimbabwe bowlers could not take wickets properly. Now it is to be seen whether New Zealand will give Rachin Ravindra and Henry Nicholls a chance to score double centuries or declare the innings.