Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[tbterryboy]

Incredible fightback from West Indies ongoing right now. They were at 277/6 when Tevin Imlach got out. But now the partnership between Justin Greaves and Kemar Roach has got them to 399/6, that is just 132 runs away from a famous victory. If these two stay there for another hour or so, then a win for West Indies is within reach. Kiwi spinners have failed miserably. Michael Bracewell has figures of 41-6-125-1, while Rachin Ravindra has returned 17-3-63-0. I don't know why Matt Henry didn't bowled today. My guess is that he is facing some sort of injury issue.

After having win at Brisbane in January 2024, this is the biggest achievement for West Indian cricket because this can bring good motivation for them while they are down and out of test cricket for long time due to the worst ever performance.

Justin Greaves, Shai Hope and Kemar Roach give historic performance in this test for having draw from 72 for 4 to 457 to 6 biggest achievement for them middle order and lower middle order frustrate New Zealand in this inning while they were in control from the start of this test match but lost grip on last day. New Zealand needed to be more improve when they will be entered into second test match on 10th December at Wellington as now things are looking interesting for both sides in this series.

[Bluedrem]

England are still 43 runs behind Australia in the second innings of the second Test of the five-match Test series between Australia and England. The third day of play has ended today. Earlier, England were all out for 334 runs in the first innings and Joe Root scored the highest 138 runs for the team in that innings. Later, Australia scored 511 runs in their first innings and all the batsmen were out. Although no one could score a hundred in Australia's first innings, all eight batsmen in the team were excellent. They almost all scored more than 50 runs, resulting in a lead of 177 runs at the end of the first innings. Later, when England came to bat in the second innings, their first six batsmen were out for just 134 runs. England now have four wickets left and England are still 43 runs behind. I don't think England can do anything good in this match. I think England will lose this match.

[Misbah2002]

Poms are 6 down but poor over rate taking its toll in this test match. Wish they could have pushed the final session to extra one hour. The way England was batting, there was possibility of result by tonight.

Last batting pair for poms and still trailing 40-ish runs so its fair to say it's 2-0 to Aussie. Only England had some braincells and not one dimensional approach with the bat and ball. Although main difference is catching in this match.

England face huge set back after Mitchel Stac shines with bowl and bat at Brisbane now another big defeat is waiting for England as they end their third day proceedings on 134 for 6 still trailing by 43 runs Ben Stokes and Will Jacks on crease. Australians done good batting as they end their first inning on 511 no English bowler able to crease problems for them this was big problem for them as their batting and bowling both not working against Australian dominance.

511 runs without any big inning 5 batsmen out fifty plus runs 3 English bowlers concede more than a hundred runs Mitchel Starc is hero with bat and bowl he score 77 runs and now have 8 wickets in match

[synchronym]

England are still 43 runs behind Australia in the second innings of the second Test of the five-match Test series between Australia and England. The third day of play has ended today. Earlier, England were all out for 334 runs in the first innings and Joe Root scored the highest 138 runs for the team in that innings. Later, Australia scored 511 runs in their first innings and all the batsmen were out. Although no one could score a hundred in Australia's first innings, all eight batsmen in the team were excellent. They almost all scored more than 50 runs, resulting in a lead of 177 runs at the end of the first innings. Later, when England came to bat in the second innings, their first six batsmen were out for just 134 runs. England now have four wickets left and England are still 43 runs behind. I don't think England can do anything good in this match. I think England will lose this match.

In the England vs Australia Test match, England was all out for 334 runs in the first innings. In the second innings, 134/6 of 35 overs are being played. Looking at the play of the England team, it is understood that the England team is batting worse in the second innings than the first innings, due to which they have lost six wickets to score 134 runs. The Australian team batted very responsibly in the first innings, due to which Australia was all out for 511 runs in the first innings. No Australian batsman could score a century. However, every batsman batted responsibly, due to which they scored 511 runs. In the England vs Australia Test match, it is understood that Australia will easily win the Test match. Undoubtedly, the Australian team is much stronger than England, so it is natural that the Australian team will win against them. Now it is to be seen how well the England team can bat in the second innings and how many runs can the opponent give to Australia.

[UmerIdrees]

In the England vs Australia Test match, England was all out for 334 runs in the first innings. In the second innings, 134/6 of 35 overs are being played. Looking at the play of the England team, it is understood that the England team is batting worse in the second innings than the first innings, due to which they have lost six wickets to score 134 runs. The Australian team batted very responsibly in the first innings, due to which Australia was all out for 511 runs in the first innings. No Australian batsman could score a century. However, every batsman batted responsibly, due to which they scored 511 runs. In the England vs Australia Test match, it is understood that Australia will easily win the Test match. Undoubtedly, the Australian team is much stronger than England, so it is natural that the Australian team will win against them. Now it is to be seen how well the England team can bat in the second innings and how many runs can the opponent give to Australia.

This is going to be an easy win for the Aussies. England did not bat well in the 2nd innings and lost six wickets when they only have 134 runs on the board. This is not how you bat in a test match and this sort of performance isn't expected by the England team. There were so many big names in the team like Ben Duckett and Joe Root but none of them could bat for long.

[MFahad]

Early batters of the team Australia provided the good start to the team in their first innings. Travis Head got out on 33 but the top order mainly Jake Weatherald and Marnus Labuschagne making a great kind of partnership, that helped the team. On the other hand if we talk about the start for the England team, they lost early two wickets, two got on duck but then a great man arrived, that was Joe Root, who with an outstanding knock.

Anyway the difference is that the middle order of Australia is also doing well but the thing I noticed they are playing with the attacking mindset, which results in good in some situations and often bad, so they have to worry about it because England had experienced the same in the first innings losing quick wickets.

Australia team is in a well position With lead of 44 runs. Australia team reached 378 for 6. Autralia batsman Jake Weatherald made 72 runs and Marnus Labuschagne made 65 runs in their first innings. Australia batsman showed their brilliant performance with fantastic runs. While England team Batsman Joe Root made 138 runs but others batsman struggled earlier and were bowled out on 334 runs. England bowler Brydon Carse work hard and pickup 3 Wicket's in this match. but Australia team batsman continued to dominate. Australia team looks in comfortable position. The match is nicley balanced and Day 4 will be very important for Eng team's. Weather England team can fight back or Australia win comfortably.

[synchronym]

In the England vs Australia Test match, England was all out for 334 runs in the first innings. In the second innings, 134/6 of 35 overs are being played. Looking at the play of the England team, it is understood that the England team is batting worse in the second innings than the first innings, due to which they have lost six wickets to score 134 runs. The Australian team batted very responsibly in the first innings, due to which Australia was all out for 511 runs in the first innings. No Australian batsman could score a century. However, every batsman batted responsibly, due to which they scored 511 runs. In the England vs Australia Test match, it is understood that Australia will easily win the Test match. Undoubtedly, the Australian team is much stronger than England, so it is natural that the Australian team will win against them. Now it is to be seen how well the England team can bat in the second innings and how many runs can the opponent give to Australia.

This is going to be an easy win for the Aussies. England did not bat well in the 2nd innings and lost six wickets when they only have 134 runs on the board. This is not how you bat in a test match and this sort of performance isn't expected by the England team. There were so many big names in the team like Ben Duckett and Joe Root but none of them could bat for long.

Agreed, England batted fairly responsibly in the first innings, if they could have batted responsibly in the second innings as well, then maybe they could have performed competitively against Australia. The way England is performing in the second innings, it seems that Australia is going to win the Test match one-sidedly. England's bowlers also did not perform that well, if they could have performed well, then they would have definitely restricted Australia to fewer runs in the first innings. Undoubtedly, if the strong team Australia wants to win the Test match against them, then England will have to perform well in both responsible batting and bowling, otherwise it will never be possible to win the Test match against Australia.

[Farhan99]

New Zealand vs. West Indies 1st Test is now on the last day with New Zealand in good position after setting enormous target of 531 runs but West Indies fought on Day 4 and still fighting on Day 5. There were a hope but he is now out. He was playing really well and trying to pull West Indies to victory but unfortunately he got out I am talking about Shai hop. Who made a great century. He made 140 runs. West Indies still fighting well and they have made 368 runs and 4 wickets left. 163 runs remaining to win. I think West Indies should focus to keep their wickets safe if they want to win or draw the match.

Yeah, in test game between New Zealand and West Indies at the end of day 5 West Indies scored 457 with loss of 6 wickets and the game was drawn. At the end of the day 4 West Indies in its second inning scores 212 runs with the loss of 4 wickets. Day 5 starts with the second inning of West indies and Shai Hope was in Grate form and scores a well inning of 140 runs and also an unbreakable inning of  202 runs  Played  by Justin Greaves put the soul in West Indies fans. Because during second inning Wedt indies seems to be struggling but the well inning of Justin gtaves release the pressure save the west indies team from losing the match and at the end of day 5 West indies scores 457 runs with loss of 6 wickets and match was drawn.

[WatChe]

After having win at Brisbane in January 2024, this is the biggest achievement for West Indian cricket because this can bring good motivation for them while they are down and out of test cricket for long time due to the worst ever performance.

Justin Greaves, Shai Hope and Kemar Roach give historic performance in this test for having draw from 72 for 4 to 457 to 6 biggest achievement for them middle order and lower middle order frustrate New Zealand in this inning while they were in control from the start of this test match but lost grip on last day. New Zealand needed to be more improve when they will be entered into second test match on 10th December at Wellington as now things are looking interesting for both sides in this series.

Yesterday I wrote here that it looks difficult for West Indies to win this game because their 4 wickets were down and they still required 319 runs to win the match on last day. West Indies didn't won the game but they were able to draw the game, which is a big achievement. The credit for this draw goes to batting of Shai hope and Justin Greaves. West Indies need to maintain this spirit in upcoming matches to improve there test ranking. West Indies have played 6 test in current WTC and this is there first draw while they have lost 5 test matches.  

[B2Z]

In the England vs Australia Test match, England was all out for 334 runs in the first innings. In the second innings, 134/6 of 35 overs are being played. Looking at the play of the England team, it is understood that the England team is batting worse in the second innings than the first innings, due to which they have lost six wickets to score 134 runs. The Australian team batted very responsibly in the first innings, due to which Australia was all out for 511 runs in the first innings. No Australian batsman could score a century. However, every batsman batted responsibly, due to which they scored 511 runs. In the England vs Australia Test match, it is understood that Australia will easily win the Test match. Undoubtedly, the Australian team is much stronger than England, so it is natural that the Australian team will win against them. Now it is to be seen how well the England team can bat in the second innings and how many runs can the opponent give to Australia.

This is going to be an easy win for the Aussies. England did not bat well in the 2nd innings and lost six wickets when they only have 134 runs on the board. This is not how you bat in a test match and this sort of performance isn't expected by the England team. There were so many big names in the team like Ben Duckett and Joe Root but none of them could bat for long.

Australia is undoubtedly a much stronger team than England, if they want to win the match against them, the England team will have to be good at both their batting and bowling, otherwise they will never be able to win a Test match against the strong Australia. The England team should have batted more carefully. Then the second innings game would have been very competitive. The England team batted fairly well in the first innings but they are not able to bat very well in the second innings. The way they are batting, it seems that they are going to lose the Test match against Australia in a very bad way. They should have batted better against Australia. The way the England team is batting in the second innings, it seems that the game is becoming very one-sided. The Australian team is going to win the Test match very easily without any competition. Australia batted very responsibly in the first innings and they finished the first innings on 511 runs.

[Bitcoin Smith]

Poms are 6 down but poor over rate taking its toll in this test match. Wish they could have pushed the final session to extra one hour. The way England was batting, there was possibility of result by tonight.

Last batting pair for poms and still trailing 40-ish runs so its fair to say it's 2-0 to Aussie. Only England had some braincells and not one dimensional approach with the bat and ball. Although main difference is catching in this match.
 

Bazball made the test match interesting at one point but they are not doing anything much in the recent times, it is getting worse with wrong approach when the situation demands the defensive batting style. Only Root played the traditional batting in the first inning and everything went the wrong way after that. And yeah it is going to be 2-0 now and Bazballers need to stop the bazball and play the actual test match if they want to win matches.

[localalone]

Poms are 6 down but poor over rate taking its toll in this test match. Wish they could have pushed the final session to extra one hour. The way England was batting, there was possibility of result by tonight.

Last batting pair for poms and still trailing 40-ish runs so its fair to say it's 2-0 to Aussie. Only England had some braincells and not one dimensional approach with the bat and ball. Although main difference is catching in this match.
 

Bazball made the test match interesting at one point but they are not doing anything much in the recent times, it is getting worse with wrong approach when the situation demands the defensive batting style. Only Root played the traditional batting in the first inning and everything went the wrong way after that. And yeah it is going to be 2-0 now and Bazballers need to stop the bazball and play the actual test match if they want to win matches.

English cricket system needs good overhaul if they are looking for success in test and T20 both because they are still 25 years behind and their structure fail to produce quality players now they have only Joe Root and Ben Stokes others are just ordinary players without any good skills and technique.
Brendon McCallum bring some good material, but they fail to stay consistent and their approach in Australia not giving positive results most chances tomorrow this test match will be also ended with big win for Australia, and they will be stayed ahead with this win and series is also going to be for them because England bowlers and batsmen completely fail to give anything match winning.

[Rustam Meraj]

The Ashes between Australia and England is on Day 4 of Second Test is live this time and match is likely to be won by the Australians. Australia had scored an enormous 511 runs in their first innings which made England lose all their wickets at 334 runs. As a result, England had to follow on and started Day 4 in a very hard situation at 134 runs with 6 wickets, that is, they are still behind first innings score of Australia by 43 runs. Having just four wickets to go and Ben Stokes fighting with last few batsmen, Australia is in better position now and is strongly trying to get last wickets to win match by innings and gain big 2-0 series lead.

[Swordsoffreedom]

The Ashes between Australia and England is on Day 4 of Second Test is live this time and match is likely to be won by the Australians. Australia had scored an enormous 511 runs in their first innings which made England lose all their wickets at 334 runs. As a result, England had to follow on and started Day 4 in a very hard situation at 134 runs with 6 wickets, that is, they are still behind first innings score of Australia by 43 runs. Having just four wickets to go and Ben Stokes fighting with last few batsmen, Australia is in better position now and is strongly trying to get last wickets to win match by innings and gain big 2-0 series lead.

Stokes and Will jack, england's last hope

England's batsmen are not in good form. Despite scoring 334 runs in the first innings, England depended on the performance of only 2 batsmen. Except Crawley and Root, no other batsman in the squad played well in the first innings. Although Crawley played an innings of 44 runs in the second innings, Root's collection was only 15 runs. England lost 6 wickets for just 128 runs.

Australia performed exceptionally well in the first innings. Almost every batsman in the squad was able to bat well. Mitchell Starc played the highest innings of 77 runs. England's bowlers also did not perform well. As a result, we saw every player in the Australian squad bat well.

At the moment, England's collection is 193/6. England has only managed to take a lead of 16 runs. Stokes and Will Jacks are at the crease. I doubt whether England will be able to add another 50 runs to the scoreboard if they lose these two wickets.

[JSRAW]

Poms are 6 down but poor over rate taking its toll in this test match. Wish they could have pushed the final session to extra one hour. The way England was batting, there was possibility of result by tonight.

Last batting pair for poms and still trailing 40-ish runs so its fair to say it's 2-0 to Aussie. Only England had some braincells and not one dimensional approach with the bat and ball. Although main difference is catching in this match.
 

Bazball made the test match interesting at one point but they are not doing anything much in the recent times, it is getting worse with wrong approach when the situation demands the defensive batting style. Only Root played the traditional batting in the first inning and everything went the wrong way after that. And yeah it is going to be 2-0 now and Bazballers need to stop the bazball and play the actual test match if they want to win matches.

Surprisingly this batting pair using its brain and doing a u-turn on bazball, which situation demands.

If they keep grinding today and adopt the same approach throughout the series then they might have better chance at making a dent on Aussie.

[vivekdhyani1]

Surprisingly this batting pair using its brain and doing a u-turn on bazball, which situation demands.

If they keep grinding today and adopt the same approach throughout the series then they might have better chance at making a dent on Aussie.

The moment that new ball starts hooping under the lights, England's hopes will vanish. It'll take something extraordinary from Stokes and Jacks to rescue them again & i can't see that happening , they need atleast 150 to have any chance even that is far fetched.

[Mandoy]

The Ashes between Australia and England is on Day 4 of Second Test is live this time and match is likely to be won by the Australians. Australia had scored an enormous 511 runs in their first innings which made England lose all their wickets at 334 runs. As a result, England had to follow on and started Day 4 in a very hard situation at 134 runs with 6 wickets, that is, they are still behind first innings score of Australia by 43 runs. Having just four wickets to go and Ben Stokes fighting with last few batsmen, Australia is in better position now and is strongly trying to get last wickets to win match by innings and gain big 2-0 series lead.

Australia have very much overtaken this Test since the first day and the 511 total simply determined the course of the match. The follow-on of our case in England gives us how much farther behind they were, and with four wickets remaining, only, it is no more than a question of postponing victory than actually saving the match. Ben Stokes is again struggling to defend himself, but there is no one on the other end to hold on and so he can do little but extend the innings and prevent a drubbing. In case Australia complete this in the present day, with a 2-0 lead in The Ashes, they will have an enormous mental edge in the rest of the matches. England should make significant gains in the batting in the top order and discipline to remain alive in the series.

[Iranus]

Australia have very much overtaken this Test since the first day and the 511 total simply determined the course of the match. The follow-on of our case in England gives us how much farther behind they were, and with four wickets remaining, only, it is no more than a question of postponing victory than actually saving the match. Ben Stokes is again struggling to defend himself, but there is no one on the other end to hold on and so he can do little but extend the innings and prevent a drubbing. In case Australia complete this in the present day, with a 2-0 lead in The Ashes, they will have an enormous mental edge in the rest of the matches. England should make significant gains in the batting in the top order and discipline to remain alive in the series.

The responsible batting of the Australian batsmen has made the match one- sided. Australia had a huge score of 511 runs. They had secured a huge lead of 177 runs in the first innings itself. Now the bowling is even better from the Australian bowlers. England failed to make a big score in the second innings as well. England had just lost the eighth wicket and could only collect 227 runs. England is ahead by only  50 runs. If england could have given a target of around 200 , then there was a possibility of making the match somewhat  competitive. But the English batsmen failed. An easy victory awaits for  australia.

[noormcs5]

Agreed, England batted fairly responsibly in the first innings, if they could have batted responsibly in the second innings as well, then maybe they could have performed competitively against Australia. The way England is performing in the second innings, it seems that Australia is going to win the Test match one-sidedly. England's bowlers also did not perform that well, if they could have performed well, then they would have definitely restricted Australia to fewer runs in the first innings. Undoubtedly, if the strong team Australia wants to win the Test match against them, then England will have to perform well in both responsible batting and bowling, otherwise it will never be possible to win the Test match against Australia.

England now lead by just 60 runs and they have just one wicket in hand. How many runs can these two players Brydon Carse and Jofra Archer add considering the fact that both of them are not specialized batsmen.

It was a poor display of batting. The captain Ben Stokes made a 50 but then when you look at the score card, three of the best players Ben Duckett, Joe Root and Harry Brook made 15 runs each. With such a batting performance, we can't expect the England team to give a fight. I guess they have already given up on this test match.

[ZAINmalik75]

The Ashes between Australia and England is on Day 4 of Second Test is live this time and match is likely to be won by the Australians. Australia had scored an enormous 511 runs in their first innings which made England lose all their wickets at 334 runs. As a result, England had to follow on and started Day 4 in a very hard situation at 134 runs with 6 wickets, that is, they are still behind first innings score of Australia by 43 runs. Having just four wickets to go and Ben Stokes fighting with last few batsmen, Australia is in better position now and is strongly trying to get last wickets to win match by innings and gain big 2-0 series lead.

I taught English side will show some handsome resistance as they are already lose the previous one, but the contribution add by starc and tail under crushed thier hopes of will, while at English second innings no doubt they lose some early on wicket, but I was expecting stokes and jacks to drag innings as long as possible and add build some worthy partnership in order to make situation little bit spicy, but surprisingly Michael neser sent off rest of thier lineup and now just Aussies has to get the minor 64 target to officially take a twice lead at series and just one more win away to announce them Ashes dominator.