Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[CryptoYar]

Bangladesh had displayed excesses of patience and bought their long term plans right in middle of both games and Pak batch could not hold candle against them in pressure events, allowing them to capitulate in most important moments.

It is important to note that, I think current crop of Pakistan players may not be poorer in skills, but they are definitely poor in participating in match and creating chemistry within team. There has to be all round effort over five days, otherwise you can not win Test matches with patches of good looking. However, Bangladesh is now there as their bowlers show much of grit and desire to do their job well, while Pakistan is still highly inconsistent with their performance partly being reflection of nonchalant intentions in field and problems in T20 selection. payers will remain on the decline if they don't looktart caring more about putting in the work and executing the play than becoming a star.

[JSRAW]

Pakistan has lost the match by 78 runs. The pitch had slowly become good for batting. Bangladesh has their next test series against Australia after a few months. Bangladesh will lose against Australia in the same way as they won against Pakistan.

The pitch had uneven bounce and was not an easy pitch to bat on. This is the second consecutive series whitewash win for Bangladesh against Pakistan, and it is historic.

Nah pitch eased out quite a lot as match progressed and scoreboard suggest that and it reads 278, 232, 390 and 358.

You don't score 350+ in last 2 innings of test when pitch is spitting cobras. Ofc 4th-5th day pitches will have its own character but it wasn't  bad.

[laspol65]

Pakistan batting performance was indeed a lot better than the expectation in the 2nd innings. Rizwan was the only hope for them, but he couldn't make it to the victory. There was a lot of pressure on him, Bangladesh players were also sledging him a lot. Pakistan has lost the match by 78 runs. The pitch had slowly become good for batting.

Pakistan team performed very well in this match but they were not able to win despite good performance. As a result, Pakistan team lost to Bangladesh by 78 runs, Bangladesh team's bowling pressure was very high. But after Mohammad Rizwan, no other reliable batsman of Pakistan team could perform well.
Rizwan scored 94 runs in 166 balls, his patience did not help Pakistan team win. However, if Mohammad Rizwan could build a partnership with a reliable batsman, then there was definitely a possibility of winning this match.

Bangladesh has their next test series against Australia after a few months. Bangladesh will lose against Australia in the same way as they won against Pakistan.

Bangladesh can win against weaker teams, but we still have to be concerned about Bangladesh winning. Australia is an aggressive team in the cricket world, so Bangladesh will definitely perform like a child against Australia. Bangladesh will definitely lose consecutively and if you bet on Australia in this series, it will definitely be possible to win.

[Mask.x]

Bangladesh had displayed excesses of patience and bought their long term plans right in middle of both games and Pak batch could not hold candle against them in pressure events, allowing them to capitulate in most important moments.

It is important to note that, I think current crop of Pakistan players may not be poorer in skills, but they are definitely poor in participating in match and creating chemistry within team. There has to be all round effort over five days, otherwise you can not win Test matches with patches of good looking. However, Bangladesh is now there as their bowlers show much of grit and desire to do their job well, while Pakistan is still highly inconsistent with their performance partly being reflection of nonchalant intentions in field and problems in T20 selection. payers will remain on the decline if they don't looktart caring more about putting in the work and executing the play than becoming a star.

Exactly, Bangladesh looked so disciplined and well-prepared in both Test Matches. They were consistent and stuck to their plan. The performance of their batsman and bowlers were outstanding. I also agree that Pakistan's problem is not lack of talent but lack of confidence and consistency and  poor pre-planning. All test matches need hard work and focus but Pakistan team is careless about it.

[BigTarget]

Pakistan batting performance was indeed a lot better than the expectation in the 2nd innings. Rizwan was the only hope for them, but he couldn't make it to the victory. There was a lot of pressure on him, Bangladesh players were also sledging him a lot. Pakistan has lost the match by 78 runs. The pitch had slowly become good for batting. Bangladesh has their next test series against Australia after a few months. Bangladesh will lose against Australia in the same way as they won against Pakistan.

From start to end, Pakistan was looking not comfortable in this test series due to poor selection and internal issues. Their body language was also not perfect for this series. They needed to be done working before it was completely gone from their hands.

Batting was the biggest problem in four innings. While bowling, they have some depth, but they also need good support from spinners, who are not performing as they need to. This could be the lowest level for them, and they are not having the toughest matches to come, which could bring more problems for them. Losing by 78 runs is still good because I was expecting a big defeat for them in this match after conceding enough runs in the second inning.

[virasog]

Pakistan team batted much well in second innings compared to what they have done in second innings of last three matches but still they are likely lose this match on last day of the match. To win this match Pakistan need 121 more runs and they now have only 3 wickets in hands. Muhammad Rizwan is still not out on 75 runs but he won't have much support left on other end. Taijul Islam has done the real damage to Pakistan batting in second innings by picking 4 wickets.

Bangladesh won the series, we had a couple of test matches and back-to-back victories for the Bangladesh team, it was an amazing series. By the way, I think that at this stage Bangladesh has understood how Pakistan makes blenders and how to dominate them. Before, in the previous year of 2025, there were a lot of series scheduled between Pakistan and Bangladesh, but those were in T20 format, and Bangladesh easily dominated there, that's why now they are doing the same plans but just in a different format.

[Webetcoins]

Babar Azam is doing pretty well, in the first innings he scored 68 runs and this time he scored 47 runs but the problem I think why he is trying to take the run rate high, why he is playing like one day in test matches, here he just needed to dot the balls and first of all don't look on the balls you played and the runs you scored, the man motive must be to see the team score. It does not matter that you use 10 balls or 100 balls, they just want runs. With a single six and 4 fours, his innings comes to an end. 

Babar Azam's performance and score are not helpful for his team because they lost his season test badly, and now they are having a 4-match losing streak against teams like Bangladesh, which is shameful for them. Batting surely has no depth this is going to be terrible for them in the coming time as well.

They need good test batsmen who can perform in all conditions with good skills and technique. They are available but sadly have no sources to give their best for the Pakistani team due to their poor system.

[vivekdhyani1]

Cricket South Africa (CSA) put less than 1,600 tickets per day on sale for the New Year's Test against England at Newlands, which sold out within minutes on Monday morning. The bulk of the marquee match taking place between January 3 and 7 will be attended by fans who purchase packages from tour groups, who were allocated 39% of the Test's tickets for resale while a further 41% of tickets are tied up in hospitality, complimentary, stakeholder and service allocations.

The end result is that South Africans, starved of red-ball cricket last summer with no home fixtures, who hoped to watch their World Test Champions under the gaze of Table Mountain in early 2027 are likely to be in the minority, as CSA seek to monetise their most popular match.


Newlands Ticket Allocation

39% - International and domestic travel packages
19% - Complimentary tickets allocated to CSA and member sponsors, stakeholders, match officials, visiting and home teams, media, marketing, and service allocations
21% - General hospitality and member complimentary tickets
13% - Released to the public and unreserved seating
2% - Season ticket holders
3% - Restricted areas
1% - Wheelchair users and assistants
1% - Sight screen restricted seating
1% - Reserved backup allocations

[virasog]

They need good test batsmen who can perform in all conditions with good skills and technique. They are available but sadly have no sources to give their best for the Pakistani team due to their poor system.

First of all, Pakistan must change the captain from Shan Masood to someone else. Even though before, when Babar Azam was the captain, Pakistan was still better at the test matches. Shan Masood so far has been the worst and the poorest captain because he doesn't even have an idea what could be the best placement of fielders.

Why was he giving free singles and doubles to the opponent players in test matches? It is test matches where every run costs you, not like T20, where you are happy when the opponent prefers a single. Who used to play big shots in test matches, almost no one. It is very rare to see sixes, and can you believe that Shan Masood once placed all the fielders on the boundary  

[Cointikka]

I checked the ICC World Test Championship ranking and saw that Bangladesh, after this whitewash against Pakistan, has now secured the 5th rank above India. Pakistan is now ranked 8th in the list of 9 teams. Then I checked the ICC Men's Test Cricket Ranking and found out that Bangladesh got 2 points and has risen to 7th position on the table, whereas Pakistan has now gone to the 8th position. This shows how bad Pakistan cricket has now become after years of corruption and supporting the kin and relatives of past players or PCB officials. I would not be surprised if they lose to teams that are far lower or not even considered to be on those two ranking list in Test Cricket.

[BitDiscussion]

Pakistan batting performance was indeed a lot better than the expectation in the 2nd innings. Rizwan was the only hope for them, but he couldn't make it to the victory. There was a lot of pressure on him, Bangladesh players were also sledging him a lot. Rizwan and Sajid Khan started the morning session confidently and when they reduced their deficit to 82 runs, I thought Pakistan had a really good chance to rewrite history.

This partnership made things interesting, yet, remaining on target was enough, where tail-enders always have no consistency to stay on the crease, but still, this was a good effort from them, which allowed them to bring this match into the 5th day. Bangladesh is now having a good performance against Pakistan, but to have better results against other teams, they need to keep working hard and improving their performance.

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I checked the ICC World Test Championship ranking and saw that Bangladesh, after this whitewash against Pakistan, has now secured the 5th rank above India. Pakistan is now ranked 8th in the list of 9 teams. Then I checked the ICC Men's Test Cricket Ranking and found out that Bangladesh got 2 points and has risen to 7th position on the table, whereas Pakistan has now gone to the 8th position. This shows how bad Pakistan cricket has now become after years of corruption and supporting the kin and relatives of past players or PCB officials. I would not be surprised if they lose to teams that are far lower or not even considered to be on those two ranking list in Test Cricket.

Not only for you, I will say that this is a very surprising and also unexpected performance from the Bangladesh in this test series against the Pakistan team.  Not only is this the ICC World Test Championship ranking and also whitewashed against the Pakistan team in the test match. So my expectation also for the Pakistan that they will be win at least in the last test match because in the last test match we saw that the Babar Azam on the Pakistani squad.

However, this Test series was a turning point for the Bangladesh team, both in terms of rankings and in terms of turning back from bad form to good form.

[BigTarget]

I checked the ICC World Test Championship ranking and saw that Bangladesh, after this whitewash against Pakistan, has now secured the 5th rank above India. Pakistan is now ranked 8th in the list of 9 teams. Then I checked the ICC Men's Test Cricket Ranking and found out that Bangladesh got 2 points and has risen to 7th position on the table, whereas Pakistan has now gone to the 8th position. This shows how bad Pakistan cricket has now become after years of corruption and supporting the kin and relatives of past players or PCB officials. I would not be surprised if they lose to teams that are far lower or not even considered to be on those two ranking list in Test Cricket.

No one cares about ranking in PCB because they are doing their job for money and influence. Things are getting worse, with most chances WTC2025/27 could be the worst for the Pakistani team because they have nothing to give a good performance.

They needed too many changes, but no one cared about this. Captaincy is already on parchi, while a few players are consistently giving nothing, but their spots in the national team are cemented due to their links.
Once Bangladesh had the worst record against Pakistan, now they are giving good lessons to them for improvement and having better things, but it's going to be like trash. Bangladesh needs improvement because now their next destination against Australia is not easy.

[welovebit]

I checked the ICC World Test Championship ranking and saw that Bangladesh, after this whitewash against Pakistan, has now secured the 5th rank above India. Pakistan is now ranked 8th in the list of 9 teams. Then I checked the ICC Men's Test Cricket Ranking and found out that Bangladesh got 2 points and has risen to 7th position on the table, whereas Pakistan has now gone to the 8th position. This shows how bad Pakistan cricket has now become after years of corruption and supporting the kin and relatives of past players or PCB officials. I would not be surprised if they lose to teams that are far lower or not even considered to be on those two ranking list in Test Cricket.

Not only for you, I will say that this is a very surprising and also unexpected performance from the Bangladesh in this test series against the Pakistan team.  Not only is this the ICC World Test Championship ranking and also whitewashed against the Pakistan team in the test match. So my expectation also for the Pakistan that they will be win at least in the last test match because in the last test match we saw that the Babar Azam on the Pakistani squad.

However, this Test series was a turning point for the Bangladesh team, both in terms of rankings and in terms of turning back from bad form to good form.

If you are an old cricketing pal, then you never need to be surprised because Pakistan has a history of giving wins like this to many other small cricketing nations. In 1999, Bangladesh had test status just because of Pakistan, while Pakistan also lost against Ireland in another World Cup.
Pakistan lost the test series against Zimbabwe while Pakistan was at its peak with too many big names in the test squad. They always create situations like these to give wins easily. Internal conflicts and personal egos always bring them down in the game. After this, management is also one of the worst in all nations; most are not well aware of cricket, but they are controlling.
Most are expecting this is going to be a turning point for Bangladesh, but I am not expecting it because beating Pakistan has never been a big thing for me in cricket.

[Compromise me]

Pakistan team performed very well in this match but they were not able to win despite good performance. As a result, Pakistan team lost to Bangladesh by 78 runs, Bangladesh team's bowling pressure was very high. But after Mohammad Rizwan, no other reliable batsman of Pakistan team could perform well.
Rizwan scored 94 runs in 166 balls, his patience did not help Pakistan team win. However, if Mohammad Rizwan could build a partnership with a reliable batsman, then there was definitely a possibility of winning this match.

Openers played very bad in this match and they made no runs for the team. Azan Awais is a young player who should not be part of the team and he made only 21 runs in the second inning of the match and he could play well for the team and team could win the match. Azan Awais made 13 runs in the first half of the match and he made total of 34 runs in this match which was very bad quality performance by that team. I will give credit to  Mushfiqur Rahim who made century in a crucial time and he was a person who was dominant in the whole game and he played match winning inning for the team. Shan Masood should try to be patient in that situation but he played bad shot in pressure situation and they lose this match.

[noormcs5]

I agree that the situation look really tough now because day 4 is finish and Pakistan is now 316/7 and rizwan is not out on 75 and sajid khan is also standing on the crease. I think pakistan batted well today they played better than our expectations today . Things are on bagladesh side because Bangladesh just need 3 wickets to win the match but lets see what happens tomorrow

We can see that their mindset isn't focused on winning. Tail Enders, they come and did not play according to the situation or what we were demanding from them. Well at this stage it is Bangla Wash, now Pakistan came back to their home country after losing back to back two test games. There are a lot of mistakes made by the captain, players, field placements, and you just name the mistake, Pakistan made it.  

[Bitcoin_people]

Bangladesh can win against weaker teams, but we still have to be concerned about Bangladesh winning. Australia is an aggressive team in the cricket world, so Bangladesh will definitely perform like a child against Australia. Bangladesh will definitely lose consecutively and if you bet on Australia in this series, it will definitely be possible to win.

The way Bangladesh played against Pakistan, I don't think it was their weakness at all, rather they were very confident. However, Australia is currently one of the strongest teams in cricket, they are in very good form, especially their world-class players are playing really well. Since Bangladesh is going to face Australia in the next match, although the chances of winning here are very low. However, the bowling line of Bangladesh is very good and if they can improve their batting line, then the game against Australia can be very competitive. However, most gamblers will bet on Australia for these matches because the chances of winning here are high.

[noormcs5]

First of all, Pakistan must change the captain from Shan Masood to someone else. Even though before, when Babar Azam was the captain, Pakistan was still better at the test matches. Shan Masood so far has been the worst and the poorest captain because he doesn't even have an idea what could be the best placement of fielders.

Maybe it's the last match for Shan Masood as captain, and it should be. Because his overall record is very bad in the previous few years, even when he was appointed as the captain, many questions arise why this decision was made.

First of all, it does make sense, yeah, he should be a part of test matches, but to be a captain is a very big role and almost everybody was surprised by this decision made by PCB to assign this important role to Shan Masood. Now the question comes, who could be the second option?

[Farhan99]

Pakistan team performed very well in this match but they were not able to win despite good performance. As a result, Pakistan team lost to Bangladesh by 78 runs, Bangladesh team's bowling pressure was very high. But after Mohammad Rizwan, no other reliable batsman of Pakistan team could perform well.
Rizwan scored 94 runs in 166 balls, his patience did not help Pakistan team win. However, if Mohammad Rizwan could build a partnership with a reliable batsman, then there was definitely a possibility of winning this match.

Openers played very bad in this match and they made no runs for the team. Azan Awais is a young player who should not be part of the team and he made only 21 runs in the second inning of the match and he could play well for the team and team could win the match. Azan Awais made 13 runs in the first half of the match and he made total of 34 runs in this match which was very bad quality performance by that team. I will give credit to  Mushfiqur Rahim who made century in a crucial time and he was a person who was dominant in the whole game and he played match winning inning for the team. Shan Masood should try to be patient in that situation but he played bad shot in pressure situation and they lose this match.

The 2 nd test game between Pakistan and Bangladesh finally comes to an end with the historic victory of Bangladesh and after consecutive victory Bangladesh also won this Test Series and becomes the champion. As with the end of day four Pakistan needs just one hundred plus runs and Bangladesh needs just three wickets and Sajid Khan and Muhammad Rizwan was on and in good form with the start of day five Pakistani batters was so good and its feels that Pakistan can easily won this game but the Bangal bowlers are so skillful especially Shoriful Islam was so brilliant and game changer for Bangladesh who took the important wicket of Rizwan and after this wicket Pakistan almost lost the hopes and after Rizwan's wicket the other two wickets was gone early on and Bangladesh won this game and becomes the champion of this test series.

[Bluedrem]

Bangladesh can win against weaker teams, but we still have to be concerned about Bangladesh winning. Australia is an aggressive team in the cricket world, so Bangladesh will definitely perform like a child against Australia. Bangladesh will definitely lose consecutively and if you bet on Australia in this series, it will definitely be possible to win.

The way Bangladesh played against Pakistan, I don't think it was their weakness at all, rather they were very confident. However, Australia is currently one of the strongest teams in cricket, they are in very good form, especially their world-class players are playing really well. Since Bangladesh is going to face Australia in the next match, although the chances of winning here are very low. However, the bowling line of Bangladesh is very good and if they can improve their batting line, then the game against Australia can be very competitive. However, most gamblers will bet on Australia for these matches because the chances of winning here are high.

In fact, in modern cricket, nothing can be said with any force. And since the match with Australia will be held on Bangladeshi soil, it can be assumed in advance that Bangladesh will have some advantage. A few years ago, we saw the strong Australian T20 team being defeated on Bangladeshi soil. Although Australia is coming to Bangladesh with a full-strength team this time, I cannot guarantee Australia's victory [since the match is a cricket match, any result can come here].
However, I do not think that Bangladesh will win as easily against Australia as they did against Pakistan.