Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[JSRAW]

Stokes! What a proper moron. Legendary cricketer who cannot behave like a decent human being at all which is just sad to see. Am glad ECB sacked him along with Atkinson and I wouldn't be sad if he actually retires like a whiny coward now.

Lets not dwell on what the mainstream media says and judge without knowing the incident. If someone comes to you in a bar and wants a fight and you punch back and you end up being the moron? What are you even talking about.

The media will always sensationalize news when it comes to celebrity and people calling for his retirement are just being stupid. People need to grow some balls and handle the situation rather than crying over these night club fights.

First time, you should give a benefit of doubt but not when it becomes a routine.

They were out drinking late night during a series, which means they broke curfew and went out without informing team managers. Ben stokes is lucky that he didn't get arrested this time, last time he did same drama and got arrested.

And he's not alone, back in his younger days even goody goody and disciplined player like Joe root also got in trouble. Likes of Warner and Root traded some punches to eachother after getting drunk.

This isn't a first time for stokes and possibly won't be a last. He's a repeat offender and has a history of getting into fights after few drinks.

Infact, there are lot of r$ndirona in English circuit over it's drinking culture. Before ashes as well poms under brook did some drama in newzealand, lot of it got buried and he somehow got away with it.

Bhai daru nahi jhel pata hai. Moron is another name for Stokes. With this incident, it is evident how much of a drinking problem he has. I guess the culture in that country is pub-based. Drinks are served on the ground, too; you can buy a drink and watch the game, but do not drink so much that you feel everyone is an enemy. Losing Captaincy for a drinking problem should open his mind, and he needs to put himself in a rehab to recover.

Have no issues with the drinking culture but point is aukat mein rehna chahiye.

Stakeholders in India knows this ki hamare yahan sab 2 peg ke baad fanne kha ban jate hai isiliye daaru toh kya, authorities paani bhi nahi deti stadiums mein lol

[vivekdhyani1]

England's disrupted build-up to the second Test against New Zealand, which begins at The Oval on Wednesday, has continued with news that Ollie Robinson will undergo a scan on knee soreness.

England are already without Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson due to disciplinary reasons and could now lose the services of Robinson, who led the attack at Lord's on his return to Test cricket after two years out of the side, taking career-best match figures of 7 for 77.

Robinson's Sussex team-mate Henry Crocombe, who is uncapped but has featured regularly in recent Lions squads, has been called up as cover.

[Nanga Parbat]

Just a few days left in the second Test match between New Zealand and England. But it will not be the same as before because Kane Williamson has retired from all formats. He took this retirement in the middle of the series. He played the first game at Lord's, where nobody knew it would be his last match. In his last match he scored just 18 runs in total. In the first innings he got out for zero where as in the second innings he scored only 18 runs.

New Zealand must victory this match otherwise they will lose the series victory which will reduce their strength. In this first match, New Zealand did not put in much effort and hard work, although they did not have a very strong target in both the innings, yet their batsmen could not put in enough effort to victory. In all of this, one of their batsmen has gone out, which has weakened the New Zealand team a bit, but the new batsman who comes in can do some good work in New Zealand, so we will see a new effort in the second match. Was it their luck or did they realize that they are not putting in much effort in the team, so they stopped playing cricket after this Test match. That is why they scored only 18 runs in both the innings in this match and if they had played strongly, they could have scored more runs.

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New Zealand must victory this match otherwise they will lose the series victory which will reduce their strength. In this first match, New Zealand did not put in much effort and hard work, although they did not have a very strong target in both the innings, yet their batsmen could not put in enough effort to victory. In all of this, one of their batsmen has gone out, which has weakened the New Zealand team a bit, but the new batsman who comes in can do some good work in New Zealand, so we will see a new effort in the second match. Was it their luck or did they realize that they are not putting in much effort in the team, so they stopped playing cricket after this Test match. That is why they scored only 18 runs in both the innings in this match and if they had played strongly, they could have scored more runs.

Yeap, this match is looks like a do or die match for the New Zealand team in this series. But I think the way they were performing in the recent time there is a low chances to recovering themselves in this match.

However, New Zealand can do a little better than the previous match in other aspects because the ground is changing in this match and the pitch conditions are changing a bit and I think we will see some difference in the performance of the two teams in this case too. However, I don't think the two teams will score low scores like before.

[Ab de villiers]

The Indian batsmen worked hard and made a target in this innings and their bowling was also very tough, which made their target strong. Even if their target had not been increased much, I was sure that they would have succeeded because even 300 runs from the Afghanistan batsmen would not have been able to meet the target. The advantage for India is that they did not have to play a second innings and they victory by giving such a big target. This was their disadvantage if they had paid attention to it and taken the match to the second innings, there were chances for them to complete this match to a considerable extent. They must have realized that their negligence was called. If they pay attention to these things in the next match, it will be beneficial for them.

Indian is very strong and highly competitive team, played against them is not an easy task. Afghanistan played first, Rahmanullah Gurbaz outstandingly played his turn. 102 runs on 51 balls was really good scores. While other players after him were failed to made any significant changes on the scoreboard. Gurbaz wicket was difficult for the Indian but then Nitish Kumar succeeded to take his wickets. Afghanistan posted target of 194 runs that's not difficult for such a world class super team of India.Innings of Shabman Gill proved to be good for the team. Despite Rohit Sharma weak performance Indian team easily chased the target and win the game by 7 wickets. It was the results that audience already expected.

[JSRAW]

England's disrupted build-up to the second Test against New Zealand, which begins at The Oval on Wednesday, has continued with news that Ollie Robinson will undergo a scan on knee soreness.

England are already without Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson due to disciplinary reasons and could now lose the services of Robinson, who led the attack at Lord's on his return to Test cricket after two years out of the side, taking career-best match figures of 7 for 77.

Robinson's Sussex team-mate Henry Crocombe, who is uncapped but has featured regularly in recent Lions squads, has been called up as cover.

Archer still not available for the 2nd test? Thought he joined the team after spending some time in Barbados, his home country.

If pitch is spicy then don't think they'd have any shortage of seamers. Plenty of 130-135 seamers in the county and most of em are extremely effective when pitches are spitting cobras.

[Ab de villiers]

Somerset County and Nottinghamshire encounter each other in test series. Where SOM played it's first or second innings both. They posted 310 and 327 respectively, in both innings SOM has been showing strong performance,  Jordan Hermann outstandingly added 106 runs while Thomas Rew contributed with 108 massive runs. These two provided strong foundation for the match. While Nottinghamshire played first innings in reply, but theirs batsman response were like as they are playing T20 match. Their seriousness for lifting the graph was lack. Only posted 193 runs in first innings. Hence they are now away from 473 runs, all eyes are now on Nottinghamshire players. May be they gave strong comeback or turn the whole game situation.

[AgriTrack]

Somerset County and Nottinghamshire encounter each other in test series. Where SOM played it's first or second innings both. They posted 310 and 327 respectively, in both innings SOM has been showing strong performance,  Jordan Hermann outstandingly added 106 runs while Thomas Rew contributed with 108 massive runs. These two provided strong foundation for the match. While Nottinghamshire played first innings in reply, but theirs batsman response were like as they are playing T20 match. Their seriousness for lifting the graph was lack. Only posted 193 runs in first innings. Hence they are now away from 473 runs, all eyes are now on Nottinghamshire players. May be they gave strong comeback or turn the whole game situation.

This match is being played live right now, which includes the teams of GLA or SUS, in which both the teams got the opportunity to bat twice, in which first the GLA team played their first innings while batting and set a target of 155 for their opponent team. In return, the SUS team scored a score of 521 while batting, out of which the highest score was scored by James Coles, who completed 224 runs and completed his double century. He has proven his batting very well throughout the match, due to which he has been able to score such a good score. He has encouraged his team and shown his strength. Along with this, the GLA team has only scored 12 runs in their second innings because this match is still being played. They still have to set their target in this innings. Now they need to play better than they played in their first innings so that they can score a big score and at the same time keep their wickets strong so that they can play with their hard work.

[vivekdhyani1]

England have been dealt another blow going into the Oval Test against New Zealand with seamer Ollie Robinson ruled out with soreness in his right knee.

The injury comes at an unfortunate time for the 32-year-old Robinson, who had only just fought his way back into the Test side after a two-year absence. The seamer made an immediate impact on his return against New Zealand, finishing with seven wickets in the match, including three in his first over, underlining the qualities that had once made him a key part of England's attack.

Robinson's latest setback also deprives him of another opportunity to answer questions around his durability at the highest level. His previous Test had been in Ranchi in February 2024 where he bowled only 13 overs in the Test and none at all in the second innings. Fitness concerns have been a recurring theme through his international career, and after an encouraging comeback at Lord's, he will now have to wait a little longer to build on it.

[Haunebu]

Lets not dwell on what the mainstream media says and judge without knowing the incident. If someone comes to you in a bar and wants a fight and you punch back and you end up being the moron? What are you even talking about.

The media will always sensationalize news when it comes to celebrity and people calling for his retirement are just being stupid. People need to grow some balls and handle the situation rather than crying over these night club fights.

Incorrect! You need to grow a brain first and do some research. There are literally videos out there showing Stokes adding like a proper child which is highly inappropriate especially when the dude is literally a legend and captain of their test team.

ECB has already removed him as the test captain since they clearly possess brains. Think!

[Farhan99]

Somerset County and Nottinghamshire encounter each other in test series. Where SOM played it's first or second innings both. They posted 310 and 327 respectively, in both innings SOM has been showing strong performance,  Jordan Hermann outstandingly added 106 runs while Thomas Rew contributed with 108 massive runs. These two provided strong foundation for the match. While Nottinghamshire played first innings in reply, but theirs batsman response were like as they are playing T20 match. Their seriousness for lifting the graph was lack. Only posted 193 runs in first innings. Hence they are now away from 473 runs, all eyes are now on Nottinghamshire players. May be they gave strong comeback or turn the whole game situation.

The game between Glamorgan and Sussex ends during day three with remarkable victory of Sussex. As we know with the end of day two Sussex ends the first innings by scoring five hundred plus runs and Glamorgan just started the second innings. So day three started and Glamorgan batters have very rational track that there bowlers don't puts efforts as well as Sussex bowlers so Glamorgan batters have two assignments the first is levels the score to meet the trail given by Sussex and the second is stay on wicket for minimum two days but the day three was not in favor of Glamorgan batters because pitch completely supporting to bowlers no doubt Asa Tribe was very effective and played like a world class batter and defend the bowlers very well by giving the classical shorts and in middle order Benkellaway was very brilliant but after that batters all the batting lineup and of Glamorgan collapsed and don't stay longer on greece and Glamorgan don't level the lead of Sussex so they lost the game very early at the end of day three.

[Sithara007]

Archer still not available for the 2nd test? Thought he joined the team after spending some time in Barbados, his home country.

If pitch is spicy then don't think they'd have any shortage of seamers. Plenty of 130-135 seamers in the county and most of em are extremely effective when pitches are spitting cobras.

Those conditions are ideal for the Kiwi seamers as well, and this strategy can easily backfire on the Poms. Remember that England were bowled out for 140 in their first innings at Lord's, with Kyle Jamieson, Nathan Smith and Will O’Rourke sharing all the 10 wickets to fall between them. Only two England batsmen were able to get to 50s: Harry Brook in the first innings, and Emilio Gay in the second. The ideal strategy for England would be to create flat surfaces. Kiwi seamers struggle under such conditions, but someone like Archer can still pick up wickets. Also, New Zealand lacks someone like Shane Bond, who can intimidate the opposition batsmen.

[Farhan99]

In the County Championship Division one Essex was very effective against Leicestershire and won the test game at the end of day four. Essex is the most strongest team of this tournament as at the end of  day three Leicestershire scores three hundred plus runs with the loss of seven wickets. So with the start of day four Leicestershire has three wickets in hand Rishi Patel was very brilliant in this innings so Leicestershire lost all the wickets on four hundred plus runs and know Essex has the simple target of two hundred and one fifteen runs. Essex batters was so skillful as among the openers Paul Walter played a dream knock by putting a remarkable hundred and in middle order also Allison was very good in batting and Essex easily chase the target and won the game by six wickets.

[Jaweria parveen]

The next game of the Test series, which will be between ENG and NZ, will be a chance for NZ to wins and play with pride on this field, which they can useless and take advantage of tomorrow.  Their performing in the previous game was mediocre, which did not prove that they were playing a Test because it has more overs and the power to collect runs is also high, but there was nothing like that in this game.  Now, the game that will be played tomorrow, which will be on the try and intelligence of the NZ players to not allow ENG to come close to them.  In this opening game, NZ lost by 115 runs and this is not a nice thing for them in the Test game.  The overall power of NZ will weight ENG from head to toe, and NZ will also wins on this day.

[noormcs5]

The next game of the Test series, which will be between ENG and NZ, will be a chance for NZ to wins and play with pride on this field, which they can useless and take advantage of tomorrow.  Their performing in the previous game was mediocre, which did not prove that they were playing a Test because it has more overs and the power to collect runs is also high, but there was nothing like that in this game.  Now, the game that will be played tomorrow, which will be on the try and intelligence of the NZ players to not allow ENG to come close to them.  In this opening game, NZ lost by 115 runs and this is not a nice thing for them in the Test game.  The overall power of NZ will weight ENG from head to toe, and NZ will also wins on this day.

From tomorrow, the second test match will start between the England and New Zealand teams.  Before, on the ground of Lord's, England finally won a single test match, and now hopefully they will continue their momentum instead of repeating previous mistakes of being overconfident and making some poor decisions. Last time, England won by 115 runs and they have the potential to do this again; hopefully they will but we need to see how the pitch plays its part this time.

[Compromise me]

The game between Glamorgan and Sussex ends during day three with remarkable victory of Sussex. As we know with the end of day two Sussex ends the first innings by scoring five hundred plus runs and Glamorgan just started the second innings. So day three started and Glamorgan batters have very rational track that there bowlers don't puts efforts as well as Sussex bowlers so Glamorgan batters have two assignments the first is levels the score to meet the trail given by Sussex and the second is stay on wicket for minimum two days but the day three was not in favor of Glamorgan batters because pitch completely supporting to bowlers no doubt Asa Tribe was very effective and played like a world class batter and defend the bowlers very well by giving the classical shorts and in middle order Benkellaway was very brilliant but after that batters all the batting lineup and of Glamorgan collapsed and don't stay longer on greece and Glamorgan don't level the lead of Sussex so they lost the game very early at the end of day three.

James Coles performance was at top because he made double century which is not an easy for any player to make in this match. He was top scorer of this match and he was also player of the match because he bent the match to their sides and gave strength to his team. Jaydev Unadkat took 4 wickets in the first inning of the match but he took no wicket in the second inning. Daniel Hughes made 72 runs in this match and he was a person who gave good start to his team and played according to requirement of the team. SUS team won the match one sided and they won the match by 98 runs and one inning because they played in only 1 inning and opponent team was all out in 2 innings.

[virasog]

From tomorrow, the second test match will start between the England and New Zealand teams.  Before, on the ground of Lord's, England finally won a single test match, and now hopefully they will continue their momentum instead of repeating previous mistakes of being overconfident and making some poor decisions. Last time, England won by 115 runs and they have the potential to do this again; hopefully they will but we need to see how the pitch plays its part this time.

In the last match, the pitch was good and admirable for the bowlers so let's see what will happen this time since the match is hosted by England and in those conditions weather also plays a huge role in the game. It is hard to predict the exact conditions of the pitch and weather for tomorrow, but still analysis can be done by the players. However, if we talk about the game plan, every batsmen needs to play a big innings and  one of the important things is to play for a longer duration and runs will come automatically.

[eaLiTy]

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From tomorrow, the second test match will start between the England and New Zealand teams.  Before, on the ground of Lord's, England finally won a single test match, and now hopefully they will continue their momentum instead of repeating previous mistakes of being overconfident and making some poor decisions. Last time, England won by 115 runs and they have the potential to do this again; hopefully they will but we need to see how the pitch plays its part this time.

England's captain Ben Stokes and fast bowler Gus Atkinson have been excluded from the team due to disciplinary reasons, which is a major blow for the side. Joe Root will be the stand in captain and as per the reports, Jofra Archer will replace Gus Atkinson, and if the reports are correct, Jordan Cox will make his debut for England.

In terms of New Zealand, the unexpected retirement of Kane Williamson is a huge blow and the official announcement is that, Henry Nicholls will take his place in the squad.

[vivekdhyani1]

England will field three debutants and make five changes for their second Test against New Zealand at The Oval, with James Rew replacing Jamie Smith in a last-minute change to their side.

Smith's partner Kate gave birth to the couple's second child early on Tuesday morning and he will miss the match on paternity leave. Rew, the Somerset wicketkeeper-batter, will make his Test debut in Smith's place. He will bat at No. 6 and keep wicket, with fellow debutant Jordan Cox picked as a specialist batter at No. 7.

[Farhan99]

From tomorrow, the second test match will start between the England and New Zealand teams.  Before, on the ground of Lord's, England finally won a single test match, and now hopefully they will continue their momentum instead of repeating previous mistakes of being overconfident and making some poor decisions. Last time, England won by 115 runs and they have the potential to do this again; hopefully they will but we need to see how the pitch plays its part this time.

Yeah, the most historic and Iconic ground of Cricket will be busy for the second test game between England and New Zealand. In test cricket even every player of the world has a dream to play at Lord's and this time it's special for Kiwis and the second test game may be in favor of New Zealand because they prepare team with proper research and plannings because they learned a lot of things from there previous mistakes in first test game. But this game will going very interesting because we saw the most aggressive and the Warrior of test cricket back for England and that guy will Jofra Archar who is famous for his smooth action, deadly bouncers and well pace. If we research on states in the last five games between England and New Zealand three times England defeated New Zealand and the second test game of this series is also very difficult to predict but this time majority chances of England to win this game.