Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod]

[Alex077]

England got to bat for only 15 overs on the fourth day. They lost four wickets in the process. They batted a bit aggressively. But was it necessary?

It is true that winning the target of 373 runs is very difficult. But if the batsmen batted carefully, there was a big chance of a draw in the match. But they lost wickets quickly. Jacob Bethell could not add any runs to the scoreboard. Harry Brokk was out after scoring 21 runs from 9 balls. It felt like he was batting in a T20 match. Even then, England's last hope Root is still at the crease. Root and Emilio Gay will start the fifth day. England need any 270 runs to win. If England can win this match, it will be a miracle.

[MusaPk]

WI trashed SL by winning over an inning and 270 runs, it's SL but still impressive from Windies.

Also this is WI first win in ongoing WTC after 7 loses and a draw. WI position on WTC points table has also improved, they are now at number eight position. SL got under pressure in second innings because of WI 318 runs lead and thats the reason whole team got out after scoring just 101 runs. WI won the game because of 233 runs innings from Amir Jangoo and 194 runs innings from their captain Roston Chase. Its a two match series and SL has only one chance to level this series. 

[fuguebtc]

Also this is WI first win in ongoing WTC after 7 loses and a draw. WI position on WTC points table has also improved, they are now at number eight position. SL got under pressure in second innings because of WI 318 runs lead and thats the reason whole team got out after scoring just 101 runs. WI won the game because of 233 runs innings from Amir Jangoo and 194 runs innings from their captain Roston Chase. Its a two match series and SL has only one chance to level this series. 

West Indies is a very weak team in Test format. Sri Lanka was in a better position. So it was unexpected that Sri Lanka would play so badly in this match. I expected at least some competition.

Both Sri Lankan batsmen and bowlers performed very badly in this match. Sri Lanka managed to score 308 runs in the first innings. But the performance of Sri Lankan bowlers was abysmal. West Indies scored a huge 626 runs and lost 9 wickets. Amir Jangoo was able to play an innings of 233 runs and Roston Chase was able to play an innings of 194 runs.

In the second innings, Sri Lankan batsmen probably forgot how to bat. They lost all their wickets after scoring 101 runs. Sri Lanka faced a humiliating defeat by a huge margin of an innings and 217 runs.

[Rustam Meraj]

ZIM Vs BAN

Zimbabwe are in strong position in this one off Test against Bangladesh. Hosts bowled Bangladesh out for the low score of 140 and they hit back in batting order, scoring 136/1 was really good. Now theyhave 9 wickets left to play with. Innocent Kaia is in a fine form, unbeaten on 76 off 108 balls, while Brendan Taylor is his partner on 17 not out. Bangladesh were only able to get one wicket so far, via Khaled Ahmed. Zimbabwe bowlers had better of the first innings as they kept Bangladesh on their toes. Taijul Islam kept tight control however was not helped well enough by the other end. Zimbabwe appear in command and are on the edge of going up 1-0.

[eaLiTy]

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England's last hope Root is still at the crease. Root and Emilio Gay will start the fifth day. England need any 270 runs to win. If England can win this match, it will be a miracle.

England lost Joe Root to an incredible direct hit from Nicholls. Why would they take a risk like that in a Test match when they had already lost their 5th wicket. Jamie Smith and Gus Atkinson are at the crease, and it is only a matter of time before New Zealand cleans up the rest of the England batsmen and wins the series.

As expected, New Zealand set up a huge target of 373 runs. In the first innings, Devon Conway and Tom Latham took the team to a good total, while Rachin Ravindra and Daryl Mitchell helped them build on it in the second innings.

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ZIM Vs BAN
Zimbabwe are in strong position in this one off Test against Bangladesh. Hosts bowled Bangladesh out for the low score of 140 and they hit back in batting order, scoring 136/1 was really good. Now theyhave 9 wickets left to play with. Innocent Kaia is in a fine form, unbeaten on 76 off 108 balls, while Brendan Taylor is his partner on 17 not out. Bangladesh were only able to get one wicket so far, via Khaled Ahmed. Zimbabwe bowlers had better of the first innings as they kept Bangladesh on their toes. Taijul Islam kept tight control however was not helped well enough by the other end. Zimbabwe appear in command and are on the edge of going up 1-0.

Unfortunately, Innocent Kaia got out in the end, although I thought he would score a triple half-century, but he ended his innings on 140 runs. Even though new players have come in, I still doubt how long Zimbabwe can survive with the rest of the players.
Because I can see Zimbabwe losing their wickets very quickly, already while posting this, their 5th wicket has also fallen from the 4th wicket, now I doubt whether Zimbabwe will be able to cross 350 runs. But even then, even if Zimbabwe scores 350 runs, they will be able to maintain a huge margin of 210 runs, which will basically put extra pressure on Bangladesh later.

[7788bitcoin]

Unfortunately, Innocent Kaia got out in the end, although I thought he would score a triple half-century, but he ended his innings on 140 runs.

Innocent Kaia played an incredible innings and Zimbabwe is in a really great position as they have a lead of 210 runs and there is a plenty of time in the match, as it is only the second day.

Even though new players have come in, I still doubt how long Zimbabwe can survive with the rest of the players.
Because I can see Zimbabwe losing their wickets very quickly, already while posting this, their 5th wicket has also fallen from the 4th wicket, now I doubt whether Zimbabwe will be able to cross 350 runs. But even then, even if Zimbabwe scores 350 runs, they will be able to maintain a huge margin of 210 runs, which will basically put extra pressure on Bangladesh later.

Craig Ervine and Wessly Madhevere are at the crease and they have built a 70 runs partnership after losing the 5th wicket. There are 36 overs remaining in the day, giving Zimbabwe have plenty of time to bat and post an impossible target for Bangladesh.
New Zealand still need three more wickets to win the match. I expected England to win the match and series with Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson back in the team, but an impressive performance by the New Zealand batsmen took the match away from England.

[Mahdirakib]

~ Because I can see Zimbabwe losing their wickets very quickly, already while posting this, their 5th wicket has also fallen from the 4th wicket, now I doubt whether Zimbabwe will be able to cross 350 runs. But even then, even if Zimbabwe scores 350 runs, they will be able to maintain a huge margin of 210 runs, which will basically put extra pressure on Bangladesh later.

Now Zimbabwe is pretty close to 400 runs in their first innings. There was another great partnership between Madhevere and Ervine on the 6th wicket. Zimbabwe has taken a lead of around 250 runs already with 4 wickets in hand. They are completely favourite to win the match at this point. It will be completely surprising if the result becomes opposite from this situation.

[noormcs5]

England got to bat for only 15 overs on the fourth day. They lost four wickets in the process. They batted a bit aggressively. But was it necessary?

It is true that winning the target of 373 runs is very difficult. But if the batsmen batted carefully, there was a big chance of a draw in the match. But they lost wickets quickly. Jacob Bethell could not add any runs to the scoreboard. Harry Brokk was out after scoring 21 runs from 9 balls. It felt like he was batting in a T20 match. Even then, England's last hope Root is still at the crease. Root and Emilio Gay will start the fifth day. England need any 270 runs to win. If England can win this match, it will be a miracle.

At the end of the day 4, England lost their wickets and the partnership broke, it has verity of adverse effect in the team planning because it may cause that the batsmen needs to use a lot of balls to be completely settle down on the pitch and just if they lost their wickets, an collapse could be begin, England needed to play extremely well and needs to play with a good mindset but they were all out at 212 runs and with this, they lost the series.

[Ab de villiers]

England have lost all their wickets at 354 runs, where New Zealand were still in the lead. And they got the chance to extend it, what a great, excellent and wonderful batting done by every single batsmen. You just name the quality, whether it is the class of playing, the art of defending, or game awareness of judging the ball. Playing totally excellent cricket. New Zealand made 288 runs and declared the innings.

New Zealand posted weak total in their second innings. Daryl Mitchell was the prominent players with 100 scores. However 288 was their second innings target for the England. Where England was looked better in their first innings. But in second innings their response is not defending. Jacob Bethel was out on duck while their openers were also failed to reached even their fifty. Currently team is now on 103 runs for 4 wickets. So by judging overall situation it seems that New Zealand will get this series. Because England is struggling in their second phase.

[AgriTrack]

ZIM Vs BAN
Zimbabwe are in strong position in this one off Test against Bangladesh. Hosts bowled Bangladesh out for the low score of 140 and they hit back in batting order, scoring 136/1 was really good. Now theyhave 9 wickets left to play with. Innocent Kaia is in a fine form, unbeaten on 76 off 108 balls, while Brendan Taylor is his partner on 17 not out. Bangladesh were only able to get one wicket so far, via Khaled Ahmed. Zimbabwe bowlers had better of the first innings as they kept Bangladesh on their toes. Taijul Islam kept tight control however was not helped well enough by the other end. Zimbabwe appear in command and are on the edge of going up 1-0.

As seen in this match, it includes the teams of Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, in which they are getting a chance to bat twice and they have played their first innings. First, the Bangladesh team has set a target of 140 while playing their innings, in which Mominul Haque has shown the most effort by scoring 60. The players have also tried hard to strengthen their target, but they have not made as good a score as they should have made in their first innings. In comparison, the Zimbabwe team has batted better, in which they have scored 136 runs and they have also kept their wickets strong. They have lost only one wicket. They have achieved their target very well and have tried to improve this performance. The second innings of both these teams are yet to be played. In this innings, Zimbabwe is currently behind by 4 runs. I hope that this innings will go to Zimbabwe. Now we will see which team wins the second innings.

[Cheema02]

At this moment, New Zealand has lost one wicket and entered the field as an opening batsman. Tom Latham has put the team under more pressure by getting out, because he has scored four runs in 6 balls as captain. However, if the current pair of Conway and Henry Nicholls, these two batsmen, can build a long partnership,
then they will definitely be able to score more runs for their team. Because the New Zealand team is depending on this pair to score more runs, so the New Zealand team has scored only nine runs in 4.3 balls in the second innings of the third match, losing one wicket. If the New Zealand team can perform well, then they will definitely be able to beat the England team by a large margin in this match as well.

New Zealand batsmen, after victory the first innings, were already careless in the second innings and lost 2 wickets for 31 runs. If they had played well and with the same effort and strength as before, they would not have had to see such a failure so soon. New Zealand batsmen should have played well and strong to make this match a sure victory so that they can win and for this they will have to score runs with hard work and effort and give a strong target to England. Even if New Zealand batsmen do not give the same target as before, they will have to score at least 300 runs so that some of their runs in the first innings will also make a strong target in the second innings, which will lead to their victory. Now there is a good opportunity for England that they will have to be tough so that it is an easy target for them to win. England's bowlers will have to play well and strong so that New Zealand batsmen can control them.

Performance of New Zealand team in first innings was fabulous. But second innings was not looked better. The pair of openers who did outstanding in first innings was fumbled in second innings. Letham and Conway both were failed to make good additions. However Ravindra and Mitchell are playing yet and performing well. Their consistency indicating that their partnership will help to lift the target. Currently New Zealand on 120 runs for 3 wickets. Next morning is very important for them , they should give furious come back if they want to led down the England. On the other side England first innings score was 354 , that is also showcasing their strong position. But for sure results we will have to wait for the next day innings.

At the end of day four i said that New Zealand was in a dominating position and they will declared their in first session. When Daryl Mitchell completed his century New Zealand decided to declared their inning after setting 373 runs target to England. New Zealand winning the test match by huge 160 runs and won this test series by 2-1. New Zealand bowling performance also amazing to watch especially Zakary Foulkes picked three important wickets and assist his team to bowled out England at 212. The man of the test Match is Daryl Mitchell for his wonderful batting performance in second inning scoring a well deserved century and assisted New Zealand to scored huge runs on board for England and England falied to chase such a big total in last day of test match.

[Haunebu]

Glad to see New Zealand bouncing back so well and taking the series after losing the first test pretty badly. Root getting run out ended their hopes completely. Nathan Smith is the player of the series for me thanks to his wicket taking consistency.

Also, why the blazing hell would Stokes choose such a bad way to end his legendary career? His team lost the series and that controversy screwed him. Don't like him as a person, but he deserved a better farewell as a legendary all rounder in my opinion.

[Nanga Parbat]

ZIM Vs BAN
Zimbabwe are in strong position in this one off Test against Bangladesh. Hosts bowled Bangladesh out for the low score of 140 and they hit back in batting order, scoring 136/1 was really good. Now theyhave 9 wickets left to play with. Innocent Kaia is in a fine form, unbeaten on 76 off 108 balls, while Brendan Taylor is his partner on 17 not out. Bangladesh were only able to get one wicket so far, via Khaled Ahmed. Zimbabwe bowlers had better of the first innings as they kept Bangladesh on their toes. Taijul Islam kept tight control however was not helped well enough by the other end. Zimbabwe appear in command and are on the edge of going up 1-0.

As seen in this match, it includes the teams of Zimbabwe and Bangladesh, in which they are getting a chance to bat twice and they have played their first innings. First, the Bangladesh team has set a target of 140 while playing their innings, in which Mominul Haque has shown the most effort by scoring 60. The players have also tried hard to strengthen their target, but they have not made as good a score as they should have made in their first innings. In comparison, the Zimbabwe team has batted better, in which they have scored 136 runs and they have also kept their wickets strong. They have lost only one wicket. They have achieved their target very well and have tried to improve this performance. The second innings of both these teams are yet to be played. In this innings, Zimbabwe is currently behind by 4 runs. I hope that this innings will go to Zimbabwe. Now we will see which team wins the second innings.

This match could have been played with equal strength and effort from both of them but Bangladesh have created a failure for themselves and this is due to their negligence. Bangladesh batsmen wasted the first innings due to their poor batting and the toughness of Zimbabwean bowlers due to which they could only score 140 runs. This was a good opportunity for Zimbabwe in which they played very hard and strong and scored 410 runs and I think they will not need to play a second innings because Bangladesh is playing as a weak team while they defeated Australia with a lot of changes but now they are playing poorly. Bangladesh have now scored 40 runs in their second innings and have lost 1 wicket and they will have to score a lot more runs which is enough tough for them. From which their defeat is clear and they will not be able to change the match and make their victory.

[AgriTrack]

This match could have been played with equal strength and effort from both of them but Bangladesh have created a failure for themselves and this is due to their negligence. Bangladesh batsmen wasted the first innings due to their poor batting and the toughness of Zimbabwean bowlers due to which they could only score 140 runs. This was a good opportunity for Zimbabwe in which they played very hard and strong and scored 410 runs and I think they will not need to play a second innings because Bangladesh is playing as a weak team while they defeated Australia with a lot of changes but now they are playing poorly. Bangladesh have now scored 40 runs in their second innings and have lost 1 wicket and they will have to score a lot more runs which is enough tough for them. From which their defeat is clear and they will not be able to change the match and make their victory.

Today is the third day of this match in which the Bangladesh team has scored 40 runs in their second innings. Zimbabwe scored a very good and big lead position in their first innings, which has proven to be the huge lead of the first innings. They have kept their batting very strong. The highest score in today’s match was scored by Mahmudul Hasan Joy, who scored 21 runs while remaining not out. Apart from this, another player has also shown his success in this match with his good batting. Apart from this, 1 player has been dismissed, which shows that their wickets were as strong as they were. Now it is Zimbabwe’s turn to play their second innings. it will be seen how they bat in this innings and whether Bangladesh wins this match.

[bitwalhr]

England have lost all their wickets at 354 runs, where New Zealand were still in the lead. And they got the chance to extend it, what a great, excellent and wonderful batting done by every single batsmen. You just name the quality, whether it is the class of playing, the art of defending, or game awareness of judging the ball. Playing totally excellent cricket. New Zealand made 288 runs and declared the innings.

New Zealand posted weak total in their second innings. Daryl Mitchell was the prominent players with 100 scores. However 288 was their second innings target for the England. Where England was looked better in their first innings. But in second innings their response is not defending. Jacob Bethel was out on duck while their openers were also failed to reached even their fifty. Currently team is now on 103 runs for 4 wickets. So by judging overall situation it seems that New Zealand will get this series. Because England is struggling in their second phase.

Target was not weak. New Zealand did a good job and had a decent total and enough time for their bowlers to restrict England. Their strategy worked, and they won this third and final match with a big margin. England was completely outclassed in bowling and batting. This is going to be one of the worst seasons for them. On and off the field, issues are increasing their problems.

Now they have a few weeks before going for a series against Pakistan. This could be good for them to have fair enough changes, which can give them good results in the future, with a few players not deserving to have spots in this squad due to their poor technique and inconsistency.

[Nalain420]

At this moment, New Zealand has lost one wicket and entered the field as an opening batsman. Tom Latham has put the team under more pressure by getting out, because he has scored four runs in 6 balls as captain. However, if the current pair of Conway and Henry Nicholls, these two batsmen, can build a long partnership,
then they will definitely be able to score more runs for their team. Because the New Zealand team is depending on this pair to score more runs, so the New Zealand team has scored only nine runs in 4.3 balls in the second innings of the third match, losing one wicket. If the New Zealand team can perform well, then they will definitely be able to beat the England team by a large margin in this match as well.

New Zealand batsmen, after victory the first innings, were already careless in the second innings and lost 2 wickets for 31 runs. If they had played well and with the same effort and strength as before, they would not have had to see such a failure so soon. New Zealand batsmen should have played well and strong to make this match a sure victory so that they can win and for this they will have to score runs with hard work and effort and give a strong target to England. Even if New Zealand batsmen do not give the same target as before, they will have to score at least 300 runs so that some of their runs in the first innings will also make a strong target in the second innings, which will lead to their victory. Now there is a good opportunity for England that they will have to be tough so that it is an easy target for them to win. England's bowlers will have to play well and strong so that New Zealand batsmen can control them.

Performance of New Zealand team in first innings was fabulous. But second innings was not looked better. The pair of openers who did outstanding in first innings was fumbled in second innings. Letham and Conway both were failed to make good additions. However Ravindra and Mitchell are playing yet and performing well. Their consistency indicating that their partnership will help to lift the target. Currently New Zealand on 120 runs for 3 wickets. Next morning is very important for them , they should give furious come back if they want to led down the England. On the other side England first innings score was 354 , that is also showcasing their strong position. But for sure results we will have to wait for the next day innings.

At the end of day four i said that New Zealand was in a dominating position and they will declared their in first session. When Daryl Mitchell completed his century New Zealand decided to declared their inning after setting 373 runs target to England. New Zealand winning the test match by huge 160 runs and won this test series by 2-1. New Zealand bowling performance also amazing to watch especially Zakary Foulkes picked three important wickets and assist his team to bowled out England at 212. The man of the test Match is Daryl Mitchell for his wonderful batting performance in second inning scoring a well deserved century and assisted New Zealand to scored huge runs on board for England and England falied to chase such a big total in last day of test match.

NZ have played a much better game and they fought hard in both the innings and winning the game and it was a matter of which team would winning the series but NZ won the series with a modest target. Some people thought Eng were better but Nz scored runs quickly and worked hard to put pressure on them so they were able to catch up with Eng and their target was higher in both the innings and they winning. Both have played well in this series and Nz have also better their own performance because they were not very better in the first game so Eng could have winning the series but they were slow in this game. So their performance could not fight in this game and congratulations to them for this win they played very strongly and won.

[Crypto Library]

Today is the third day of this match in which the Bangladesh team has scored 40 runs in their second innings. Zimbabwe scored a very good and big lead position in their first innings, which has proven to be the huge lead of the first innings. They have kept their batting very strong. The highest score in today’s match was scored by Mahmudul Hasan Joy, who scored 21 runs while remaining not out. Apart from this, another player has also shown his success in this match with his good batting. Apart from this, 1 player has been dismissed, which shows that their wickets were as strong as they were. Now it is Zimbabwe’s turn to play their second innings. it will be seen how they bat in this innings and whether Bangladesh wins this match.

Bangladesh team is upsetting us with their one bad performance after another. Even in such matches where they have performed against a weaker team than Bangladesh, we are confident in advance that Bangladesh team will probably win but when we come to see Bangladesh's performance later, there is no other way but to be ashamed.

And Bangladesh batsmen are enough to shame us in today's match, although only Taijul Islam has played a role in taking seven wickets from the bowlers. And already Bangladesh started to make a bad impression in the second innings by losing their first wicket, but I hope that they will not perform as badly as in the first innings. Although the hope of Bangladesh team to win this match is slim.

[Mahiyammahi]

This match could have been played with equal strength and effort from both of them but Bangladesh have created a failure for themselves and this is due to their negligence. Bangladesh batsmen wasted the first innings due to their poor batting and the toughness of Zimbabwean bowlers due to which they could only score 140 runs. This was a good opportunity for Zimbabwe in which they played very hard and strong and scored 410 runs and I think they will not need to play a second innings because Bangladesh is playing as a weak team while they defeated Australia with a lot of changes but now they are playing poorly. Bangladesh have now scored 40 runs in their second innings and have lost 1 wicket and they will have to score a lot more runs which is enough tough for them. From which their defeat is clear and they will not be able to change the match and make their victory.

Today is the third day of this match in which the Bangladesh team has scored 40 runs in their second innings. Zimbabwe scored a very good and big lead position in their first innings, which has proven to be the huge lead of the first innings. They have kept their batting very strong. The highest score in today’s match was scored by Mahmudul Hasan Joy, who scored 21 runs while remaining not out. Apart from this, another player has also shown his success in this match with his good batting. Apart from this, 1 player has been dismissed, which shows that their wickets were as strong as they were. Now it is Zimbabwe’s turn to play their second innings. it will be seen how they bat in this innings and whether Bangladesh wins this match.

Tbh I was surprised that Taizul Islam picked 7 wicket all by himself.  He fought for bangladesh like on man army. Bangladesh performed horrible in first day match. I saw there maybe 120 runs in 3 wicket  and after sometime I heard they are allout. This was not acceptable. There is very less chance that Bangladesh can win in this test. They already had a trail of  230 run. Not only they need to score this run. But they also need to put some score on the board for Zimbabwe. Best of Luck Bangladesh Team for next day match. Lets see what happens.

[Emitdama]

~ Because I can see Zimbabwe losing their wickets very quickly, already while posting this, their 5th wicket has also fallen from the 4th wicket, now I doubt whether Zimbabwe will be able to cross 350 runs. But even then, even if Zimbabwe scores 350 runs, they will be able to maintain a huge margin of 210 runs, which will basically put extra pressure on Bangladesh later.

Now Zimbabwe is pretty close to 400 runs in their first innings. There was another great partnership between Madhevere and Ervine on the 6th wicket. Zimbabwe has taken a lead of around 250 runs already with 4 wickets in hand. They are completely favourite to win the match at this point. It will be completely surprising if the result becomes opposite from this situation.

Impressive display of batting from Zimbabwe they have 410 runs on board this is big boost for them in this match one century and 3 fifties are give them good chance of having good total on board Bangladesh batsmen completely fail to have anything positive in first inning while now in second inning they already lost one wicket.

Bangladesh playing like crap in this match while they have good performance against Pakistan at home but suddenly now things are on worst level I am expecting them to be have defeat by an inning with their batting is at lowest level 8 batsmen gone on single figure this is surely shameful performance.