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The Indian team performed the worst in this match, where they performed aggressively in the match, due to the poor performance of some batsmen like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul, and Nitish Reddy, the Indian team lost badly in this match.
However, the Australian team is still far ahead, so it was very important for the Indian team to win this match, which is why the Indian team fans are expressing helplessness towards the Indian team. However, the Australian team is strong in both bowling and batting, so the bowlers have the highest role in this fourth match.

Indian is doing the worst performance because currently Indian team management in Australia doing few worst decisions which are hurting them badly, and they are not having enough motivation to bring youngsters despite serious failures of seniors which are letting team badly down with their performance and now moral is also going down because lost at MCG is surely going to have huge impact on them for last game at the Sydney.

As things are going in Australia for the Indian team we have many voices are coming from former cricketers as they are looking for change in team and also at the level of coach and captain as well because all are badly down which is surely not acceptable specially MS Dhoni is criticizing Gautam Ghambir and all for having performance and results like these.

Indian cricket management is not like other countries but if the Indian management performs badly then the players must be accountable to the management. Indian cricketers have continued to underperform for quite some time, so the management must face such criticism. After losing the series with New Zealand at their own venue, the series loss at the same venue in Australia means WTC's chances of qualifying are almost over, so some senior players including Gautam Gambhir must face accountability on various issues.

India are batting in today's fifth Test and they have lost two wickets in the first session. Two wickets fell for the team's 17 runs from then on, with Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill trying to extend the innings with wickets intact.

Since the management of cricket in India is different from other countries, if the players perform poorly, then they have to be held accountable. We have seen that the Indian team has performed poorly in the Test series and is now very close to losing the series against Australia in the series against New Zealand. The Indian players are not playing very well in the Australian venue, so there is a possibility that the Indian team will lose the fifth match as well. If they lose this match and lose the series, then the Indian team will definitely have to face accountability, since the players are not able to do well despite trying hard, which is likely to attract a lot of criticism.

India's batting performance is looking very bad at the beginning of the fifth match today. At the moment, India has scored 57 runs in 25 overs and has lost 3 important wickets. If they cannot play their game from now on and cannot form a pair, then there is a possibility of them being all out in the first innings for a few runs.

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The Indian team performed the worst in this match, where they performed aggressively in the match, due to the poor performance of some batsmen like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul, and Nitish Reddy, the Indian team lost badly in this match.
However, the Australian team is still far ahead, so it was very important for the Indian team to win this match, which is why the Indian team fans are expressing helplessness towards the Indian team. However, the Australian team is strong in both bowling and batting, so the bowlers have the highest role in this fourth match.

Indian is doing the worst performance because currently Indian team management in Australia doing few worst decisions which are hurting them badly, and they are not having enough motivation to bring youngsters despite serious failures of seniors which are letting team badly down with their performance and now moral is also going down because lost at MCG is surely going to have huge impact on them for last game at the Sydney.

As things are going in Australia for the Indian team we have many voices are coming from former cricketers as they are looking for change in team and also at the level of coach and captain as well because all are badly down which is surely not acceptable specially MS Dhoni is criticizing Gautam Ghambir and all for having performance and results like these.

Indian cricket management is not like other countries but if the Indian management performs badly then the players must be accountable to the management. Indian cricketers have continued to underperform for quite some time, so the management must face such criticism. After losing the series with New Zealand at their own venue, the series loss at the same venue in Australia means WTC's chances of qualifying are almost over, so some senior players including Gautam Gambhir must face accountability on various issues.

India are batting in today's fifth Test and they have lost two wickets in the first session. Two wickets fell for the team's 17 runs from then on, with Virat Kohli and Shubman Gill trying to extend the innings with wickets intact.

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Quote from: As-Soon-As on January 01, 2025, 06:17:56 PM

The Indian team performed the worst in this match, where they performed aggressively in the match, due to the poor performance of some batsmen like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Rahul, and Nitish Reddy, the Indian team lost badly in this match.
However, the Australian team is still far ahead, so it was very important for the Indian team to win this match, which is why the Indian team fans are expressing helplessness towards the Indian team. However, the Australian team is strong in both bowling and batting, so the bowlers have the highest role in this fourth match.

Indian is doing the worst performance because currently Indian team management in Australia doing few worst decisions which are hurting them badly, and they are not having enough motivation to bring youngsters despite serious failures of seniors which are letting team badly down with their performance and now moral is also going down because lost at MCG is surely going to have huge impact on them for last game at the Sydney.

As things are going in Australia for the Indian team we have many voices are coming from former cricketers as they are looking for change in team and also at the level of coach and captain as well because all are badly down which is surely not acceptable specially MS Dhoni is criticizing Gautam Ghambir and all for having performance and results like these.

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Quote from: Mahdirakib on January 02, 2025, 12:43:20 PM

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I don't think the pitch at Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo is bowling friendly. Scoring 250/300 runs on this pitch is not a very difficult task. But no Afghan batsman could play a big innings against the Zimbabwean bowlers. Newman Nyamhuri and SIkandar Raza took three wickets each. I think Zimbabwe will be able to take a decent lead in the first innings.

Yep, the pitch at 'Queens Sports Club' is generally known as batting friendly in test cricket. However, it behaved quite differently today, the pitch has helped the bowlers on the first day. It happened because the pitch was covered due to rain before the start of the match. Which helped the bowlers to get both seam and swing. I wasn't expecting such poor performance from Afghanistan.

I think this happened because the Afghanistan team players did not play the first innings of this match with patience and seriousness. It is truly unimaginable for an experienced team like Afghanistan to finish their innings with such a low score in a Test match. Afghanistan cricket faced extreme criticism after losing all its wickets for 157 runs in the first innings of this Test match. Although the Afghanistan cricket team performed shamefully in the first innings of this match, I still think the Afghanistan team can show something good in this match.

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Quote from: CryptoBuds on January 02, 2025, 11:30:03 AM

I don't think the pitch at Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo is bowling friendly. Scoring 250/300 runs on this pitch is not a very difficult task. But no Afghan batsman could play a big innings against the Zimbabwean bowlers. Newman Nyamhuri and SIkandar Raza took three wickets each. I think Zimbabwe will be able to take a decent lead in the first innings.

Yep, the pitch at 'Queens Sports Club' is generally known as batting friendly in test cricket. However, it behaved quite differently today, the pitch has helped the bowlers on the first day. It happened because the pitch was covered due to rain before the start of the match. Which helped the bowlers to get both seam and swing. I wasn't expecting such poor performance from Afghanistan.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on January 02, 2025, 11:32:17 AM

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Afghanistan were all out for just 157 runs in the first innings of the second Test match today. The batting performance of the Afghanistan team was very poor from the beginning, the Zimbabwe team was able to bowl well, which put them under pressure. After drawing the first Test match, the Zimbabwe team has changed their game a lot, as the Zimbabwe team is currently batting to meet the target of 157 runs. Of course, the Zimbabwe team is batting with the hope that the Zimbabwe team will meet this target and give Afghanistan a good target. However, if Afghanistan can make a good bowling line, then they will be able to stop Zimbabwe, otherwise the Zimbabwe team will definitely try to play well in today's match to move forward in the series result.

Trevor Gwandu was dropped for this match and that's all Zimbabwe did. Brian Bennett, the batting allrounder picked 5 wickets during last match, and this time it was the turn of Sikandar Raza. Rather than any extraordinary bowling from Zimbabwe, the sub-par Afghan total largely represents their poor quality batting. Rashid Khan top-scored with 25, and that tells a lot about how they batted today. Zimbabwe seems to be firmly in driver's seat, and if there are no surprises, then they should win this match.

Afghanistan's batting order was not weak. In the first match, we saw that Afghanistan had managed to score a huge 699 runs. But none of the Afghan batsmen could play a big innings in this match. 157 runs was a very small score. Even this pitch was not bowling friendly. Even then, I don't know why the Afghan batsmen couldn't bat well. The Afghan batsmen needed to bat more responsibly. The Afghan batsmen batted like fools. If the Zimbabwe team can somehow take a lead of 100-150 runs, then they have a big chance of winning the match. However, the performance of the Zimbabwe players is also very erratic.

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Quote from: HelliumZ on January 02, 2025, 04:39:03 AM

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Today Zimbabwe will take on Afghanistan on the 2nd and final test match. The last test match as we all remembered was drawn as both teams showed their extra ordinary batting abilities. Both teams made over 500 runs in their first innings and we did not had much time for the 2nd innings.

Starting today, I think both teams will play cautiously, and no one will want to take any risk and rightly so, as this is the final test match. Who ever win this match, will win the series.

The second Test between Zimbabwe and Afghanistan has so far been delayed by the toss due to bad weather. With the weather conditions, there are fears about the start of the game on the first day. The first test match completed five days and the test match ended in a draw but the second test match is very important especially Afghanistan will want the result of this match to be a win instead of a draw. However, if runs are scored in this match like in the first match, then there is no possibility of any other result except a draw.

I think we will see the result in this match as the Afghanistan team all out on the first day of second test match. Zimbabwe bowlers outstanding comeback in second test match especially Newman Nyamhuri picked the 3 important wickets by just giving only 42 runs and sikandar raza also bowl well picked three crucial wickets by giving only 30 runs and restricted Afghanistan under 160 runs. from Afghanistan no bastman play responsible inning only Rashid Khan played 25 runs and assisted Afghanistan team to cross 150 runs. Now Zimbabwe have a good chances to score some runs on broad and give Afghanistan to a lead if they really want to win this test match.

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The top-order batsmen of Afghanistan played very poorly in this first inning. For the match prediction, Afghanistan will lose this match if Zimbabwe improves its performance from the past innings. It's a great opportunity to beat Afghanistan. Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah, and some top-order players couldn't settle this field in this match. At last, I can say the match will be a draw.

Afghanistan's first innings of this match looked like a T20 match where they were bowled out for 157 runs in the first innings whereas in the first Test, Afghanistan were bowled out for 699 runs in the first innings. In the first innings, Afghanistan were all out for 157 runs i.e. just over one session of batting and that was Afghanistan all out i.e. if the pitch conditions were similar then it would not take long for Zimbabwe to be all out. Previous Test matches were known for runs but this Test match seems to be known for wickets.

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Afghanistan were all out for just 157 runs in the first innings of the second Test match today. The batting performance of the Afghanistan team was very poor from the beginning, the Zimbabwe team was able to bowl well, which put them under pressure. After drawing the first Test match, the Zimbabwe team has changed their game a lot, as the Zimbabwe team is currently batting to meet the target of 157 runs. Of course, the Zimbabwe team is batting with the hope that the Zimbabwe team will meet this target and give Afghanistan a good target. However, if Afghanistan can make a good bowling line, then they will be able to stop Zimbabwe, otherwise the Zimbabwe team will definitely try to play well in today's match to move forward in the series result.

Trevor Gwandu was dropped for this match and that's all Zimbabwe did. Brian Bennett, the batting allrounder picked 5 wickets during last match, and this time it was the turn of Sikandar Raza. Rather than any extraordinary bowling from Zimbabwe, the sub-par Afghan total largely represents their poor quality batting. Rashid Khan top-scored with 25, and that tells a lot about how they batted today. Zimbabwe seems to be firmly in driver's seat, and if there are no surprises, then they should win this match.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on January 02, 2025, 11:03:12 AM

Very poor display from Afghanistan so far. Zia-ur-Rehman and Fareed Ahmad are adding valuable runs towards the end, but at the moment they are struggling at 157/9 (still an improvement from 130/9, when Yamin Ahmadzai got out). For Zimbabwe, both Newman Nyamhuri and Sikandar Raza picked up 3 wickets each, but even they are struggling against the no.11 batsman. Anyway, Zimbabwe has an advantage right now. I just hope that their batsmen doesn't flounder that advantage.

In the first Test match, we saw excellent batting from both Afghanistan and Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe scored 586 runs in the first innings and Afghanistan scored 699 runs. As a result, the match was drawn. But in the second match, we saw poor batting from Afghanistan. To be honest, I was not at all prepared to see such a batting disaster from Afghanistan. Afghanistan scored only 157 runs in their first innings. Afghanistan batted very badly.

I don't think the pitch at Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo is bowling friendly. Scoring 250/300 runs on this pitch is not a very difficult task. But no Afghan batsman could play a big innings against the Zimbabwean bowlers. Newman Nyamhuri and SIkandar Raza took three wickets each. I think Zimbabwe will be able to take a decent lead in the first innings.

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Afghanistan were all out for just 157 runs in the first innings of the second Test match today. The batting performance of the Afghanistan team was very poor from the beginning, the Zimbabwe team was able to bowl well, which put them under pressure. After drawing the first Test match, the Zimbabwe team has changed their game a lot, as the Zimbabwe team is currently batting to meet the target of 157 runs. Of course, the Zimbabwe team is batting with the hope that the Zimbabwe team will meet this target and give Afghanistan a good target. However, if Afghanistan can make a good bowling line, then they will be able to stop Zimbabwe, otherwise the Zimbabwe team will definitely try to play well in today's match to move forward in the series result.

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The top-order batsmen of Afghanistan played very poorly in this first inning. For the match prediction, Afghanistan will lose this match if Zimbabwe improves its performance from the past innings. It's a great opportunity to beat Afghanistan. Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah, and some top-order players couldn't settle this field in this match. At last, I can say the match will be a draw.

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Very poor display from Afghanistan so far. Zia-ur-Rehman and Fareed Ahmad are adding valuable runs towards the end, but at the moment they are struggling at 157/9 (still an improvement from 130/9, when Yamin Ahmadzai got out). For Zimbabwe, both Newman Nyamhuri and Sikandar Raza picked up 3 wickets each, but even they are struggling against the no.11 batsman. Anyway, Zimbabwe has an advantage right now. I just hope that their batsmen doesn't flounder that advantage.

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Afghanistan is much better team then Zimbabwe in all format of the cricket. Zimbabwe is playing cricket for decades as compared to Afghanistan who very recently joined the international cricket. Infact Afghanistan is best among all teams that are in test tier-2 level. Due to limited number of teams in test, icc has to include teams like Zimbabwe and Ireland in test format. Test is proper cricket and team that has skills to play cricket can perform well in test unlike T20I format.

Yes, on paper Afghanistan is a much better team than Zimbabwe but in this match they are struggling big time. They have made 100 runs and have already lost 6 wickets. The top 6 batsmen unable to handle the bowling by Zimbabwe. Almost all batsmen started to settle in and then got out. When you see the players getting out making 17, 16, 19 scores, it means that they do not have a proper plan and just losing wickets after getting their eye in.

Talking about the Zimbabwe bowlers, it is a combine effort of all the four bowlers used so far. Newman Nyamhuri and Sikandar Raza took two wickets each and creating a lot of trouble for the batsmen.

Afghanistan batsmen are scoring very few runs in the first innings. Their batsmen lost 7 wickets in 38 overs which will be a loss for their target as there are plenty of overs after that and they have only 3 wickets which will result in few runs and Zimbabwe will become an easy target for the batsmen. Afghanistan batsmen have scored 117 runs in just these overs due to which their pace is very low. Along with this, they have lost one more wicket in an over which has cost them a lot. The Zimbabwean team is very strong and playing with pressure and as it is the first innings they can win the first innings. This defeat could be a complete match for Afghanistan if they lose in the first innings.A first innings win will be easy for the Zimbabwean batsmen as they will have a fairly easy target.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on January 02, 2025, 04:52:11 AM

As a team, I would agree that Afghanistan is much better when compared to Zimbabwe. But when it comes to infrastructure, women's cricket, development and domestic cricket, Zimbabwe is far better. And these things matter a lot when ICC decides on the membership. To be fair to Afghanistan, they had to start from scratch, as they have no cricketing history. On the other hand, organized cricket in Rhodesia dates back to 1898 when the Rhodesian Cricket Union was formed.

As far as women cricket is concerned in Afghanistan, under current regime of Taliban there is little to no chance of women cricket because of there rigid beliefs. Cricket in Afghanistan is mostly because of Afghan refugees that lived in Pakistan, former Afghanistan captain Muhammad Nabi used to play for Pakistan custom domestic team. On the other hand, Zimbabwe despite been in international cricket for so long and having good infrastructure at home is not able to produce a team that has given some consistence performance.

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Quote from: WatChe on January 02, 2025, 04:29:29 AM

Afghanistan is much better team then Zimbabwe in all format of the cricket. Zimbabwe is playing cricket for decades as compared to Afghanistan who very recently joined the international cricket. Infact Afghanistan is best among all teams that are in test tier-2 level. Due to limited number of teams in test, icc has to include teams like Zimbabwe and Ireland in test format. Test is proper cricket and team that has skills to play cricket can perform well in test unlike T20I format.

Yes, on paper Afghanistan is a much better team than Zimbabwe but in this match they are struggling big time. They have made 100 runs and have already lost 6 wickets. The top 6 batsmen unable to handle the bowling by Zimbabwe. Almost all batsmen started to settle in and then got out. When you see the players getting out making 17, 16, 19 scores, it means that they do not have a proper plan and just losing wickets after getting their eye in.

Talking about the Zimbabwe bowlers, it is a combine effort of all the four bowlers used so far. Newman Nyamhuri and Sikandar Raza took two wickets each and creating a lot of trouble for the batsmen.

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Today Zimbabwe will take on Afghanistan on the 2nd and final test match. The last test match as we all remembered was drawn as both teams showed their extra ordinary batting abilities. Both teams made over 500 runs in their first innings and we did not had much time for the 2nd innings.

Starting today, I think both teams will play cautiously, and no one will want to take any risk and rightly so, as this is the final test match. Who ever win this match, will win the series.

The second Test between Zimbabwe and Afghanistan has so far been delayed by the toss due to bad weather. With the weather conditions, there are fears about the start of the game on the first day. The first test match completed five days and the test match ended in a draw but the second test match is very important especially Afghanistan will want the result of this match to be a win instead of a draw. However, if runs are scored in this match like in the first match, then there is no possibility of any other result except a draw.

The first match was drawn but such a big score by Zimbabwe team against Afghanistan definitely sends a different message. Afghanistan bowlers are quite famous but their bowling performance is not very good at this stage. The bowlers got wickets but it was very late. A result is definitely needed in the second Test match if the match is drawn then it will not be very satisfactory. As the weather is not in a satisfactory condition, even if the match starts, there is a possibility of repeated interruptions, due to which not much optimism can be expressed about the second Test match.

Zimbabwe International test cricket team won the toss and elected to bowl first and Afghanistan International test cricket team have lost 2 wickets. I think there are 70 percent chances of result of this match because both teams will attack in this match and they will play with speed and there are more chances of fall of wickets and we will get the result of match in the favour of any team. Abdul Malik made only 17 runs in this match and Riaz Hassan also could not play good inning in this match. At tea break, score of Afghanistan team is 58 and this season was in the favour of Zimbabwe team but Afghan team could come back in the next sessions and we could get better match between these two teams. Nyamhuri took 1 wicket in this match and I think both teams are of same level but in the last match Afghanistan team played very bad and they should win last match but players of that team are stupid.

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In the second Test match, Afghanistan team has already lost their main wickets by batting first and they are under pressure at the moment after losing 2 wickets. We have seen that the first Test match was tied between the two teams so the team that wins the second match will be ahead in the series. Zimbabwe team is bowling well from the beginning today and they have put Afghanistan under pressure. If Afghanistan scores few runs in this match then Zimbabwe will definitely play it following the target. Zimbabwe team will try to play well enough in today's match if they can put Afghanistan under pressure in the first innings then it will be much easier for Zimbabwe team to win their match. Afghanistan has given a disappointing batting performance at the beginning of the match, Afghanistan must play with patience at the moment and collect a big margin score.

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Quote from: libert19 on January 02, 2025, 06:12:36 AM

So apparently, Rohit has opted out of tomorrow's test and Bumrah will be captainining the team, and Gill will be returning.

This is really wise I think, with Rohit it was almost like playing with 10 men team. Akashdeep is out as well, wonder who will be coming at place of him, better not be Prasidh he sucks.

Yeah. Rohit really needs to take some time off and reconsider his priorities because he has become a burden on the team in the test format. I don't think he has been at his best in the other formats either.

Wish Shami would come in to replace Akash, but we know that ain't happening. India will need to fight really hard to win the final test and draw the series.

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