• Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.

    You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!

    If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.

*Official* Afghanistan and Bangladesh tour of India 2018

Jack1

International Debutant
Prediction time.

How many wickets will Rashid get in this Test?

Mine: 4
6-7 at a guess if India bat first and Afghanistan avoid the follow on. I do hope he takes a few wickets even if they lose by an innings (hopefully at least 3), even if they lose heavily. It will be good for his confidence. We should acknowledge though this is a different format and India are very difficult to take wickets against in India. That being said based on his averages in all formats I can't see how he won't take at least 3.
 
Last edited:

Daemon

Request Your Custom Title Now!
Mujeeb will be interesting to watch as well. He's never even played an FC game.
 

Jack1

International Debutant
Fantastic start from Afghanistan. Would love to see them against England in sub continent conditions. Think they could cause us a real test. The obvious question mark is their batting and bowling in non favourable conditions. Obviously every team has weakness in certain conditions though
 
Last edited:

Jack1

International Debutant
Mujeeb will be interesting to watch as well. He's never even played an FC game.
As well as Nabi. Rashid Khan, Nabi and Mujeeb have all been completely unfazed so far in International cricket, I think they will cause India some problems to be honest. If a bowler is really skilled I don't think it really matters that they haven't played a test before (in Mujeeb's case a FC game)
 

Borges

International Regular
Rain will also cause some problems. Both to the groundsmen during the preparation of the pitch and to the players during the game.
 

Daemon

Request Your Custom Title Now!
Interesting tactics from Shakib to bowl his 2 quicks out by the 17th over. Probably for the best as they're **** and can't handle pressure.
 

Daemon

Request Your Custom Title Now!
Lol Bangladesh. After 2 games of being embarrassed by the spinners, they've now decided to let the fielders have some fun.
 

Daemon

Request Your Custom Title Now!
Haha that's legitimately one of the most dramatic finishes ever. Top fielding.
 

Jack1

International Debutant
I feel like he should have just caught that on the last ball. Got effort to keep it in though after the knock down. I question whether it was the right option regardless. He was slightly in from the line too when the ball initially touched his hands. Doesn't matter as they won anyway, good job to defend that score. All three spinners very economical.

Rashid Khan defending that says it all really. 4,4,4,4,4,1 off the previous over. Rahim can't really have his eye in more than that and straight away he gets him out. I like how Rashid Khan doesn't really give a **** about his stats and will bowl any time in the innings. It's interesting them saving him for the back end of the innings.

Got to say I'm not a fan of teams posting a total or chasing one (and losing) and ending up with that many wickets in hand. Especially when it wasn't a big total that was set. Worked for Afghanistan today, but both teams short changed themselves a bit considering they had 4 wickets in hand.
 
Last edited:

Daemon

Request Your Custom Title Now!

Daemon

Request Your Custom Title Now!
I feel like he should have just caught that on the last ball. Got effort to keep it in though after the knock down. I question whether it was the right option regardless. He was slightly in from the line too when the ball initially touched his hands. Doesn't matter as they won anyway, good job to defend that score.

Rashid Khan defending that says it all really. 4,4,4,4,4,1 off the previous over. Rahim can't really have his eye in more than that and straight away he gets him out. I like how Rashid Khan doesn't really give a **** about his stats and will bowl any time in the innings. It's interesting them saving him for the back end of the innings
Yep, time for captains to realise it's not always best to bowl your crap pacers when they're leaking runs even in the death overs. Shakib and Nazmul did it earlier and this time it was Rashid.
 

Jack1

International Debutant
Interesting. I hope all 3 play, personally. Don't have any hopes of the current quicks succeeding at test level.
Yes he's a good bowler. They have two seamers with decent averages (Ahmadzai and Dawlat Zadran) in the test squad that aren't playing in limited overs for them at the moment. I think it's possible they could pick Rashid Khan, Mujeeb, Nabi, Zahir Khan plus one quick in the sub continent but we will see.
 
Last edited:

Top