Manee
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God awful sense of humour though.
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*Official* India Tour of Australia 2018/19
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Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
I have a colleague who is into cricket but he was born in 1996. He has no idea that the reason teams are reluctant to follow-on in Tests is because of one innings by VVS Laxman in 2001 in Kolkata against an Australian team on a 16 Test undefeated streak who were 1-0 up in India.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Perhaps it is a myth but I enjoyed explaining to him the impact of this one epic innings.
cnerd123
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We've had 4 follow-ons enforced in 2018, and six in 2017. So it's not like sides have abandoned it completely either.
I think the VVS innings is a big reason why sides don't enforce a follow-on unless they have a really massive lead in relatively low-scoring games in decent bowling conditions. It's why teams choose to be conservative and just bat another quick 3rd innings. But in high scoring games on flat pitches in a live series, it's probably because they don't want to wreck their bowlers.
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
One innings by an fairly unknown batsmen against a team with a level of dominance that would be completely alien in the modern Test game. With Tony Greig commentating. So many levels of epic.
h_hurricane
International Vice-Captain
Yeah, it is a bit weird of captains to think that they shouldn't be enforcing follow on because of one epic innings. The only real reason should be bowlers' workload.
VVS's 281 was no doubt an epic innings, but one thing which helped India there was that the match had moved ahead at a furious pace. At the end of 3rd day after Dravid joined Laxman at the crease, India were only 20 runs from making Aus bat again. A 281 from any of the Aussie batters here is not going to help them as they are behind by 386 at the same stage.
VVS's 281 was no doubt an epic innings, but one thing which helped India there was that the match had moved ahead at a furious pace. At the end of 3rd day after Dravid joined Laxman at the crease, India were only 20 runs from making Aus bat again. A 281 from any of the Aussie batters here is not going to help them as they are behind by 386 at the same stage.
I predicted an easy Indian victory before the series
Anyone that didn’t is either a complete homer, Ghambiring or ignorant of Australia’s domestic scene
Victor Ian
International Coach
We need our whole team to make 281. That means we need all of Australia A to be Dravid. Not sure that is allowed.
the big bambino
International Captain
Headingley 81 actually.
GoodAreasShane
Cricketer Of The Year
Smith's failure to enforce the follow on in Adelaide 2017 was singlehandedly one of the most dimwitted bits of captaincy I have ever seen. A huge part of why I never want to see him lead Australia again.
Starfighter
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Honestly I didn't think it was terrible. I know people hate bare stats but Charles Davis did do the calculation on matches since about 1990 and the fact is you are better off batting again up to the end of the third day.
Spark
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It really wasn't. Australia batted like clowns in that second innings and still didn't get anywhere near to losing the game.
GoodAreasShane
Cricketer Of The Year
Day Night Test, ball h00ping around corners under lights, should have sent them back in, keep those bastards right under the pump. But instead we batted, all that did was give Jimmy some undeserved cheap wickets
h_hurricane
International Vice-Captain
Remember that. Honestly thought at that time they were after the chase.
cnerd123
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i wonder how much VVS's 281 affected those stats
ankitj
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Five reasons why Kohli didn't enforce the follow-on - ESPNcricinfo
281 does appear to have had an influence on willingness of captains to enforce follow-on.
Burgey
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I want to make it clear that I don’t attribute this result to the tosses - India has outplayed Australia and thoroughly deserve this result. Once it became attritional they embraced it and were prepared to bat time and play a long game. Full credit to them.
Burgey
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Of all the #intent teams to take the field, that was the #intentiest of all time.