No follow-on

[bhakum20]

Give rest to bowlers and assume no rain

 

vs.

 

Try to win with tired bowlers

 

 

Which is the better decision?

[The Dark Horse]

They should have made them follow on...no idea what was on Kohli's mind.

[Dil Dil India]

Please explain how the hell were bowlers tired after 67 overs? What if Australia had batted out the day? And now that we have made the dumb decision to bat again, why on earth are we scoring at 1.95 runs per over.

[express bowling]

And India  32  for  4

 

Axcellent   !

 

 

[Muloghonto]

Lets re-cap. This is third day, India are nearly 300 ahead, pitch is starting to mis-behave and bowlers have bowled only 60 overs. 

If this is not the perfect follow-on scenario, i don't know what is. 

Kohli showed us today he is a coward - he is a coward because had he inserted Australia, the worst case scenario for India would be chasing 50-100 runs. Australia would just likely be bundled out for less than 300 and India would've had an innings victory.

Instead, he left the door open for PRECISELY what is happening right now - Indian implosion and giving Australia hope.  Cowardly decision being punished by instant karma. I am loving it. 

[Temujin Khaghan]

There is mana chewtiyapa and then there is akhand chewtiyapa and once in a series there is bramhanda chewtiyapa... Not enforcing follow on and playing at 2 rpo is almost that..

[Cricketics]

A bad 15 minutes doesn’t prove decision was wrong. Getting out on leg side all of them, doesn’t prove not following on was bad idea.

 

Correct decision which did not go our way.

 

i don’t expect same energy from all our bowlers on a Hot humid day. They might have struggled to bowl as consistently as they did in the first inning and we could have been facing fiery Starc in 4th innings with Sharma and Tail trying to score last 40 runs in the 4th innings.

 

 

You don’t want that.

 

 

[beetle]

Bowlers were fresh....

Stupid softie chickenish decision.

[flamy]

Good to bat again. No need to play 4th on this pitch.

[R!TTER]

6 minutes ago, Muloghonto said:

Lets re-cap. This is third day, India are nearly 300 ahead, pitch is starting to mis-behave and bowlers have bowled only 60 overs. 

If this is not the perfect follow-on scenario, i don't know what is. 

Kohli showed us today he is a coward - he is a coward because had he inserted Australia, the worst case scenario for India would be chasing 50-100 runs. Australia would just likely be bundled out for less than 300 and India would've had an innings victory.

Instead, he left the door open for PRECISELY what is happening right now - Indian implosion and giving Australia hope.  Cowardly decision being punished by instant karma. I am loving it. 

Kohli has showed us time & again he's a coward, the 2nd ODI vs Eng was the peak of cowardice when he flatly rejected the crowd & Nasser's criticism of Dhoni. Kohli will never be a brave captain, I'd argue he's not a brave batter either! 

[bowl_out]

Would have been ok to enforce a follow-on.. But batting again wasn't a bad decision either..

Batting so slow and losing so many wickets to the leg side was poor strategy and poor choice of shots

[Cricketics]

Don’t understand the negativity behind your national captain wanting to rest your bowlers a bit so they can come fired up again.  

 

Aren’t we always whining about giving them proper rest and rotating them. They have bowled in two full test matches and here have been brilliant. They will come fresh tomorrow to get the job done.

 

 

[velu]

26 minutes ago, Dil Dil India said:

Please explain how the hell were bowlers tired after 67 overs? What if Australia had batted out the day? And now that we have made the dumb decision to bat again, why on earth are we scoring at 1.95 runs per over.

 

they will be if aussies end up batting for another 100 overs

[Straight Drive]

Even with 335 this is a sure shot win. Aussies could not even bat 3 sessions.  Don't expect to bat six by any means on this wicket and our string bowling attack especially on day 5 and 5 in pressure situation. Easy win coming up by at least 76 runs.

[sandsaims]

With rain being forecast for the next couple of days the captain and coach might have cost India another match. Why wouldnt anyone enofrce the follow on is beyond ridiculous.

[Vilander]

Lol icf wrist slitters you dont deserve this team. 

 

Ok 

 

No need to bat last in this pitch let the big mighty players like lyon and hazelwood come face it on day 4. 

 

Good decision. Aus will be all out tomorrow in 2 sessions after Ind sets them around 440.

[R!TTER]

Don't deserve this team - you're making it sound as if we're on a 21 match winning streak & not lost 2-1 or 4-1 earlier in the year 

[The Dark Horse]

All said and done I'd take Kohli's approach over Slowni's pathetic defensive tactics in tests.

[jalebi_bhai]

This is why we didn't enforce the follow on:

 

https://www.9news.com.au/2018/12/27/14/15/melbourne-weather-victoria-to-swelter-through-heatwave
 

Most of Australia is going through a heatwave atm. It's summer in Australia. Absolutely no reason to unnecessarily exert the bowling unit. They deserved some rest after putting in that shift.

 

We've enough on the board already plus another Test to win in less than a week's time. Even with rain forecasts, there is enough time to bowl them out on this minefield. 

[King Tendulkar]

Perfect call

 

Bolwers rest.  Let pitch wear and tear more.  Get aussie bats out there to field more

 

Even better if we set these aussie a total which think can chase.  Carrot danged and silly aussies go for it and get rolled under afridi type shots  lol