Zal Irani Cup, 2010-11

[The Dark Horse]

Why didnt they enforce follow on:dontknow:

[Sir john]

Why didnt they enforce follow on:dontknow:

they want to go home early.:hmmm: challenger series is coming.

[ludhianvi]

Why didnt they enforce follow on:dontknow:

Simple! ROI already has a first innings lead and if this match is a draw, which it is most likely going to be, then ROI wins based on their first innings lead. With this rule, why would you want to sweat it out in the heat when you can sit and relax in the pavilion and make the opposition chase the leather. And thirdly, it gives Yuvi a second chance to score some runs here and he chose to come before Badrinath at #3 ;-) He has to fight out the early morning tomorrow though. Can he do it ?

[vvvslaxman]

Simple! ROI already has a first innings lead and if this match is a draw' date=' which it is most likely going to be, then ROI wins based on their first innings lead. With this rule, why would you want to sweat it out in the heat when you can sit and relax in the pavilion and make the opposition chase the leather. And thirdly, it gives Yuvi a second chance to score some runs here and he chose to come before Badrinath at #3 ;-) [b'] He has to fight out the early morning tomorrow though. Can he do it ?

Million dollar question :cantstop:

[Sir john]

yuvi need to to score a big 100.:--D

[The Dark Horse]

Simple! ROI already has a first innings lead and if this match is a draw' date= which it is most likely going to be, then ROI wins based on their first innings lead. With this rule, why would you want to sweat it out in the heat when you can sit and relax in the pavilion and make the opposition chase the leather. And thirdly, it gives Yuvi a second chance to score some runs here and he chose to come before Badrinath at #3 ;-) He has to fight out the early morning tomorrow though. Can he do it ?

i completely forgot that:dance:

[Sir john]

Rest of india wins.:--D

[ludhianvi]

Rahane - very elegant and graceful in his shots. Really good driver..simple effective movements against the pacers- a bit like Tendulkar. Rohit was going well until a ripper from Chawla squared up him up and was he was castled. @Dhawal, I guess everybody knows that he's a medium pacer but I think he can be useful if India takes a 3 pace attack in good conditions - can seam/swing the ball a bit. Maybe he can be like Zaheer/Asif but too early to say that. He can surely bowl a lot of overs as he bowled 36 overs in the first innings. P.S: All these performances are relative of/c

[saneindian]

Yuvraj Singh , if he does get to a 100, is surely going to say a lot in the media on his exclusion!!

[ludhianvi]

4,4,4, and its Century for yuvi :--D ok,time to declare now

[gaurav92]

Keep Playing as it is They will win no matter what.

[Rajiv]

4,4,4, and its Century for yuvi :--D ok,time to declare now

You really think hr needs 500 + runs to win? why didnt he follow on..if this is some way to get attention then he has lost it Very disgusted by yuvraj

[Sachinism]

Yuvraj is murdering the bowling now 170* - striking at 106

[saneindian]

Yuvi could well have given his test career a fresh lease of life with this timely knock. VVS is indisposed, most likely will not be fit for the 2nd test. I don't think the team management would like to groom Pujara vs the Aussies in the 2nd test. I see Yuvi playing instead of VVS in Bangalore , i.e. If VVS is really declared unfit for the 2nd test. In any case, it augurs well for India. He will raring to go during the ODIs.

[Sachinism]

Yuvi on 199 will they declare after he gets a double

[saneindian]

Yuvraj complets his 200. Will he continue to bat on or will the innings be declared? 29 overs still remaining, maybe bat for another 6-7 overs and give his bowler about 110 overs to bowl Mumbai out for an outright win.

[Sachinism]

Yuvraj complets his 200. Will he continue to bat on or will the innings be declared? 29 overs still remaining' date=' maybe bat for another 6-7 overs and give his bowler about 110 overs to bowl Mumbai out for an outright win.[/quote'] Why would you bat 7-8 more overs? They have a lead of 781, there is no way anyone is chasing that down in 4 sessions

[King Tendulkar]

204 Not Out Yuvi says hello.

[Sid]

so yuvi hammered everyone today,good for his confidence

[ludhianvi]

You really think hr needs 500 + runs to win? why didnt he follow on..if this is some way to get attention then he has lost it Very disgusted by yuvraj

As I've mentioned before, ROI has already won the match and the second innings or enforcing the follow on is merely academic in the context of the match result. I can see where you are coming from and its the normal question one would raise- why not enforce the follow on. In an ideal match, the captain would enforce the follow on. Its also quite clear why the follow-on wasnt enforced as well. Let's look at this way, are people especially the selectors going to care or remember if Yuvraj the captain leads his team to victory with an outright win or a first innings lead win OR how much runs Yuvraj the batsman would've scored. It is clearly the latter. Having missed out in the first innings, and under the scanner of the selectors and media, he clearly seized the opportunity as the captain and used it to his advantage and scored a double century. Call it selfish or whatever, with this knock what Yuvi has stated is hi, dont forget about me altogether