Will India avoid the follow on?

[rkt.india]

England may struggle to pick wickets with old ball in case they don't pick enough with the new one.

The way Anderson and Broad bowled yesterday, it will be a difficult day for our batsmen.

[maniac]

Need to see of the opening spell and I think we have the best batsmen to do it....both or if one of them get out then it is curtains I am afraid. But don't think cook has the balls to enforce follow on.....we might get a shot at saving this though

[Straight Drive]

The way Anderson and Broad bowled yesterday' date=' it will be a difficult day for our batsmen.[/quote'] I am very hopeful of avoiding a follow on as there bowlers become ineffective when the ball gets old and they get tired with so much of pace bowling to do due to lack of reliable spin options who can bowl 45+ like Swann did to share major workload in about a 160+ overs innings.

[rkt.india]

I am very hopeful of avoiding a follow on as there bowlers become ineffective when the ball gets old and they get tired with so much of pace bowling to do due to lack of reliable spin options who can bowl 45+ like Swann did to share major workload in about a 160+ overs innings.

But if they can keep getting breakthroughs, they wont have to bowl 150 overs. If you can get team out in 90 overs bowling at your best then why bowl below your best and stretch the overs. They have 4 seamers now to share. before they had 3 pacers and swann.

[BlueBee]

Dont worry we have Nohit.

[Roshanrocks]

Let's see. We have a good batting line up. We should be able to avoid follow on...once we do that..shut shop ..play as many over's as we can and draw the hell out of the game.

[BlueBee]

Let's see. We have a good batting line up. We should be able to avoid follow on...once we do that..shut shop ..play as many over's as we can and draw the hell out of the game.

Yeah need to do a Proteas.

[Straight Drive]

But if they can keep getting breakthroughs' date=' they wont have to bowl 150 overs. If you can get team out in 90 overs bowling at your best then why bowl below your best and stretch the overs. They have 4 seamers now to share. before they had 3 pacers and swann.[/quote'] They may not let partnerships prosper.On contrary we might see more than couple of partnerships.Anything can happen.Playing with 4 specialist bowlers is a drawback generally especially with reports that Broad is carrying a niggle.Some reports mention it as injury.Wickets in early spell are crucial with a limited bowling attack. My opinion is that we will allow follow on, although it may well happen that we get bowled below follow on actually.It's just a prediction and reply to the question asked in title.I will wait and see what happens.

[rkt.india]

They may not let partnerships prosper.On contrary we might see more than couple of partnerships.Anything can happen.Playing with 4 specialist bowlers is a drawback generally especially with reports that Broad is carrying a niggle.Some reports mention it as injury.Wickets in early spell are crucial with a limited bowling attack. My opinion is that we will allow follow on, although it may well happen that we get bowled below follow on actually.It's just a prediction and reply to the question asked in title.I will wait and see what happens.

Broad has a knee tendinitis and he is playing with injections but he looked good yesterday, bowled quickest I have seen him bowl this season.

[vijay50]

88/3, Broad and Anderson picking up all the wickets.

[rkt.india]

going to lose this badly

[vijay50]

Binny the lucky charm needs to be back, good or bad , instead of unlucky ARSOL.

[asterix]

going to lose this badly

Young team can't clean up Dhobi's mess, everytime... Even if we manage to save the match, DHOBI will broadcast his and players strategies publicly...

[kruiser]

Feared it yesterday.. looking more like a reality now

[zubinpepsi]

this is going to be a huge innnings loss.. still 400 runs behind

[BeautifulGame]

this is going to be a huge innnings loss.. still 400 runs behind

What?

[Roshanrocks]

Kaise bhi follow on avoid kero MSD...

[Straight Drive]

I got it wrong. Now hoping that we somehow save this test.

[Stuge]

Finally ,Cook helped us to avoid follow on..by Not enforcing it :P

[FreakazoiD]

I'm surprised this thread even exists. In case you haven't been watching test cricket in the last decade, captains do not prefer to enforce follow-on these days.