da bet sport： Tamil Nadu chose not to enforce the follow on after a solid battingdisplay was backed by a good bowling performance
15-Mar-2000Tamil Nadu chose not to enforce the follow on after a solid battingdisplay was backed by a good bowling performance. Resuming on 599/4,Tamil Nadu declared their innings closed after they had reached696/5. Sridharan Sharath playing confidently reached his doublehundred off 320 balls. Adding another 5 runs to that mark, Sharath wasrun out.After a side has made nearly seven hundred runs for the loss of justfive wickets, one would think the wicket was good forbatting. However, the wicket certainly was not good for UttarPradesh. The Tamil Nadu bowlers all plugged away, chipping in andsharing the wickets as Uttar Pradesh were dismissed for 228.Only S Shukla in the middle of the innings resisted the Tamil Naduattack. He helped himself to 102 runs, a large percentage of the UttarPradesh total. The fact that the next highest score was 26 from youngmedium pacer Mrithyunjay Tripathi spoke volumes of the inability ofthe Uttar Pradesh batsmen to deal with the Tamil Nadu bowling.Tamil Nadu leading by over four hundred runs chose not to enforce thefollow on. Whether there was a need to get more batting practice afteralmost all batsmen had made runs in the first innings is a questiononly the Tamil Nadu captain can answer.