Why is England afraid to feed the follow-on and declare the innings?

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#INDvsENG: Generally groups devise extremely defensive techniques for a sure area. England has performed the identical for Chepauk’s pitch. The England group not solely acquired the primary Check defeat in opposition to India at this floor, however this pitch stored on scaring them occasionally.

That is the rationale that regardless of enjoying high-class cricket within the first Check on the tour of India, England’s group has seemed defensive on a number of events in Chennai. The England captain’s marathon ended after enjoying 377 balls within the first innings. On the rating of 218, Joe Root was lbw to Shabaz Nadeem. After Root’s dismissal, England out of the blue lowered the run price and batted till all out.

Within the first and second innings, the captain of England may have pressured the Indian openers by declaring the innings, however he didn't accomplish that. Had there been every other group rather than England, as a substitute of enjoying the ready recreation, it could have taken an aggressive method. England’s defensive technique is accountable for the 2 matches performed on the MA Chidambaram Stadium. Let’s know what occurred in these matches –

16 December 2016 India vs England Fifth Check

England scored 477 runs within the first innings after successful the toss, together with a shocking 146 from all-rounder Moeen Ali. After this rating nobody may suppose that the group would lose the match from the innings however one thing comparable occurred.

India declared their innings at 759 for seven, because of a triple century by Karun Nair (303 not out) and a giant century by Lokesh Rahul (199). India thus achieved a 282-run lead within the first innings.

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On the fifth day of the Check, England had scored 103 runs with out dropping wickets on the primary session. However after that Jadeja’s magic got here, who bowled his profession greatest and took seven wickets for 48 runs. England’s innings was lowered to 207 runs and misplaced solely 10 wickets in simply 104 runs. India received the match by an innings and 75 runs.

11 December 2008 India vs England 1st Check

England scored 316 because of the sensible century of captain Andrew Stoss. On the identical time, India may solely make 241 as a result of Andrew Flintoff’s quick bowling. On this innings, solely MS Dhoni scored an unbeaten 53 runs. Within the second innings additionally Andrew Stoss hit a century and declared the innings at 311-9.

India’s openers Virender Sehwag (83) and Gautam Gambhir (66) shared a 117-run partnership for the primary wicket. Though the group had misplaced 4 wickets at 224, from there Sachin Tendulkar (103 *) and Yuvraj Singh (85 *) gave Crew India a historic win by 6 wickets.

That is the rationale that now England is ingesting twice the buttermilk on this take a look at. Neither England declared the innings nor fed the Indian group a observe on in order that they might not have to attain 100 runs within the fourth innings.

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