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Follow-on   /fˈɑloʊ-ɑn/   Listen
Follow-on

noun
1.
An immediate second innings forced on a cricket team scoring a prescribed number of runs fewer than its opponents in the first innings.





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"Follow-on" Quotes from Famous Books



... account. You remember the scene at Lord's in 1893 when Wells purposely bowled no-balls; and again in 1896 when Shine bowled two no-balls to the boundary and then a ball which went for four byes, the object in each case being to deprive Oxford of the follow-on. This policy was hotly discussed; and luckily the discussion spent itself on the question whether play could be at the same time within the laws and clean contrary to the ethics of cricket. But there was also a deal of talk about what was 'due to the public'; talk which would have been altogether ...
— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


Words linked to "Follow-on" :   innings


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