Does anyone else find they struggle bowling in First Class games in the second innings, particularly after enforcing the follow on? I feel like quite often when I bat first and post a good score, then bowl out the opposition with a low enough score to trigger the follow-on option and choose to enforce it, the opposition come out all guns blazing in their second innings and I often struggle to stem the flow of runs and to bowl them out. In my current English County Championship season, for example, I've already had two games where I've enforced the follow on - in the first, I simply could not bowl the opposition out in their second innings, despite having more than a day to do so and the pitch conditions being unfavourable to batting, and so came out with a draw from a match that should really have been a big win; and in the second, in similar conditions, I did manage to bowl them out second time round but they'd scored so big and so quick that I needed to chase 150 myself on the last afternoon to win the game (which eventually I did manage to, scoring the winning run off literally the last ball of the match! Again, it should really have been a much more comfortable win).
Does anyone else experience these difficulties, and do you have any tips and tactics for second-innings bowling in games where you are well on top from the first innings to ensure you close out the victory?
Does anyone else experience these difficulties, and do you have any tips and tactics for second-innings bowling in games where you are well on top from the first innings to ensure you close out the victory?
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