Australia following-on atlast

Australia were made to follow on for the first time in 17 years as England dismissed the visitors for a paltry 218 on the third day of fourth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge. The last time they had suffered such fate was on 19th September 1988 at Karachi against Pakistan. Allan border was leading the side at that time and since then Border(61), Mark Taylor (50), Steve Waugh (57), Adam Gilchrist (6) and Ricky Ponting (16) never led a side that was asked to bat again by the opposition captain until Michael Vaughn asked Ponting (in his 17th match as captain of Australia) yesterday morning. Interestingly it was only for the 39th time that Australia have been followed on in the last 128 years and for the 18th time in last 50 years. For readers interest the accompanying table presents the list of follow on enforced on Australia in the last 50 years.Click to see the table