Australia follow-on after 17 years

On the third day of the fourth Test in Nottingham, England [ Images ] brought an end to Australia's [ Images ] long-lasting streak of not facing a follow-on.

The last team to enforce follow-on on Australia was Pakistan under Javed Miandad [ Images ] at Karachi in September 1988. Australia went on to lose that Test by an innings margin.

Since then, Australia have played a record 190 Tests in almost 17 years without suffering the ignominy of following-on even once.

The following table gives details of longest streaks of Tests a side has gone between following-on:

Tests	Country	Sequence	Period
190	Australia	v Pak,Faisalabad,Sep 1988 to	16 yrs 11 months
		v Eng,Manchester,Aug 2005
75	India [ Images ]	v NZ,Dunedin,Feb 1990 to	11 yrs 1 month
		v Aus,Mumbai [ Images ] WS,March 2001
72	South Africa [ Images ]	v Aus,Durban,Jan 1967 to	32 yrs 11 months
		v Eng,Port Elizabeth, Dec 1999
69	Pakistan	v Aus,Brisbane [ Images ],Nov 1983 to	9 yrs 5 months
		v WI,Port-of-Spain,Apr 1993
68	England	v Aus,Sydney [ Images ],Feb 1898 to	22 yrs 10 months
		v Aus,Sydney,Dec 1920
63	West Indies [ Images ]	v Eng, Bridgetown, Apr 1992 to	7 yrs 8 months
		v NZ, Hamilton,Dec 1999

Note: South Africa's instance is inclusive of the 22 years between 1970 and 1992 when they played no Test cricket.