Complete Definition of "follow on"

English
Noun
follow on
#cricket The act of a captain forcing the other side to bat again immediately after their first innings if they fail to score a certain number of runs less than his own team's first innings total (200 in a test match, 150 in other first class matches

Intransitive verb
to follow on
#To bat their second innings immediately after their first innings as above

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