Cricket bods - should they change the toss system at the start of test matches?
Just reflecting on another test where having lost the toss again on another flattish pitch we are likely to have to toil now for several days just to get a draw. Basically if you bat first in these pitches then you have to go some, or the opposition have to produce some magic from somewhere, to lose the game.
Generally im a traditionalist and against virtually any changes to established sports but it does seem that so many test matches are now so heavily influenced by who wins the toss or by home advantage that it might be worth looking at it. Perhaps the decision to bat or bowl should alternate between the teams and then they toss in the final game of the series if it's a three or five match series? Any thoughts?
Posted By: Jim on October 22nd 2015 at 17:16:00
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- Cricket bods - should they change the toss system at the start of test matches? (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 17:16:00
- No (n/m) (Other Sports) - Jumbo1, Oct 22, 19:41:38
- Keeps me mysterious! (Other Sports) - Jumbo1, Oct 22, 20:22:39
- Too many words. (n/m) (Other Sports) - Jim Nasium, Oct 22, 20:03:30
- Either way, rest assured, SA will be a very very different advert for Cricket!!! (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 17:50:16
- Problem is, that would enable groundsmen to prepare really f*cked up pitches (Other Sports) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 22, 17:44:39
- Fair point. (n/m) (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 17:52:37
- But this goes back to that ICC directive about them ensuring Test Pitches give fair chance (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 17:46:06
- You can't really enforce that, in this case though (Other Sports) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 22, 17:55:53
- Very subjective isn't it. Difficult, get the plough out. :) I just think bowlers need mor (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 17:59:23
- You can't really enforce that, in this case though (Other Sports) - Tricky Hawes, Oct 22, 17:55:53
- No, that's just the way it goes, besides you can lose the toss but get better (Other Sports) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Oct 22, 17:25:14
- Unusual in the desert though! (n/m) (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 17:25:43
- lols this is true, beefy was only slightly less red today :) (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 17:38:13
- Unusual in the desert though! (n/m) (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 17:25:43
- Umm, difficult, because surely that first innings toss is often kind of the decider... (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 17:22:46
- I don't mean whoever bats first one test bowls first the next I mean (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 17:25:09
- Umm, see what you're saying, but then what if they make the wrong choice and the weather.. (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 17:27:15
- But that would be their error then so could have no complaints (n/m) (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 17:28:57
- But you can't guess what the weather might do in 3 hrs time, but then suppose... (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 17:30:57
- I agree the ideal is better pitches as they render the toss less relevant (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 17:41:55
- For me, the final day of the last test is how the pitch should have been 1st day... (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 17:47:40
- I suppose you can argue that the last day of that test (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 17:55:28
- I didn't watch on sky today, just had TMS on, at least plenty of school boy hoo har... (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 18:01:26
- And I truly be just as adamant if the Pakistani's were going for the win. (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 18:02:41
- I think now they have lights they should just play til the 90 overs are completed (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 18:10:01
- And there is now this thing that the pink ball could well replace in all formats, no idea. (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 18:14:33
- I think now they have lights they should just play til the 90 overs are completed (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 18:10:01
- And I truly be just as adamant if the Pakistani's were going for the win. (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 18:02:41
- I didn't watch on sky today, just had TMS on, at least plenty of school boy hoo har... (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 18:01:26
- I suppose you can argue that the last day of that test (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 17:55:28
- For me, the final day of the last test is how the pitch should have been 1st day... (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 17:47:40
- I agree the ideal is better pitches as they render the toss less relevant (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 17:41:55
- But you can't guess what the weather might do in 3 hrs time, but then suppose... (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 17:30:57
- But that would be their error then so could have no complaints (n/m) (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 17:28:57
- Umm, see what you're saying, but then what if they make the wrong choice and the weather.. (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 17:27:15
- the toss is part of the beauty of cricket imo (Other Sports) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 22, 17:23:59
- That's it isn't it, as Jim says, really difficult to kind of change it. (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 17:25:25
- I'm not sure I do want it changed, perhaps just a reaction to the slog that's (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 17:28:19
- He always buggers it up. (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 17:31:21
- I'm not sure I do want it changed, perhaps just a reaction to the slog that's (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 17:28:19
- That's it isn't it, as Jim says, really difficult to kind of change it. (n/m) (Other Sports) - DrDublin, Oct 22, 17:25:25
- I don't mean whoever bats first one test bowls first the next I mean (Other Sports) - Jim, Oct 22, 17:25:09
- No (n/m) (Other Sports) - Jumbo1, Oct 22, 19:41:38
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