Pakistan”s first-class tournament, Qaid-E-Azam trophy, decides to bring a major revolution in the history of the game. The tournament will be played without the coin toss being mandatory.
The visitors in the tournament will be given the liberty to bowl first. If they decide against it and both teams want to bat only then the match referee will go for a toss.
“The home team will have no advantage of the toss. Usually what happens is that the home side prefers making pitches that suit pacers. So, they prefer bowling after winning the toss. Under the new playing conditions, the coin will be tossed if the visitors deny the first option – to bowl first,” a PCB official source said.
“The change has been made to keep options neutral rather than giving extra advantage to the home team,” he further added.
CEO of PCB Wasim Khan said that he was surprised to see the scorecard Pakistan”s first-class cricket in the last couple of years.
“It gave me the impression that there is something seriously wrong. Matches finishing in a couple of days, teams getting out for low score, no tough matches that should be the forte of any first-class cricket. We are considering other options and are even contemplating having no toss in first-class matches,” Wasim added.
This convention would only be applicable to the 4-Day cricket format which is scheduled to begin from September 12. The ODI and the T20 tournaments would be played in the conventional manner.
Changes to coin toss were also made in Australia. The Big Bash League did not have coin toss this season and was replaced by the unconventional bat flip. That change still was still very neutral and both sides had equal opportunity to win the toss.
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