Ponting, Clarke chat about coin-toss difficulties - UK 2009

Australia may be winning the ODI series against England but they continue to struggle when it comes to flipping the coin. CATV chats to Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke to find out a little bit more.

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Sports

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• Ricky Ponting
• Michael Clarke
• Australian Cricket Team
• Ashes 2009

[cameron9792]

@fivecougarsoz cmon mate coin toss is 50% chance. its all part of cricket if u get lucky u have a better chance. its part of the game

[negooog]

11 tosses one win

[cricket4life45]

Wat Do You Captain The Under 12S C Team

[1isthebest1]

im a captain of a team and ive called a micture of both and won about 2 out of 11 €:[

[fivecougarsoz]

The whole purpose of the toss is to add fairness, and it works _perfectly_ for the one match. But it doesn't work so well for a series, where one team could end up winning every toss (and on some cricket pitches these days you've almost guaranteed yourself a win just by winning the toss).

I prefer an alternating system. For the 1st match of the series flip a coin - whoever wins gets to choose who bats first. But then it should alternate - for the second match the other captain chooses, and so on