Cricket tradition goes in england

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English county season began today with six matches being playedacross Division 1 and Divison 2. The matches will be played over a course offour days. But the biggest change has been the scrapping on the toss - or,well. almost.The oldest tradition in cricket where one of the captain'spicks heads or tails and then chooses whether to bat or bowl has been droppedin order to promote spin bowling in English cricket and increase the quality ofpitches in use. In effect, the away team captain now has the option to eitherbowl or go for the toss.
Today, that rulecame into effect with Warwickshire's Ian Bell opting to bowl first againstHampshire.

 

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Toss is not reason for preparing pitches the way they are! Toss gives a fair (unbiased) advantage to either of the teams! Now the away captain (as is mentioned here) will have an upper hand!!