Saturday, April 28, 2007

Tossing Out the Toss

Here are a couple of suggestions for reducing the effect of the toss.
1. Team one completes its 25 overs then team two bats for 25 overs. At the end of it team losing the toss decides whether team 2 finishes its fifty overs and then team 1 follows with its final 25 or team 1 bats again and then team two for their remaining 25.
Better if match is reduced to 40 overs (so the decision would be after 20 overs). In case of rain interruptions the first twenty five overs of each side are completed.
2. Make it two innings of twenty overs each. Team winning toss decides who bats first in the first innings. Team losing the toss decides who bats first in the second innings. In case of interruptions only first innings is played.

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