MCC: Toss can't be dumped in Tests
Updated On: 06 September, 2015 06:17 AM IST | | Bipin Dani
<p>Former Australian captain Steve Waugh may have backed Ricky Ponting and WI's Michael Holding to do away with the toss in cricket, but the idea is unlikely to be favoured, according to the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club), custodians of cricket law since its formation in 1787. "I don't mind avoiding the toss, I think that's not such a bad thing," Waugh said recently</p>
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Steve Waugh
Former Australian captain Steve Waugh may have backed Ricky Ponting and WI's Michael Holding to do away with the toss in cricket, but the idea is unlikely to be favoured, according to the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club), custodians of cricket law since its formation in 1787. "I don't mind avoiding the toss, I think that's not such a bad thing," Waugh said recently.
Steve Waugh
'An integral part'
The idea, however, has not gone well with the authorities. "MCC feel that 'the toss' is an integral part of a game of cricket, and that, since the Laws of Cricket apply to every game at every level throughout the world, the Club is most unlikely to change the Law in dispensing with the toss," Mark Williams, the Laws of Cricket Advisor said from Lord's in London.
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