Steve Waugh backs Ponting, Michael Holding call to dump toss in Tests
Updated On: 04 September, 2015 08:15 AM IST | | AFP
<p>Steve Waugh has backed calls from fellow former Australia captain Ricky Ponting and West Indies great Michael Holding for cricket chiefs to rid Test cricket of the toss</p>
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Steve Waugh
Sydney: Steve Waugh has backed calls from fellow former Australia captain Ricky Ponting and West Indies great Michael Holding for cricket chiefs to rid Test cricket of the toss.
Steve Waugh
Under Ponting's proposal, suggested during the recent Ashes series in England, the away side would choose who bats first in order to counteract any advantage the hosts may gain from preparing a pitch that suits them best. Waugh said he was open to the radical idea. "I don't mind that, I think that's not such a bad thing," Australian Associated Press quoted him as saying late Wednesday.
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