Change is certainly the flavour of the season; but do all age old and hallowed traditions have to be subjected to the same........
Trust the English Cricket Board to be the harbinger of change and even harbour plans of doing away with and age old cricketing tradition namely the tossing of a coin that decides which team bats and fields...........
I am well and truly aware of the fact that Messrs Ricky Ponting and Michael Holding are the two leading proponents or then the gents who pioneered the idea of doing away with the toss and letting the visiting team get first choice as the pitch conditions would anyway be heavily doctored in favour of the home team.........
Yes; the same does hold true as every team is concerned with winning and winning handsomely at home by any means in an effort to improve both it's test as well as ODI rankings as they know that the same could take a beating when they are confronted with unfamiliar climes and seemingly hostile pitches on an away tour...........
Every team without exception goes out of it's way to maximise the home advantage and nullify the cutting edge the opposing or visiting team may have over it and that is what adds the spice and flavour to this hallowed and much worshipped game as every cricketing enthusiast and purveyor loves nothing more than a battle of attrition between the bat and the ball.........
Yes; test matches may be winding up in three days or a little more than three days on spin or then pace friendly pitches and conditions that sometimes reduce the best batsmen going around to nincompoops and amateurs struggling to cope with the eccentric antics of both the ball as well as the bowlers..........
But this is what precisely makes this game a battle of the mind; resilient and resolute cricketers do not waste either their time and precious energies in fretting and fuming over the unfamiliar conditions and attributing their seemingly humiliating losses to the same rather they just buckle down and adapt to the surroundings in an effort to go one better than their opponents.........
Yes; the toss may indeed provide the home team with an undue advantage and even lead to the fate of a test match being decided with the tossing of a coin; but then that's the way it has always been and do not simply change the same to level the playing field and pander to the simpers of cry babies who will keep crying and simpering no matter what........
Trust the English Cricket Board to be the harbinger of change and even harbour plans of doing away with and age old cricketing tradition namely the tossing of a coin that decides which team bats and fields...........
I am well and truly aware of the fact that Messrs Ricky Ponting and Michael Holding are the two leading proponents or then the gents who pioneered the idea of doing away with the toss and letting the visiting team get first choice as the pitch conditions would anyway be heavily doctored in favour of the home team.........
Yes; the same does hold true as every team is concerned with winning and winning handsomely at home by any means in an effort to improve both it's test as well as ODI rankings as they know that the same could take a beating when they are confronted with unfamiliar climes and seemingly hostile pitches on an away tour...........
Every team without exception goes out of it's way to maximise the home advantage and nullify the cutting edge the opposing or visiting team may have over it and that is what adds the spice and flavour to this hallowed and much worshipped game as every cricketing enthusiast and purveyor loves nothing more than a battle of attrition between the bat and the ball.........
Yes; test matches may be winding up in three days or a little more than three days on spin or then pace friendly pitches and conditions that sometimes reduce the best batsmen going around to nincompoops and amateurs struggling to cope with the eccentric antics of both the ball as well as the bowlers..........
But this is what precisely makes this game a battle of the mind; resilient and resolute cricketers do not waste either their time and precious energies in fretting and fuming over the unfamiliar conditions and attributing their seemingly humiliating losses to the same rather they just buckle down and adapt to the surroundings in an effort to go one better than their opponents.........
Yes; the toss may indeed provide the home team with an undue advantage and even lead to the fate of a test match being decided with the tossing of a coin; but then that's the way it has always been and do not simply change the same to level the playing field and pander to the simpers of cry babies who will keep crying and simpering no matter what........
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