Richard Edwards looks at the pros and the cons to controversial ICC plans to scrap the pre-match coin toss in Test matches

Heads or tails? Nasser Hussain wins the toss at the Gabba in 2002. Inset: Luckiest Test captain at tossing the coin, Graeme Smith
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I don’t know what he was thinking – he had a brain fart.” Those were the words of Simon Jones to The Cricket Paper in late October when asked about Nasser Hussain’s decision to insert Australia at the Gabba in 2002, a move widely acknowledged to be one of worst by a captain at the toss in t...