TRISTAN LAVALETTE

Keeping with tradition: Joe Root and Sarfraz Ahmed contest the coin toss at the start of the second Test at Headingley this summer
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Eyebrows were raised when South Africa captain Faf du Plessis called for the pre-match coin toss to be scrapped after his team’s humiliating first Test defeat against Sri Lanka in Galle.
“I’m a big fan of taking away the toss,” he said after South Africa were embarrassingly bowled out for just 73 in the second innings. “I think even in South Africa you’ll still prepare the conditio...