I know this forum probably has memory of a gold fish but that's 100% not true, even from the pre DRS era! In fact India is much more stronger when the pitches are flat -I know it's stating the obvious, but the 2-1 series score line once again supports the argument about the(and of course batting). I recall OS in the past arguing this is some sort of myth but I've never seen any evidence to support this outside India still winning some games after losing the toss and batted second - but that's more of a function of how strong they are at home.
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Opposition team India |
Home or away away (home of opposition) |
Start of match date greater than or equal to 1 Jan 2007 |
Toss result won the toss |
Totals in terms of batting team |
Qualifications matches played greater than or equal to 1 |
Team | Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | Draw | W/L | Ave | RPO | Inns | HS | LS | |
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South Africa | 2008-2010 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0.500 | 39.36 | 3.01 | 7 | 558 | 121 | |
England | 2008-2024 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0.333 | 31.50 | 2.93 | 20 | 578 | 81 | |
Australia | 2008-2023 | 13 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0.111 | 28.64 | 2.86 | 26 | 480 | 91 | |
Pakistan | 2007-2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 23.90 | 2.66 | 2 | 247 | 231 | |
Bangladesh | 2019-2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 17.02 | 3.32 | 4 | 213 | 106 | |
New Zealand | 2010-2012 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 30.67 | 3.33 | 6 | 448 | 175 | |
Sri Lanka | 2009-2017 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 25.29 | 3.32 | 6 | 393 | 166 | |
West Indies | 2011-2018 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 25.60 | 2.97 | 8 | 590 | 127 |
Oz has won 13 tosses since 2007, lost 9 games, Eng 10 & lost 6 of them. Weirdly the best team in this time, i.e. SA, have lost the most tosses. The 2015 series vs SA was definitely won on the back of tosses IMO - the reason Eng/Oz don't win here much anymore is because they don't have anyone comparable to Steyn. Yes Cummins is good but not that good in Asia.