Indian captain KL Rahul and South African skipper Aiden Markram pose with trophy forward of toss. — BCCI
NEW DELHI: India are all in a spin after dropping a scarcely plausible 20 coin tosses in a row in one-day internationals (ODIs) — at odds of greater than a million-to-one.
Stand-in captain KL Rahul admitted he was flummoxed on the run of unhealthy luck that goes all the way in which again to the 2023 World Cup last in Ahmedabad, when Rohit Sharma was in cost.
“I’ve been practising, but clearly it´s not working,” stated Rahul after dropping the flip once more within the second one-day worldwide towards South Africa in Raipur on Wednesday.
The chances towards dropping 20 consecutive coin tosses are 1,048,576 to 1, a statistical anomaly that Rahul desires to finish within the third and last South Africa ODI on Saturday in Visakhapatnam.
“Honestly, that’s the most pressure I’ve had because we haven’t won a toss in a long time,” Rahul stated after seeing reverse quantity Temba Bavuma name appropriately, but once more.
Three Indian captains — Rohit, common ODI skipper Shubman Gill and Rahul — have all tried and didn’t win a toss for the reason that final right name towards New Zealand on November 15, 2023, on the World Cup semi-final in Mumbai.
“Rahul said that he´d been practising, but how do you know what the opposition captain is going to call?” batting nice Sunil Gavaskar instructed broadcaster JioStar.
“Because you know, for the first game, it was Aiden Markram who was captain.
“So Markram may be an individual who likes choosing ‘heads’, and Temba Bavuma may be a captain who likes to go for ‘tails’.”
Former South Africa pace bowler Dale Steyn said Faf du Plessis once asked Bavuma to toss for him after a lengthy losing sequence.
“It is the primary time I’ve ever seen a captain ask one of many different gamers to return and do a toss,” said Steyn.
“Temba additionally misplaced that toss,” he remarked.
