Role of a toss in a Cricket Match

Posted by Atin Jain on December 5th, 2018

Toss prediction plays an important role in a cricket match. While predicting the outcome of a given match toss plays an important role. Toss prediction one of the element of the match prediction.

Team bats or bowls first, depends on the outcome of the toss. If a team wins the toss then it will provide a small but a meaningful improvement to a team's chances of winning. Ideally, it does not make any difference but practically it makes a lot of difference.

Toss is a deciding factor in a match as it would give the team the option of picking "what they want to do at first”. Many teams prefer chasing for the given target. Toss in a cricket match is as important as many websites offer today toss prediction.

Many websites along with match prediction also provide an answer to the query ‘who will win the toss today match’. Factors like playing conditions, toss, dew factor, the composition of the team, etc are important in making the prediction of a cricket match.

Some situation where the playing conditions matter in the outcome of a match includes Green top wicket on the first morning of a test, Subcontinental dusty wickets with cracks and Day night ODI matches with dew in the outfield.

Green top wicket on the first morning of a test happens in England and Australia. Here the team who bowls first has the advantage and the team who is batting first has to be very careful for the first hour otherwise they would lose a lot of wickets.


Subcontinental dusty wickets with cracks where batting on the day 4 and 5 becomes extremely difficult if the opposition has some good spinners and if there is an uneven bounce then even the seamers will be difficult to face. Here the good thing to do is to avoid the fourth inning and to select to bat first if a toss is won.


Day night ODI matches with dew in the outfield is difficult to grip white ball if it is wet. Spinners will find it difficult to get a grip over the ball. In such conditions, not only spinner but pacers will also find difficulty to bowl. The team winning toss will choose to bowl first in the sunlight and bat second when there is dew in the field.