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Michael Atherton has claimed that Ravi Shastri will be sacked after India captain Shubman Gill lost all five tosses in the Test series against England.
Ravi Shastri conducted all tosses in the England series (Picture credit: Screengrab from X)
Former England cricketer Michael Atherton has said that former India head coach Ravi Shastri will get sacked after he officiated the tosses and India captain Shubman Gill went on to lose all five of the tosses in the ongoing Test series, which India trail by 1-2.
It was Gill‘s fifth toss loss in a row. This was the 14th instance of a side losing all five tosses in a five-Test series; the only previous one in the 21st century came during India’s tour of England in 2018.
Gill not winning a single toss in five attempts wasn’t the end of India’s woes. The Oval toss loss was India’s 15th in a row across formats.
The last toss that any skipper of the Indian men’s cricket team won was on January 28 in a T20I against England. The captain was Suryakumar Yadav.
Rohit Sharma did not manage to win a single toss after that. But that made little impact as far as the results were concerned.
“Don’t mind losing the toss as long as we win the game. I was a bit confused yesterday about what to do. It was a bit overcast, but the wicket looks good; we’ll look to post good runs in the first innings,” Gill said at the toss.
“You are doing these tosses, you are responsible too. You will get sacked,” Atherton told Shastri as soon as the latter entered the commentary box after the toss.
“When the coin landed, Gill didn’t look up,” Shastri chimed.
Meanwhile, the start of the second session on the opening day of the fifth Test between India and England was delayed because of rain at The Oval on Thursday.
The umpires inspected the ground and the match eventually resumed at 7:30 pm IST.
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