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I was taking it as read that we were talking about the decision made when you win the toss, since you obviously can't do anything about it if you lose it.

Primarily because in the days of uncovered pitches if you bowled first you risked getting the other team out for what seemed a perfectly good score, and then it pissing down and being caught on a drying wicket and bowled out for 30. If you walked into the England dressing room and told them they...

Given the choice between sending Anderson and Robinson out to take advantage of whatever movement there is on the first morning, and sending our disaster zone of a top order out to deal with said conditions, I know which one I'd have been more comfortable with. I suspect those two are probably...

Well yes, but when we're worrying about the batting lineup getting to 150 that tends to imply that the problem is that India are a much better team, rather than the decision at the toss.

Interestingly, England have won the toss and bowled in the last 3 matches against India at Lords. 2014, didn't take advantage of the conditions and lost. 2018, bowled them out for about 100 and won. The overall statistics for this sort of thing tend to be hard to interpret, since teams who win...

This is exactly the sort of unnecessary complexity that puts children off watching cricket.