The West Indies side created history by pulling out of their ongoing tour of India and also broke new ground when the entire team appeared together at the toss in Dharmashala on Friday as a show of support for their captain Dwayne Bravo.
Barring India’s late Prime Minister India Gandhi’s assassination and incidents such as bomb-blasts, terror attacks and bad weather instances the withdrawal is unprecedented. It is unknown whether referee Jeff Crowe, a New Zealand international, had prior knowledge of the West Indies team’s intention and had given the full team permission to join Bravo for the toss.
“This is the first incident where the entire team were at the toss,” said Mohandas Menon, the game’s noted statistician. “The Match referee could have stopped it.”
According to the MCC, which is the Custodian of Laws, ‘The captains shall toss for the choice of innings, on the field of play and in the presence of one or both of the umpires, not earlier than 30 minutes, nor later than 15 minutes before the scheduled or any rescheduled time for the match to start (Law 12.4 (Innings)) and if, at any time the captain is unavailable for the toss a, ‘deputy must be responsible for the nomination of the players, if this has not already been done, and for the toss (Law 1.3 (Captain)).
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