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Fantasy Cricket Records – Skippers with the Maximum Toss Wins

The toss in cricket, although it is not the definitive factor, plays really important role in determining the final results of any cricket match. It is also an important point in the fantasy cricket games of 11wickets.com.

Many of the online fantasy cricket gamers wait for the toss and they make their last minute changes in their team at 11Wickets. The toss winning team decides who will play first at what role first.

Listed here is a compilation of the captains may very well recorded the maximum number wins at the coin toss in Test matches, ODIs, T20 Internationals and all round.

Tests:

The former South African captain Graeme Smith has experienced the most luck with the toss in Test cricket. The Proteas skipper has won the toss 60 times out of the 109 he happens to be involved in the matches. Here is a list of the top 5.

PLAYER SPAN MATCHES TOSS WON PERCENTAGE
Graeme Smith 2003 – 2014 109 60 55.05
Allan Border 1984 – 1994 93 46 49.46
Ricky Ponting 2004 – 2010 77 37 48.05
Stephen Fleming 1997 – 2006 80 37 34.48
Clive Lloyd 1975 – 1984 74 35 47.30

ODIs:

Former Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting was not simply successful during the game in the limited-overs format, i.e. the ODIs, but before it too as it ends up. Ponting won 124 out of the 220 coin flips of which he was part of. Listed below are the others who managed to get to the top 5.

PLAYER SPAN MATCHES TOSS WON PERCENTAGE
Ricky Ponting 2002 – 2012 230 124 53.91
Stephen Fleming 1997 – 2007 218 105 48.17
Mahendra Singh Dhoni 2004 – 2017 200 97 48.50
Arjuna Ranatunga 1988 – 1999 193 102 52.85
Allan Border 1985 – 1994 178 86 48.31

T20 Internationals:

Former Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the captain cool, has had lady luck smiling widely on him at the toss in T20 Internationals. Dhoni has won the toss 22 times out of 37 events. This is a list of the top 5.

PLAYER SPAN MATCHES TOSS WON PERCENTAGE
Mahendra Singh Dhoni 2007 – 2014 72 34 47.22
William Porterfield 2008 – 2014 56 34 60.71
Darren Sammy 2011 – 2014 47 29 61.70
Shahid Afridi 2006 – 2018 44 25 56.82
Asghar Afghan 2010 – 2018 42 18 42.86

Ricky Ponting has had just about the most success at the toss on the whole. The former Aussie skipper won much more than 50% of the tosses at the time of his stint as captain accompanied by Graeme Smith and Stephen Fleming. This is a list of the most notable 10.

PLAYER SPAN MATCHES TOSS WON PERCENTAGE
Ricky Ponting 2002 – 2012 324 170 52.47
Graeme Smith 2003 – 2014 286 148 51.75
Stephen Fleming 1997 – 2007 303 147 48.51
Allan Border 1984 – 1994 271 132 48.70
Arjuna Ranatunga 1988 – 1999 249 132 53.01
Mohd. Azharuddin 1990 – 1999 221 125 56.56
MS Dhoni 2007 – 2014 256 123 48.05
Hansie Cronje 1994 – 2000 191 95 49.74
Sourav Ganguly 1999 – 2005 196 95 48.47
Imran Khan 1982 – 1992 187 95 50.80

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