Australia’s Big Bash League (BBL), in a first, has opted to swap the traditional coin toss with bat flip. The BBL, which is slated to get underway from December 19, will see the new initiative being taken for the first time in it’s 2018-19 edition.
“For me it’s a great moment which reflects what BBL is about,” Kim McConnie, Cricket Australia’s head of the Big Bash League said on the competition’s website.
“Some people don’t like change but I’d also challenge people to say when was the last time anyone watched the coin toss or really focused on it to a great extent?
“Now we are making it much more relevant to families, we are creating a moment which is much more fitting with kids.”
