Heads or Tails

[interest]

At a recent backward cricket match, which is played in the spirit of an Australia Vs England ashes match, a 50cent coin was tossed to call heads or tails.
A 1981 coin was tossed when it came down there was Chuck & Di, that's heads we will bat. No that is tails, we will bat.
No I called heads not head that's heads plural, we will bat.
Lets use a different coin.
No we won toss I called heads, we bat!
This went on with everyone offering their 2 cents, until the umpire stepped in with lets use a bat, toss that.
There's always some one to spoil the fun.

[Mister T]

Reminds me of a tale someone once told me about a professional cricketer from India I think, who used to do the toss with a local coin with no obvious head to dupe any foreign teams.

[autocoupler]

Probably why they refused the assistance of available technology to review umpire decisions during the recent test series.

[ausproofs]

Probably why they refused the assistance of available technology to review umpire decisions during the recent test series.

:laughingneqw:

Good call !

[Sapyx]

The ancient Romans appear to have been the first to invent the concept of tossing a coin to determine a 50:50 random outcome. Perhaps because they were one of the earliest civilizations to make coins that were evenly weighted; most ancient Greek and early Chinese coins are heavily biased towards the obverse. The standard early Roman bronze coin was the As, and the standard design on the As for the first 200 years of its existence was a portrait of the two-faced god Janus on one side, and the prow of a ship on the other. So instead of calling out "heads or tails", the Romans called out "heads or ships" (capita aut navia in Latin).

The Late Roman author Macrobius, writing circa AD 410, reports people still using this phrase, centuries after the Janus-and-ships design had disappeared from circulation.

[interest]

Heads I win tails you lose..

[markn]

I saw this image yesterday of a coin toss at a US football game.  Turns out it was staged but it's still pretty awesome: