mvaughan

English cricket fans will always remember the First Test at Brisbane back in 2002 as the one in which 'Nasser made the wrong choice'. Having called correctly, he opted to bowl first and it proved to be the wrong decision as Australia piled on just short of 500 runs; to make matters worse Simon Jones seriously damaged his knee and missed the rest of the Series. These things happen and Nasser has been carrying the can for that decision ever since but every captain makes a wrong decision at the toss at one stage or another and on the day he did what he thought gave him the best chance of winning the match. I didn't have a great game myself, scoring 33 and 0, Australia won the match by a massive 384 runs and they never looked back after that. Brisbane in an interesting wicket. It's the...