South African skipper Faf du Plessis, who recently said the team would go back with 'mental scars' after the humiliating three-Test trouncing in India, has now blamed failure to win the toss in all the three Tests for the defeats.
Upset with the one-sided results of tossing in the series, he stressed the role toss plays in matches, especially in the subcontinent. Further, he demanded that the coin-flipping be done away in Tests.
He said losing the toss in all three Tests had made an already difficult task almost impossible. "Every Test match they bat first, they score 500, they declare when it's dark, they get three wickets when it's dark and when day three starts you are under pressure. It was like copy and paste in every Test match," news agency AFP quoted him as saying.
He then repeated his call for the toss to be done away with for Test matches. "Then away teams will have a better chance. In South Africa I don't mind that, we bat on green tops anyway.
Du Plessis, however, admitted that South Africa had been outplayed in India and acknowledged that the team had lacked mental strength.
"It was obvious from the way we played the last Test match. We started really well but by being put under pressure for a long period of time through the series, slowly but surely we started playing worse."
(With PTI inputs)
