{"id":20403,"date":"2025-12-03T13:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/losing-20th-toss-in-a-row-india-cannot-make-head-or-tail-of-odi-coin-curse\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:42","slug":"losing-20th-toss-in-a-row-india-cannot-make-head-or-tail-of-odi-coin-curse","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/losing-20th-toss-in-a-row-india-cannot-make-head-or-tail-of-odi-coin-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing 20th toss in a row, India cannot make head or tail of ODI coin-curse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">India lost their 20th consecutive toss in One-Day Internationals (ODI) this Wednesday in a remarkable continuation of their wretched luck with the coin flip that has baffled the team and bemused fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s stand-in skipper KL Rahul flipped the coin in Raipur hoping to end a streak that started with the 2023 World Cup final in Ahmedabad when India had Rohit Sharma as the 50-over captain.<\/p>\n<p>When the coin landed mid-pitch at Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium, it obliged the rival captain again. South Africa skipper Temba Bavuma, who correctly called &#8216;heads&#8217;, elected to field.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics suggest the odds of losing 20 tosses on the trot are one in 1 048 576.<\/p>\n<p>The wry smile on Rahul&#8217;s face said it all but the wicketkeeper-batter, leading the side in the absence of injured skipper Shubman Gill, managed to joke about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, this is the most pressure I&#8217;ve had because we haven&#8217;t won the toss in a long time. So, I&#8217;ve been practising, but clearly it is not working,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13658,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-20403","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Statistics suggest the odds of losing 20 tosses on the trot are one in 1 048 576.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Statistics suggest the odds of losing 20 tosses on the trot are one in 1 048 576.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24453,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20403\/revisions\/24453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}