The first was in 1997 at Manchester, when the Australian captain Mark Taylor made a seemingly puzzling decision. The conditions were overcast, the pitch was green and it was a toss crying to be won so that the opposition could be asked to bat first. However, Taylor knew that on that surface, spinners would come into the game on day four and five, and so, to allow Shane Warne to bowl in the fourth innings and try and win Australia the Test, they needed to bat first.
