T20 World Cup 2022: Does winning the toss and batting second help teams in Australia?

Winning or losing depends on overall team performance, and every single factor can have a massive impact on the result. But as the tournament moved forward, other factors affected the match result, such as toss and climate conditions. 

Winning the toss and chasing was supposedly an advantage; however, in the ongoing T20 World Cup, the stats are not speaking the same language.

Toss winners are not matched winners! 

In the short format, every single decision by the team plays a vital role in the overall result; above that, the toss was considered the primary factor that gave the team an extra advantage. 

In the previous edition of the T20 World Cup, nearly 30 of 45 matches were won by the team that won the toss. Thus, the success rate of the toss-winning team is 66.6%, which is quite astonishing. 

However, in the current edition of the tournament, after the conclusion of 11 matches, eight games were lost by the team despite winning the toss. 

Before the world cup, many predictions related to the toss and how the toss would play a crucial role in this grand event, however, until now, the Australian pitches have surprised every time, all predictions have failed, and the toss is turning out as a disadvantage for the teams.

Are you defending over chasing? Stats says it all!

Seven venues in Australia will host the event, including the final being played at Melbourne Cricket Ground. The pacy pitches and bigger outfields in Australia will support the bowlers in clinching early wickets in the initial phase of the match. 

However, a big concern that was expected for the team's bowling second was the dew factor. 

The Australian pitches are known for their great bounce and swing, which is why they provide excellent assistance to the bowlers; however, after the dew starts to affect the game, the team bowling second is no longer able to use these advantages. 

Due to this, most of the teams looked towards bowling first and then chasing the target, which has turned into an unsuccessful tactic in the World Cup till now. 

In the tournament, chasing the score was a mammoth task for the teams, and only a few teams managed to do so. In the first 11 matches played, seven games have been won by the teams defending their total, which explains that chasing in this World Cup is not as helpful as it usually is in this short format.

Looking at these stats and results from the matches played till now, we might say that toss is not the real boss in the current T20 World Cup, and defending the score is relatively better than chasing the target!