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I guess my point is it should require the captain to think about his decision, on winning the toss. On these pitches it is an automatic 'bat' when the coin comes up your way.

Really! That series was very close, NZ had the better of England, and I think came within one wicket of winning the last test?

And that went well.

It's a good point, and with the way pitches are prepared these days (and the shockers in England during our winter) the toss seems more important than ever. Of the 8 tests so far (5 in UK, 3 here) the toss winner has batted first each time. One way to fix it would be to prepare pitches...

Of the last 8 Ashes tests, in England and this summer, the team winning the toss has won 6 times. The other two were affected by rain, and the toss winner was ahead in those games. It's so hard to chase a decent total on deteriorating pitches.

A couple of reasons IMO. Too many one day games on flat pitches. For example, Bailey smashed the Indian attack in the one day series last month on flat, batting wickets. Get him into a test match against a class attack on a wicket with a bit of juice (not much, but more than those Indian...