5 Cricket World Cup facts that you may not know

2) The coin toss

The toss between the two captains in 2011

The 2011 World Cup final began in the most controversial way possible. At toss itself, the two captains—India’s MS Dhoni and Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara—were in apparent disagreement with each other, albeit in a friendly manner.

As match referee Jeff Crowe flipped the coin, he couldn’t hear Sangakkara’s call. Heads was what fell, and apparently it was what the then Sri Lankan captain called, but since everyone failed to hear it, the coin was tossed again.

This time, however, Sangakkara called heads again and, thankfully for him, heads was the result yet again—making him win the toss. Imagine the controversy if he hadn’t.