Time administrators took measures to prevent the toss from becoming a major factor on the game’s outcome

Four out of five games played at The Oval in the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy 2013 were won by the team batting second. The only time the side batting first won the game was when Australia fell 20 runs short of Sri Lanka's total. But that was only because they were initially trying to reach the target in 29 overs to get their net run-rate up, and lost four top order batsmen in the process.