XtraTime Web Desk: Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara revealed that former India skipper MS Dhoni wanted to flip the coin again at the toss during the 2011 World Cup final at Wankhede. In a live chat on instagram with India off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Thursday, Sangakkara said, “The was crowd was huge. It never happens in Sri Lanka.
Once I had this at Eden Gardens when I could not talk to the first slip and then of course at the Wankhede. I remember calling on the toss then Dhoni wasn’t sure and said did you call tail and I said no I called head,”
He added, “The match referee actually said I won the toss, Mahi said he did not. There was a little bit of confusion there and Mahi said let’s have another toss of the coin and heads went up again.”
“I am not sure whether it was luck that I won. I believe probably India might have batted if I had lost,” said Sangakkara.
There was a confusion at the toss during the 2011 World Cup final at Wankhede. All the three concerned parties i.e., the two captains MS Dhoni and Kumar Sangakkara along with the match referee Jeff Crowe, failed to hear the actual call due to the noise in the crowd. It was decided to flip the coin again. Sangakkara decided to bat first on winning the toss.
Talking about losing the final to India, Sangakkara said: ”Whether we win or lose, we have this equilibrium on how to take a win or loss. The smile hides a huge amount of sadness, of disappointment, of thinking of 20 million people back in Sri Lanka who had been waiting for this for so long, since 1996. We had an opportunity in 2011, opportunity in 2007, then T20 opportunities in 2009 and 2012.”