How to Do a Cricket Toss Online: 3 Steps for a Fair Toss

To do a fair cricket toss online, open the TapTurf cricket toss, let one captain call heads or tails, tap Flip coin, and the captain who wins chooses to bat or bowl. It is free, works on a phone, and needs no sign-up or app.

Most box cricket and turf games start the same way: ten players ready, the slot clock running, and nobody has a coin. Someone flips a bottle cap, someone else says it did not count, and five minutes of your paid hour are gone. A toss on a phone that both captains can watch ends that.

How to toss online in 3 steps

1. Call it. The calling captain taps Heads or Tails. If you tap Flip coin before calling, the page asks you to call first.
2. Flip it. Tap Flip coin and the coin spins and lands. The result says plainly whether the call won or lost.
3. Pick bat or bowl. If the call won, tap Bat or Bowl and the screen shows the choice, so there is no argument later. If it lost, the other side decides.

Show the screen to the other captain before and after the flip. Tap New toss for the next match. Nothing is saved and nobody needs an account. There is an optional coin sound, off by default, behind the speaker button.

Is an online toss fair?

Yes, if the result is random and both captains see it. The TapTurf toss picks heads or tails using the browser's cryptographic random number generator where it is available, and falls back to the standard browser random function otherwise. The result is decided before the coin animation starts, and each flip is independent of the last, so a run of three heads says nothing about the next one.

What the Laws of Cricket say about the toss

Law 13.4 of the MCC Laws of Cricket says the captains toss a coin for the choice of innings, on the field of play, in the presence of one or both umpires, not earlier than 30 minutes and not later than 15 minutes before the scheduled start. Law 13.5 says the captain who wins decides whether to bat or field, tells the other captain and the umpires, and cannot change that decision once notified.

The ICC Men's T20I Playing Conditions use the same 30 to 15 minute window, with the toss supervised by the ICC Match Referee, and the same rule that the decision cannot be changed. Your Sunday turf game has no referee, but two habits carry over well: toss a few minutes before your slot starts so you do not waste paid time, and treat the winner's bat or bowl choice as final.

Bat or bowl first on a turf?

There is no single right answer. Batting second lets you chase a known target, which helps in short games where every over counts. Batting first under lights can be easier before evening dew makes the ball wet. Look at the surface, the light and your own side, then decide.

Before the toss: make the teams

If you are splitting a group of friends, sort the sides first. The cricket team generator takes a list of names and splits them into 2, 3 or 4 teams at random, or balanced by a quick 1 to 5 rating. After the match, the cricket scorecard maker at /tools/cricket-scorecard-maker turns your score into a card you can share in the group.