board at a meeting next month.

The introduction of the uncontested toss was generally held to be a positive move after its implementation, but with the Championship bookending the summer in recent years, producing Test match-style pitches with something in them for everyone has proved difficult.

Last season, the introduction of a heavier roller and a batch of Dukes balls with a less pronounced seam shifted the balance back towards batsmen slightly, but many games were still played on pitches that offered plenty of assistance for swing bowlers throughout.

In 2018, Kent's assistant coach Allan Donald suggested that allowing the teams to "rock up" knowing they would bowl first was a poor way to produce international bowlers.

"I'm of a view that if you win the toss you should do what youCatalonia’s push for independence from Spain is illegitimate, as the region has not been recognized by the United Nations as a non-autonomous territory, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Spanish media.

“When one speaks of self-determination, certain areas have been recognized by the United Nations as non-autonomous territories. But Catalonia does not fall into this category,” Ban said in an interview with Spanish newspapers El Pais, El Mundo, ABC and La Vanguardia.

Since the beginning of decolonization after World War II, the UN has considered “non-autonomous” those territories that are geographically separate and distinct ethnically and culturally from the country, which is administrating them.

The pro-independence parties, which won the local parliamentary election in September, say Catalonia has the right for self-determination due to having its own language and distinct culture.

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