Howzat: the Duckworth/Lewis method of target resetting in one-day matches - Tony Lewis MBE
Wednesday 20 October 2010, 18:00 until 20:00
Open to all
Location
Main Lecture Theatre, Clerici building, Headington Campus / Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane site
Details
The game of one-day cricket has been around since the 1960s. In the earlier years, bad weather caused great problems for the officials and players, in that the balance of the match was often severely distorted because of the ‘rain-rules’ that were used to adjust the target for the team batting second. So much so that, whenever bad weather was forecast, captains chose to bat second even when they would have preferred to have batted first.
Tony will provide examples of these various rain rules, show some of the famous injustices from the past and give some of the background into the invention of the Duckworth/Lewis method including a little of the mathematics involved.
Alumnus and former staff member Tony Lewis has worked primarily in higher education, although periods of time have been spent in industry to gain valuable experience of applying mathematics and statistics to practical problems. His interests and expertise are not theoretical but practical.
