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Weather has more of an influence on cricket than any other game, so it's surprising that it took until the end of the last millennium to devise a statistically sound – and fair – method of re-setting targets in rain-affected one-day games. After a number of illogical results – most infamously the 1992 World Cup semi-final in which South Africa, needing 22 off 13 balls to beat England, found after a shower that the revised target was 22 off one ball – the game was crying out for a solution. Enter Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis. Yet while their names have become well known to the extent that they have a horse and a rock group named after them, most cricket followers would be hard pushed to tell you much about them. Their biography reveals them to be Lancastrians who pursued careers in industry and education respectively and share a love of cricket and statistics. Their account of how they devised the method, then persuaded the authorities to accept it, is absorbing without being dramatic, unless your idea of drama is the revelation that Duckworth once lodged for three months with John Lennon's Aunty Mimi. The meat of the story lies in the numbers. They say "you can easily pass over the mathematical bits without losing the plot", but to do so would miss the point, and as one who only staggered through O-level maths I was able to follow the thread. It is fashionable to pretend that Duckworth/Lewis is impossible to fathom, and the authors chastise the commentators who adopt this pose, and in the case of Sky anchorman Charles Colvile exact mild revenge by mispelling his name. It will never be as memorable as Duckworth or Lewis. (Simon Redfern Independent on Sunday)
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Name cricket’s most famous partnership nowadays and you can forget Hobbs and Sutcliffe, Statham and Trueman or Lillee and Thomson. Instead you have to turn to Duckworth and Lewis, the two statisticians who brought order to the one-day game when rain interfered. These days almost every weather-truncated one-day match throughout the world is decided by the Duckworth Lewis method; this book tells the story behind it; how it came into being and how the two were sometimes pilloried in the media after commentators and correspondents failed to understand the logic behind it. Mathematicians and keen cricket fans, Frank Duckworth, editor of RSS News, the monthly magazine of the Royal Statistical Society, and Tony Lewis, retired university lecturer in mathematical subjects, grew up within a few miles of each other in West Lancashire although they didn’t know one another – indeed they had planned to call their formula the ‘Lancastrian’ method. The book sets out why the method was needed and gives a full explanation of how it works. Although a computer program is needed for top games, those at a lesser level can still use the tables in the book. But the book also shows the human side of the story, how they persuaded the cricket authorities to accept their method; the mistakes they made along the way and how they corrected them; the way they developed it to take account of changes in the way the game is played, and how they coped with increasing fame. Most of all it tells how two mathematicians were able to blend their separate skills to succeed in selling a mathematical product to a non-mathematical public. The duo became so well known that they had a racehorse named after them and then a pop group, although they have a much more famous connection with the world of music than the group The Duckworth Lewis Method: when a student at Liverpool University in the early 1960s Frank Duckworth lodged with Aunt Mimi, the woman who brought up her nephew John Lennon!
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- EditorialSportsBooks Ltd
- Año de publicación2011
- ISBN 10 1907524002
- ISBN 13 9781907524004
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- Número de páginas256
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