In the sport of creekit, the Duckworth-Lewis method (D/L method) is a mathematical way to calculate the target score for the team batting second in a one-day cricket or Twenty-20 cricket match interrupted by weather or other circumstance. It is generally accepted by the public to be the most confusing system and inaccurate method of setting a target score, and as it attempts to predict what would have happened had the game come to its natural conclusion, it generates some controversy. The D/L method was devised by two English statisticians, Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis, both of whom are on the clinically insane register.

India and England are playing the fouth ODI at the moment. They've just gone off for a break due to rain. India were 82-1 in the 14th over when rain came so the game has now been reduced to 44 overs each with each bowler bowling a maximum of nine overs, the third power play will now not be decided by the batting side.

It's anyone's guess how many England will now need to win as the powers that be try to decode what the target will eventually be. Even Sir Ian Botham hasn't got a clue what's happening out there.

Madness.

Better to go off for the day and forget it completely, get the two teams 22 vindaloo currys and whichever team finishes the curries off first wins the game under the lazy/ jafrezi method..
K.R.O.

Not forgetting, sid, it is the last player to sprint for the bogs with a chilled loo roll that wins the day.

So then, England need 198 to win off 22 overs even though India scored 166 in their innings. In a situation like this surely the side bowling first is treated unfairly. After all, if Pietersen had known that it would rain he would have saved his best bowlers til the end. This is, as far as I understand, not factored into D/L..

It's crazy innit? A supposed ODI, with a 22 over target far greater than a good Twenty20 score, plus the system weirdly ignores any attempt to counteract India being able to play most of their overs as powerplays, whereas England got 7, was it?

I'm amazed England got anywhere near the total and despite India now being 4-0 up in the series, England must have gained more confidence from that debacle of a contest than the hosts.

We're still pretty clearly second best on their tracks, but it was a decent effort.

It's crazier than a mad man standing on crazy paving listening to The Krazy gang on his ipod, so it is. Fuckwit and Lewis are obviously not sports fans..