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If you too have ever been perplexed by something called the Duckworth-Lewis method (D / L method), then this piece of article may just be the thing that will answer all your queries.
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A further 55 minutes were lost, resulting in the revised target for Notts of 163 from 19 overs under the Duckworth-Lewis system.
Somerset 156-6; Nottinghamshire 144-7 | Clydesdale Bank 40 match report 2011
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This was, after all, Duckworth-Lewis: know-alls of the rain break, the eminent mathematicians who have been granted the last word in cricketing what-might-have-been since the institution of their system for deciding incomplete matches by the International Cricket Council in 1996.
Being Duckworth-Lewis: cricket's weather-break mathematicians 2011
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Duckworth-Lewis: The Method and the Men Behind It is published on Thursday by Sports Books Ltd, priced £12.99
Being Duckworth-Lewis: cricket's weather-break mathematicians 2011
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You may quibble with their method, but Duckworth-Lewis are, it turns out, still invariably right.
Being Duckworth-Lewis: cricket's weather-break mathematicians 2011
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Nottinghamshire replaced Somerset at the top of Group C in the Clydesdale Bank 40 with a three-wicket victory under the Duckworth-Lewis system at Taunton.
Somerset 156-6; Nottinghamshire 144-7 | Clydesdale Bank 40 match report 2011
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Indeed, it's almost certainly no exaggeration to suggest that some foolhardy bar-stool all-rounder with a few too many stouts on board has already claimed in all sincerity to understand the complexities of the Duckworth-Lewis method.
Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning 2011
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The urge to defy, just once, a pre-cast Duckworth-Lewis deduction had simply proved too much.
Being Duckworth-Lewis: cricket's weather-break mathematicians 2011
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Hampshire recorded their fourth victory of the tournament by beating their fellow Group B strugglers Scotland by four runs on the Duckworth-Lewis method in Aberdeen.
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Arranging our rendezvous – to discuss their new book, Duckworth Lewis: The Method and the Men Behind It – involved a protracted, and indeed steely, wrangle over times and venues, shot through with an unyielding Duckworth-Lewis insistence on the provision of a pub lunch in semi-rural Oxfordshire.
Being Duckworth-Lewis: cricket's weather-break mathematicians 2011
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