Re: Most amazing achievement 99.9% of Americans won\'t care about
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I know the answer, but from what I understand even ardent cricket fans have trouble with the Duckworth/Lewis system (although i guess 2+2ers aren't typical).
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Not only do ardent cricket fans not get it, even players and management don't get it. In a crucial 2003 World Cup match, South Africa miscalculated the required target based on the D/L method and fell 1 run short. I forget the details but what I mean by that is that they had to get (say) 231 to win, but thought it was 230 and the batsmen out there in the middle took only one run on the last ball when they could easily have taken two (or something like that.... the details may be wrong but the point remains that they somehow royally buggered up the whole thing).
They failed to advance as a result of that blunder. As you can imagine, there were lots of guys involved in South African cricket who lost their jobs after this boneheaded move.
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so is there no official announcement of the revisied traget? Whatever system is used, I would think that the team batting second would be told what target it has to chase.
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