cricketUpdated: Apr 02, 2020 09:24 ISTTony Lewis, one of the men behind the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method used in weather-affected limited overs cricket matches, has died aged 78, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced Wednesday. “It is with much sadness that the ECB has learned of the passing of Tony Lewis MBE, aged 78,” said a statement. “Tony, alongside fellow mathematician Frank Duckworth, devised the Duckworth-Lewis method which was introduced in 1997 and adopted officially by the ICC (International Cricket Council) in 1999. The method then in use was based on removing the lowest-scoring overs from each team’s innings. But the sight of a D/L target soon became a familiar feature on cricket scoreboards around the world.

Source: Hindustan Times April 02, 2020 03:53 UTC