There is a wave of sadness in the cricket world; the person who gave this game its most unique method has died
Frank Duckworth Died: Whenever there is a possibility of rain in a cricket match, everyone's eyes are on the method which was discovered by Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis.
In a rainy season, if a cricket match is on, everybody's eyes would glance at the Duckworth Lewis method.
Whether the match gets canceled or the overs get reduced due to rain, everybody from the match referee and umpires to the fans has their hopes on the Duckworth Lewis method. In the history of cricket, no other method has been discovered that can be used to find out the result of a match interrupted by rain. It was discovered by two cricket statisticians, one of whom died today.
Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis devised the DLS system in cricket. News has been received of the death, on Tuesday, of Frank Duckworth at the age of 82. Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis invented the Duckworth-Lewis Exiting System for deciding possible revised targets in rain-affected cricket matches, which the ICC made standard in 2021. Frank Duckworth died on June 21 at the age of 82. The English statisticians invented the Duckworth-Lewis system in 1997 with Tony Lewis, which ICC took up in 2001 as the standard method to determine revised targets in rain-affected cricket matches. The DLS method was invented in the most recent game of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, where Afghanistan defeated Bangladesh by eight runs in Kingstown to make it to the semifinals on Monday, June 24.
