When An Actuary Helped Cricket Survive!!
When An Actuary Helped Cricket Survive!! Call for help, Comes an Actuary!! South Africa needed 22 off 13 balls to beat England in Sydney on March 22,1992 when rain stopped play. Ten minutes later the players were back on... and South Africa needed 21 off one ball. Blame the lowest-scoring-over rain rules, which ruined a cracking contest and chances of a WC Final. South Africa Team was out of the competition, but they left with a question hanging amongst every cricket fan…. What if this happens again??? That day Mr. Christopher Martin Jenkins said on the radio… "Surely someone somewhere could come up with something better” and soon Mr. Duckworth realized that it was a mathematical problem that required a mathematical solution." And then came the revolution!! ……. Since then, Mr. Duckworth – An Actuary , and Mr. Tony Lewis, a renowned Statistician worked together for years, just to bring out an effective method of calculating target score in 1997, officially