Tony Lewis

Tony 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.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday condoled the death of mathematician Tony Lewis, who co-developed the Duckworth-Lewis system of calculating target scores in weather-affected limited-overs matches.

Alongside fellow statistician Tony Lewis, Frank Duckworth developed the Duckworth-Lewis method to determine outcomes in cricket matches affected by rain. The method was first employed in international cricket in 1997 and was officially recognized by the ICC as the standard approach for establishing revised targets in shortened games in 2001.

Ten years after an engineer first introduced his self-invented VJD method for weather-affected cricket matches, the formula may gain recognition at last.

The International Cricket Council's cricket committee meeting at the Lord's is expected to take a call on the VJD-method developed by Thrissur-based engineer V Jayadevan.

While standing in his debut Test as umpire in Kanpur in 1973, Madhav Gothoskar was challenged by the then English skipper Tony Lewis over a substitution rule. Without pausing for a second, he recited the rules to Lewis. The Englishman was convinced he didn't have any scope to argue.

It may have replaced a system that produced the farcical finish that saw South Africa needing to score 22 runs off one ball to beat England in a 1992 World Cup semi-final in Sydney, but the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method has been involved in its fair share of controversy as well.

Result of today’s quiz will be announced by April 30.

Remembering Tony Greig, Arjuna Ranatunga said that former England captain and celebrated commentator stood by Sri Lanka when most others did not.

The Marylebone Cricket Club has supported Australia's decision of not touring Zimbabwe and demanded the African country should be permanently suspended from international cricket.

In a fresh allegation against former Mumbai commissioner of police Param Bir Singh, builder Shyam Sundar Agarwal has accused him of forcing to lodge a complaint against underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and his brothers Iqbal Kaskar and Anees Ibrahim. Kaskar was later arrested.

The ICC has called a meeting with MCC to discuss the possibility of hosting a World Test Championship, according to media reports.

Test cricket is all set to return after a long gap of 35 years to the Cricket Club of India's Brabourne Stadium, which is expected to play host to the Platinum Jubilee Test match against England at the end of this year.

The title doesn’t refer to the evocative age-gap Hollywood romance of 1971 that became the ultimate fantasy for millions of teenage boys. It is about an agonising summer afternoon in 1974 — June 24 to be precise — when Ajit Wadekar-led India capitulated in 17 overs for just 42.

With T20 cricket posing a serious threat to the already dwindling crowd base of Tests, a world championship of the five-day version is urgently required to save the oldest format of the game, feels Marylebone Cricket Club.

Captain Nasser Hussain’s English team has flown in and would be here in Kolkata all of nine days, practising at the CC&FC, taking on the Bengal team and, finally, playing the one-day international against the Indians at the Eden Gardens.

MCC came up with a stipulation that slow bowlers could straighten their bowling arm by 5 degrees, medium pacers by 7.5 degrees & seamers by 10 degrees.