BRUCE WHITFIELD: Just wait till Trump invokes Duckworth-Lewis to overturn the election result ...
I am yet to meet an American who understands cricket, but I’m willing to bet that if the Republicans were introduced to DLS they would grab onto it with both hands
09 November 2020 - 06:00
Someone quipped on social media as the US election vote count dragged on: “Finally Americans are learning about the exquisite agony of five-day Test cricket.”
We can only be grateful that nobody has told Donald Trump about the Duckworth-Lewis method of calculating a winner if play is impeded in any way. It’s a mathematical formulation designed to calculate the target score for the team batting second in a limited-overs cricket match interrupted by weather or other circumstances...
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