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I see Tony Lewis (not the Glamorgan cricket and Neath boy) but there other half of Duckworth and Lewis has gone to that scorebox in the sky
 
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I see Tony Lewis (not the Glamorgan cricket and Neath boy) but there other half of Duckworth and Lewis has gone to that scorebox in the sky
For those who don't know of him

Tony Lewis, the mathematician and statistician who co-devised what became known as the Duckworth-Lewis method for settling weather-affected limited-overs matches, has died at the age of 78.

Lewis and fellow academic Frank Duckworth came together to produce a fairer method of settling such games than the controversial system which had been used at the 1992 World Cup.

Their new system was first used in 1997 for a Zimbabwe v England game, and officially adopted by the International Cricket Council in 1999.

Duckworth-Lewis calculates targets based on the batting team's remaining resources - wickets in hand, and overs in hand - via mathematical formulae.

In 2014, Australian professor Steven Stern became the custodian of the system, on the retirements of Duckworth and Lewis, and it is now known as the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method.