ICC retains DL method, rejects VJD

Updated On: 02 June, 2012 07:53 AM IST | | AFP

The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced yesterday that it was sticking with the Duckworth/Lewis (D/L) rule for deciding rain-affected matches after an Indian engineer put forward a replacement method.

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Devised by English statisticians Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis, the D/L rule was first introduced at international level in 1996.u00a0V Jayadevan, an engineer in the south Indian state of Kerala, has spent a decade working on his so-called VJD system. This has been used in Indian domestic matches since 2007 following a recommendation from batting great Sunil Gavaskar. Jayadevan argued his system should be adopted internationally, because the D/L method often produced targets that were “not reasonable or sensible”.

Cricket Committee chief Clive Lloyd