Frank Duckworth, who has died at 84, was one half of the team who pioneered the Duckworth-Lewis method for calculating target scores in limited overs cricket matches abridged by bad weather.
Along with his fellow statistician Tony Lewis, Duckworth devised the formula that was officially adopted by the International Cricket Council in 1999 and remains the means by which affected matches are decided to this day. Duckworth originally qualified in metallurgy but subsequently studied to become a statistician and introduced a short paper, ‘A fair result in foul weather’ at an RSS conference in Sheffield in 1992.
The paper was directly inspired by the farcical ending to the 1992 World Cup semi-final between England and South Africa in Australia, when a short spell of rain played havoc with calculations and left South Africa targeting an impossible 22 runs off one ball. Duckworth’s lecture led to contact with Lewis, and the pair worked together on a formula which was first used in the second match of England’s one-day series against Zimbabwe in 1999.
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