Weather can significantly impact cricket, both in terms of gameplay and the content produced around the sport.
Rain washed away many important game of some big tournament like World Cup, champions trophy.
Final of champions trophy 2002 completely washed out by rain which resulted no winner both finalist India and Srilanka together share the trophy and man of the match and man of the series was declared for the tournament.
Rain created controversy in semifinal between South Africa and England in 1992 world cup.
The Duckworth-Lewis method had a significant impact on South Africa during the 1992 Cricket World Cup. While it wasn't used explicitly in that tournament, its influence is tied to an incident that happened in the semi-final match between South Africa and England, which led to its eventual implementation in cricket.
Here's how it all unfolded:
The Background:
The 1992 Cricket World Cup introduced the concept of limited-overs cricket on the global stage, where teams had a fixed number of overs to play. South Africa, under captain Kepler Wessel were playing in their first World Cup as a re-admitted nation after the end of apartheid, having been banned from international cricket for many years. The tournament held a special significance for South Africa, making their participation historic.
The Semi-Final Controversy:
The semi-final match between South Africa and England was crucial. It was played on March 22, 1992, at The Sydney Cricket Ground in Australia. The match was interrupted by rain, and due to the lack of an established rain rule, the game turned controversial.
At the time, the rules in place to deal with rain delays were somewhat crude. When the rain interrupted play, the South African team was given a revised target that, in hindsight, seemed unfair and was widely considered to be too difficult to chase down. The problem arose because the method used to adjust the target was not as sophisticated as the later Duckworth-Lewis method, which accounts for the loss of overs and wickets.
In the rain-affected semi-final, the target was revised to 22 runs from 13 balls, a challenging task considering the circumstances. This calculation, however, was inaccurate, as it didn't factor in the complexities of scoring patterns under reduced overs, and South Africa ultimately lost the match. This event sparked widespread debate about the fairness of rain-affected games in cricket.
The Introduction of Duckworth-Lewis:
In the aftermath of the 1992 World Cup, it became clear that a better, more systematic method was required to adjust
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