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Semi tainted by weather

  
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Monday, August 01 2011 @ 07:45 PM BST
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Sadly what was turning into a thrilling DSC tie with Plympton was spoiled by the weather.

The full story is on this is Plymouth.
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Plymouth-book-cup-final-place-expense-Plympton/story-13053902-detail/story.html
Hopefully it won't turn into a Plymstock / Cornwood t20 epic....the bottom line of the situation is probably that we need a better way of sorting out rain affected cricket games. We have now both benefited and suffered due to the rain (Heathcoat anyone) and Plympton benefited in a similar situation in their quarter final.

Being sad I found a free duckworth-lewis calculator online. The par score at the time we came off was 153-4 demonstrating the closeness of the game. On the other hand heathcoat should have been chasing 231 against us earlier in the season instead of 168 and it might encourage more teams to bat first and produce more positive cricket.

Both the players and Umpires came under fire as they came off but the real villain of the piece here are the rules. For example a team could score 200 for 5 batting first and if the match was abandoned after 10 overs the oppo could be 51-9 and win. Under d/l the par scores would be 39-1, 49-2, 63-3, 78-4 which does seem more fair. It would also allow Umpires to confidently bring the players off when it starts raining in the knowledge that there would be a fairer method of finding a result. At the moment Umpires are always going to upset one side or the other as the weather does have a very significant impact on the result of some games.
 
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