Wednesday, March 21, 2007

A very rough reminder

Oh, for god's frigging sake, the "controversial rain rule" that knocked out South Africa in the semi-final of the 1992 World Cup was NOT based -- I repeat, NOT based -- on the Duckworth-Lewis system.

5 comments:

nebbish said...
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nebbish said...

santhosh is tht u?...zero nobody...somebody...party neengala?
sudhakar

Zero said...

Nebbish,
Negative. I have a much more boring name.

Hawkeye said...

ya - it was the overs-with-lowest runs will be knocked off that caused RSA to lose the semis and us to lose against australia. they penalized u for bowling maiden overs

The Talkative Man said...

Richie Benaud was the culprit who framed it

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