The intention of new proposed rain rules is to provide more opportunities for games to finish, and results to be achieved, if bad weather intervenes.
In cases where a game has started and is interrupted, the target score for the side batting second will be adjusted in lines with a simplistic ‘Duckworth/Lewis’ method.
This would involve calculating a chasing run rate from the first innings and dividing it on a scale to make life slightly harder for the team batting second over a shorter period of time.
Adjusting targets is possible with each delay, taking 3.8 minutes for every over lost.
It’s a very similar system to the one which has been used successfully in the Central Lancashire League and it allows for a game to be played with only 20 overs completed per team.
Charts would be handed out to umpires so they could give teams an exact target after each interruption, with rounding of numbers where necessary.
As an example, consider Team A reaching 268-4 in 50 overs, which is a rate of 5.36 runs per over.
There have been two interruptions in the first innings, however, and one in the second as Team B respond, amounting to 23 overs being lost (3.8mins for each over).
So the runs to take off the Team A total are 23 x 4.02 which equals 92.46 runs.
Taking that from Team A’s tally of 268 leaves 175.54 runs, so the target score for Team B to win is 176 in 27 overs (50 overs minus 23).
The par score for Team B to tie would be 175 runs in 27 overs.
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