BCCI agrees to a new system for rain-hit IPL 4 matches
The Board of Control for Cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 (BCCI) has agreed to implement a new system for the calculation of target scores in rain-hit matches during the fourth edition of Indian Premier League next year, said the developer of the system,
V. Jayadevan. The system which has been named ‘VJD’ is applicable to both the One-day and T20 matches.
The 46-year-old Jayadevan, who is a civil engineer by profession, told the media on Saturday that he presented the system at the technical committee meeting of BCCI held in Chennai on Friday and the committee after being convinced has agreed
to put it in practice next year in the fourth season of IPL.
"I spent half an hour with the committee headed by former India captain Sunil Gavaskar and answered queries. I was then told that my system would be put into practice in the next edition of IPL," said Jayadevan.
Jayadevan, who is currently serving the Publications Division of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kerala-c803 Engineering Research Institute as Deputy Director, holds a Masters degree in building technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He also revealed that
his proposed model has been used by the Indian cricket board in almost 30 domestic matches since 2007.
Talking about the development of VJD system, Jayadevan said that the mathematical formula was accidently developed by him as an alternative to the Duckworth http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lewis-c72807 formula which is currently being used to calculate the target for the team
batting second in rain-interrupted One-day Internationals.
The Duckworth Lewis formula uses the concept of available and used resources to calculate the target if match gets interrupted in the latter half while the VJD system proposed by the Kerala engineer is based on the concept of normal and
target scores.
“The method is capable of satisfactorily handling any number of interruptions during any stage of the game," said the developer of the system. "Over the years, I have made certain modifications in my model and the one that is going to be
used in the IPL is the model I fine-tuned in 2007," he added.
Jayadevan had been working on this system for the past ten years but the BCCI only recently agreed to give him financial assistance for his work. The Indian cricket board has also agreed to present the VJD system to the International Cricket Council after
testing it in IPL 4 starting in April next year.
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