Indian engineer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Vasanathan-Jayadevan-c94935 invents new formula for truncated Cricket matches
From the rapidly flourishing technological industry of India, a civil engineer, V Jayadevan, has come up with a new formula to decide truncated matches and is waiting for approval by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Currently, the age-old Duckworth-Lewis method is being used for this purpose.
Jayadevan’s VJD System, as he claims, is easier and faster than the old one. He is struggling hard to get his formula recognized by the world cricket authorities.
Some analysts believe that the engineer will have to fight hard for his cause as he belongs to a third world country and the international cricket is monopolized by the European cricketing nations.
However, the inventor is hopeful of good response from the world cricketing fraternity.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has invited him at http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hong-Kong-c2919 to present his formula on June 27.
Jayadevan told the Mail today, “I am confident that I can demonstrate this to the ICC panel.”
The engineer has been working on his formula since long. He conceived the idea in 1992 and tried get support from cricket managers, both of his country and overseas. He wrote to the then Board of Control for Cricket in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 (BCCI) president, Madhavrao Scindia,
and ICC president, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jagmohan-Dalmiya-c65287, about his plan but no one entertained it.
Despite passive response from every side, he kept developing the method. He stopped his work for sometime but resumed it again.
However, later in 2000, the BCCI technical committee allowed Jayadevan to give presentation of this formula before the board. He did it and the board promised to forward his plan to the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 but nothing positive came out for him.
Jayadevan also approached the BCCI to convince them to implement his formula at the inception of the Indian Premier League (IPL) but failed.
Explaining his formula, Jayadevan told, “"They [DLM] succeeded in convincing the ICC that a fully computerised calculation method can be used. This enabled me to further improve my system. Instead of one target score table, I could use six tables for different
scoring ranges.”
The engineer is currently working at http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kerala-c803 Engineering Research Institute as a deputy director.
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