Jayadevan requests neutral review of VJD method from Pawar – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sharadchandra-Govindrao-Pawar-c89751, requesting him for a fair, unbiased review of his proposed “VJD system”, which he claims is an improved alternative to the Duckworth-Lewis
(D/L) system currently in use for international matches.
Invented by English statisticians Frank Duckworth and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Anthony-Robert-Lewis-c45084, the D/L method, which was introduced at the international level in 1996, employs mathematical formulas to determine revised targets if playing time in limited-overs matches is reduced owing
to rain.
However, the method has come under fire on various occasions, with critics pointing out flaws such as the allegation that it tends to favour the side batting second.
Jayadevan presented an alternative, titled the VJD method, which was reviewed recently in London by an ICC committee headed by legendary http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clive-Hubert-Lloyd-c51327. The proposed system was deemed flawed, and in no way an improvement over the D/L method,
which officials claimed was working fine.
The rejection for his system, which is supported by former Indian batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Manohar-Gavaskar-c91863 and has been in use for all Indian domestic cricket matches (barring the Indian Premier League), prompted Jayadevan to accuse the committee of bias and prejudice. Alleging
that a member of the review panel had displayed a strong bias for the D/L method, the Indian engineer wrote a protest letter to ICC President Sharad Pawar, requesting a review of his method by a neutral committee.
“That review was a very shallow and pre-meditated one. There was virtually no attempt to find out whether there were any shortcomings in the D/L system,” he wrote.
“On the other hand, the expert deliberately exaggerated a few small and rectifiable shortcomings in the VJD system. I have no hesitation in saying that the said expert's strong favouritism to the D/L system deprives the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 from getting the best available
method.”
Gavaskar also spoke out in support of the new method, claiming it should have been employed on a trial basis to judge its effectiveness.
“In all fairness ICC should have tried the Jayadevan method for a year, like they do with trial laws, and then decided,” he wrote in a newspaper column.
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