What is Duckworth Lewis table in the sports of cricket?

Question

I want to know, in which circumstances Duckworth Lewis table is used in a cricket match.As I have never heard of Duckworth Lewis table so, I hope that you will give complete details regarding the functioning of Duckworth Lewis table in a cricket match.

Answer 1

The Duckworth-Lewis table (named for the English statisticians who invented it) is designed to calculate the final scores of one-innings cricket (usually One Day International or Twenty20) matches in which the chasing team (the one batting second) loses its opportunity to bat on an equal footing with the first team, usually on account of bad weather. It attempts to extrapolate the likely outcome based on how the chasing team actually performed at the time.