Series · Rain Rules
  1. 1. Rain Stopped Play
  2. 2. Who Wins When It Rains
  3. 3. Someone, Somewhere
  4. 4. The D/L Calculator
  5. 5. Beat the Par
  6. 6. The Wrong Number
The Nets · one over, six real chases

Beat the Par

A real chase, stopped where it never was. The rain comes, nobody goes back out, and Duckworth–Lewis has to name the score the chasing side should have had by now. You get one guess a ball. Land close and it goes for runs. Miss by a street and you're out.

    This over0/0
    Your best–
    How the scoring works
    You're out by (ODI)(T20I)It goes for

    The par is the Duckworth–Lewis Standard Edition par, from the published 2002 table: Team 1's score multiplied by the share of resources the chasing side has used, rounded down. International matches now use DLS software that isn't public, so the real number on the day could differ by a run or two for ordinary totals, and by more for very big ones.

    Every chase is a real international that finished without rain. We chose the over at which to stop it. Work out any par yourself with the calculator.