Rain Rules
What happens to a cricket match when the heavens open, and whether the maths that decides it is fair.
Limited-overs cricket needs a result, and rain doesn’t care. Since the 1980s the game has tried one formula after another to decide what a chasing side “should” have scored when play stops: run rates, most productive overs, and finally the resource tables of Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis.
This series starts with the evidence: every rain-hit match on record, and a replay of thousands of rain-free chases under each rule to see which ones tilt the game toward the chasing side.